Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — The Place of Safety. [ARTICLE]

The Place of Safety .

My friends, there is one spot on earth ■where the fear of Death, of Sin and of Judgment, need never trouble us, the only safe spot on earth where the sinner can stand—Calvary. Out in our Western country in the autumn, when men go hunting, And there has not been rain for many months, sometimes the prairie grass catches Are. Sometimes, when the wind is strong, the flames may be seen rolling along, twenty feet high, destroying man and beast in their onward rush. When the frontiersmen see what Is coming, what do they do to escape ? They, know they cannot run as fast as the fire can run. Nor the fleetest hone can escape it. The flames sweep onward; they take their stand in the burnt district and' are safe. They hear the flames roar aa they come along; they see Death bearing down upon, them with resistless fury, but they do not fear. They do not tremble as the ocean of flame surges around them, for over the place where they stand the Are has already past and there is no danger. There is nothing for Are to burn. And there is one spot on earth that God has swept over. Eighteen hundred years ago tbe storm burst on Calvary; the Son of God took if into his own bosom, and now, if we take our stand by the Cross, we are safe for time and eternity.— D. L. Moody. x.