THE GOSPEL SHIP.

Kumara Times, Issue 3049, 11 August 1886, Page 3

THE GOSPEL SHIP.

By Dave Patxrick. A certain lot of people are on a desert island, and have only enough food to last a short time; but there are two ships, one is rotten at the bottom, and the other is quite sound, and can bo relied upon. Of course the experienced sailors take to the good ship, and beg all the others to go with them. But some say they dont believe the chart, and would rather die where they are than be mad enough to go in either ship. Others say they know quite enough themselves, and take the ship with the rotten bottom on their own hook, rather than go with the experienced sailors. Well, the ox-

perienced sailors beg and pray both the foolish ones on the island and those on the rotten ship to go with them, but neither take any notice, and so the experienced sailors, who are thought fools by the others, have logo by themselves. Now, my dear reader, which class do you belong to? Some stick to this world, and will not start for the other, where there is Life everlasting; and some start in a rotten old ship, sinning all the way, for does not your chart tell you that without holiness you cannot enter heaven ? Have you tried both sides of the question yet? Tf not, do ! and if you want to learn to navigate your own vessel, go to the Salvation Army meetings or any other place of worship where Christ is faithfully lifted up.