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Curiosities of the Bible (Desobedienor sas memens)
Desobedienor sas memens SIGNALS OF DANGER.
Evil Companion Blue Flag Bed Flag In this picture you see a portion of a railroad track, and just at the curve you see a locomotive. You also see a line of telegraph-wires, and, located near them, is an electric battery, which is put in motion when the train passes, and thus gives notice of its coming. A person walking on the track or waiting at the station hears the alarm-bell ring and knows that the train is near. It is to him a signal of danger.
Our pathway in life is beset with many dangers, and there are alarm-signals out on every side. Dangers on the railroad are often met with at the curves. Persons walking there do not see the train, and it dashes upon them and destroys them. There is danger at the curve, and they must watch the signal. So there are curves or turning points in every life. Be careful how you approach them-how you go around them. As you go out of childhood into youth, you pass a curve on life's pathway. As you go from youth into manhood you pass another. These are turning-points in your history. And just at these points life may become a bane or a blessing. Some round the curve with no Page 167- Blackheed 1871 ones1600, org or shent for totween. iin Mis Miere there to spert for Brend Christine Microns - Home & Foreign-obut 6,000,000 Clergymens Salame cmg H) our, and BLACKBOARD ILLUSTRATIONS &c. 249 cotton to Wolen Goods less 249 and thought of what they are to do as they pass it. Go around the curve with a purpose. Resolve to make all your after-life better than it was before. Some are in a feverish hurry to get around the curve. They want to press on to honor, pleasure, and wealth Dangra Pleas with undue haste. And here is their danger. They are too lil eager, too venturesome. Sometimes scholars decide to leave the Solar school. Then they reach a turning-point in their history. There is danger before them. They are too hasty and inconsiderate. They may go astray, and never return to the right way. Let us look out for danger at these turning-points in life.
Signals of danger will be useless if we do not heed them. Let the whistle blow or the alarm-bell ring; but if the man on the track does not heed it, he will be destroyed. Let the mariner ignore the lighthouse, and his vessel will run upon the rocks, and all may be lost.
A bell was once so arranged that in a storm it would ring loudly, and thus warn mariners of their danger. Some pirates muffl d the bell so that it would not ring out its alarm, hoping that, in its silence, some unfortunate vessel might be driven upon the rocks and become their prey. Strange to say, they themselves were the first to suffer. They had silenced the warningbell, and all perished. Let us never muffle the bell of conscience. Let us heed the warnings of truth.