of measles, typhoid-fever, smallpox, erysipelas, a better Five Points, a better place for the committing of murder, robbery, or any other shameless crime.
(2824)
See Drink; Drunkenness; Intemperance;
Temperance.
SALVABILITY
Every man, even the worst, has some vital point at which he can be touched and helped, as was the paralytic mentioned below:
Dr. Swithinbank describes a real case of
bodily paralysis in a medical record in Paris:
A man was attacked by a creeping paralysis;
sight was first to fail; soon after, hearing
went; then by degrees, taste, smell, touch,
and the power of motion. He could breathe,
he could swallow, he could think, and strange
to say, he could speak; that was all. Not
the very slightest message from without
could reach his mind; nothing to tell him
what was near, who was still alive; the world
was utterly lost to him, and he all but lost
to the world. At last, one day, an accident
showed that one small place on one cheek had
feeling left. It seemed a revelation from
heaven. By tracing letters on that place, his
wife and children could speak to him, his
dark dungeon-wall was pierced, his tongue
had never lost its power, and once more he
was a man among men.
(2825)
Salvation a Gift—See Grace not Growth.
SALVATION BY EVANGELIZATION
During the forty years between 1778 and
1818, the population had decreased from
400,000 to 150,000—nearly two-thirds; so
that the Christian enterprise which evangelized
the Hawaiians saved a nation from
extinction, for in twenty years more, at the
same rate of decrease, the Hawaiian Islands
would have been an uninhabited waste.—Pierson,
"The Miracles of Missions."
(2826)
SALVATION FROM SIN
In speaking once of his religious life, Captain Mahan, of the United States Navy, had this to say:
I happened one week-day in Lent into a
church in Boston. The preacher—I have
never known his name—interested me
throughout; but one phrase only has remained:
"Thou shalt call his name Jesus,
for He shall save His people"—here he
lifted up his hands—"not from hell, but from
their sins." Almost the first words of the
gospel! I had seen them for years, but at
last I perceived them. Scales seemed to fall
from my eyes, and I began to see Jesus and
life as I had never seen them before.
(2827)
Salvation, Half Way—See Sight, Imperfect.
SAMPLING
This story used to be told by Mr. Spurgeon:
An American gentleman said to a friend,
"I wish you would come down to my garden,
and taste my apples." He asked him
about a dozen times, but the friend did not
come; and at last the fruit-grower said, "I
suppose you think my apples are good for
nothing, so you won't come and try them."
"Well, to tell the truth," said his friend, "I
have tasted them. As I went along the road
I picked one up that fell over the wall, and
I never tasted anything so sour in all my
life; I do not particularly wish to have any
more of your fruit." "Oh," said the owner
of the garden, "I thought it must be so.
Those apples around the outside are for the
special benefit of the boys. I went fifty
miles to select the sourest sorts to plant all
around the orchard, so the boys might give
them up as not worth stealing; but if you
will come inside, you will find that we grow
a very different quality there, sweet as
honey."
(2828)
Sandals—See Bible Customs To-day.
Sanity is Social—See Concert, Lack of.
Satan, Defeating—See Mastery by Intelligence.
Satanic Possession—See Diabolical Possession.
SATIRE
Satire—that is, a literary work which
searches out the faults of men or institutions
in order to hold them up to ridicule—is
at best a destructive kind of criticism. A
satirist is like a laborer who clears away the
ruins and rubbish of an old house before the
architect and builders begin on a new and
beautiful structure. The work may sometimes
be necessary, but it rarely arouses our
