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Spiritual Ships

An Allegory of Religious Characters and Experiences

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Spiritual Ships

By: George Douglas Watson
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 As we start upon our spiritual navigation from the great mountains and forests of the wild life of nature, we must be content to take the lowest and humblest steps that belong to beginners. The lowest class of vessels that go by water are those of the tow-boat rank, such as are used on canals, and barges for hauling slow and heavy freight. There are two classes of boats that we must utilize in our journey before we come to the sail boat, which, in a proper sense, represents the life of a regenerated believer; of one who has the assurance of the Spirit that he is a child of God. In like manner there are two forms of legal religion which many persons pass through before reaching the assurance of justification. The tow-boat is pulled through the water by a force outside of itself, in the form of a mule on the bank of the canal, or of some sail or steamboat, to which it is tied with a strong rope or hawser. The other form of legal religion is represented by the row boat, which is a struggling force put forth by some one inside the boat, which we will consider in the next chapter. Thus the tow-boat sets forth the pulling of a soul along in the ways of righteousness, by outside and natural forces, or the ropes of law, and is the lowest form of a religious life. In the true sense of the word the canal boat and the barge do not represent what the Scriptures mean by the word Christian, but we are now giving the modem and more accommodated use of the word, as embracing those who believe in the Scriptures, and are willing to put themselves under the restraints and obli¬gations of religion, and begin seeking the Lord, if haply they may find Him. It is a sad fact that great multitudes who are classed as nominal Christians, are in this very lowest rank of canal boat legalism, and would never take one step in practical righteousness except they were drawn by a strong hawser, in the form of some law, or ceremony, or custom, or personal friendship. Most of the people that attend church services throughout the world, like the canal boat, do not possess on board, or within themselves, that awakened conscience, or sorrow for sin, or decision of right, or fear of God, sufficient to be a moving energy or a propelling force through the water; but if left to themselves apart from some strong rope to pull them, they lie sluggish and still, or drift with the current whither soever it will carry them. Those of us who have served in some army, and know the rough and reckless life of soldiers or miners, have seen this truth glaringly illustrated. Thousands who at home, and under the soft and blessed restraints of domestic life, and the routine of daily toil, and the sound of Sabbath church bells, and the influence of strong saintly characters, and all the honorable institutions of well ordered society, were fairly good men, and upright in outward department; when they were turned loose in the army or the mines, they soon threw off the pacific bandages of church and home, and like canal boats or barges on the Niagara river, without strong hawsers on the outside to hold them, they drifted rapidly to the awful precipice, and plunged into ruin. Bible Study Bibles & Bible Study Christian Living Christianity Meditations Law
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