Jonah

1: 3. It is impossible to flee from God’s presence. Ps. 139:7. Give up the vain attempt to-day. Jonah “paid his fare” and never got it re funded. Sin is an expensive business. He took the wrong boat — the wrong track.

1: 4. Disobedience always leads us into troubled waters.

5. The want of pardon is the only spring of a servile man’s duty. He plies his prayers as sailors do the pumps — only in a storm, or when fearful of sinking.

11. Sin in the soul is like Jonah in the ship. It turns the smoothest water into a tempestuous sea.

13, 14. The unavailing efforts of the Mediterranean oars man have their counterpart, —

a. In our efforts to convert others.

b. “” our families.

c. ““” “” ourselves.
The cure is — Cry to God.

3 .- 2. After all the delay and discipline, Jonah had to go back to his first starting- place.

4: 7. Unbelief in the heart is like the worm in Jonah’s gourd — an unseen adversary.