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Mr.. Talmage OH tho Narraganett.

Mr.. Talmuge read 4 list Of Ice new converts
yesterday, and announced thatthcre arc now
lilo names OF the Church roll. His text
was . "a night and n day, havcl been In the
deep" Paul. said Mr.. Talmage, was wreck
ed, but he does not say whether it was Il fail
urc of his own vessel or whether 1t had been
run twentyofour hours on, the waters OF the re
the sea was its loneliness. When n wreck
happened the unfortunate victims might
float on and Oh without ever having their,
eys gladdcncd by Il friendly sail. The danger
Of to-day Is the crowdo Of ships-collision and
not deSolation. The nation is to-day stunned
and .addened by the calamity which happen
cd when those TWO floating palaces, plough
Ing through the waters soft Sound, came to-
gether with q crash which Is echoed to-day
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Only the
eye OF God saw that these two vessels were
coming: into collision. I Will mot this early
pretend to say who was to blame. 1!invoke
the law in its severest scrutiny TO step in and
find out who was to blame and TO bring
chaStisemcnt upon those who have hurled
hundreds of families into dcsolation. (Long
applause,) The fact Is that the whole country
has been impanciled us q corOner's jury,
There is an awful blame somewhere. Captains
Of steamers, conductors of rail trains. engi-
ncers Of locomotives, architects Of buildings,
pilots OF steamboats, have great responsibilities,
but | tell you l had rather be the captain of
q steamer dragging one hundred souls dcfcc-
tive theology sending thousands, of souls. to
everlasting shipwreck. This disaster i'm
presses me with the fact that brilliant sur
.roundingS are on the NarranSanSctt with its
exquisite furniture, It's rich pictures and up
holStery, but a Nantucket whale rs he does
to the splendid Narragansett. On that Mar
ragansett were men who would have paid II
thousand dollars, an hundred thousand for
another day Of life, but death Is not Il miser
of money. The disaster of last Friday per.
SHADES me that many people arc not yet i'm
pressed with the usefulness of prayer. Not q
person on that vessel but had heard prayer
derided, and yet when the test came they all
PRAYED. II Tyndall had been there he too
would have prayed. Again l am impressed
with the danger of y dense fog. There was
no cyclone here. \ dense fog down and
Long Island Sound was the scene of an awful
tragedy. But what is the ruin Of the body to
the baiogcing of the soul? There is the Her
bet Spencer for, Huxley tOgs us 10y prOtoplasm
and Darwin fogs us with the .Orlgin of the
species. There is the fog of pantliciSm and
Renan has woven Il fog about the head OF
Christ. Again tins imprcSscS me with the
need Of preparation for the final transition.
some say there was twenty minutes between
the crash and the sinking, fifteen minutes
spent in trying to escape, and then only five
minutes left; half Of ii spent in looking over
ones life and half of ii locking forward TO
a great c~ternitu. You may have even less
time. Did those miners in Avondalc have as
much? We want to cncaSc ourselves In the
urnlor of Jesus and then sudden death
will mean sudden glory then from the
burning. crcaking decks of the E~arrngansctt
the soldiers of the cross 20 straight to Jesus
Mr.. Talmage then baptised eleven new con-
vprtS by immersion.