Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-21
CASTAWaYS.
A Tabernacle Sermon by Rev. DR..
Talmags.
A VIVID ALLEeoRIcAL SERMON
Illustrative of the Spiritual Wrecking Of
Some Human Barks
and How
ALL MAY SAFELY GAIN THE HAVEN.

BROOKLYN, September 20.-Dr. Ialmage,
who has Just returned from Europe, deliver
ed to-day q sermon on CaStsways, at the
Tabernacle, to q crowded audience. He
gave out the familiar hymn, beginning,
"Out on the ocean all boundlSss we ride,
after which he read and expounded the
tenth chapter of Acts His text was: Lest
that BY any means, when l have preached
10 others, myself should be q castaway.
Il Corinthiansix, o. The following Is
complete report Of the sermon.
The apostle, in the text, indicates that
some
Religious Teachers May Fail
to reach the heaven to which they point
others. Gown and surplice and cardinals
red hat are no security. Cardinal WolseY,
after having been petted by kings, and
having entertained foreign ambassadors at
Hampton Court, died in darkness. One Of
the most eminent ministers of religion that
this country has ever known plunged into
sin and died, his heart, in post mortem ex'
animation, found to nave been not 6gnra-
lively, but literally, broken. o ministers of
Christ because we have diplomas of grad
uation, and hands of ordination on the head,
and address consecrated assemblsges, that
is no reason why we shall necessarily reach
,he realm celestial The clergyman must
90 through the same gate Of pardon as the
.symsn. The preacher may get his
.uoiepce into heaven, and ne himself miss
[. There have been cases Of shipwreck
here all on board escaped excepting the
csptain. Alas if, having preached to
2tbers, myself should be castaway.
God forbid it!
have examined some Of the common
aries to see what they thought about this
sord "csstaway," and find that they differ
in regard to the figure used, while they agree
in regard to the meaning. So l shall make
my own selection, and take it in nautical
sea-iaring sense, and show you that men
may become spiritual castawsys, and how
finally they drift into that calamity.
The Vessel.
We are sea-board town. You have all
stood on the beach. Many OF you have
crossed the ocean. Some OF you have managed
vessels in great stress of weather. There is
a sea captain; and there is another; and
yonder is another; and there are goodly
number OF you who, though once you did
not know the difference between a brig and
q bark, AMI between diamond knot and
spirit.sheet sail knot, now you are as familiar
with chip as you are with your right hand,
and, if it were necessary, could take vessel |
clear across the mouth of the Mersey with |
out the loss Of single sail. Well, there is |
a dark night in your memory of the sea. |
The vessel became unmauagesble. You
heard thc CRY, Breakers ahead Land on |
the lee bow" The vessel struck the rock, |
and you felt the deck breaking up under |
your feet, and you were csstawsy as when |
he Hercules drove on the coast of CaHraria, |
as when the Portuguese brig went staving,
splitting, grinding, CRACKING on the Good
wins But whether you have followed the |
sea or not, you all understand the figure |
shen | tell you that there are men who by |
their sins and temptations are thrown help |
less Driven before the gale Wrecked |
tor two worlds! Cast away! Cast away |
By talking with some sailors have found |
out that there are
Three or Four Causes
for such calamity TO vessel. l have been |
told that it sometimes comes from creating |
false lights on the beach. This was often |
% in olden times. 1t is not 80 many years |
,go, indeed, that vsgabonds used to wander |
up and down the beach, getting vessels |
ashore in the night, throwing up false lights |
in their presence and deceiviug them, that |
hey might despoil and rsnssck them. All |
kinds of internal arts were used to accom- |
plish this And one hight on the Cornish
coast, when the sea was coming in tesrfully, |
come villains took lantern and tied it to a
horse, and led the horse up and down the |
beach, the lantern swaying to the action OF |
he horse and Captain in the ohng saw !
It and made up his mind that he was not
anywhere the shore, for he said, There a
vessel; that must be vessel, for its NOV
ing light" And he had no apprehension
until be heard the rocks grating on the |
ships bottom, and it went to pieces, and the |
villains on shore gathered up the packages
md treasures that were washed to the land. |
And have to tell yos that there are null
irudes OF souls ruined by false ghts on toe
0each' In the dark night Of man 8 danger,
religious error goes Up and down the shore,
,hsking the lantern, aud men LOOK of and |
axe that hickeling expiring wiek as the |
signal OF safety, and the cry is "Heave the |
mairtopsail to the mast; al is wall, when
sudden destruction cometh upon them, |
aid they shsN not escape. So
there are al kinds of lanterns swung on the
Ia oI,
lsntersns and humanitarian lanterns. Men |
look ut them and are deceived, when there |
is nothing but Gods eternal lighthouse OF |
he Gospel that can keep them from Secom-
ing castswsys Once on Wolf Crsg Light |
house, they tTied to build a complete figure
of a wolf with the mouth open 90 that the |
storms beating into it the wolf would howl |
forth the danger to mariners that might be |
coming anywhere near the coast OF course |
il was 8 failure And so sll new inventions |
for the saving OF mans soul are unsvsihng. |
What the human race wants is light burst
inc forth from the cross standing on the
vrsst headlsnds-the light of pardon, the
light of comfort, the light of heaven. You
might better 90 tonight and destroy all the
great lighthouses on the dangerous coasts
I0e DSELGS0t ShC a oSNASN A~SS'N
Lighthouse the Skerryvore Lighthouse, the
Lorgship's Lighthouse, the Hoiyhesd lAght'
house-than to put out Gods great ocean
lamp-the Gospel Woe to those who SWING
false lanterns on the beach till men crash
in and perish! Cast away Cast away
By talking with sailors, have heard also
that some times ships come to this calamity
BY
The sudden Swoop of n Tempest.
For instance, q vessel is sailing along in
the East Indies, and there is not single
cloud on the sky, but suddenly the breeze
freshens, and there are swift feet on the
lines, and the cry is, way! haul away
,hereP' but, before they can square the
booms and tarpsuhn the hatchWayA the
vessel is grosning and creaking in the grip
of a tornado, and falls over into the trough