The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-09-24
TAIMiGE'SIA E,' AK.
az The rAutHHtolt o1uHoH,
On Casiawnys " -.nis rest "tust
That By Any Means. when Nave
preached to Othsrsi I hYtelf
Should lie a Csstawsy,
ICoTinihiass, tKtel

Europe, delivered to-day -nffhlnh On
a. Ao Tabernacle. 20 q
CROW led ui.uco. iiu gayo out the
familiar hymn, beginning, sou, On The
ocean all lnundlesS vo ridO,' after
which he read anl eNpouggod the 10Th
chapter of Aess. His text w1s; "LeBt
that by any msaa+ Hhon have
pre- 'ehed TO o.horS, 1 myself should 10
a oastaway."-l Corinthians, *, -
The following /, complete rsp4rs of
tho sermon!
The apostle, .D thu Text Indicates
that some religious teAch7's psy raj!
70 roach The heaven 20 which LhoY
point o.hofs. q lwn Hld supplies sad
CARDINALS rod Ia, Er5 no security.
Cardinal Wo.suy, a.t3r having been
peiteI by kings, and having enter
tainod foreign Ambassadors q. Hamp'
ton Court, d oil IN darkness. one OF
the most smiA0u, pinls.ers
OF religion thai this Coun-
try has ever known, plunged into
sin and died, his hoart, IN post norton
examination, found 10 have boon, not
figuratively, butlitarally broken. Oh,
ministers pf Christ, h.csusa We hayo
diplomas Of graduation, aud hands OF
ordination on tho hosd, and address
consecrattd assemblagss, tins. 10 no
reason why We shall necessarily roach
the realm celestial. rhb clBrsy man
mus. 20 through tho same Ss.c of par
don as the !ayman. Tho preacher nay
get his audience into hoayem, and no
himself miss il. There hGvo been
cases of shipwreck where all on board
escaped excepting tho captain. Alas!
If, having "pfeaChed TO others l my
self should be- a castawoy.' God for
bid it!
l have examined some of the COM
ment aries to SEQ wnaG thoy thought
about this word, "cassGway," and L
find that they dilrjr in regard to the
figure ussi, while they agree In re-.
gard to the meaning. So snail make
my own selection, and take IL in
nautical and saa-!aring sense, aud
show you that men may beco NO spir-
itusl castaways, and how, iinslly, they
drift into that calamity.
We are sea BARD 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 q ses'capt ain;
and there Is another, aud yOnder 10
Iler
nLmbsr OF you who, though once you
did not know the difference between q
brig and bark, and between q dls-
mond knot and Is sprit-sheet sal! knot,
now you arc IS familiar With 4 ship as
you are with your right hand, and, if
it were necessary, you could tske q
vessel clear across the mouth of the
Mersey without the loss OF asingls
sail. Well, there is dark night in
your memory of the sea. The vessel
became unmanagesble. You saw it
was scudding toward tha shore. You
heard the cry,
"BREAKERs AHEAD!
Land on the lee howw The vessel
struck the rock, and you felt the deck
breaking up under your feet, and you
were q castaway, as when the Her
i.cules drove on the coast of Caffrarla,
as when the Portuguese brig won't
staving, splitting, grinding, crashing
ON tho Goodwins. But whether you
have followed the sea or not, you all
understand the figure whom
J. tell you that there are men
who. by their sins and temptations,
are thrown helpless; driven before
the gales; wrecked for two worlds;
cast away, cast away!
BY talking with SONS sailors, l 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 so in olden
times. IL is not many years ago, IN
deed, that vagsbonds used TO wander
up and down the beach, getting YES
sells ashore in the night, throwing up
false lights in their presence and de-
ceiving them, that they might despoil
and ransack them. All kinds Of in
this. Aud one night, on the Cornish
coast, when the sea was coming in
fesrfuliy, some villains took lantern
and tied it to q horse, ana led the horse
up and down the beach, the lantern
swaying TO the motion of the horse,
~ ta,r W nf1iy NJ q q w
and made up his mind that he was not
anywhere near the shore, for he said;
"There's a vessel; that must be YES
sci, for it's movable light" and he
had no apprehension until he heard
the rocks grating on the ships bot.
tom, and it went to pieces, add the
villains on shore gathered up the
packages and the treasures that were
washed to tho land. And L have to
tell you that there are multitude of
souls ruined by false lights on the
beach. In the dark night of mans
danger,
RELIGIOUS ERROR
goes up and down the shore, shaking
its lantern, and men look Off and take
that flickeriug and expiring wick as
the signal of safety, and the cry is:
s"Hoave the main-topsnil to the mast;
all ia wellw when sudden destruc-
ton cometh upon them, and
they shall not escape. So
there are all kinds of lanterns swung
on the .besch--philosophical lanterns,
educational lanterns, humanitarian
lanterns. Men look at them and are
deceived, when there is nothing but
Gods eternal lighthouse of the gospel
that can keep them from becoming
castaways. Once, on Wolf Crag light
house, they tried to build copper
figure of wolf, with its mouth open,