The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-21
TALHAGE'S LATEST TALK,
AT THE TABERNACLE CHURCH,
On "Castaways"-- His Text; "Lest
That by Any Means. When 1 Have
Preached 20 Others, L Myself
shsaid BE GATEWAY.
Corinthians, ix,es.

bHoohLfN, sept. D,-l Speci al. l-Dr.
Talmsge, who has just returned from
Europe, delivered to-day a sermon on
"Castaways," at the Tabernacle, to a
crowded audience. He gave out the
familiar hymn, beginning, "Out on the
ocean all boundless We ride" after
which he road aud expounded tho 10th
chapter of Acts. His text was: "I,sst
that by any means, whom 1 hav @
presched to others, myself should be
. eastaway."-I Corinthians, tx, 27.
Tho following is complete report OF
the sermon:
The apostle, Ia 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 ara no security.
Cardinal Wolsey, after having been
petted by kings, and having enter
tAined foreign ambassadors at Hamp-
ton Court, died In darkness. One of
the moat eminent ministers
OF religion that this coun-
try has ever known, plunged into
ain and died, his heart, In post morsem
examination, found to have been, not
lsurasively, but literally broken. Oh,
ministers Of Christ, because we have
diplomas Of graduation, and hands Of
ordination on the head, and address
consecrated assemblages, that IL no
reason why We shall necessarily roach
the realm celestial. The clerEym man
must 20 through the same gate OF par-
don as the layman. The preacher may
get his audience into heaven, and he
himself miss 1t. There have beon
cases OF shipwreek where all on board
escaped excepting the captain. Alas!
II, having "presched to others 1 my
self should be castawsy." God for.
bid it!
Ihave examined some OF the com.
mentsries to see wnat they thought
about this word, "castawsy," and /
hnd that they differ in regard to the
figure used, while they agree in re
gard 10 the meaning. So / shall make
my own selection, and take it ina
nautical and sea-fnrlng sense, aud
show you that mon may become spir-
itual castaways, and how, finally, they
drift into that calamity.
We are y s0a aboard town. You have
all stood on the beach. Many of you
have crossed tho ocean. Some OF you
have managed vessels In great stress
OF weather. There Ia u sea-capt ain; /;
and there is another, aud yonder is
another, and there arc goodly
number OF you who. though onoe you
did not know the difference betwoen q
brig and bark, and between a dls-
mond knot and sprit-sheet sail knot,
now you are as familiar with Il ship as
you are with your right hand, and, II
It were necessary, you could take q
vessel clear across the mouth of the
Mersey without the loss OF single
sail. Well, there is dark night In
your memory OF tho sea. The vessel
became unmanagesble. You saw 1t
was soudding toward tho shore. You
hoard the cry,
"BBEAKERs AHEAD!
Land on tho leo bowl" The vessel
struck the rock, and you felt the deck
breaking up under your feet, and you
were q casLawsy, as when tho Her
culos drove on the coast of Caffrarla,
as when the Portuguese brig went
staving, splitting, grinding, crashing
on the Goodwins. But whether you
have followed the sea or not, you all
understand the figure when
II tell you that there are men
)who, by their sins and temptations,
Sro thrown helpless; driven before
the gales; wrecked for two worlds;
cast away, cast away!
BY talking with some sailors, / have
found out that thore are three or four
causes for such calamity to q vessel.
have boen told that 1t sometimes
comes from creating false lights on
the beach, This was often 50 In olden
times. lis not many yesrs ago, in
deed, that vagabonds used to wander
up and down tho bosch, getting ves-
sells ashore in the night, throwing up
false lights In their presence and de-
ceiving them, that they might dospoil
and ransack them. All kinds OF In.
formal arts were used to accomplish
this. And one night, on tho Cornish
Icosst, when tho sea was coming In
foarfuliy, some Villains took q lantern
and tied II to horse, ana led the horse
up and down the beach, the lantern
swaying to the motion Of the horse,
and q soa captain In tho ofllng saw IL,
and made up his mind that he was not
anywhere near the shore, for ho said
i"rhero's a vessel; that must be ves-
sol, for ipsa movable light" and he
had no apprehension until he heard
the rocks grating on tho ships bot.
tom, and 1t went 10 pieces, aud tho
williams on shoro gathered up tho
packages and tho treasures that were
washed TO tho land. And 1 have to
tell you that there are u multitude Of
souls ruined by false lights ON tho
beach. In tho dark night Of mans
danger,
RELIGIOUS ERROR
goes up and down the shore, shaking
its lantern, and mon look or and take
that nlckoring and expiring wick az
tho signal Of safety, and tho cry In;
"Heavo the main -topsail to the mast,
all 10 wellg' when sudden destruc.
tion comoth upon them, and
ithey shAll not escape. So
thero sro all kinds Of lanterns swung
on tho bcach-phlloso phical lanterns,
educational lanterns, Humanitarian
lanterns. Men look at them and arc