Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
'ALMAGE'S SERMON.
=, of the Eminent Preacher
From His Vacation.
..,oursc on "Castaways," Full o,
.,,,ical Illustrations of the SIN.
,e,.s Course On the Ocean
of Life. @

%s,ntical Illustrations of the SIN.
ner's Course On the Ocean
of Life.
.,ox,yN, N. Y, September 2o.-Dr.
Sare, who has just returned from Eu.
tl''7~ delivered to-day a sermon on
,owoys," at the Tabernacle, to a
glad audience. He gave out the
.,iar hymn, beginning:
w.. IN the ocean all boundless We ride,
=. which he read aud expounded the
W ohapter of Acts. His text a
.t that by any means, when l have.
CIV. Corinthians, TX, %.
no following is a complete report of
sermon:
Fns apostle, in the text, indicates that
~ religious teachers may fail to reach
%haavens, to which they point others.
l., and surplice and cardinals red hat
no security. Cardinal Wolsey, after
10 been petted by kings and having
,rtoined foreign embuss adors at
r1pton Court, died in darkness. One
,s most eminent minis ters of religion
this country has ever known plunged
sin and died, his heart, in post .mor.
examination, found to have been
apuratively but literally broken. o,
listers Of Christ, because we have
,omas of graduation, and hands of
nation on the head, and address con.
rated assemblages, there is no reason
= we should necessarily reach the
m celestial. The clergyman must 90
,ush the same gate of pardon as the
Imam. The preacher may get his audi
into heaven, and he himself miss it.
sre have been cases Of shipwreck
ere all on board escaped excepting the
ktain. Alas! If, having preached to
ers, 1 myself should be a castaway.
forbid it.
have examined some of the common.
les to see what they thought about
word "castaway," and I find that
\ differ in regard to the figure used,
lie they agree in regard to the mean.
So l shall make my own selection,
take it in a nautical and s~ea.faring
sc, and show you that men may be.
be- spiritual castaways, and how finally
' drift into that calamity.
n are q seaboard town. You have all
kl on the beach. Many of you have
naged vessels in great stress of wealth.
There is q sea captain; and there is
bther; and yonder is another, and there
goolly number of you who, though
YOU did not know the difference be.
zen a brig and a bark, and between a
mond knot and q spirit sheet sail
H, now you are as familiar til q
as you are with your right hand,
if it were nece ssary, you could take
v:sel clear across to the mouth Of the
tsey without the loss of a single sail
], there is a dark night in your mem.
Of the sea. The vessel became I'm.
uaseable. You saw it was scudding
ard tho shore. You heard the cry,
tsakers ahead! Land on the lee bowl"
vessel struck the rock, and you felt
deck breaking up under your feet, and
were q castaway, as when the Her.
es drove on the coast Of California, or
en- the Portuguese brig went Shaving,
tting, grinding, crashing on the Good
), But whether you have followed
sea or not, you all understand the
pre- when 1 tell you that thero are
b who by their sins and temptations
thrown helpless! Driven before the
/! Wrecked for two worldsi Cast
by. cast away!
y talking with some sailors I have
nd out that there are three or four
(ss for such a calamity to a vessel. I
Ee be IL told that it some times comes
m creating false lights on the beach.
5 was often so in olden times. It is
many years ago, indeed, that vaga-
fls used to wander up and down the
Eca, getting vessels ashore in the night,
owing up false lights in their pres.
E and deceiving them, that they might
poll and ransack them. All kinds of
srnal arts were used to accomplish this,
one night on the Cornish coast. when
Sea was coming in fearfully, some viii
ts took a lantern and tied it to o horse,
led the horse up and down the beach,
.altern swaying 10 the motion of the
So, and a sea captain in the ofing saw
nd made up bis mind that he was not
where near the shore, for he said:
eres a vessel; that must be a vessel for
a movable light" Aud he had no APP
F%hension until he heard the rocks
Flns on the ships bottom, and it went
plecss, and the villains on shore gath
up the packages and the treasures
t were washed to the land. And 1
Se to tell you that there are q multi
of souls ruined by false lights on the
Fch' In the dark night of mans dam
Religious Error goes up and down the
.fe shaking its lantern, and men look
and take that Pickering and expiring
u as the signal of safety, and the cry
"Heave the main topsaiI to the mast!
Is well!" when sudden destruction
u tn upon them and they shall not es-
pc SO there are all kinds Of lanterns
ing on the beach-philos optical Ian
u.s. educational lanterns, humanitarian
l'srns. Men look at them and are de-
we'd when there is nothing but Gods
F'hal lighthouse of the Gospel that
. Keep them from becoming cast
ays' Once, on Wolf Craig Lighthouse,
:! started to build a copper figure OF a
VI with its mouth open, so that the
Na's beating into it, the wolf would
WI forth the danger to mariners that
.aA' be coming anywhere near that
'N' Of course it was a failure. And
al new Inventions for the saving OF
vi soul are unavailing. What the M
~ race wants is light bursting forth
WI the cross standing on tho great
'a'ands-the light of pardon, the hight
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