New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-09-04
T ALMAGE IN OREGON.

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sHe Shows How Ministers of the Gospel
May Help Others into Heaven and
Yet Miss 1t Themselves,
PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 25.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, d. D. who preached here to-
day to a:vast audience, took for his text l.
Cor. tx, ~: Lest that by any means my
eself should be cast away" The preacher
esaid:
In the presence you who lives on the
Pacific coast I who live on the Atlantic coast
may appropriately speak on this marine
alusion OF the text, for all who know about
Che sea know about the castway. The text
implies that ministers of religion may help
Others into heaven and miss it themselves.
The carpenters that built Noahs ark did
vnot get into it themself. Gown and surplice
land diplomas and canonicals are no security.
Cardinal Wolsey, after having been petted
Wy 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, by post
shorten examination, found to have been
mot fguratively but literally broken. We
may have hands of ordination on the head
and address consecrated mbIages, but
that is no reason why we shall, necessarily
reach the realm celestial. The clergyman
,must go through the same gate Of pardon
AS the layman. There have been cases OF
rshipwreck where all on board escaped ex
,cepting the captain. Alas! if having preach
ed TO Others myself should be castaway."
God forbid it.
j have examined some ofthe commentaries
to see what they thought about this word
ttcastaway and find they differ in regard
to the figure used while they agree in regard
to the meaning, So shall make my own
selection and take it in nautical and sea-
faring sense and show you that men may be-
come spiritual castaways and how finally
they drift into that calamity.
You and live in seaboard cities. 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 sea captain, and there is another,
and yonder is another, and there are a
sgoodly number of you, who, though once
you did not know the difference between Il
brig and a bark and between q diamond
knot and Notwithstanding and alth ough
you could not point out the weathercross-
jack brace and although you could hoffman
the forecieW garfets, now you as familiar
with ship as you are with your right hand,
and ii it were necessary you could take a
vessel clear across to the mouth of the Mer-
uxpIt hn1 thn lNSc Of cir o1o Wn1
there is a dark night in your memory of the
sea- The vessel became unmanageable. You
saw it was scudding toward the shore. You
heard the cry: breakers ahead! Land on
che lee bowl The vessel struck the rock and
you felt the deck breaking up under your
feet, and you were q castaway, as when the
Hercules drove on the coast of Caffraria, as
when the Portuguese brig went staying,
splitting, grinding, crashing on the Good
wins. But whether you have followed the
sea or not you all understand the figure
when tell you that there are men who by
Eesss Driven before the gate! Wrecked for
two worlds. Castaways! Castaways!
By talking with some sea captains have
found out that there are three or four causes
Cor such a calamity to vessel. have been
Gold that 1T sometimes comes from creating
salse lights on the beach. This was often SO
IN olden times. 1t is not many years ago,
indeed, that vagabonds used to wander up
and down the beach getting vessels ashore
IN the night, throwing up false lights in their
presence and deceiving them that they might
despoil and ransack them. All kinds of in
fernal arts were used to accomplish this
And one night on the Cornish coast, when
che sea was coming in fearfully, some villains
took a lantern and tied it to horse and led
the horse UP and down the beach, the Ian
tern swinging to the motion of the horse
and the sea captain in the offng saw it and
made up his mind that he was not anywhere
near The shore, for he said ''Theres YES
sel-that must be a yeseel for it has NOV
able light and he had no apprehension till
he heard the rocks grating on the ships bot
tom, and it went to pieces and the villains on
shore gathered up the packages and treasures
that were washed to the land. And have
TO tell you that there are a multitude of
souls ruined by false lights on the beach. In
the dark night OF mans danger false religion
goes up and down the Shore shaking it's
aantern, and men look off and take that
Hickerng and expiring wick as the
signal of safety, and the cry is: "Heave the
main topsail to the mast! All is wellp' when
sudden destruction cometh upon them and
they shall not escape. So there are all kind of
lanterns swung on the philosophical
lanterns, educated lanterns, humanitarian
lanterns. Men look at them and are de-
ceived, when there is nothing but Gods eter-
nal lighthouse of the gospel that can keep
SHem lFOm becoming cuSCdWdyS.@ OnCe on
Wolf Crag lighthouse they tried to build
copper figure OF a wolf with it's mouth open,
80 that the storms beating into it the wolf
would howl forth the dangers to mariners
that might be coming anywhere near the
coast OF course it was n failure. And SO
all new inventions for the saving of nuns
soul are unavailing. What the human race
wants is a light bursting forth from the
cross standing on the great headlands-the
light of pardon, the light OF comfort, the
light of heaven. You might better go to-
night and destroy all the great lighthouses
on the dangerous coasts-the Barnegat
aight house. the Fastnet lighthouse the
Sherryvore lighthouse, the Longship's light
house, the Hollyhead lighthouse to
put out Gods great ocean lamp-the gosple,
Woe to those who swing false lanterns on the
beach till men crash into ruin. Castaways
Castaways!
By talking with sea captains have found
out also that some vessels come to this
calamity through sheer recklessness. There
are 5000, 900 men who follow the sea for a
living. 1t is asimple fact that the average