Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-11-10
ROME ANDTHE HOLY LAND.
DR.. TALMAGE GIVES SOME LESSONS
APRoPoS TO HIS TRIP ABROAD.

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Souls and Gods Holy Spirit he the Pilot.
New YORK, ON BOARD THE CITY Oh
PARIS. Oct 29.-The Rev. I. De Witt
Talmage, ID. D., of Brooklyn, on his
embarkation for the Holy Land by the
steamer City of Paris, addressed his
millions Of friends through the press,
taking for his text Acts Xxx, 80: "And
they accompanied him unto the ship"
His sermon is printed below at full
length.
To the more than twenty-five mill.
ION people in many countries 10 whom
my sermons come week by week, in
English tongue and by translation,
through the kindness of the newspa-
per press, | address these words. /
dictate them 10 a stenographer on the
eve Of my departure for the Holy
Land, Palestine, When you read this
sermon | Will be mid Atlantic. | go
TO be gone a few weeks on a religious
journey ! 60 because want for my.
self aud hearers and readers 10 see
Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusa-
lem, and Calvary, and all the other
places connected with the Saviour's
life and death, and SO reinforce myself
for sermons. | 60 also because | am
writing the Life Of Christ, and can
be more accurate and graphic when |
have been all eyewitness of the sacred
PLACES. Pray for my successful jour
neying and my safe return.
| wish on the eve of departure TO
pronounce a loving benediction upon
all my friends in high places and low,
upon congregations TO whom my SER
mons are read in absence of pastors,
upon groups gathered out Oh pralries
and in mining districts, upon all sick
and invalid and aged ones who cannot
attend churches, but to whom | have
long administered through the printed
page. Ny neyt sermon will be add
dressed 10 you from Rome, Italy, for i
feel ike Paul when he said: so, as
much'as in IN is, l am ready TO preach
the gospel TO YOU that are at Rome al
So" The fact is that Paul was ever
moving about on land or sea. He was
an old sailUr-not from occupation,
but from frequency Of travel. think
lie could nave taken q vessel across
the Mediterranean as well as some OF
the ship captains. The sailors never
scotfed AT linn for being a LAND Tub,
ber." If Paul's advice had been taken.
the crew would never have gone
ashore ut Melita.
THE MARINERS HOPE AND CONFIDENCE.
When the vessel went scudding
under bare poles Paul was the only
self possessed man OIL board. and,
turning 10 the excited crew and de
spairng passengers, he exclaims, in a
voice that sounds above the thunder
Of the tempest and the wrath of the
sea; BE of good cheer"
The men who now 60 TO sea with
maps and charts and modern compass,
warned by buoy and lighthouse, know
nothing Of the perils Of ancient navi,
CATION. Horace said that the man who
first ventured on the sea must have
had a heart bound with oak and triple
brass. People then ventured only from
headland 10 headland and from island
TO island, and not until long after
spread their sail for a voyage across
the sen. Before starting, the weather
was watched. aud, the vessel having
been hauled up on the shore, the mar,
liners placed their shoulders against
the stern of the ship and heayed it of,
they at the last moment leaping into
il.
Vessels were then chiefly ships oil
burden-the transit of passengers be.
ing the exception; for the world was
not then migratory as in our day,
when the llrst desire of a man in ont
place seems To DO TO get into another
place. The ship from which Jonah
was thrown overheard, and that in
which Paul vas carried prisoner, went
out chiefly with the idea of taking q
cargo. As now, so then, vessels were
accustomed To carry a flag. In ihosC
times il was inscribed with the name
Of a heather deity. A vessel bound
for Syracuse had on il the inscription
Castor and P0llux.' The ships wer,
provided with anchors. Anchors wer,
of two kinds: those that were dropped
into the sea, and those that wer,
thrown up onto the rocks to hold th,
vessel fast. This last kind was wha.
Paul alluded to when hesaid: (which
hope we have as an anchoro o. the soul
both sure aud steadfast, and which
entcFcth into that within the vail.
That was what the sailors call ''hool
anchor" The rocks and sand bars
shoals and hcadlands, not being
mapped out. vessels carried a plumb
line. They would drop il and fine
the water fifty fathoms, and drop j
again and find it forty fathOms, and
drop il again and find it thirty fathoms
thus discovering their near approach
10 the shore.
GODS WONDERS IN THE DEEP.
In the spring, summer aud autumn
the Mediterranean sea was white with
the wings Of ships, but at the frs
wintry blast they hied themselves d
the nearest harbor, although now tn,
worlds commerce prospers in January
as we'll as in June, and in mid-winter
all over the wide and stormy deep
there float palaces Of light. tramplinl
the pillows under foot, and showerlnl
the sparks Of terrible furnaces on Tia,
wild wind; and the Christian passen
ger, tippetcd aud shawled, sits unde
The shelter of the smokestack, looking
of upon the phosphorescent deep, OF
which is written, in scrolls Of foam
and fire: THY way. o God, is in ia,
sea, and thy path in the great watersl