Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-09
ROME AND TIE HOLY LAND.

ROME ANDTlIE HOLY LAND.
iDR. TALMAeE GIVES SOME LESSONS
sAPRoPos TO HIS TRIP ABROAD.
The Voyage from Time TO EternIty-rhero
Must Be an Anchor of Hope Sure and
steadFast, Enthusiasm Must FIJI the
Souls and Gods holy Spirit Dc the Pilot.
New YORK, ON BOARD THE CRY OF
PARIs, Oct. 29.-The Rev. 7. De Witt
Talmage, D. 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, SO: "And
theysaccompanied him unto the ship"
His sermon is printed below at full
length:
To:the more than twenty-five mill
ionspeople in many countries to whom
my; sermons come week by week, in
English tongue and by translation,
.throughsthe kindness of the newspa-
per- press, address these words:aI5
dictate, them to a stenog phSr on the.
eve OF my departure for the Holy
LandyPalestine. When you read this
SERMON ] will be mid-Atlantic. Igo'
to beigone, afew weeks. on q religious
iourfiey. Isgo lecause Iwant for my
self and hearers and readers to see
Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusa-
em,Eand Calvary, and all the other
places connected with the Saviours
life and death, and so reinforce myself
for sermons. go also because | am
writing the Life Of Christ, and can
be more accurate and graphic when !
have been ON eyewitness of the sacred
places. Pray for my successful jour
neying and my safe return.
/ wish on the eve Of departure to
pronounce 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 on prairies
and.in mining districts upon all sick
and invalid and aged ones who cannot
attend churches, but to whom l have
long administered through the printed
page. My next sermon will be adj
dressed to you from Rome, Italy, for
feellike Pall when. he said: $50, as
much as in me is, 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 sailor-not from occupation,
butfrom frequency of travel. think
he could have taken vessel across
the Mediterranean Us well as some OF
the ship captains. The sailors never
scofed at him for being a Land lub-
ber.n IF Paul's advice had been taken,
the crew would never have gone
ashore at Melita.
THE fAlARINER'S HOPE AND CONFIDENCE
When the vessel went scudding
under bare poles Paul was the only
elfst;possessed man on board, and,
turning to tho excited crew and de-
spaiiing passengers, he exclaims, in a
voics.that sounds above the thunder
of the tempest and the wrath OF the
Sea - Ot.Oi SOOu CLiOSi. 49,.
Tie men who now go to sea with
maps and charts and modern compass,
warned by buoy and lighthouse, know
nothing Of the perils Of ancient navi-
gatien. Horace said that the man who
4;red ,eyzt. &l.-,-raa Tn1lSt- have
lad Lad d heart bound with oak and triple
brass. People then ventured only from
headland TO headland and from island
to island, and not until long after
spread their sail for a voyage across
the sea. Before starting, the weather
was watched, and, the vessel having
been hauled up on the shore, the mar
liners placed their shoulders against
the stern of the ship and heaFed it off,
they at the last moment leaping into
it.
Vessels were then chiefly ships of
burden-the transit of passengers be-
ing the exception; for the world was
not then migratory as in our day,
when the first desire Of a man in one
place seems to be to get into another
place. The ship from which Jonah
was thrown overheard, and that in
which Paul was carried prisoner, went
out chiefly with the idea of taking
cargo. As now, so then, vessels were
accustomed to carry flag. In those
times it was inscribed with the name
of heather deity. A vessel bound
for Syracuse had on it the inscription
Castor and Pollux." The ships were
provided with anchors. Anchors were
of two kinds; those that were dropped
into the sea, and those that were
thrown up onto the rocks to hold the
vessel fast. This last kind was what
Paul alluded to when hesaid: (which
hope we have as an anchor of the soul,
both sure and steadfast, and which
entereth into that within the vail.
That was what the sailors call "hook |
anchor" The rocks and sand bars,
shoals and headlands, not being
mapped out, vessels carried plumb
line. They would drop it and find
the water fifty fathoms, and drop it
again and find it forty fathoms, and
drop itagain and find it thirty fathoms,
thus discovering their near approach |
to the shore.
GODS WONDERS IN THE DEEP.
In the spring, summer and autumn
the Mediterranean sea was white with
the wings of ships, Blu: at the first
wintry blast they hied themselves to !
the nearest harbor, although now the
worlds commerce prospers in January
us well as in June, and in mid-winter,
all over the wide and stormy deep,
there float palaces of light, trampling
the pillows under foot, and showering
the sparks of terrible furnaces on the
wild wind; and the-Christian passen-
ger, tippeted and shawled, sits under
the shelter of the smokestack, looking
off upon the phosphorescent deep. Oh
which is written, in scrolls of foam
and fire: 'Thy way, 0 God, is in the he,