The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
DIR. TALMAGE IN OREGON.
HIS RECENT SERMON AT PORTLAND.
He Shows How Ministers of the Gospel
May Help Others Into Heaven and
bliss It ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Religious Notes.

The Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, ID. D.,
who preached in Portland, Ore, last
Sunday to a vast audience, took for his
text | Cor. tx, 27: 'Lest that by any
means l myself should be cast away"
The preacher said:
In the presence of you who live on the
Pacific coast l who live on the Atlantic
coast may appropriately speak on this
marine allusion of the text, for all who
know about the sea know about the cast
AWAY The text implies that ministers of
religion may help others into heaven and
yet miss it themselves. The carpenters
that built Noahs ark did not get into 1t
themselves. Gown and surpice and di-
plomas and canonicals are no security.
Cardinal Wosey, after having been petted
My kings and having entertained foreign
ambassadors at Hampton court, died in
vdarkness. One OF the most eminent min
listers OF religion that this country has
ever known plunged into sin and died, his
heart by post-mortem examination, found
10 have been not figuratiyely but literally
broken. We may have hands of ordna-
ton on the head and address consecrated
nssemblages, but that is no reason why
we shall necessarily reach the realm celes-
tal. The clergyman must go through the
same gate OF pardon as the layman, There
have been cases OF shipwreck where all on
board escaped excepting the captain.
Alas ii having preached 10 others my
self should be- a castaway.' God forbid IL.
have examined some OF the comment
aries 70 see what they thought about this
word 'castaway" and find they differ in
regard 10 the figure used while they agree
in regard 10 the meaning. 80 shall make
my own selection and take IL in nautical
and seafaring sense and show you that
men NAV become spiritual castaways and
how finally they drift into that calamity.
You and live i'm 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 lisa sea captain, and there
is another, and yonder Is another, and
there are a goodly number OF you, who,
though once you did not know the differ
ence between n brig and bark and be-
tween a diamond knot and n spritsheet-
sail knot and although you could not
point out the weathercross-jack brace, and
although YOU could not man the foreclew
garnets, now you are as familiar with
shin as you are with your right hand, and
If il were necessary you could take yes
sci clear across TO the mouth of tine Mer-
sey without the loss of a single sail. Well,
there is a dark night in your memory of
the sea. The vessel became unmanagea-
be. You saw it was scudding toward the
shore. You heard the cry: Breakers
ahead Land on the lee bow" The yes
SCI struck the rock and YOU felt the deck
breaking up under your feet, and you
were a castaway, as when the Hercules
drove on the coast of Caffraria, as when
the Portuguese brig went staying. split
ting grinding, crashing on the GoOdwins.
But whether you have followed the sea or
not, you all understand the figure when |
tell YOU that there are men who by their
sins and temptations are thrown helpless
Driven before the gale Wrecked Tor two
worlds. Castaways. Castawaysl
By talking with some sea captains | have
found out that there are three or four
causes for such a calamity to a vessel.
have been told that it sometimes comes
from creating false lights on the beach.
This was often so in olden times. 1t is
not many years ago, indeed, that vaga-
bonds used to wander up and down the
beach getting vessels ashore in the night
throwing up false lights in their presence
and deceiying them that they might de-
spoil and ransack them. All kinds of in
fernal arts were used TO accomplish this
And one night on the Cornish coast, when
the sea was coming in fearfully, some viii
lains took lantern and tied it TO horse
and led the horse up and down the beach,
the lantern swinging to the motion of the
horse, and sea captain in the ofiing saw
it and made up his mind that he was not
anywhere near the shore, for he said:
There's vessel-that must be vessel,
for it has movable light" and he had no
apprehension till he heard the rocks graf
ing on the ships bottom. and il 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 re-
lgion goes up and down the shore. shak-
ing its lantern, and men look Off and take
that Pickering and expiring wick as the
signal OF safety, and the cry is: "Heave
the main-topsail to the mast All is well :"
when sudden destruction cometh upon
them and they shall not escape. So there
are all kinds OF lanterns swung on the
philosophical lanterns, educated
lanterns. humanitarian lanterns. Men
look at them and are deceived, when there
is nothing but Gods eternal lighthouse of
the gospel that can keep them from be-
coming castaways. Once on Wolf Crag
lighthouse they tried to build a copper
figure of wolf with its mouth open, so
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 failure. And so
all new inventions for the saving Of mans
eouI are unavailing. What the human
race wants is light bursting forth from
the cross standing on the great headlands
The Light of pardon, the light of com
a the light of heaven. You might bet
70 tonight and destroy all the great
t-houses on the dangerous coasts-the
Barhegat lighthouse, the Fastnet Rock
lighthouse, the Sherryvore lighthouse,
the Longship's light house, the Hollyhead
Eght-house-thant 10 put out Gods great
ocean lamp-the gospel. Woe to those
who swing false lanterns on the beach till
men crash into ruin. Castaways! Cast
awaysl
By talking with sea captains l have
heard also that sometimes ships come to
this calamity by the sudden swoop of q
tempest For instance, a vessel is sailing
along in the East Indies and there is not a
single cloud on the sky; but suddenly the
breeze treshens and there are swift feet
on the ratlines and the cry is: "Way,
baDl away there" but before they can
square the booms and tarpaulin the hatch
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