The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-20
TALMAGE'S FAREWELL.
The Brooklyn Divine Bids His Mil
lions Of Friends Goodbye.
Why He Goes to Europe and What He
Expects to See in the Holy, Land-How
to FIT Out and Sail Ship Bound
for the Port OF Heaven.

Expects to See In the Holy Land-How
to FIT Out and Sail Ship Bound
for the Port OF Heaven.
; fOn his for the Holy Land
by the steamer City of Paris, Rev. I.
Dewitt Talmage addressed his millions
Of friends through the press, taking for
his text Acts Xxx, 49,: "And they ac-
companied him unto the ship" Follow.
Ing is the sermon: .,ti ,.-
To the more than twenty-five million
people in many countries to whom my
sermons come week by week, in English
tongue and translation, through the
kindness Of the newspaper press, l ad-
dress these words. / dictate them to
stenographer on the eve of my departure
for the Holy Land, Palestine. When
you read this sermon l will be mid-At-
lantic. go to be gone a'few weeks on
religious journey. go because want
for myself and hearers and readers to
see Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Jeru-
salem, and Calvary, and all the other
| places connected with the Saviour's life
and death, and so reinforce myself for
| sermons. 90 also because am writing
the "Life of Christ" and can be more
accurate and graphic when Ihave been
an eyewitness of the sacred places. Pray
for my successful journeying and safe
return.
wish on the eve Of departure to pro-
nounce a loving benediction upon all
my friends in high places and low, upon
congregations to whom my sermons are
/ in If
| gathered out on prairies and in mining
districts, upon all sick and invalid and
aged ones who can not, attend CHURCHES.
but to whom have long administered
through the printed page. My next SER
mon Will be addressed to youfrom Rome,
Italy, for feel like Paul when he said:
preach the Gospel to you that are at
Rome also.'' The,factis that Paul was
ever moving about on land FOR sea-, He
but from frequency Of travel. think.
he could have taken vessel across the
Mediterranean as well as some of the
ship captains. The sailors never scoffed
at him for being '.'land lubber." If
Paul's advice. had been taken the crew
would never have gone ashpfe at Melita.
When the vessel went scudding under
bare poles Paul was the only self-pos-
sessed man on board, and turning to the
excited crew and despairing passengers,
he exclaims, in voice that sounds
above the thunder of the tempest and
the wrath of the sea: "Be of good
! cheer "a Aya
| The men who wgo to sea with maps
and charts and modern compass, warned
4 by buoy and lighthouse. know nothing
of the perils Of ancient navigation
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 head
land to headland and from island to ISL
and, and not until long after spread
their sail for voyage across the sea.
Before starting the weather was watched,
and the vessel, having been hauled up
on the shore, the mariners placed their
shoulders against the stern of the ship
and heaved it off, they at the last mo-
ment leaping into it, Vessels were then
chiefly ships of burden-the transit of
passengers being the exceptions; for the
world was not then migratory as in our
day, when the first desire Of 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
a 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 Seas
tor and Pollux." The ships were pro-
vided 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 he said: (which hope we have
as an anchor Of the soul, both sure and
steadfast, and which entereth into THAI
within the vail" That was what the
sailors call ''book anchor" The rocks
and sandbars, shoals and headlands, not
being mapped out, vessels carried a
plumb line. They would drop it and
find the water fifty fathoms, and drop II
again and find it forty fathoms, and dror
1t again and find it thirty fathoms,. thus
discovering their near approach to the
shore. In the spring, summer and au.
ftumn the Mediterranean Sea was white
with the wings of ships. but at the frs,
wintry blast they hied themselves tc
the nearest harbor, although now the
worlds commerce prospersN in January
as 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 passenger
tippeted and shawled, sits under the
shelter Of the smokestack, looking of
upon the hosphorescentdeep, on which
is written. In scrolls of foam and fire
"Thy way. o God, is in the sea, and
Thy path in the great waters!"
1t is in those days of early navigation
that see group of men, women and
children on the beach of the Mediterra.
I near,& Paul is about to leave the con
greEation to whom he had preached and
they are come down to see him of. II
i Is aasolemn thing to part. There are SC
many traps that wait for, mans feet
:. The solid ground may break through
and the sea-how mary dark mysteries
it hides in it's bosomy Afew coinsels, !
hasty goodbye, a last look, and the ropes
!, rattle, and the sails are hoisted, and the
Z kplanks are hauled in, and Paul is gone
II Iexpect to sail over some of y the same
i.wAters over which Paul sailed. but be
i fore going ! want to urge you all to EN-
J, bark for Heaven.
= The chnrch is the dry-dock where soul
are tosbe fitted out for Heaven, In max
b sAes vessel fors this. voyage, the frs
need is sound timber. The floor timber
ought to be of solid stuff. For. the wan
of it, vessels that booked able to rui
their iibbooms into the eye of any TEN
pest. when caught in astorm have beer
crushed Ikea wafer. The truths 70
Gods word are what I mean by foo