Democratic messenger., 1889-11-23
DIR. TALMAGES TRIP.
SERMON ON A MEDITERRANEAN
VOYAGE
Tho Brooklyn Divine Gives Graphic
Description OF the Scenes on
Board Steamer During
Storm and Draws from
Them Lesson.


Them Lesson.
BRiSDisi, Nov. l7.-The Rev. 7. ID,
Witt Talmagc, d. d., preached IN this Ital
ian port to-day. Ills subject was "A Med
iicrranean Voyage" and he took for bis
text Acts xvii, a: "And so il came a
pass that they escaped safe to land" DIR
Talmagc said: Having visited your his
torical city,which we desired TO SC,
because II was the terminus OF the
most famous road Of the ages, the
Roman Appian Way, and for It's mighty
fortress overshadowing city which even
llunnibals hosts could not thunder down
we must tomorrow morning leave your
harbor. aud after touching at Athens and
Corinth voyage abont the Mediterranean
to Alexandria. Egypt. have been read
ing this morning in my New Testament
OF Mediterranean voyage In an Alexan.
drian ship. II was this very month O
November. The vessel was lying in q
port not very far from here. On board
that vessel were two distinguished passcn
gcrs-onc Joscphus, the historian, as We
have strong reasons TO believe: the OtheI
u convict, one Paul by name, who was go
ing to prison for upsetting things, or, a,
they termed il. turning the world upsid,
down" This convict had gained the con
tidcIcc Of the captain. Indeed, | think
that Paul knew almost as much about the
sea as did the captain. lie had been ship
wrecked three times already; he had
dwclt much of his life amidst capstans
and yarjarms, and cables, and storms, and
he knew what he was talking about. See
ing the equinociial storm was coming .and
perhaps noticing something unscaworth,
in the vessel, he advised the captain t'
stay In the liarhor. But | hear the captain
and the first mate talking together. The,
say: I'VE cannot aii"rd To take the ad
vice Of this landsman, and he u minister
lie may be- able Ia preach very well, but
don't believe he knows n marlinspikc from
n luir tackle All aboard Cast 0if. Shift
the helm for hcadway. Who fears III,
Mediterranean: They had gone only d
little way ont when u vhirlwind, called
Euroclydon, made the torn sail lis turban
shook the mast as you would hrandish 4
spear. and tossed the hulk into the hcav
ems. Overheard with the cargo. II l:
all washed with salt water, and worthless
now and there are no marine insnrnnc,
companies. All hands alloy, and out will
the anchors.
Great CONSERVATION come on crew and
passengers. The SRA monsters sport in
the foam and the billOws clap their hands
in glec Of destruction. In the lull of llt
storm ] hear n chain clank. II is the chair
of the great apostle as he walks the dccl
or holds fast to the rigging amid tl'
lurching of the ship. the spray dripping
from his long beard Ms he cried uut 10 III,
crew: Now | cxh0rt you tO he Of good
cheer; for there shall be no loss of nm,
mans life among you, but of the ship
For there stood by me this night the an
gel Of God, whose am and whom serve
saying Fear not, Paul; thou must bt
brought before CGsar; and, 10. tod hatl
given thee all them that sail with thee
on THE ROCKS.
Fourteen days have passed and there i
no abatement Of the storm. II is mid
night. Standing ON the lookout the mai
peers into the darkness, and by flash oi
II lightning, sees the long white line of th,
breakers. and knows they must he coming
near To some country, aud fears that In d
few moments the vessel will he shiveret
on the rocks. The ship flies like char u
the tornado. They drop the sounding
line, and by the light Of the lantern the,
see 1t Is 20 fnthoms. Speeding along lii
tie farther they drop the line again, mn,
by the light of the lantern they see II !,
u faihoms. Two hundred and seventy
six souls within few feet of awi iul ship
wreck. The managers of the vessel pre-
tending they want to look over the sid'
ofthc ship and undergrad il, get into ,h'
small boat, expecting IN il 10 escape, hu
Paul sees through the sham, and he tell
them that IL they go of in the boa, i, vii
bc the death uf them. The vessel strikes
The planks spring. The iimbers crack
The vessel parts In the laundering surge
Oh. what wild struggling Tor life. Her,
they leap from plank TO plank Here the,
go under as II they would never rise, but
catching hold of timber, come ilOalin,
and painting ON il To the beach. Here
strong swimmers spread their arms
through the waves until their chin pillow
the sand. and they rise up aud wiring on
their wet locks on the beach. When tn
roll Of the ship is called, .'6 peopc an
swer To their names, And so," says N,
text, ii, came To pass iha, they escaped al
safe 10 land"
LESSONS tn nv LEARNED.
learn from this subject:
First. that those who &c, us into tr0u
hlc will not stay TO help us out. Thes,
shipmen got PaIl out Of Fair lIavens into
the storm; but rs soon as the tempcs
dropped upon them they wanted To go of
in the small boat, caring nothing for what
became of Paul and the passengers. Al
me human nature is the same in all ages
They who get us into trouble never stoI
to help lis out. They who temp, tha
young man into lite Of dissipation vii
b. the first to laugh nj his imbccility, ant
to drop him out of decen, society. Gam
blcrs always make fun of the LOSSES q
gamblers. They who tempt you into The
contest with fists, saying II will bach
YOU" will he the first to run. Look oycI
all the prcdicaments of your life, an'
count the names Of those who have got
ten you into these prcdicaments, and tel
me The name Of one who ever helped yo'
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