The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-11-28
TALAlAGE ON THE WING.
THE PASTOR OF o. BROOKLYN
TABERNACLE IN ITALY.

III HSu'JS>e -
mean Journey"-Full Report of the Dis
course ut the italian Port.
BRINplsl. Nov. 17.-The Rev. I. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in this
Italian port today. His subject was
"a Mediterranean Voyage" and he
took for his text Acts xvii, A: And
20 it camc to pass, that they escaped all
safe to land" DR.. Talmage said:
Having visited your historical city,
which we desired to see because it was
the terminus of the most famous road
of the ages, the Roman ADpian Way,
and for its mighty fortress overshadow-
ing a city which even Hannibal's hosts
could not thunder down, we must to-
morrow morning leave your harbor,
and after touching at Athens and Cor
inth, voyage about the Mediterranean
to Alexandria, Egypt. | have been
reading this morning in my New les
lament Of Mediterranean voyage IN
an Alcxandrian ship. 1t was thisWery
month of November. The vessel was
lying in port not very far from here.
On board that vessel were two dlstln-
euished passengers. one, Josephus, the
historian, as we have strong reasons to
believe; the other, a convict, one Paul
by name, who was going to prison for
upsetting things. or, as they termed it,
turning the world upside down"
This convict had gained the
confidence of the captain. Indeed,
l think that Paul knew almost
as much about the sea as did the cap
tain. He had been shipwrecked three
times already; he had dwelt much OF
his life amidst capstans, and yardarms,
and cables, and storms; and he knew
what he was talking about. Seeing
The equinoctial storm was coming, and
perhaps noticing something unsea'
worthy in the vessel, he advised the
captain to stay in the harbor But
hear the captain and the first mate
talking together. They say: 1--WE
cannot afford to take the advice of this
landsman, and he a minister. He may
be able to preach very we'll, but | don't
believe he knows a marlinespike from
a luff tackle. All aboard! Cast offl
Shift the helm for headway! Who
fears the Mediterranean" They had
gone only a little way out when a
whirlwind, called Euroclydon, made
the torn sail its turban, shook the mast
as YOU would brandish spear, and
tossed the hulk into the heavens.
Overheard with the cargo! 1t is all
washed with salt water, and worthless
now; and there are no marine inSur-
ance companies. All hands ahoy, and
out with the anchorsl
FRIGHT AT TIE STORM.
Great CONSERVATION comes on crew
and passengers. The sea monsters
snort in the foam, and the pillows
clap their hands in glse Of destruc-
ton. In a lull of the storm hear
chain clank. It is the chain of the
great apostle as he walks the deck, or
holds fast to the rigging amidst the
lurching of the ship-the spray drip
ping from his long beard as he cries
out to the crew: Now | exhort you
to be OF good cheer: for there shall be
no loss Of any mans life among you,
but CT the ship. For there stood by
me this night the angel of God, whose
am, and whom / serve, saying, Fear
not, Paul; thou must be brought be-
fore Caesar: and, 10, God hath given
thee all them that sail with thee"
Fourteen days have passed, and
there is no abatement of the storm.
II is midnight. Standing on the look
out, the man peers into the darkness,
and, by flash of lightning, sees the
long white line of the breakers and
knows they must be coming near to
some country, and fears that in a few
moments the vessel will be shivered
on the rocks. The ship flies like chaff
in the tornado. They drop the sound
ing line, and by the light of the Ian
tern they see it is twenty fathoms.
Speeding along a little farther, they
drop the line again, and by the light
of the lantern they see it is fifteen
fathoms. Two hundred and sew
enty-six souls within few feet
of awful shipwreckl The managers
Of the vessel, pretending they
want to look over the side of the ship
and undergrad it, get into the small
boat, expecting in it to escape; but
Paul sees through the sham, and he
tells them that if they go off in the
boat it will bethe death Of them. The
vessel strikes The planks spring! The
timbers crackl The vessel parts in
the laundering surgel Oh, what wild
struggling for life! Here they leap
from plank to plank. Here they 60
under as If they would never rise, but,
catching hold of a timber, come float
ing and painting on it to the beach.
Here, strong swimmers spread their
arms through the waves until their
chins plow the sand, and they rise up
and wiring out their wet locks on the
beach. When the roll of the ship is
called, two hundred and seventy-six
people answer to their names And
so," says my text, lit came to pass that
they escaped ali safe to land"
LESSONS TO BE DRAWN.
learn from this subject:
First, that those who get us into
trouble will not stay to help us out.
These shipmen got Paul out of Fair
Havcns into the storm; but as soon as
the tempest dropped upon them, they
wanted to go off in the small boat,
caring nothing for what became of
Paul and the passengers. All me!
human natureis the same in all ages.
They who get rs into trouble never
stop to help US out. They who tempt
that young man into life of dissipa-
ton will be the first to laugh at his
imbecility, and to drop him out Of de-
cent society Gamblers always make
fun Of the losses of gamblers. They