West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-09-05
TUE CASTAWAYS.
WHAT TnE sEA oArrAaSs sAy.
raimage Tells OF the Spiritual Ship
wreck and It's Causes.


sea know about the castaway. The
text implies that ministers OF re-
ngion may help others into heaven and
yet miss II themselves The carpenters that
s uI,ie Noehs ark did notget into IL them
selves. Gown and surplice, aud diplomas
and canonicals ore no security. Cardinal
w olsey, after having been pettcd bv kings
and having entertained foreign ambassadors
az hampton Court died in darkness
One or the most eminent ministers Of
religion that this country has ever
known, plunged into sin and died. his
heart by post-mortem examination. found
70 have been, not iguratively but literally,
broken: We may have hands OF ordination
on the head, and address consecrated assem-
inlages, but that is no reason why We shall
necessarily reach the realm celestial The
clergyman must go through the same gate
OF pardon as tho layman. There have been
cases OF shipwreck where oil on board
escaped excepting tho captain. Alasi IL.
having preached to others myself shouId
DO a castawayn God forbid It.
have examined some Of the commentaries
70 see what they thought about this word
.castaway," and find they differ i'm regard
10 the figure used, while they agree in regard
70 tho mcaning. SO shall make my own So
lection, and take II in nautical and seafar-
ing sense and show you that men may be.
como spiritual castaways, ond how finally
they drift into TINT calamity
You and live in seaboard cities You
have all stood upon the beach. Many of Won
nave crossed the ocean. Some of YOU have
managed vessels in great stress of weather.
There is a sea captain. and there Is another
ana yonder IS another, and there are a goodly
number of you who, though once Won did not
know the difference between n brig and a
park, and between a diamond knot and a
sprlt sheet sail knot, and although you could
not point out the weather cross jack brnce.
ana tnough you could not man tho fore clew
garnets, now you are as familiar with a
snip ,s as you are with your right hand
vessel clear across to the month of tbe
Mersey without the loss of single sail
wen, thereis dark night IN your memory
OF the sea. The vessel became unrnanaoeable
You You saw It was scudding toward tho shore
Land on tho lee bowp The vessel
struck the rock and you felt the deck
breaking up under your feet aud you were
q eastaway, as when the Hercules drove ON
the coast of Caffraria, as when the Port1l-
guese brig went staying, splitting, grinding
crashing on tho Goodwins But whether.
you have followed the sea or not Won ali
understand the figure when tell you that
t tnere e.e men, who, by. their sins and
temptations, are thrown helplCssl Driven
before tho galeI Wrecked for two woridsI
Castawaysl Castawaysl
by talking with some sea captains. have
FOUND out that there are three or four causes
told that It comes sometimes from, creatino,
raise lights on the beach. This was often so
An olden times. It Is not many wears 400
indeed, that vagabonds used to wander M
ana down tho beach, getting vessels ashore
In the night, throwing up false lights i'm thei,.
presence and deceiving them, that they may
uespol and ransack them. An kinds Of
hnternal arts were used to accomplish this
And one night, on the Cornish coast. when
INC sea was coming In fearfully some villains
TOOK n lantern and tied it to a horse, and led
me horse up and down the beach the lantern
swinging 70 the motion Of the horse and N sen
captain in the ofiing saw it and made up his
Illnd tilnt ne was not anywhere near the
shore for he said: There's yessel--that
must be vessel, for IL has a movable light .
and pc Ind no apprehension till he heard tho
rocks grating on the ships bottom. and 1t
went TO pieces and the williams on shore gath
ereu up the packages and treasures that were
washed to the land. And / have to tell Won
that there are multitude OF souls ruined by
false lights ON the beach In the darl, night
OF mans danger, false religion goes un and
Gown the SHORE, shaking its lantern, and men
look of and take that pickering and expirino
wick as the signal OF safety, and the cry Is:
'deave the main topsail to the mast an is
well" when sudden destruction cometh upon
them; and they shall not escape. SO there
are all kinds OF lanterns swung ON the beach
philosophical lanterns educational Ian
terms, humanitarian lenterns Men look at
them and arc deceived. when there is moth
ing but Gods eternal lighthouse of the Cos
Pei enat can az. keep them from becoming casta-
-
house, they tried to build con
per inquire OF wolf with its mouth
open, 50 that the storms beating into n fbo
VOL would howl forth the dangers to
manners that might be coming anyyvbere
near the coast. or course Il was n failure
And so all now inventions for the saving of
mans soul are unavniling. What the human
race wants Is light bursting forth from the
1850 SIOSs standing ON the great head
landslide light OF pardon. the H0bt
or comfort the light OF heav-
en-. You might better 70 tonight and d.
stroy all the great lighthouses on the dan
selous eoasts-the Barnegat lighthouse, the
tastnet Rock lighthouse, the Sherryvore
nghthouss the Longships lighthouse. tba
Hollyhead lighthouse 10 put ont Gods
great ocean lamp-the Gospel Woe To fboss
who swing false lanterns on the beach fiU
men crash into ruin. Castawaysl Casta-
BY talking with sea captains have hoard
also that sometimes ships come to this caIann-
ity py the sudden swOop Of q tempest FOR
instance, vessel Is sailing along in the Fast
lnoies, and there is not a single cloud ON the
SKY; but suddenly the breeze frcsbeus and
there arc swift feet on the ratIines and fbe
90 ~; Way, haul away theref but before
they can square the bOOms and tarpauliu
me hatchWays the vessel is groauino and
sI,s5,lSing m the grip Of a tornado. and
- otef MO the trough OF tho sea.
Ill Droadside IL rolls on 10 the toarb
s.no keels over, leaving the crew 70 struooIe
~ n we mefciiess surf. Castawnyl Castayvavl
And 50 have - tell you that there arc tho5,-
SAINTS OF men destroyed through tho r1dden
$500 OF temptations. Bolne great induce
il!elt 70 Worldliness, Or 10 sensuality. or To
hi8n temper, or % some form Of disipafion
comes upon them. n they had tiue - er
1oihc their Bible II they had time 10 conenit
Win their friends n they had time 10 delhi
crate they could stand Il: but the fe7nr,fo-
Lon came - suddcnly-nu o1Iroclvdor, a., ~
1iediJerranean, n whiriwiud of the Corh-
Dean' One awful surge Of tempfafion and
sDey perish. And so we ofton
near the old story. II hadn't
seen my friend IN n great many vear- Wa
@ere very glad - meet He e1fd rn,,gt
urlnE and he took me by the arm and r,reseegI
81. ne along, and filed the cup until TO Iuh.
Dlss ran over tho edge, aud IN an evil moment
en- my good resolutions we're swert avvav
ene - the outragiug Of God and nv own
l2uii ! teu" Or the gtory is. ~ had hard
tfofh - support my family. i thought that
~ one false entry hy one deception. bv 0ne
efnbezziemont, J might spring OF freo iron,
~ ~ Woublei and the temptation came
qip2n re 20 hercely I could not deliberate.
uio wrong end having done v7ronV
nc could not stop 81
y s tho first step that costs. The
elilu " easier; and The third and ON - fhe
80 Oneo having broken i0ose from the
enenoT % ~ not 30 easy b. tie The uarfeJ
-fhuQa How often it is that mon oro
utneds for the reason that fho fernnfation
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