Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-08-26

that this country has ever known, plunged |
into sin and died. his heart, by post.mor-
tenn examination, found 10 have been, not
hguratively but literally, broken We
may have hands of ordination on the head, |
and address cOnsecrated assemblages, but
that is no reason why we shall necessarily |
reach the realm celestial. The clergyman |
must 80 through the same gate of pardon |
as the laymsn. There have been cases of
shipwreck where all on board escaped ex-
ceptiDg the captain. Alas if, having |
preached to others, l myself should be a |
castaway." God forbid it.
have examined some of the cOmmenta- |
ries TO see what they thought about this
word "castaway," and find they differ
in regard to the figure used. while they |
agree in regard TO the meaning So l |
shall make my own selection, and take il |
in 8 nautical and seafiring sense, and |
show you that men may become spiritual |
castaways, and how, finally they drift
into that calamity.
You and live in seabOard cities. You |
have all stood on the beech. Many of you |
have crossed the ocean. Some OF You have |
managed vessels in great stress of weather
There is a sea captain, and there is auOth- |
er, and yOnder is another, and there are a |
goo1ly number of you who, though once
you did not know the difference between a |
brig and q bark, and between a diamond |
knot aud a spirit sheet sail knot, and al /
though you could not point out the wealth.
er cross jack brace, and though you could |
not man the fore clew garnets, now you
are as familiar with a ship as you are with
your right hand, and if it were necessary |
you could take q vessel clear across to the |
mouth Of the Mersey without the loss Of |
single sail. Well, there is a dark night |
IN YOUR MEMORY OF THE SEA.
The vessel became unmanageable. You
saw it was scudding toward the shore
You heard the cry: Breakers ahead |
Land on the lee bow~ The vessel struck |
the rock and you felt the deck breaking |
up under your feet, and you were g castg- |
way, as when the Hercules drove on the |
coast OF Caffraria, as when the Portuguese
brig went staying, splitting, 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 for two worlds
Castawaysi Castaways!
BY talking with some sea captains, / |
have found ont that there are three or |
four causes for such q calamity to YES
sci. 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 wears
age, indeed, that vagabonds used to
wander up and down the beach, getting
vessels ashore in the night, throwing up |
false lights in their presence and deceiving |
them, that they may despoil and ransack |
them. All kinds of internal arts were
used to accomplish this. And one night,
on the Cornish coast, when ths sea was |
coming in fesriully, some villains took a |
lantern and tied it to a horse, and led the |
horse mp and down the beach, the lantern |
Swinging to the motion of the horse, and |
a sea captain in the offing saw it, and made |
up his mind that he was not anywhere |
near the shore, for he said; There's q |
vessel-that must be vessel for il has a |
movable light" and he had no spprehen-
sion till he heard the rocks grating on the |
ships bottom, and it went to pieces and |
the villains on shore gathered up the pack
sges and treasures that were washed to |
the land. And l have to tell you that |
there are a multitude of souls ruined by |
false lights on the beach. In the dark |
nights of mans danger, false religion goes |
up and down the shore, shaking its Ian
tern, and men look off and take that flick |
erine and expiring wick as the signal of |
safety, and the cry is: "Heave the msin |
topsail TO the mast! All is we'll" when |
sudden destruction cOmeth upon them,
and they shall not escape. So there are
ALL KINDS OF LANTERNS
swung on the beach-philosophic Ian
terms, educational lanterns, humanitarian |
| lanterns Men look at them and are de- |
ceived, when there is nothing but Gods |
eternal lighthouse of the Gospel that can |
keep them from becoming castaways. |
Once, on Wolf CraR lighthouse, they tried |
to build copper figure of a wolf with its
mouth open, so th-t the storms beating |
into II, the wolf would howl forth the |
dangers 10 mariners that might be coming |
anywhere near the coast. or course it was !
failure. Aud so all new inventions for |
the saving Of mans soal are unayailing. |
What ths human race wants is light |
bursting forth from the cross standing on |
the great hesdlands-the light Of pardon,
the light of comfort, the light of heaven. |
Won might better 90 tonight, and destroy |
all the great lighthouses on the dangerous
cossts-the Rarnegat lighthouse, the Fast |
net Rock lighthouse, the SherryYore light |
mouse. the Longship's Lighthouse, the Hol-
Ivhssd hghthouse-thsn to put out G DDS |
great ocean lamp-the Gospel! Woe to
those who swing false lanterns en- the
beach till men crash into ruin. Castawsys!
Castswaysl
By talking with sea captains l have
heard also that sometimes ships come to
this calamity by the sudden swocp of a
tempest. For instance, vessel is sailing
along in the East Indies, and there is not
a single cloud in the sky; but suddenly
the breeze freshens, and there are swift
feet on the rstlines, and the cry is: "Way,
bsul away therew but before they can
square the bOoms and tarpsulin the hatch
WAYS. the vessel is grOaning and creaking
in the grip Of tornado, and falls over into
the trough of the sea, aud broadside il rolls
on To the beach and keels over, leaving the
crew to struggle in the merciless surf.
Castawsyl Castsway! And so l have to
tell you that there are thousands of men
DESTROYED through the sudden swoOp of
temptstions. Some great inducement to
vorldliness, OF tC sensuality, OF to high
tempsr. or 10 some form of dissipation,
comes upon them. II they had time TO ex-
anime their Bible, il they had time to
consult with their friends, if they had
time to deliberate, they could stand it; but
the temptation came so suddenly-an
auroclydon on the Mediterranean, a whirl-
wind of the Caribbean.