The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-06
TALMAGEs FAREWELL.
The Brooklyn Divine Bids His Mil
lions Of Friends Goodbye.
why He Goes to Europe and What He
Expects to Sec in the Holy Land7How
to Fit Out and Sail n Ship. Bound
for tho Port OF Heaven.

On his embarkation for the Holy Land
by the steamer City Of Paris, Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage addressed his millions |
Of friends through the press, taking for
his text Acts XXX, 3S: "And they ac-
companied him unto the ship" Follow
ing is the sermon: . ttS{S /
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, ad-
dress these words. dictate them to q
stenographer on the eve Of my departure
for the Holy Land, Palestine. When
you read this seYmon will be mid-At-
lantic. / go to be gone few weeks on
a religious Journey. ] 60 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. 20 also because am writing
. the "Iife OF Christ" and n,be more
accurate and graphic when have been
an eyewitness Of the sacred places. Pray
for my successful journeying and safe
return.
wish on the eve Of departure to pro.
nounce loving benediction upon all
my friends in high places and low, upon !
congregations to whom my sermons are
read in absence Of pastors, upon groups
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 you from Rome,
Italy, for feel like Paul when he said:
$50, as much as In me Is, am ready TO
preach the Gospel TO you that are at
Rome also" The fact Is that Paul was
ever moving about on land or sea. He
was an old sailor-not from occupation,
but from frequency OF travel. think
he could have taken vessel across the
Mediterranean as we'll as some OF the
ship captains. The sailors never scoffed
al him for being Gland lubber." II
Paul's advice had been taken the crew
, would never have gone ashore at tMelita.
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"
The men who now goto sea with maps
and charts and modern compass, warned
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
heart bound with oak and triple brass.
People then yentured only from head
2 land to headland and from island 70 lsl,
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 nauied up
on the shore, the mariners placed their
shoulders against the stern OF the ship
and heaved IL of, they at the last mo-
ment leaping into IT, Vessels were then
chiefly ships OF burden-the transit OF
yassengers being the exception; for the
world was not then migratory as in our
- day, when the first desire OF a man
In one place seems to be TO get Into
another place. The ship from which
Jonah was thrown overheard, and tina,
In which Paul was carried prisoner,
went out chiefly with the idea OF taking
cargo. AS now, 80 then, vessels were
accustomed TO carry a flag. In those
tlmtb ~ Who lubcIiutu WIN ehO name vi
a heather deity. A vessel bound for
Syracuse had on 1t the inscription Gas
tor and Pollux." The ships were pro
vided with anchors. Anchors were Of
two kinds, those that were dropped intc
the sea, and those that we're thrown ny
onto the rocks to hold the vessel fast
This last kind was what Paul alluded "
when he saidi (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 rock
and sandbars, shoals and headlands, no
being mapped out, vessels carried |
plumb line. They would drop II an(
iind the water Atty fathoms, and drop 1
again and find II forty fathoms, and drol
Il again and find IL thirty fathoms, thu
discovering their near approach TO tn,
shore. In the spring, summer and au
tumn the Mediterranean Sea was whit
with the wings OF ships, but at the hrs
wintry blast they hied themselves b
the nearest harbor, although now tn
worlds commerce prospers In Januar
rs well as In June, and In mid-wintei
4 all over the wide and stormy deep, ther
float palaces OF light, trampling tn
billows under foot, and. showering tn
4 sparks Of terrible furnaces on the will
n wind; and the Christian passenger
tippeted and shawled, sits under tn
I shelter OF the smokestack, looking o
II upon tho phosphorescentd deep, on whic
4 Is written, In scrolls OF foam and fire
"Thy way, o God, Is In the sea, an
Thy path in the great watersP
IL ia In those days OF early navigatiO