West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-11-14
TALMAGE'S FAREWELL.
LAST WORDS OF GOOD CHEER.
Hts Impressive Sermon on Embark.
ing for the Holy Land.

The Rev. I. De Witt Talmage d. d. ON
his embarkation at New York for the Holv
Land, by the steamer City of Paris adj.
dressed his millions of friends through the
press, taking for his text Acts Xxx. rs. fsAnd
the accompanied him unto the ship.p His
sermon IS printed below in full:
10 the more than twenty-five million poo-
PIE IA many countries 10 whom my sermons
come week by week. I'm English ton0ue and
by translation, through the kindness Of the
newspaper press, / address these words. /
dictate them TO a stenographer on the eve Of
my departure for the Holy Land, Palestine.
mheh you read this sermon l viii be mid
Atianuc. , go to be gone a few weeks ON a
rcnglous journey. / go because l want for
myself enc hePrers and readers TO see Beth
iehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and
Calvary, and all the other places connectsd
withmy Sayiour'sli life and death. and 40 ron.
force myself for sermons. / 20 because I
am writing the Life OF Christ and can bo
more accurate and graphic when l have been
an eye witness OF the sacred places. Pray
return. ~
l wish on the eve of departure 10 pronounce
Allowing benediction upon all my friends i'm
nisn places aud low, upon congregations to
whom my sermons arc read in absence of
pastors, upon groups gathered out ON tho
PrmrleS ana IN mining districts, upon all
SICK ana invalid and aged ones who cannot
attend churches, but TO whom L nave long
hVNn Ai0 DIinNtu page. 0X
next sermon will be addressed to YOU from
Rome Italy, for 1 feel like Paul when no
SAID; so, as much as in me is, / am ready
- PreaCn the Sospel TO you that arc at Rome
nlso.r IN fact is that Paul was ever NOV
ing about on land or sea. He WINS nm old
sailor-not from occupation. but from fire.
quency OF travel. l think he could have
taken a vessel across the Mediterranean as
Wen as some OF the ship captains. The sail
ors never scofed at him for being A Gland
inbber." If Paul's advice had been taken
the crew would never have gone ashore AZ
Melta. az
When the vessel went scudding under boro
poles Paul was the only self-possessed man
ON board, and, turning to the excited crow
nnd despairing passengers, he exclaims. i'm n
voice that sounds above tho thunder of the
good cheer"
b men who now go to sea with maps. and
CHARTS dmodern compass, warned by buoy
and lighthouse, know nothing of the perils Of
man who first ventured on the sea must hive
mad a heart bound with oak and tripleb brass
feople then yentured only from headland 10
headland, and from island TO island. and not
across the sea. Before starting. the weather
was watched, and the vessel having been
hauled up on the shore, the mariners placed
their shoulders against the stern of the slim
leaping into it.
Vessels were then chiefly ships of burden
the transit OF passengers being the exceptjon
Tor the world was not then migratory ms i'm
our DAY, when the first desire of a man I'm
one place seems to be TO get into another
place. The ship from which Jonah WINS
thrown overheard, and i'm which PauI
was carried prisoner, went out chiefly with
the l9ea OF taking a cargo. As now, so then,
vessels were accustomed to carry n fac IN
thoSe times 1t was inscribed with the name
OF q heather deity. A vessel bound for Svra.
cuse had on it tho inscription. s'Castor nnd
tonuN-' ships were provided with an
chors. Anchors were of two kinds-tboso
that were dropped into the sea. and those
tnat were thrown up on 10 the rocks to hold
the vessel fast. This last kind was what PauI
Alluded 70 when he said; Which hone we
nave as an anchor of the soul. both snra and
~steadiasb and which entereth into HAT with
IN the vail" That was what the sailors
call a hook anchor The rocks and sond
bars, shoals and headlands not being mapped
out, vessels carried a plumb line. They Womb
drop 1t and find the water fifty fathoms ond
drop 1t again and find il forty fathoms md
drop 1T again and find it thirty fathoms Thus
discovering their near approach TO the shore
IN the spring, summer and autumn tbe
Mediterranean Sea was white with the wings
or ships, but at the first wintry blast thev
nieu themselves TO the nearest harbor. AZ
though now the worlds anne prosners
III January as wei as in June, and in mid
winter all over the wide and stormy deem
there hoat 0alaces of light, trampling the
ollows under foot and showering the SHARKS
OF Terrible furnaces on the wild wind: and
n christian passenger, tippeted and
snawled- sits under the shelter Of the smoke.
STACK, looking of upon the phospborescent
oeep, on which is written in scrolls of foam
an IRE; Thy way, 0 God, is in the sea, and
my path IN the great watersF
lt Is IN those days Of early NAVIGATION that
SEQ a group of men, women and children ON
tne Deacn OF the Mediterranean. Paul il
about 70 leave the congregation to whom lao
so l1 / Pre ~ ana they are come down to
Ihere are so many traps that whit for n
mans iect. The solid ground NAV break
through, and the sca-how many dnrk 49,.
UeIleS Nc hides in its bosom! a few @counscls.
a nasty good-by, a last look, and the ropes
rattle, and the sails are boistcd and H.
PIanks are hauled In, and Paul Is gone. Iex.
Pect 70 sail over some Of the same yveters
over Wnlcn faui sailed, but before going I
IT, uge you MI TO embark for heaven.
ne church IS the dry dock where souls a.
70 ne intel out for heaven. In making -
lot TINS voyage, the first need III eo,,nd
~ Silper Inc floor timbcrs ought to d.
io,kaI' 1Duu. ror The want Of IL, vessels that
N['he1 aDie 70 run their jibbooms into M ~,
my tempest when caught ia "a storm No.
TTtished like a wafer. Tho trutbe ~
SDAa ord are what / mean by floor tjmIars
bnt WI your lighter MATERIAL. Nothing
DuO oaks he"n In the forest Of divine trntbs
~ euanch enough for this craft.
must nave love Tor a helm. 10 e1ido
ana turn the craft. Neither pride nor 80
TItlohi nor avorice viii do for n ridder
~, not only in the heart. but Gasbing in
eIs eye ana tingiuE in the haud-love 49,
49, "ork which many look upon rs go
1Omely q bride-lovc, not ike brooks veL;cb
Loah anq rattle yet do nothing. but love liz
AIIFer mat runs mp Che steps "a mill ,vbeeI,
-uu works IN the harness Of factory borJq|
I've tnat vii not pass by on Tie other 80
Dut visits tho man who fell among Tho
lotg Jeilcho. not merely aying "poor nj.
-" you are dreadfully hurt. but like 49,
800 samaritan, pOurs in oil and vino sr5
paJe ms board at tho tavern. There mvyf
a. = q prov, arranged 10 cut and overrfdo
'u1 DuloW. That is Christian porsavere,,o
mere arc three mountain s1rgsg Wet
eJuietlnea dash against a soul Zen "a miputc
sNo "orip the flesh and the devI-anJ tb,t
= wen built Prov that can boupd 800
lusn' For lark ~ this many have ppf 49,
ana never started again. Ifi4 Tho brg,detia
tuat - often sweeps the deck and G1-
we hatcne8. but that which strife III fro1t
n'finie. mesttrgubics courag.1r-fy ,.5
~ surmount them. Stand on re r1~
enL az you wipe on the spray ~ ~ 9.t
800 cly out with the augeffo. uvo,o
t1ings move mo.1 let nl vour 49,
49, IT, The right must c5D0ter 80
'lp-a in the ark Of b-Ir1shas o.T ~,
uyen "a war steamer. IWh
good, esrong anchor. tvVbtctt~
on anchor. BY fhfa ef~0--2t