The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-27
TALMAGE ON THE WING.
THE PASTOR OF THE BROOKLYN
TABERNACLE IN ITALY.

TABERNACLE IN lIACY.
Sermon Preached Sunday. Nov. IL, 1889.
at Brindisi-The Subject "A AIediterra-
mean Journey"-Full Report of the Dis
course at the italian Port.
BRNDlsI, Nov. 17.-The Rev. I. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in this
Italian port today. His subject was
ga Mediterral can Voyage" and ne
took for his text Acts xvii, A: And
80 it came to pass, that they escaped all
safe to land" DR.. Talmage said:
Having visited your historical city,
which we desired to see because 1t was
he terminus of the most famous road
Of the ages, the Roman Appian Way,
and for its mighty fortress overshadow-
ing 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
NTH, voyage about the Mediterranean
: to Alexandria, Egypt. have been
reading this morning in my New Tes-
lament of Mediterranean voyage ID
an Alexandrian ship. Itwas this very
month of November. The vessel was
lying in port not very far from here.
On board that vessel were two clstln-
guishcd passengers: one, Josephus, the
historian, as We have strong reasons to
believe; the other, convict, one Paul
by name, who was gcing to prison for
upsetting things. Or, as they termed 1t,
turning the world upside down"
This convict had gained the
confidence OF the captain. Indeed,
/ 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 carstans, and yardarms,
and cables, and storms; and he knew
what be 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: we
cannot afford to take the advice Of this
landsn,an, and he q minister. He may
be able to preach very well, but l don't
believe he knows marlinespike from
huff tackle. All aboard! Cast off!
Shift the helm for headway! Who
fears the Mediterranean" They had
gone only little way out when
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 anchors,
FRIGHT AT THE STORM
Great CONSERVATION comes on crew
and passengers. The sea monsters
snort in the foam, and the billows
clap their hands IN glee of destruc-
ton In lull of the storm I hear
chain clank. It is the chain of the
great apostle as he walks the deck, or
holds fast to the rigging amidst the
lurehing 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 o, any mans life among you,
butof tie ship. For there stood by
me this night the angel of God, whose
/ am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear
not, Paul; thou must be brought be-
fore Cesar: and, 10, God hath given
thee all them that sail with thee"
Fourteen days have passed, and
there is no abatement OF the storm.
It is midnight Standing on the look
ont, the man peers into the darkness,
and, by fash of lightning, sees the
line of the breakers, and
" sHes >ssasszpe coming nearntaA
some country, and fears eHat in few
moments the vessel will be shivered
on the rocks. The ship flies like chafH
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 a few feet
Of awful shipweckl 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
boatit will be the death of them. The
vessel strikes! The planks springl 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 go
under as If they would never rise, but,
catching hold of timber, come float
ing and painting on it to the beach.
Here, strong swimmers spread their
arms through the waves until thor
chins plow the sand, and they rise up
and wiring out their vet locks on the
beach. When the roll Of the ship is
called, two hundred and seventy-six
people answe: to their names And
so, says my text, ''it came to pass that
r+hs@@Seaped all safe TO land.
|| LESSONS TO BE DRAWN.
from this subject:
that those who get US into
will not stay to help US out.
Rsen got Paul out OF Fair
,he storm; but as soon as
dropped upon them, they
go of in the small boat,
esring nothing for what became OF
Paul and the passengers. All me!
human nature is the same IN all ages
They who get US into trouble never
stop to help US out. They who tempt
that young man into a life of dissipa-
ton will be the first to laugh at his
nnbecility, and to drop him out of de-
cent society. Gamblers always make
fun of the losses OF gamblers They
who tempt you iato the contest with
fists, saying, ''I' will back YOU" will
be the first to run. Look, over. all the