The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-30
MORAL CASTAWAYS.
d.. Talma0e on the Moral Wrecks
Of Life.

False Religious Lights Lead Many % the
Shoals Of Destructton-The Gospel the
Only True Light-Salvation For
the Family.
In q recent sermon at Portland. Ore,
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. OF Brooklyn.
took his text from I Cor. il. q: Lest that
BY sny means ! myself should be cast
away" The preacher said:
In tho presence OF you who live on the
Pacific coast, l who live on the Atlantic
coast may appropriately speak on this
marine allusion Of the text. for all who
know about the sea know about the cast.
away. Tho text implies that ministers of
religion may help others into Heaven and
yet miss it themselves. Tho carpenters
that built Noah's ark did not get into it
themselvsa Gown and surplice. and di.
plomas n canonicals are no security.
Cardinal Woolsey, after having been pet.
ted by kings and having entertained for.
eign ambassadors 1T Hampton Court, died
In darkness. One OF the most eminent
ministers of religion that this country has
ever known plunged into sin and died;
his heart, BY post-mOrtem examination,
found to have been. not 6gurativsly, bat
literally broken. We may have hands of
ordination on the head and address conse.
Grated, asssmblages. but that is no reason
why We shall necessarily reach the realm
celestial The clergyman must 60 through
the Same gate Of pardon as the layman.
There have been cases Of shipwreck where
oil ON board escaped excepting the cap.
tain. Alas! il having preached to others
] myself should be cast away" God for.
bid it
! have examined some Of the comment.
aries to sec what they thought about this
word 'castaway" and l lind they differ in
regard to the figure used, while they agree
in regard to the meaning. So I shall
make my selection and take it in .
nautical and seafnring sense and show
you that men may become spiritual casta.
ways and how finally they drift into that
calamity.
You and l live in seaboard cities. You
have all stood on the beach. Some Of you
have crossed tho ocean. Some OF you
have managed vessels in great stress Of
weather. There il . sea captain, and
there 10 another. and yonder il another,
and there is . goodly number Of you who,
though once you did not know the differ.
ence between . brig and bark. and b..
tween q diamond knot and . spirit sheet
sail knot and although you could not
point out The weather cross jack brace,
and though you could not man the fore
Glow garnets now you are as familiar
with . ship ~ You arc with your right
hand, and il it were necessary you could
take . vessel clear across to the mouth
Of the Mersey without the loss Of .
single sail Well. there il . 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 . castaway, u when
the Hercules drove On the coast Of CafYra.
ria, - when the Portuguese went staying.
splitting. grinding. crashing on the Good
wins. But whether you have followed the
SEA or not you all understand the figure
when l tell you that there are mon who.
BY their sins and Temptations. are thrown
helpless! Driven before the gale! Wrecked
for two worlds! Castaways! Castawaysl
By talking with some sea captains !
have found out that there arc three OF four
use for such q calamity 10 Q vessel /
have been told that It sometimes comes
from creating false lights ON the beach
This was often 90 in olden times. 1t 10
not many years ago. indeed. that vsga-
bonds used to wander up n Town 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 informal arts were used to accom-.
plish this And n night on the
Cornish coast when the sea was coming In
fearfully some villains took . lantern and
tied it to Q horse and led the horse up and
down the beach, the lantern swinging to
the motion Of the horse. and . sea captain
in the ofing saw It and made up his mind
that he was not any where near the shore, |
for he said: there's . vessel, for It has
Q movable light" and he had no appre. |
hension till he heard the rocks grating on
the ships bottom, and it went to pieces
and the villains OF the shore gathered up
the packages and treasures that were
washed to the land.
And I have to tell you that there ore
multiiudes Of souls ruined BY false lights
on the beach. In the dark night Of mans
danger, false religion goes up and down
the shore shaking It's lantern, and mon
look OF and take the Pickering and ex.
piring wick a. the signal Of safety, and
the cry Il: 'Heave the main topsail to
the mast! All 10 weli!" when suddenly |
destruction c0me;h upon them and they |
shall not escape. So there are all kinds
Of lanterns swung on The beach-philo- |
sophical lanterns, educational Ian.
terms, humanitarian lanterns. Men
look at them and are deceived, when
there 10 nothing but Gods eternal light. |
house Of the Gospel that ~ keep them
from becoming castawaya Once Of Wolf
Craig lighthouse they tried to build . cop |
Per figure Of . wolf with it, mouth open,
so that the storms beating into it the wolf
would howl forth the dangers to mariners
that might BE- coming anywhere near tho
coast OF course it was Q failure. And
90 all new inventions for the saving Of
mans soul are unavailing. What the hu.
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