Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-11-27
DR.. TALMAGE'S TRIP.
"a uEDITEng gANEAN We sAaE."
His Subject at Brlndisi, Sunday, Nov. 17th.

BRINpIsI, November II -f'ha Re7. T.
De Witt Talmage, D D., preached in this
Ifalfan port to-day. His subj ct was ga
Mediterranean Voyage" and iis took for
his text Acts xvi, A: And sp il came to
pass that hey escaped all safe to land. !"
Dr. Talmage said:
Having visited your historical city, which
we desired to see because it was the termi
nus of the most famous road ef the ages,
the Roman Appian Way, and fo it's mighty
fortress overshadowing city which even
Hannlbal's hosts could not thunder down,
we must tomorrow morning Lave your
harbor AID after touching at Athens and
Colinth, voyage about the Medi terranean to
Alexandria, Egypt. / have been reading
this morning IN my New Tesfa'aeut of a
Mediterranean voyage in an Aexaudrian
ship. Il was this very month of November.
The vessel was lying in port nos very far
from here. On board that vessel we're two
distinguished passengers: Que, Josephus,
the historian, as we have strong reasons 70
believe; the other, convict, Gus Paul by
name, who was going TO prison t.r upset
ting things, or as they termed it. turning
the world upside down" This convict had
gained the confidence of the C plain. In
deed, think that Paul knew almost as
much about the sea as did the plain. He
bad been shipwiecked three times already !;
be had dwet much of his life amidst cap
stan, and ys1dsrms, and cables and storms;
and he knew what he was talking about
Seeing the equinoetial storm Was coming,
and perhaps noticing something unsea-
worthy in the vessel, he adVisedTthe captain
to stay in the harbor. But hear the cap
tain and the Erst mate talking together.
They say: "We cannot afford to take the
advice of this landsrnap, and he minister.
| He may be able to preach very well, but
don't believe he knows q marlinespike from
| luf tackle. All aboard! Cast off ! Shift
the helm for headway! Who fears the
Mediterranean" They had gone only 9
| little way out when whirlwind, called
Euroclydon, made the torn sail it's turban,
shook the mast as you would bfaudish a
spear, and tossed the hulk into The heavens.
Overheard with the cargo! 1t is all wash
ed with salt water and worthless now; and
fhsre are no marine insurance companies
All hands ahoy, and out with the anchors
| Great CONSERVATION comes en- crew anC
passengers. The sea monsters snort in the
foam, and the pillows clap their hands r
plee of destruction In lul Of the storm
I hear a chain clank. 1t is the chain Of tht
great apostle as he walks the deck, or hold
fast to the rigging amidst the lurching o
the ahip-the spray dripping from b,s Ions
beard as he cries ont to the crew: NOW
exhnrt you to be of good cheer; for there
shall be no loss of any mans life among
YOU, but of the ship. For there stood b,
me this night the angel OF God, whose am
and whom I serve, saying, Fear not Paul
thou must be brought before Cesar; and
10 God bath given thee all tht NJ that Sal
with thee"
fourteen days have passed, AID there i
DO abatement OF the storm. 1t is midnight
Standing on the lookout, the man peers in
to the darkness, and by a fash f lightning
sees the long white line of the broa kers ant
knows they must be coming Dear to SOM
Icouutry, and fears that Ia a few moment
the vessel will be shivered on the rocks
The ship h,es like chaff III the torn ada
They drop the sounding line, and By th
light of the lantern they see j. is twent
fathoms. Speeding along little farther
they drop the line again. and by the ligh
Of the lantern they see it is fifteen fathon1s
Tw0 hundred and seventy ak souls within
few feet of awful shipwreck! The mana
gers of the vessel, pretending they Want tt
look over the side of the ship anG undergirt
it, get into the small boat, expec ing in i
to escape; but Paul sees through the sham
and he tells them that if they GO If in th
boat it will be the death ofthem Tho yes
sci strikes! The planks spring! The tim
bers crack! The vessel parts In the thun
derng surge! Oh. what wild strugelin
for life! Here they leap from plank f
plank. Here they go under as if they woul
, never rise, but catching hold of IA timbsr
come floating and painting OF it to The beach
Here, strong swimmers spread fheir arm
! through the waves until their chins plo'
the sand, and they rise up and wiring ou
their wet locks On the beach. When th
roll of the ship is called, two hundred an,
seventy-six people answer to their names
''Aud so." says my text, ''it came to pas
that they escaped all safe to land"
learn from this subject
First, that those who get us into troubl
will not stay to helpus out. These shipme
got Paul out of Fair Havens into the storm
but as soon as the tempest dropped upo
them, they wanted to go off in the sma
boat caring nothing for what bscame {
Paul and the passengers All me! huma
nature is the same in all ages. They wb
8 get US into trouble never stop to help |
out. They who tempt that young man il
IT to life of dissipation will be the first
laugh at his imbecility, and to drop him OF
of descent society. Gamblers always NAL