The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-07

~stlng the "Iife Of Christ" and can he
r" .r,.rr,te and graphic when have been
Src witness Of the sacred places. Pray
4, nv successful journeying and my safe
Fir,b on the eve Of departure TO pronounce
t,inr benediction upon all my friends In
II risces and low, upon congregations 10
r. INV sermons are read in absence of
-. mon groups gathered out on tho
[.iris and in mining districts, upon all
n AMI invalid and aged ones who cannot
- churches, but 20 whom / have long
[sisistsrcl through the printed page. NV
n .erinou will be addressed 20 you from
H.. Italy. for | feel like Paul when he
IN $50. as much as in me is, i am ready
Is-,,ch he Gospel 20 you that are at Rome
IL The fact Is that Paul wns ever NOV
4, about on land OF sea. He was an old
{,r-no; from occupation, but from fire.
- OF travel. | think he could hnyo
kss vessel across the Mediterranean as
n As some of the ship captains The sail
I rsvcr scoircl at him for being Gland
49, Ii paurs advice had been taken.
| crew would never have gone ashore at
ia
|Nlen the vessel went scudding under baro
T. Paul was the only self-possessed man
| board. and turning 10 the excited crew
u doTaring passengers, he exclaims, in q
H. tlat sounds above the thunder of tho
pes. and the wrath of tho sea: "Be of
II cheer
BIZ men who now go TO sea with maps, and
hrs andmodcrn compass, warned by buoy
y lighthouse, know nothing of the perils Of
tent navigation. Horace said that tho
! who first vonturcd on the sen must have
O heart bound with oak and triple brass.
Iple then vcntiired only from headland TO
bland, and from island TO island, and not
b long after spread their sail for VOYAGE
toS toe SEA. Before starting, the weather
watched, aud the vessel having been
J III up on the shore, the mariners placed
b shoulders against the storm of the shin
hcaycl 1t oir-ihcy, at the last moment,
ping into it.
ssels were then chiefly ships of burden
transit OF passengers being theexccption;
the world was not then migratory, as in
Jay, when the first desire of a man in
place seems 20 be 10 get into another
b. The ship from which Jonah was
Pwn overheard, and in which Paul
carried prisoner, went out chiefly with
idel Of taking q cargo As now, so then,
es were accustomed TO carry flag. In
times II was inscribed with the name
heathen deity. a vessel bound for SYRIA
had on il the inscription, "Castor and
n' The ships were provided with an
=. Anchors were Of two kinds-those
were dropped into the sea, and those
were thrown up on TO the rocks to hold
yesSel fast, This last kind was what PAU
pei 70 when he said: (Which hone we
As an anchor OF the soul, both sure and
ifast and which entoreth into that with
Pc vail That was what the sailors
a hook anchor The rocks and sand
shoals and headlands not being mapped
vessels carried plumb line. They would
i and find the water fifty fathoms, aud
tagnin and find il forty fathoms, and !
It again and find it thirty fathoms, thus
fVei1ng their near approach 10 the shore.
the spring, summer and autumn the
ierranean Sea was white with the winps
kh,N but at the first wintry blast they
themselves 20 the nearest hnrbor. al
,h now the worlds commerce prospers
fanuary rs well as in June, and in mid
l'r all over the wide and stormy deem
N hoat palaces OF light, trampling the
Pw under foot and showering the snarks
Hrbe furnaces on the wild wind; and
lhrlslian passenger, tippeted and
led, sits under the shelter OF the smoke
n looblng OH upon the phosphorescent
on which is written in scrolls of foam
hFt; Thy way, o God, is in the sea, and
pain IN the great watersw
s IN those days of early navigation that
gIoupot men, women and children ON
peach OF the Mediterranean. Paul il
70 leave the congregation to whom he
preached, and they are come down To
ih ot' 1t Is n solemn thing TO mart
are so many traps that whit FOR n
lect' The solid ground NAV break
Rugh, ana the sca-how many dark mys-
II hldes IN It's bosoml A few counsels
I" good.by, last look, and the ropes
ana the sails are hoisted, and the
We hauled in and Paul is gone. Iex-
sal over some Of the same waters
which Paul sailed, but before going
%uge you all TO embark for heaven.
e .nuIch Is the dry dock where souls are
".ol ~ out Tor heaven. In making ves-
tns voyage, the first need Is sound
Iosr; Inc noor timbers ought to be
In' For the want of II, vessels that
sule 70 run their jibbooms into the eye
@IiPesi when caught In a storm have
WHshed uNe a wafer. The truths of
"GIu ,; are what mean by floor timbers.
WIN your lighter materials. Nothing
a1A he"n In the forest OF divine truth
aleh enough for this craft.
must nave love for a helm, to guide
I'n the sratt Neither pride. nor nm.
nor avarice will do for n rnddcr
A"s 9nly m the heart, but flasbin0 in
"lp uhglng IN the hand-loye mar
work, which many look upon as So
srd Doriaie-love not like brooks which
ibst ,a,.le yet do nothing, but love like
korks in ths nus up The steps OF mill wheels
&bat IN ih the harness Of factory bands
ri. IL. wiz not pass by ON the other side
a Jerioh J sne man who fell among thieves
Eon "no' not merely saying; "Poor felS
.ssTar sn are dreadfully hurt" but ike The
lis i'iLarltan, Laaan, pours in oil and wine and !
a mar, Doasu AT the tavern. There must
5llow arranged to cut and override !
Il a.. inat is Christian perseverance,
are three xE--....zs--l-....s..'e.'''.u ~.