The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-07
ROME AND THE HOLY LANb
DR.. TALMAGE GIVES SOME LESSONS
APRoPos TO HIS TRIP ABROAD.

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The Voyage from Timo to Eternity-There
Must BE an Anchor of Hope Sure and
steadfast, Enthusias,a Must FIJI the
Souls and Gods Holy Spirit BE the Pilot.
New YoRK, ON BOARD THE Cry Oh
PARIS, Oct. 29.-The Rev. T. De Witt
falmage, d. D., of Brooklyn, on his
embarkation for the Holy Land by the
steamer City Of Paris, addressed his
millions of friends through the press,
taking for his text Acts Xxx, 38: "And
they accompanied him unto the ship. u
His sermon is printed below at full
length:
To the more than twenty-five mill
ion people In many countries to whom
my sermons come week by week, in
English tongue and by translation,
through the kindness Of the newspa-
per press, I address these words. /
dictate them to a stenographer on the
eve OF my departure for the Holy
Land, Palestine. When you read this
sermon l will be mid-Atlantic. go
70 be gone q few weeks on q religious
journey. / go because want for my
self and hearers and readers to see
Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusa-
lem, and Calvary, and all the other
places connected with the Saviour's
life and death, and SO reinforce myself
for sermons. go also because / am
writing the Life Of Christ. )" and can
be more accurate and graphic when
have been an eyewitness Of the sacred
places. Pray for my successful jour
neying and my safe return.
| Wish on the eve Of departure to
pronounce loving benediction upon
all my friends In high places and low,
upon congregations TO whom my ser.
mons are read In absence of pastors,
upon groups gathered out on prairies
and in mining districts, upon all sick
and invalid and aged oneswho cannot
attend churches, but 10 whom l have
long administered through the printed
page. My next sermon will be ad.
dressed to you from Rome, Italy, for
feel like Paul when he said: $50, as
much as In me is, am ready to preach
the gospel to you that are at Rome al.
So" The fact Is that Paul was ever
moving about on land or sea. He was
an old sailor-not from occupation,
but from frequency OF travel. | think
he could have taken q vessel across
the Mediterranean as well as some OF
the ship captains The sailors never
scoffed at him for being ''land lub-
ber." II Paul's advice had been taken,
the crew would never have gone
ashore at Melita.
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When the vessel went scudding
under bare poles Paul wes the only
self possessed man on board, and,
turning to the excited crew and de
spairing passengers, he exclaims, in a
voice that sounds above the thunder
OF the tempest and the wrath of the
sea: BE Of good cheer"
The men who now go to sea with
maps and charts and modern compass,
warned by buoy and lighthouse, know
nothing of the perils of ancient navi-
cation. Horace said that the man who
FIRST ventured on the sea must have
had heart bound with oak and triple
brass. People then ventured only from
headland TO headland and from island
to island. and not until long after
spread their sail for q voyage across
the sea. Before starting, the weather
was watched, and, the vessel having
been hauled up on the shore, the mar
iners placed their shoulders against
the stern OF the ship and heaved 1t off,
they at the last moment leaping into
it.
Vessels were then chiefly ships of
burden-the transit of passengers be-
ing the exception, for the world was
not then migratory as In our day,
when the first desire of q man in one
place seems to be to get into another
place. The ship from which Jonah
was thrown overheard, and that in
which Paul was carried prisoner, went
out chiefly with the idea of taking a
cargo. As now, so then, vessels were
accustomed to carry flag. In those
times 1t was inscribed with the name
of q heathen deity. A vessel bound
for Syracuse had on it the inscription
Castor and Pollux." The ships were
provided with anchors. Anchors were
Of two kinds; those that were dropped
Into the sea, and those that were
thrown up onto the rocks to hold the
vessel fast. This last kind was what
Paul alluded to when hesaid: (which
hope we have as an anchor OF the soul
both sure and steadfast and which
eptereth into that within the vail.
That was what the sailors call "hook
anchor" The rocks and sand bars,
shoals and headlands, not being
mapped out, vessels carried plumb
line. They would drop it and find
the water fifty fathoms, and drop il
again and find 1t forty fathoms, and
drop It again and And It thirty fathoms,
thus discovering their near approach
to the shore.
GODS WONDERS IN THE DEEP.
In the spring, summer and autumn
the Mediterranean sea was white with
the wings of ships, but at the first
wintry blast they hied themselves to
the nearest harbor, although now the
worlds commerce prospers In January
as we'll as in June, and in mid-winter,
all over the wide and stormy deep,
there float palaces of light, trampling
the billows under foot, and showerine
the sparks of terrible furnaces on the
wild wind; and the Christian passen-
ger, tippeted and shawled, sits under
the shelter of the smokestack, looking
Off upon the phosphorescent deep. or
which Is written, in scrolls of foam
and fire: Thy way. o God, is In the
sea, and thy path in the great waters 7
II is in those days OF early naviga
ton that i see group of men, womer
and children on the beach Of the Medi
terranean. Paul Is about TO leave tn,
congregation 10 whom ne had preached
and they are come down to see him OFF
1t is solemn thing 10 part. There arr
so many traps that wait for a manl
feet. The solid ground may brNal
through, and the sea--hoT many darl
mysteries it hides In Its bosoml A few
counsels, hasty good-by, last look
and the ropes rattle, and the sails ar
hoisted, and the planlzs are hauled in
and Paul is gone. expect to sail owe
some OF the same waters over whicl
Paul sailed, but before going want :,
urge you all. to embark for heaven.
The church is the drydock wher
souls are TO be fitted out for heaven
In making a vessel for this voyage
the first need is sound timber. tn,
floor timbers ought 10 be of solid stuff
For the want of II, vessels that lookes
able 10 ran their jibbooms into the ey'
of any tempest, when caught in 1
storm have been crushed like wafer
The truths of Gods Word are what
mean by floor timbcrs. Away viii
your lighter materials. Nothing bu
oaks, hewn In the forest of dlvin,
truth, are stanch enough for this craft
ooURAGEl couRAGEi CHRISTIAN voy
AGERs.
You iaust have Love for helm, {,
guide and turn the craft. Neithe
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