Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-11-15
FLOR THE HOLY LAND
40. GIVES SOME Lessons
w. "sopos TOT HIS T1sIr ABROAD.

,cn GIVES SOME LESSONS
l lspopos TO HIS TRIP ABROAD.
,,,,-c from Time to Etcrnity-Ther,
III an Anchor of Hope Sure AM,
,.st. Enthusiasm Must Fill tbo
d. aud Gods Holy Spirit BE the Pilot.
lev. I. De Witt Talma.e. Of
slyn, on his embarlment Tor tha
w. lssni by the steamer City of Paris
ised lis millions of friends
s,h the press, taking for his tent
w. IS: And they accompanied him
,ss ship" His sermon is printad
nst full length:
M, more than twenty-five millio,
Lin many countries to whom nv
ons come week by week, in English
s s AMI by translation, through the
"sss of the newspaper press. | adj
these words. 1 dictate them to y
ssmpher on the eve ofmy departure
t Holy Land, Palestine. When
,s,l this sermon l will be mid-At.
i 90 to be gone few weeks On
eoas journey. 60 because L wan
T.cIt and hearers and readers to
Eethlehem. and Nazareth, and ,)ern-
md Calvary, and ali the Other
!, connected with the Saviour's life
heath, and SO reinforce myself for
ms. ] 90 also because am writ
|Ie Life Of Christ" and can he
accurate and graphic when 1 have
an witness of the sacred places.
for my successful journeying and
sfe return.
ish on the eve of departure to pro.
ce a loving bened;ction upon all
[enis in high places and low, upon
[rrgations to whom my sermons are
|inabsence of pastors, upon groups
red out on prailies and in mining
lets, upon all sick and invalid and
ones who cannot attend churches,
whom l have long administered
Oh the printed page. My next SER
vill be addressed to you from Rome,
for feel like Paul when he said:
Is much rs in me is, I am ready to
tile gospel to you that are at
also The fact is that Paul was
moving about on land or sea. He
n old sailor-not from occupation,
[om frequency of travel. 1 think
|uld have taken q vessel across the
terranean as we'll as some of the
captains. The sailors never scotfed
b for being land lubber." If
advice had been taken, the crew
never have gone ashore at Melita.
en- the vessel Went scuddling I'M
[re poles Paul was the onlyiself-
|ssed man on board, and, turning
excited crew and despairing pas-
rs, he exclaims, in a voice that
sabove the thunder of the tempest
be wrath of the sea: BE of good
men who now go to sea with maps
harris and modern compass, warned
pyand lighthouse, know nothing
Ferils of ancient navigation.
es4id that the man who first ven
on the sea must have had heart
with oak and triple brass. People
ntured only from headland to
1d and from islandto island, and
It'll long after spread their sail for
&c across the sea. Before start
BE weather was watched, and, the
having been hauled up on the
the mariners placed itheir shout
galnst the stern of the ship and
d it Oft, they at the last moment
bg into it.
Eels were then chiefly ships of
h-the transit of passengers being
Fception; for the world was not
higratory as in our day, when the
esire OF man in one place seems
to get into another place. The
rom which Jonah was thrown over
and that in which Paul was car
prisoner, went out chiefly with the
takinga cargo. AS now, sothen,
were accustome ed to carry flag.
Pse times it was inscribed with the
of q heather deity. A vessel
for Syracuse had on it the in
ion Castor and Pollux." The
We're provided with anchors. An
were of two kinds; those that
lropped into the sea, and those
ere thrown up onto the rocks to
the vessel fast. This last kind was
Paul alluded to when he said:
Fh hope We have as an anchor of
pull, both sure and steadsast, and
entereth into that within the
That was what the sailors call
anchor" The rocks and sand
shoals and headlands, not being
ed d, out, vessels carried plumb
They would drop it and find the
nifty fathoms, and drop it again
md it forty fathoms, and drop it
and find it thirty fathoms, thus
vering their near approach to the
me spring, summer. and autumn
ealterranean Sea was white with
wings of ships, but at the first
blast they hied themselves
,Ae nearest harbor, although
he worlds commerce prospers in
" as we'll as in June, and in mid
lall over the wide and stormy
shere float palaces of light, tramp
re pillows under foot, and show
me sparks of terrible furnaces on
I'D wind; and the Christian pas
,uppeted and shawled, sits under
aeher of the smokestack, looking
on the phosphorescent deep, on
Er rs written, il scrolls of foam and
my way, o God, is in the sea, and
FalA IN the great waters!"
'la those days of early navigation
Ne, Nee group of men, women, and
zen on the beach of the Mediterra-
raul is about to leave the con-
'. to whom he had preached and
u come down to see him off. It
neMn thing to part. There are SO
s,aps that wait for mans feet.
,v'a ground may break through,
H. sea-how many dark mysteries
III its bosom! A few counsels,
Goodbye, last look, and the
a'l!e. and the sails are hoisted,
" planks are hauled in, and Paul
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