The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-06
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine breaches to
the Oregonians.
The PerTIs of the Deep and the PeriIs OF
q Life OF Sin COmpared-Not
Alone on the Sea Are
There Castaways.

Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage delivered the
following discourse at Portland, Ore,
taking for his text:
Lest that by any means I myself should be
cast away Cor, tx, p.
In the presence of you who live on the
Pacific coast l, who live on the Atlantic
coast, may appropriately speak or this
marine allusion Of the text, for all who
know about the know about the cast
| away. The text implies that ministers Of
religion may help others into Heaven
and yet miss it themselves The car
| penters that built NOah's ark did not get
into it themselves. Gown and surplice,
and diplomas, and canOniCals are no Sc
curity. Cardinal Wolsey, after having
| been petted by kings, and having enter
| tanned foreign ambassadors at 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 eX-
| animation, found to have been, not fig
uratively, but literally, broken. We may
! have habits of ordination on The head,
and address cOnsecrated assemblages,
| but that is no reason why we shall neces-
sarily reach the realm celestial. The
clergyman must go through the same
| gate of Paradise as the 7ayman. There
/ nave bUOu eases u 81 tpWLGCh NL6IO oil
on board escaped excepting the captain.
| Alasl if having preached to others, 1
| myself should be a castaway." God for
| bid it.
| I have examined some % the COM
mentaries to see what they thought of
this word ''castaway," and / find they
| differ in regard to the meaning. So
| take my own selection, and take it in q
nautical and sea-faring sense, and sh Ow
you that men become spiritual casta-
ways, and how finally they drift into
| that calamity.
You and live in seaboard cities. You
have all stood on the beach. Many of
you have crossed the ocean. Some of
you have managed vessels in great stress
! OF weather. There is sea captain, and
there is another and there are a goodly
number of you who, though you did not
| know the difference between a brig and q
bark, and between a diamond knot and a
spirit sheet sail knot and although you
| could not point out the weather cross
jack brace, and though you could not
man the fore clew garnets, now you are
Rs familiar with a ship as you are with
your right hand, and if it were necessary
you could take a vessel clear across to
the mouth of the Mersey without the loss
of single sail.
Well there is dark night in your
memory Of the sea. The vessel became
unmanageable. You saw it was scud =
ding toward the shore. You heard the
cry; Breakers aheadl Land on the lee
bowl" The vessel struck the rock and
you felt the deck breaking up under your
feet, and you we're a cast-away, as when
the Hercules drove on the coast of Caf-
fraria, aud when the Portuguese brig
went staying, splitting, grinding, crash
ing on the GOOdwins. But whether you
have followed the sea or not you all I'M
derstand the figure when l tell you that
there are men, who by their sins and
temptations, are thrown helpless
Driven before the gale! Wrecked for two
worldsl Castawaysl Castawaysi
By talking with some sea captains, L
have found out that there are three or
four causes for such calamity to a ves-
sci. have been told that it sometimes
comes from creating false lights on the
beach. This was often so in olden times. Ii
is not many years ago, indeed, that vaga.
bonds used to wander up and down the
beach, getting vessels ashore in the night,
throwing up false lights in their presenc &c
and deceiving them that they might
despoil and ransacS them. All kinds Of
Internal arts were used to accomplish
this. And one night on the Cornish
coast when the sea was coming in fear
fully, some Williams took q lantern anC
tied it TO a horse, and led the horse VI
|
and down the beach, the lantern swing
ing to the motion of the horse, and sea
captain in the ofing saw it. and made uI
his mind that he was not anywhere near
the shore, for he said;
There's a vesseI-that must be a YES
| sci, for il has movable light" and he
had no apprehension TIL he heard tbs
rocks grating on the ships bottom, ant
it went to pieces, and the villains on the
shore gathered up the packages and
treasures that were washed to the land
And 1 have to tell you that there are
multitude of souls ruined by false light;
on the beach. In the dark night of man;
danger, false religion goes up and dOwI
the shOre, shaking its lantern, and mel
look off and take that pickering and ex
piriug wick as the signal of safety, anC
she cry is: "Heaye the maintopsail t.
the mastl All is WE'LL" when sudden de.
struction cometh upon them. and they
shall not escape. So there are all kinds
Of lanterns swung on the beach-philo-
sophical lanterns, educational lanterns
5 humanitarian lanterns. Men look al then
and are deceived, when there is nothing
but Gods eternal lighthouse of the Cos
pei that can keep them from becoming
castaways.
Once, on Wolf Crag light house, the,
tried to build copper figure of a vol
} | with its mouth open, so that the storm.
{ | beating into it, the wolf would how
. | forth the dangers to mariners that Nigh
be coming anywhere near the coast. OF
course it was a failure. And so all new
inventions for the saving Of mans sou
; are unavailing. What the human rae
} wants is a light bursting forth from til,
cross standing on the great headlands-
| the light of Heaven. You might bette
go tonight, and destroy all the grea
| lighthouses on the dangerous coasts-tht
| Barnegat light house, the Fastnet ROcl
, lighthouse, the SherrYvore light house
the Longship's lighthouse, the Holly
head mathematician to put out God
, | great ocean lamp-the Gospel. Woe {,
those who swing false lanterns on tn
; beach till men crash into ruin. Cast
+ awaysl Castawaysl
2 By talking with sea captains 1 have
! | heard also shat sometimes ships come T.
this calamity by the sudden swOop OF
| tempest. For instance, vessel sailing
| along in the East Indies, and there is no
: a single cloud in the sky; but su6lenI,
= the breeze freshens, and there are swift
, ! feet on the ratines. and the cry is
| "Wayl haul away therel" but befor
they can square the booms and tarpaH
? lin the hatchways the vessel is groaninl
$ and creaking in the grip OF a tornado
t and falls over in the trough of the sea
? and broadside it rolls on to the beacl
aud keels over, leaving the crew to strug
gle in the merciless surf. Castaway