The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-19
SWIMMERS IN SINS SEA.
HELP MUST COME QUICK If SINK
ING Is IMMINENT.
Power Of Christ's Strong Arm TO Save

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Whirlpool of Damnation-An Can
Be Saved by Laying Hold of Christ.
SEATTLE, w. T., Aug. 1s.-The Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage. d. D., of Brooklyn
preached here to-day. His text was Isaiah
XIV II: she shall spread forth his hands
IN the midst Of them, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to swim" The
preacher said:
At this season of the year nultitudes of
people wade into the ponds and lakes and
| rivers and seas. At first putting out
cautiously from the shore, but having
| learned the right stroke of arm aud foot.
they let the waters roll over them, and In
wild glee dive or float or swim. So the
text will be very suggestive: "He shall
| spread forth his bend Ia the midst of them.
| as he that swimn1eth spreadeth forth his
hands to SWIM"
The fisherman seeks out unfrequented
| hooks You stand all day on the bank Of q
| river IN the broiling sun, and fling out your
line, and catch nothing, while the expert
! angler breaks through the jungle and goes
| by the shadow of tie solitary rock, ana in
place where no fisherman has been for
ten years, throws out his line and comes
home at night, his face shining and his bas-.
ket full. do not know why we ministers
| OF the gospel need always he fishing in the
same stream, and preaching from the
same text that other people preach from.
| cannot understand the policy of the min
| lster who, in Blackfriars, London,
England, every week for thirty years
| preached from the epistle to the Hebrews.
| 1t is an exhllaration to me when [ come
across theme which IGfeel no one else has
treated, and my text is one of that kind
| There are paths IN Gods word that are we'll
beaten by christian feet. When men want
to quote scripture, they quote the old pas
| sagcs that every one has heard When
they want chapter read, they read chap
| ter that all the other people have been
reading, SO that the church to-day Isl
| ignorant of three-fourths of the Bible.
| You go into the Louvre at Paris.
| You confine yourself to one corridor
of that opulent gallery of painting. AS
you come out your friend says to you, Did
! You see that Rembrandtp' ''No." did
you see that RubensF No" "Did you
see that Titianln "No.n "Did You see that
Raphaelp "No" "Wen.n saws YOUR
| friend, "then you didn't see tho Louvre
| Now, my friends. think we are too much
apt to confine ourselves to one Of the great
corridors of this scripture truth, and so
| much so that there is not one person out of
a million who has ever noticed the all sug-
gestive and powerful picture in the words
Of my text.
| This text represents Goa as a strong
swimmer, striking out to push down iniq-
| uity and save the souls of men ale shall
spread forth his hands in the midst OF them,
as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his
| hands to swim" The figure is bold
and many sided Most of you know how
to swim. Some of YOU learned it in the
city school, where this art is taught; some
Of you in boyhcod, in the river near your
| fathers house; some of you since you came
| to manhood or wJmanhoOd, while summer
| ing on the beach of the sea. You step down in
| the throw hao5 bac
| bring your elbows to tho chest, you put the
| palms Of your hands downward nnd the
| soles Of your feet outward, and you push
| through the water as though you had bean
! born aquatic. 1t il grand thing to know
how to swim, not only for yourself, but be-
cause you will after a while, perhaps, have
to help others. l do not know anything
more stirring or sublime THAI to see some
man like Norman Mckenzie Ieaping from
| the ship Madras into the sea to save
! Charles Turner, who had dropped from
| the royal yard while trying 10 loosen the
sail, bringing him back to tho deck, amid
| the huzzas ot the passengers and crew. If
man has not enthusiasm enough to cheer
| In such circumstances he deserves himself
| to drop into the sea and have no one help
| him. The Royal Humane Society of Eng
land was established in 1774, its object TO
| applaud and reward those who pluck up life
| from the deep. Anyone vino has per-
| formed such deed of daring has all the
| particulars 0f that bravery recorded in q.
| public record, and on his breast a medal
done in blue, and gold, and bronzo anchor,
and monogram, and inscription, telling to
future gene. atlons the bravery Of the man
or woman who saved some one from
drowning. But, my friends, if it is such
a worthy thing TO save body from the
deep, / ask you II it is not worthier thing
to save an immortal sou9 And you shall
see this hour the Son of God step forth for
this achievement. He shall spread forth
his hand in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to
SWIM
In order to understand the full force of
this figure, you need to realize, first Of all,
that our race is in sinking condition You
sometimes hear people talking of what
they consider the most beautiful word in
our language. One man says il is 'home.n
and another man says it is the word
mother" another says it is the word
jesus but | will tell you the bitteres
word in all our language, the word most
angry and baleful, the word saturated
with the most trouble, the word that accounn
for all the loathsomeness and the pang,
and the outrage, and the narrowing and that
word is 'sin." You spell it with three
letters, and yet those three letters describe
the circumference and pierce the diamer o.
everything bad in the universe. Sinl it is 9
sibilant word. You cannot pronounce il
without giving the slss OF the flame or the
hiss of the serpent. Sinl And then if you
add three letters TO that word it describes
every one of US by nature-sinner. We
have outraged the law of God, not occasion,
ally, or now and then, but perpetually
The Bible declares it. Hark 1t thunder
two claps: ''The heart is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked" ''The
soul that sinneth, it shall die" What ths
Bible says cur own conscience
afirms. After Judge Morgan had sem
fenced Lady Jane Grey to death
his conscience troubled him SO much for
the deed that he became insane, and all
through his insanity he kept saying: Take
her away from mel Lady Jane Grey. Take
her away Lady Jane Grey" 1t was the
voice of his conscience. And no man ever
does anything wrong however great OF
small, but his conscience brings that matt0
before him, and at every step of his misbe.
havior it says: Wrong, wrong" Sin is q
leprosy sin is a paralysis, sin is a con-
sumption, sin is pollution, sin is death. Give
it fair chance aud it will swamp you,
body, mind and soul forever In this world
it only gives faint intimation OF its
virulence You see a patient in the first
stages of typhoid fever. The cheek is some-
what flushed; the hands somewhat hot,
preceded by slight chill "Why,n you
say, typhoid fever does not seem to be