The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-05
1is Text LIS to BE Found In Corinthians
H. ~; Lest That by ANY Means NY
self Should BE Cast Awsy"--A Large
Crowd Present,

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PORTLAND, Ore, .ax. @.-Tne Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., who
preached here today to vast audi
ence, took for his text Cor. TX, 81:
LEST that by any means / myself
should be cast away" The preacher
said:
In the presence of you who live on
the Pacific coast, l who live on the
Atlantic coast may appropriately
speak on this marine allusion oil the
text, for all who know about the sea
know about the castaway. Tie t. lkt
implies that ministers of religion may
help others into heaven and yet miss
it themselves. The carpenters that
built Noah's ark did not get into it
themselves. Gown and surplice, and
diplomas, and canonicals are nc Ne
curity Cardinal Wolsey, after hay
ing been petted by kings, and having
entertained foreign ambassadors at
Hampton Court, died in darkness.
One of tho most eminent ministers of
religion that this country has ever
known, plunged into sin and died; his
heart, by post-mortem examination,
found to have been, not hguratively
but literally, broken. We may have
hands 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 60 through the same
gate of pardon as the layman. There
have been cases of shipwreck where
all on board escaped excepting the
captain. Alas If, having preached to
others, myself should be castaway."
God forbid 1t.
SPIRITUAL CASTAWAYs.
] have examined some OF the COM
mental1es to sec what they thought
about this word "castaway," and l
find they differ in regard to the Ggure
used, while they agree in regard to
the meaning. So / shall make my
own selection, and take it in a nauti-
cal and seafaring sense, and show you
that men may become spiritual cast
aways, and how finally they drift into
that calamity.
You and I live in seaboard cities.
You have all stood on the beach.
Many of you have crossed the ocean.
Some of you have managed vessels ip
great stress of weather. There Is a sea
captain, and there is another, and yon-
der Is another, and there are a goodly
number of you who. though once you
did not know the difference between q
brig and u bark, and between a diamond
knot and 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 gar
Tar To-. n
ship as you are with your right hand,
and II it were necessary You could
take vessel clear across to the mouth
of the Mersey without the loss of a sin
gle sail We'll, there is dark night
IN your memory of the sea. The yes
sci became unmanageable. You saw
it was scudding toward the shore.
You heard the cry: Breakers ahead !
Land on the lee boww The vessel
struck the rock and you felt the deck
breaking up under your feet, and you
were castaway, as when the Her
cules drove on the coast of Caffraria,
as when the Portuguese brig went
staying, splitting, grinding, crashing
ON the Goodwins. But whether you
have followed the sea or not, you all
understand the figure when I tell you
that there are men, who, by their sins
and temptations, are thrown helpless
Driven before the galel Wrecked for
two worlds Castaways Castawaysl
FALSE LIGHTS.
BY talking with some sea captains,
j have found out that there are three
or four causes for such a calamity TO a
vessel. / have been told that il some
times comes from creating false lights
on the beach. This was often so In
olden times. 1t is not many years
ago, indeed, that vagabonds used to
wander up and down the beach, get
ting vessels ashore in the night,
throwing up false lights in their pres
ence and deceiving them, that they
may despoil and ransack them. All
kinds Of internal arts were used to
accomplish this And one night, OF
the Cornish coast, when the sea was
coming in fearfully, some villains
took n lantern and tied it to a horse
and led the horse up and down th'
beach, the lantern swinging 10 th'
motion of the horse, and sea cap
tain in the offing saw it, and made u
his mind that he was not anywhere
near the shore for he said: There
vessel-that must be vessel, for i
has movable light, and he had NJ
apprehension till lie heard the rock
grilting on the ships bottom, and /
went TO pieces and the Williams OF
shore gathered up the packages ant
treasures that were washed to th'
land. And | have to tell you tha
there are n multitude of souls ruinet
by false lights on the beach. In th
dark night of mans danger, false re
ligion goes 0p and down the shore
shaking its lantern, and men look of
and take that Aiekering and expiring
wick as the signal of safety, and tn
cry Is: "Heave the main topsail TO tn
mastl All is we'll |" when sudden dc
struction cometh upon them, and the,
shall not escape So there are al
kinds Of lanterns swung on tn
beach--philosophical lanterns, ednca
tional lanterns, humanitarian Ian
terms. Men look at them and are de
ceived, when there is nothing bu
Gods eternal lighthouse of the Cos
pei that can keep them from becom
ing castaways Once, on Wolf Graz
lighthouse, they tried To build a cop
per figure of O wolf with its moutl
open, so that the storms beating int
it. the wolf would howl forth the dan
gers to mariners that might b
Coming anywhere near the coast. Q
course 1t was a failure And so al
now inventions for the saving o
mans soul are unavailing What tn
human race wants is light bursting
forth from the cross standing on tn
great headlands-the light OF pardon
the light of comfort, the light of heay
norTni man rne Inc poatf Pull, IN
lads, pull He that being often n
proved hardeneth his neck, shul
suddenly destroyed and that withou
remedy" But some OF you arc say
ing within yourselves: ''What shall
dol" Dot DOT Why, my brothei
do what any ship does when il Is /
trouble. Lift distress signal. O
the see there Is flash and boon.