The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-11-08
ROME AND THE HOLY LAND.
DR.. TALMAGE GIVES SOME LESSONS
APROPOS TO HIS TRIP ABROAD.

Must Be an Anchor Of Hope Sure an
steadfast, Enthusiasm Must FIJI tn
Souls and Gods Holy Spirit Be The Pilo
New York, ON BOARD THE CITY O
PARIS, Oct. 29.-The Rev. T. De Wit
Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn, on hi
embarkation for the Holy Land by tn
steamer City of Paris, addressed hi
millions of friends through the press
taking for his text Acts Xxx, 3S: "Ant
they accompanied him unto the ship.
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, il
English tongue and by translation
through the kindness of the newspa
per press, l address these words.
dictate them to stenographer on the
eve of my departure for the Holy
Land, Palestine. When you read this
sermon l will be mid-Atlantic. l &c
to be gone few weeks on religious
journey. 60 because want for my.
self and hearers and readers to see
Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusa-
lem, and Calvary, and all tile other
places connected with the Saviour's
life and death, and so reinforce myself
for sermons. go also because l 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-
,,ors,, al ~ cofo raf1,rp
1 wish on the eve of departure to
pronounce a 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 ones who cannot
attend churches, but to whom have
long administered through the printed
page. My next sermon will be ad-
dressed to you from Rome, Italy, for l
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 vessel across
the Mediterranean as well as some of
the ship captains. The sailors never
scoffed at him for being land lub-
her," If Paul's advice had been taken,
the crew would never have gone
ashore at Melita.
THE MARINERS HOPE AND CONFIDENCE
When the vessel went scudding
under bare poles Paul was 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"
ThS-lIlen who. now 60 to sea with
mas and charts aud modern compass,
Vained by buoy and lighthouse, know
'noMiing 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 a voyage across
the sea. Before starting, the weather
was watched, and, the vessel having
been hauled up on the shore, the mar
liners placed their shoulders against
the stern of the ship and heaved it 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 a 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
cargo. As now, so then, vessels were
accustomed to carry a flag. In those
lines it was inscribed with the name
Of a heather 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 We're 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
nope we have as an anchor of the soul,
10th sure and steadfast, and which
into that within the vail"
That was what the sailors call 'hook
lnchor." The rocks and sand bars,
shoals and headlands, not being
mapped out, vessels carried a plumb
inc. They would drop it and find
he water fifty fathoms, and drop it
lgain and find it forty fathoms, and
lrop it again and find it thirty fathoms,
hus discovering their near approach
o the shore.
GODS WONDERS IN THE DEEP.
In the spring, summer and autumn
he Mediterranean sea was white with |
he wings of ships, but at the first |
vintry blast they hied themselves to |
he nearest harbor, although now the |
worlds commerce prospers in January |
IS well as in June, and in mid-winter,
u over the wide and stormy deep,
here float palaces of light, trampling |
he pillows under foot, and showering |
he sparks of terrible furnaces on the |
Wild wind; and the Christian passen-
ter, tippeted and shawled, sits under |
he shelter of the smokestack, looking |
IF upon the phosphorescent deep, on
which is written, in scrolls of foam |