The Penn's Grove record., 1889-11-30
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Brooklyn IiIvIne's Sunday
V SerOaOu.
Subject : "a Mediterranean Voy ige.r
Pr ached al Brindisi, Italy.

subject : "a mediterranean tOy l2e."
Pr ached AT Brindisi, Italy.
SFxxfs And 90 q cams TO pass that then
sscopsd al safe to land.n Acts xvii, A.
Having visited your historical city, which
Ne deared to see because it was the terminus
q ne most famous road Of the ages, the
fortress overshadowing a CITY which sven
Hannibars hosts could not thunder down.
~ a Tomorrow morning leave your har-
DOT, and after touching at Athens and Cor
mcn. voyage about the Mediterranean to
A!ezAndria., Egypt. I have been reading
t1i1 morning in my New Testament of q
ship. II was this very month OF Novembsr
Tho vessel was lying in a port not yery lar
nom here. On board that vessel were two
q,stfnguished passengers: one, Josephus the
n1!eorian- - we have strong reasons to
petleve; the other, q convict, one Paul by
name WHO was going to prison for upsettine
wurA upside down. This conyicthad gs;nad
ne ccniidence Of the Captain. Indeed.
think that Paul knew almost a.
mucn about the sea as did the Can
tain. He had been shipwrecked thres
tamea already; he had dwelt much of his
nie amidst capstans, and yardarms, and
uess sna storms; and he knew what
- - ~6 aDOuUs "a Seeing fl9
~equinoctial storm was coming. and perbsns
noticing something u~nseaworthy in tbs
vessel, he advised the Captain to stay in tbs
harbor. But I hear the Captain and ths
nrss mate talking together. They say: 1--WE
cennosa nord to take the advice Of this
1nosman, and he a minister. He may DO
epte 10 preach very well, but I don't believe
he Knows q marlinspike from a huff tackle.
Al aboardl Cast Off Shift the helm for
headwayf Who fears the Mediterraneany'
Iney had gone only a little way out when a
whiriwind called Euroclydon, made the
torn sel Its turban, shook the mast as Won
WOULD prandish a spear, n tossed the hulk
got II Is all washed with salt water. and
worthless now; and there are no marine in
companies. All hands ahoy and
out with the anchorsi
Great CONSERVATION comes ON crew and
passengers. The sea monsters snort in the
foem- and the pillows clap their hands in
giee q destruction; In the lull of the storm
great apostle as he walks the deck, or holds
fast TO the rigging amidst the lurching of the
ship-7the spray dripping from his long beard
- ne cries out to the crew '.Now / e1hort
lyo1 e be Of good cheer; for there shall be no
|ioss % An mans life among you, but of the
amp for there stood by me this night the
angel Of God, whose / am. and whom I
Iseve saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be
brought before Cesar; and, 10, God hath
given thee all them that sail with thee"
Fourteen days have passed, and there Is no
[ehetenent Of tho storm. 1t Is midnight.
tetdnding on the lookout, the man peers into
Ithe darkness and. by flash of lightning, sees
tne long white line o. he breaker, and Knows
1s3y -oust - cunning near to some country.
and fears that in q few moments the vessel
VIII be shivered on the rocks. The ship
nies IKE chat In a tornado. They drop the
sounflinG line and by the light Of the lam
TERN they zee IL Is twenty fathoms. Speed
ing along = little farther they drop
tee again, and by the light
g ne iaQtern they see it Is fifteen fathoms.
Two hundred n s~eventy-six souls within a
aew feet Of awful shipwrecki The managers
q the vessel pretending they want to iook
over the side of the ship and undergrad II. get
INTO the small boat, expecting in it to escape:
put Paul sees through the sham, and he tells
them that il they go OF in the boat it will he
me death OF them. The vessel strikes! The
Iplanss springi The timbers crack The
vessel parts In the laundering surgeI Oh.
4 Wild struggling for lifel Here they
leap from plank to plank. Here they go
under - IT they would never rise, but.
catching hold of a timber, come floating and
painting on 1t to the beach. Here, strong
swimmers spread their arms through the
until their chins plow the sand, and
~ ~ @lA wing Oub lo1 WEI locks
on the beach. When the roll of the ship is
called, NC hundred and seventy-six people
answer to their names. "And sou saws nv
eext 1t came to pass that they escaped ali
learn from this subject:
FIRST that those who get us into trouble
VIII not stay to help us out. These shipmen
got Paul out of Fair Ravens into the storm,
but - soon as the tempest dropped upon
them, they wanted to 60 of in the small
Doa9 caring nothing for what became of
faul and the passengers. All mel human
nasure y the Same in all ages. They who
Ees Us into trouble never stop to help US out
ansy xno emp that young man INTO a life
bic imbecility, and to drop him out Of
decent society. Gamblers always make
nun Of the losses Of gamblers. They who
tempt you into the contest with fists, saying,
II VIII back you,p will DO the first to run.
Look over al the ~predicaments of your life,
and count the names of those WHO have 900
you INTO those preiicaments, and tell me the
lame or o who ever helped You out.
They were glad enough to get you out from
FAIR HavsnA but when, with damaged rig
gfng, you tried to get into harbor, did they
hold Tor you . plank or throw you . rope?
NOT ona- Satan has got thousands of men
into trouble but he never got one out. he
led them into theft but he would not hide
b1A Out t40 Qtl6uudlp. nt
spider ihowS the 6y the way over the gossa-
mer bridge into the cobweb, but 1t never
shown the fy the way out of the cobweb over
the goesAm& bridge. ! think that there
were plenty Of fast young men to help the
prodigai spend his money; but when he had
wasted ~ substance in riotous living, they
iet him 80 to the swine pastures while they
1erook themselves to some other new conner,
They who take Paul out Of Fair Ravens will
. OF No help 70 him when he gets into the
|hFeakors q Hslita.
J remark again, as a lesson learned from
the text that 1t IL dangerous to refuse the
counsel Of competent adviser. Paul told
them not TO- go out with that ship. They
thought he knew nothing about It. They
saids ~He ID only Q ministerr' They went,
and tho ship was destroyed There are q
great many people who now say of ministers:
They know nothing about the world. They
cannot talk to usr' All, my friends, it is not
necessary to have the Asiatic cholera be-
fore you can give 1t medical treatment in
your own arm broken before you can
know bow to splinter . fracture. And
we who stand In the pulpit, and in the office
OF q Christian teacher. know that there are
| certain styles Of belief and certain kinds of
behavior that viii lead TO destruction as GER
tainly as Paul knew that il that ship went
out Of Fair Havens II would go to destruc-
l etp1L ks1JoAcc, young man. mphy yo"eHt
and let thy heart cheer thee in thy days of
thy youth, but know thou that for all these
things God viii bring thee into Judgment"
We may not know much, but we know that.
Young people refuse the advice of parents.
They say: Father Is over-suspicious, and
mother "a getting old" But those parents
have beep on the sea Of life. They know
where the storms Sleep and during their
voyage haves seen . Inousand battered huiks
marking the place where beauty burned,
Intellect ~foundered, and morality sank. They
are old sailors, having answered mAny .
~gnal OF distress, nd endured greet -tress
of weather, and gons scudding under
oaro poles; and the old folks kno
what they are talking about Q at
that MANN his cheek the glow OF
Internal fires. his eye flashes not az
once with Thought but with low passion,
lHs brain q I sewer through which impurity
HoatS and his heart the trough In which lust
wallows and drinkA Men shuddsr as ths
i5opor pnns4 and parsnts crys Wolf
wolfr Yst hs oncs aid the Lords Fraye'
~ his mothsrss Inca andaQainst that iniqrit
lbus brow oncs pressed pure mnther's lips
but he refused her counsel BE went wherd
tenrodiydons have their hair. He ~founderel
'on tbs ~ whi3 an hellechoed 1t the roar Of
the wreck; List Pactncsi Lost Paciics!
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