Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-26
ADRIFT AT SEA.
Multitude of Souls Ruined by
False Lights on the Shore.
nn on the Shore HelpIess-DriVen
pofore the Gale-Wrecked for
Two Worlds.
49,. cod's Great Ocean Lamp, the Gospel,
~ and Woe to Those Who Swing
False Lanterns.
no NOT BE A CAsTAwAY

r Dewitt Talmage, d. D., who
.5ej here to-day to vast audience,
f,r his text Cor. TX, 81: "Lest
br any means 1 Myself should be
-. orav. - The preacher said:
che presence of you who live on the
g.. coast, / who live on the Atlantic
NAV appropriately speak on this
zine aruson of the text, for all who
ab9ut the sea know about the cast
The text implies that ministers
,-.rfrfon may help others into heaven
Il 1T miss it themselves. The carpen-
s-- hat built Noah S ark did not get into
i"' ,'aamselres. Gown and surpllce,
Diplomas, aud canOnicals
--' no security. Cardinal VOL
o.. after having been petted
!,..,rs and having entertained foreign
@l,ssaIors at Hampton court, died in
s--grass. one Of the most eminent
-l-t.ts-s Of religion that this country
Yer known. plunged into sin and
"a. his heart by a post norton eXami-
Van found to have been, not ttgura-
-.Ir bat literally, broken. We may
-s-a.s consecrated dssemblages. but
LOFTS DO reason why we shall necessa-
zach fGa realm celestial. The cier-
mon must 20 through the same gate Of
don rs the layman. There have been
s-.asof sbfnwreck where ali on board eS-
ned excepting the captain. Alas! if
Eng ..prsacLed TO others [ myself
I,ri7 be a castaway - God forbid it.
81 TTarp examined some of the common
..-.a. 20 see what they thought about this
-.-l ..rastaway - and I find that they
rr4r in regard to the figure used, while
aar agree in regard to the meaning. So
r.5srI make MY own selection, and take
s. +na nautical and seafaring sense, and
S. ..r YOU that men may become spiritual
.s-qvavs, and how finally they drift
MO thai calamity.
BREAKERS AHEAD
youand live in Seaboard cities. You
hove all stood on the beach. Many of
-g have crossed the ocean. Some of
-n have managed vessels in great stress
fveather There is a sea captain, and
r--- IS another, and yOnder Is another,
sud there are a gOodly number of you
who. though once you did not know the
difference between brig and bark land
fstveeu a diamond knot and a SPIRIT sheet
sell kn1t. and although you could
MT pont out the weather crOssjack
lraca. and though you could not man the
fire claw garuets, now you are as famil-
r with q ship as you are with your right
lli and if it were necessary you could
ase a vessel clear across to the mouth of
~ Nersev without the loss of a single
4l Well, there is a dark night in your
memory of the sea. The vessel became
manageable. You saw 1t was scuddiug
towards the shore. You heard the cry:
Breakers ahead! Land on the lee
tv.' The vessel struck the rock, and
yu felt the deck breaking up under
your feet, and YOU were a castaway, as
T-eu the Hercules drove on the coast of
J8iga.ia, Rs when the Portuguese brig
vent staviug, splitting, grinding, crash
a- on the GOodwins. But whether
1udave followed the sea or not, you all
Understand the figure when I tell you
that three are men who, by their sins and
temptations, are thrown helplesf! Driven
before the gale, Wrecked for two
T.-.-s. Castaways. Castaways!
WATCH FOR TIE TRUE LIGHT.
b. talking with some sea captains I
-
I ...,.s for such a calamity to a yes
sci. have been told that it sometimes
ones from creating false lights on the
.ae2. This was often so in oiden times.
Is NOT many years ago, indeed, that |
'--2oouaS used to wander up and down
-s beach, getting vessels ashore in the |
-s4', throwing up false lights in their |
Hssslce and dGceiving them, that they |
11st dlspou and ransack them
A kinds Of Internal arts |
''a used to accomplish this. And |
-e night on the Corning coast, when the /
"a was coming in fearfully, some Williams |
.la lantern and tied ii to G horse, and /
5- lae horse mp and down the beach, the |
--,erh zWaviug to the motion of the |
use, anu g sea captain in the Offing saw |
-aal made up his mind that he was not |
where hear the shore, for he said: |
here q vessel-that must be a vessel, |
.' has 81 movable light, - and he had !
apprehension until he heard the rocks |
s.-.ag on the ships bottom, and it went |
le.es, and the Williams on shore gath |
--- up the packages and treasures that !
..s washed 10 the land. And [ have to |
-E yen that there are a multitude of |
HIS ruined by false lights on the beach. |
'-7 dark night of man Is dan |
- false religion goes up and /
"4 the shore, shaking its lantern, and |
-.- look off and take that Pickering and |
j +.Ing wick as the signal of safety and I
-' cry is, 'Heave the main topsail to |
mast All is welI!'' when sudden !
...aclioD cometh upon them, and they |
1- not escape. So there are all kinds |
lanterns swung on the beach-philO- |
.-cal lanterns, educational lanterns, |
unitarian lanters. Men look at them |
IN are deceived, when there is nothing |
yea eternal lighthouse of the Cos |
'uat can keep them from becoming |
~"ay> Once, on Wolf Crag light |
.->7' they tried to build a copper figure |
Wolf with its mouth open, so that !
Storms beating into it, the wolf !
-1 howl forth the danger to |
---ers that might be coming anywhere |
~ '4e coast. OF course it was a fail
a. and SO all new inventions for the |
r- OF mans soul are unavailing. |
-~- The human race wants is a light |
4 sung forth from the cross standing an .
d s'Eat headlauds-the light OF pardon, |
r. "~At OF comfort, the light of heaven.
N night better go tonight and destroy |
~e lighthouses on the dangerous
8 g..s-tle Barnegat lighthouse, the |
sc, Rock lighthouse, the Sherryvore
= s.~,r~,ouse, the Longship's lighthouse,
l-ynead lighthOuse-than TO put .
H.. '" great ocean lamp, the gospel.