Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-04
BE OF GOOD CHEER.
FOR THB PARTING Is ONLY FOR A BRlBP
SEASON.
Dr. Talmags's Farewell Sermon 10 His Friends, Who
Assembled to Say Good bys-The Chris
han's Hope and Comfort on
LIES Voyage
Special Telegram to the Register.


ing for his text Acts Xxx, 3s: And they
accompanied him unto the ship" His
sermon is printed below at full length:
To the more than twenty-five million
people in mssy countries to whom my ser
mons come week by week, in English
tongue and by translation, through the
kindness Of the newspaper press, address
these words. dictate them to a stenOg-
rapher on the eve Of my departure for the
Holy Land, Palestine. When you read
this sermon will be id.Atlantic. 90
to be gone few weeks on a religious Jour-
ney. 90 because want for myself and
hearers and readers TO see Bethlehem, and
Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and Calvary, and
all the other places connected with the SA-
vior's life and death, and so reinforce my
self for sermons. I 20 also because l ana
am writing the Life of Christ" and can
be more accurate and graphic when 1 have
been an eye witness of the sacred places.
Pray for my successful journeying and my
safe return.
l wish on the eve of departure to pro-
nOunce
a LOVING BENEDICTIoN
upon eli my friends in high PLACES and
low, upon congregations to whom my ser
mons are read in the abserc9 Cf pastors,
upon groups gathered out on prsiries and
Ia mining Districts, upon all sick and in
valid and aged Ones, who cannot attend
Lr.E -, Il
istered through the printed page. My
next sermon will be addressed 10 Son from
Rome, Italy, for 1 feel like Psul when he
said: 80, as much as in NE is, am ready
TO preach the gospel to you that are at
Rome alson The fact is that Paul was
ever moving about on land or sea. He
was an old sailor-nOt from occupation, |
bnt from frequency of travel. think he
could have taken vessel across the Med
iterrantan as we'll as some of the ship cop
tsIns. The sailors never eeoffed at him |
for being 'lanG lubber." IT Paul's sd |
vice bad been taken, the crew wonln never
have gone ashore az Meiita.
When the vessel went scadding under |
baTe poles Paul was the only self-pOssessed
man on board, and, turning to the excited |
crew and dsspairiDg passengers, he ex-
claims in a voice that sounds above the
thunder of the tempest aud ihe wrath of
the sea: "Bs OF good cheer"
The men who now 20 TO sea with maps
ard charts and modern compass, warned
by buoy and lighthouse, know nothing OF
the perils Of ancient navigation. Horace
said that the man who first ventured on
the sea must have had a heart bound With
oak and triple brass. People then ventuTed
only from headlsnd to hssdland, and from
island TO island, and no. until lopg siter
spread thsir sail for a voyage across the
sea. Before starting, the weather was
watched, and, the vessel having been
hsuled up on the shcre, the mariners
placed their shoulders against the stern Of
the ship and heaved it of, they at the last
moment leapipg intoit.
PAUL's OCEAN cARRIER.
Vessels we're then chief ships of burden
the transit OF passengers being the ex
ceptiou for the world was not then migra
tory 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 10
nab was thro9n overheard, and that in
which Paul was carried prisoner, went on t
chiefly with the idea Of tskiug cargo. AS
now, 30 then, vessels were accus-
toned to carry a flag. In those
times il 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 wsre Of
two kinds, those that were dropped into
the ses, aud those that were thrown up
onto the rocks to hold the vessel fast. This
last kind was what Paul alluded to when
he said. (which hope we have So an an
cbOr of the sOul, both sure and steadfast,
and which entereth into that within the
vail.D That was what the sailors call a
''hoOk anchor" The rocks and sand bars,
shoals and headlsnds, not being mspped
ont, vessels carried plumb line. They
would drop it and fnd the water fifty
fAthoms, and drop it again and find it
forty fathoms, and drop it again and find
il thirty fathOms, thus discovering their
near approach to the shore. In the spring,
summer and autumn the Mediterranean
sea was white with the wings Of ship7, but
at the first Wintiy blalt they hitd them
selves 10 the nearest haIbOr, although now
the worlds commerce prOspers IN January
"a well as in June, and in midwinter all
all over the wide and stormy deep there
float palaces Of light, trampling the billows
under foot and shoWering the sparks OF
terrible furnaces on the wild wind; and
thu Christian passenger, tippetsd and
shawled, sits under the sheltsr OF the
smokesisck, locking off upon the phospho-
resent deeu, or which is written in scrolls
of loan and fire: Thy way, o God, is in
the sea, and thy path in the great waters"
THE sOLENNITY OF PARTING.
1t in those DAYS of early navigation
that I see group of men, women and
children on the beach Of the Mediter-
rsnean. Paul is about to leave the cOngre-
cation to whom be he'd preached and they
are come down 10 see him of. 1t Is sol
emu thing 70 part There are go many
trsol that wait for mans feet. The
solid ground may break through, and the
see-how many dark mysteries it hides In
its bosom! A few counsels, hssty good
by las. look, and the ropes rattle and
/ the sails are bOistsd, and the plaDks ore
hauled in, and Paul is gone. Iexpect to
] 9A1I over EtllN VI VIC oAAAN WhNNAo WV
which Paul sailed, but bsfore going |
want Won all TO embark for heaven.
The church is the 6TydOck where souls
are t, be fitted out for heaven. Ia max
ing . vessel for this yOysge, the first need
is soupd timber. The floor timber ought
10 BE- OF solid stuff. For the want Of it.
vessels that looked able 10 rus their jib-
booms into the eye OF any tempest, when
c,ught in a storm have baen crushed like
wafer. The truths of Gods Word are
what I mean by Il )or timbe's Away with
your lighter materials. No.hiag bat
oak hswa in the forest Of divine
truth. are stsunch enough for this craft.
You must have Love for helm, TO guide
and turn The craft. Neither Pfids nor
Ambition nor Avagice will do for rud-
der. Love, rot only IN the heart, but
flashing in the eye and tiuglirg IN the
haEd-Lovs married to Work, whica many
look upon as so homely sbride-Love, not
like books, which foam and rattle, yet do
nothing, but Love like river, that runs
I'D the steps of mill wheels, and works IN
the harness Of factory bsnds-LOve that
will not pass By on the other side, bu'
visits the man who fell among thieves
near Jericho, no. merely saying: "PHOr
fellow you ara dreadfully hurt" but,
like the good Samaritan, plurs Ia oil and