Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-16
FOR THE HOLY LAND
DR.. Talmage breaches a Farewell
Sermon and Embarks for
the Holy Land.
Object Of the Visit to Obtain Data
for the life Of
Christ"
"hnj They Accompanied Him Unto
the Ship" q Very Appropriate
Subject for the Parting
Discourse.
Impressive Farewell Sermon.

ialunage, ~. ~, OF on MS
embarkation for the Holy Land by the
steamer City of Paris, addressed his
millions OF friends through the press,
taking for his tex Acts Xxx, 3s: "And
they accompanied him unto the ship.n
His sermon is printed below at full
length:
To the more than 5 200, 900 people in
many countries to whom my rmo
come week by week, in English tongue
and by translation, through the kind
ness of the newspaper press, / address
these words. dictate them to a steno-
g%rapheron the eve Of my departure for
the Holy Land, Palestine. When you
read this sermon I will be mid-Atlantic.
l go to be gone a few weeks on a relig-
ious journey. l go because l want for
myself and hearers and readers to see
Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusa-
lem, and Calvary, and all the other
places connected with the Saviour's life
and death, and so reinforce myself for
sermons. / GO also because / am writ
ing the Life Of Christ" and can be
more accurate and graphic when | have
been an eyewitness of the sacred places.
Pray for my successful journeying and
my safe return.
wish on the v Of my departure 10
pronounce a loving benediction upon all
my friends in high places and low, upon
congregations to whom my sermons are
read in absence of pastors, upon groups
gathered out on p~rairies and in mining
districts, upon all sick and invalid and
aged mes who cannot attend churches,
but 10 whom 1 have long administered
through the printed page. My next
sermon will be addressed 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 also" 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.
i think he could have taken a vessel
across the Mediterranean "a we'll as
some OF the ship captains. The sailors
never sconed at him for being a 'land
lubber." III Paul's advice had been
taken, the crew would never have gone
ashore at Melita.
When the vessel went scudding under
bare poles Paul was the only self-pos-
sessed man on board, and, turning 70
the excited crew and despairing passen.
gers, he exclaims, in q voice that sounds
above the thunder of the tempest and
the wrath Of the sea: 'Be of good
cheer
The men who now 60 TO sea with
maps and charts and modern compass.
warned by buoy and lighthouse, know
nothing of the periIs of ancient naviga-
ton. 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 head.
land TO headland and from island 70
island, and not until long after spread
their sail for q voyage across the sea.
Before starting, the weather was
watched, and, the vessel having been
hauled mp on the shore, the mariners
placed their shoulders against the stern
OF the ship and heaved il of, they at the
last moment leaping into il. Vessels
were then chiefly ships Of burden-the
transit Of passengers being the excep.
ton; for the world was not then migra.
tory, as in our day, when the first de.
sire OF O man in one place seems TO be
to get into another place. The shir
from which Jonah was thrown overheard
and that in which Paul was carried
prisoner, vent out chiefly with tho idea
OF taking a cargo. As now, so then,
vessels were accustomed to carry a flag.
In those times il was inscribed with the
name Of a heather deity. a vessel
bound for Syracuse bad on it the in.
scription ''Castor and Pollux." The
ships were provided with anchors. An.
chors were of two kinds-those that
were dropped into the sea, and those
that were thrown n onto the rocks TO hold
the vessel fast. This last kind was wha,
Paul alluded to when he said: (which
hope 10 have ~ an anchor Of the soul,
both sure and ~steadfast, and which en-.
tereth into that within the vail" That
was what the sailors call o shook an
chor." The rock and sand bars, shoals
and headlands, not being mapped out,
vessels carried o plumb line. They
would drop it and find the water fifty
fathoms, and drop it again and find Il
forty fathoms, and drop 1t again and
find thirty fathoms, thus discovering
their near approach to the shore. In
the spring, sunmer and autumn the
Mediterranean sea was white with the
wings Of shipa but at the frst wintry
blast they hied themselves to the near
est harbor. although now the worlds
commerce prospers In January rs well
a. In june, and In mid-winter, all over
the wide and stormy deep, there float
palaces Of light, trampling the pillows
under foot and showering the sparks o!
terrible furnaces on the wild wind; and
the Christian passenger. tppeted and
shawled, sits under the shelter Of the
smokestack, looking OF upon the phos'
phorescent deep, on which Is written, In
scrolls Of foam and fire: Thy way, Q
God, Il In the sea, and thy path in the
great watersl"
1t is In those days Of early navigation
that / see : Sronr Of mea. women and
children osi the beach W the Mediter.
ranean. Paul is about to leave the con-
s1rcgation to Uhom he had rresched and
they sre como down to see him on. II
y : solemn thing to part There are
- rbany traps that wait for 9 mans
Sss& The solid ground may brvat