The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-21
AT BRINDTST.
,s.nFUL STORM Ar SEA
Lessons Taught by n Histo-ls
Mediterranean Voyage.

=. visited your historical city. which
- 10 sec because IL was the terminus
,,ost famous road Of the ages. the
lnpian Way, and for its mighty
orershadowing a city which even
s.rs hosts could not thunder down,
" tomorrow morning leave your har-
.f,er touching at Athens and Cor
aayage about tho Mediterranean to
10 Egypt. | have been reading
n.-rinr in my New Testament OF n
.-.pean voyage in an Alexandrian
/, was this very month OF November.
- was lying in n port not very far
- On board that vessel were two
.-,isbe,l passengers: one Josephus tho
f.n as we have strong reasons 20
~ the other, n convict, one Paul by
.ho was going to prison for upsettine
or As they termed II, turning tho
,,.iIe down. This convict Ind gained
1Tsdence Of tho Captain. Indeed.
IinI that Paul knew almost ms
about the sea ms did the Cap
lie had been shipwrecked three
already: no had dwelt much of his
midst capstans and yardarms, and
and storms; and he knew what
"a talking about. Seeing the
.,tial storm was coming, and perhaps
sns something unseaworthy in the
q he advised the Captain 10 stay in the
~ But | hear the Captain and the
~ste talking together. They say: "We
ID ,Ford Co take the advice OF this
nan and he n minister. He may be
n pr1ach very well, but don't believe
avs niarlinspike from luff tackle.
,hoard Cast Off Shift the helm for
lvsy, Who fears the Meditcrraneang'
b,l gone only little way out when n
,wini. called Euroclydon, made the
ali il, turban, shook the mast as You
4 branitsh a spear. and tossed the hulk
,he heavens. Overheard with the car
nNail washed with salt water, and
,blss> now and there are no marine in
sr companies. All hands ahoy, and
With the anchors
rat CONSERVATION comes on crew and
.nger,. The sea monsters snort in the
and the pillows clap their hands in
q destruction. In the lull of the storm
N a chain clank IL is the chain OF the
APOSTLE rs he walks the deck, or holds
% the rigging amidst the lurching of the
the spray dripping from his long beard
,ries out 30 the crew. Now ! exhort
D. b. of good cheer, for there shall be no
d any mans life among you, but of tho
For there stood by me this night tho
Of God whose / am, and whom |
r saying. Fear not Paul; thou must be
nght before Caesar; and, 10, God hath
D thee all them that sail with thee"
urteen days havs passed, and thero is no
smen uf the storm 10 is midnight.
ding on the lookout, the man peers into
Darkness aud hya flash of lightning, sees
ong " white line Of the breakers, and knows
must he coming near 10 some country,
fears that in few moments the vessel
be- ,hivered ON the rocks. Tho shin
Ike char in n tornado. They drop the
bling line and by the light Of the Ian
they see II is twenty fathoms. Speed
along little farther they drop
line again, and by the light
lantern they sec it is fifteen fathoms.
hundred and seventy-six souls within a
feet Of awful shipwreck! The managers
be vessel, pretending they want 10 look
the side of the ship and undergrad it, get
the small boat, expecting in il to escape:
Paul sees through the sham, and he tells
that II they go OH in the boat IL will bo
Heath OF them. The vessel strikes! The
Is spring The timbers crackl Tho
parts in the laundering surge! Oh.
wild struggling for life! Here they
NON rhhInk % plank. Here .tlry 40
as II they would never rise, but.
ing hold Of timber, come floating and
ng on II To the beach. Here, strong
nmers spread their arms through the
until their chins plow the sand, and
rise ny and wiring out their wet locks
p beach. When the roll of the ship is
|, two hundred and seventy-six people
|er 20 tnclr names. And so. saws nv
IT came to pass that they escaped all
b. land "
faru from this subject:
r., that those WHO get us into trouble
lo' stay To help us out. These shiptneu
anl out Of Fair Havens into the storm.
soon rs the tempest dropped upon
IltN wanted 10 20 or in the small
caring nothing for what became of
hhd the passengers. All me, human
fe Is the same in all ages. They who
II mt" trouble never stop 10 help us ont.
VINO tempt that young man INTO life
<Slpauon will bc the first To laugh nj
llnbecllity, and 10 drop him out of
~ society. Gamblers always make
+. oi 'hc losses Of gamblers. They who
a you INTO the contest with fists. saving.
~ back yon,' will be the first 10 run'
over all the predicaments of your life.
foullt the names OF those who have got
'nto those predicamcnts. and tell me the
o' one who ever helped YOU ont.
were glod enough to get you out from
ha'enS but when, with damaged rig
y"u Wied TO get into harbor, did they
yWa plank or throw you a ropcy
W. pan has got thousands of men
ufSe' but he never got one out. Ho
leni into theft, but he would not hide
pods or bail out the defendant Tn,
4 shows the fly tho way over the gossa
N1dge INTO the cobweb; but il neve,
the ily the way out of the cobweb owe,
D0ssamer bridge. l think that thor,
.piehty OF fast young men To helm th,
knl spend his money; but when he had
~ MS substance i'll riotous living. thew
n go 10 the swine pastures, while they
'k themselves 10 some other new comei
who take Paul out of Fair Havens will
no help 20 hun when he gets into the
;ers OF Melita.
emark again, as lesson learned from
,xt, that 10 Is dangerous 10 refuse tho
el OF competent advisers. Pnul told
not 10 go out with that ship. They
,nt ne knew nothing about Il. They
he Is only ministerf' They went
the ship was destroyed. There are n
many people who now say OF ministers:
know nothing about the world They
u tax 10 u.s. All, my friends, il Is not
sry 10 havo the Asiatic cholera be-
you can give il medical treatment in
s. IL Is not necessary 10 have
own arm broken before YOU can
now 20 splinter fracture. And
no stand In the pulpit, and in the olIico
.hrlstlan teacher, know that there are
N styles OF belief and certain kinds of
nor that viii lead TO destruction as Ger
as Paul knew that II that ship went
rair hayens it would go TO destruc.
rejoice, q young man, in thy youth:
y Thy heart cheer thee in thy dnys OF
outh; but know thou that for ali these
Tod will bring thee into Judgment
lay not know much, but We know that.
ing people refuse the advice OF parents
say Father is over-suspicious, and
e,r is getting old But those parents
oeen ON the sea OF life. They know
The storms sleep, and during their
Se nave seen thousand battered hulks
ing the place where beauty burned, and