The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-04
TALMAGE ON THE OCEAN,
A FAREWELL ADDRHss TO HIS
READERS IN AMERICA.

he Takes as His Subject: "And They
Accompanied Him Unto the Ship
The Holy Land His Destination-Paui.
Benediction to All.
NEW YORK, ON BOARD THE Cry OF
PARIS, Oct. 29.-The Rev. T. Dewitt Tall
mage, ID. D., Of Brooklyn, on his esnbarka-
tion for the Holy Land by the steamer City,
OF Paris, addressed his millions Of friends
through the press, taking for his text Acts
xx., IS; "And they accompanied him unto
the ship" His sermon is printed below at
full length:
To the more than 25,00O,0O0 people IN
many countries to whom my sermons come
week by week, in English tongue and byi
translation, through the kindness OF the
newspaper press, address these words. Il
dictate them TO stenographer on the eve
OF my departure Tor the Holy Land. Pales-
tine. When you read this sermon / win be
mid-Atlantic. / 60 to be gone
few weeks on religious jour
ney. l go because I want for my
self and hearers.and readers to see Bethls-
hem, and Nazareth, and Jerusalem, 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 writing the "Life OF Christ. y
and can be more accurate and graphic when
have been an eyewitness OF the sacred
places. Fray for my successful journeying
and my safe return.
wish, on the eve of departure, to pro-
nounce a loving benediction upon all nv
friends in high places and low, upon Con-.
gregations to whom my sermons are read.
IN absence OF pastors, upon groups gathered.
out on prAirles and IN mining districtx
upon all sick aud invalid and aged ones who
cannot attend churches, but to whom Z
have long administered through the printedl
page. My next sermon will be addresa,ds
TO you from Rome, Italy, for l feel like Paul.
when he said: $50, as much as In me Is, am
ready 10 preach the gospel to you that are at
Rome also" The fact is that Paul was eyer1
moving about ON land and sea. He was AR
old sailor-not from occupation, but FROM
frequency of travel. / think he could hayes
taken a vessel across the Mediterranean a.
well as some of the ship captains Thsl
sailors never scotfed at him for being a4
'land lubber." II Paul's advice had bserrs
taken, the crew would never have gones
ashore at Melita.
When the vessel went scudding underS
hare poles Paul was the only self-possessed.
man on board, and, turning to the exciteH
crew and despajring passengers, he ex-
claims, III a voice that sounds above. thel
thunder Of the tempest and the wrath of
the sea: "Be Of good cheer"
Tho men who now go to sea with mans
and charts and modern compass, warned bv
buoy and lighthouse, know nothing OF tIify
perils OK ancient navigation. Horace safffi
that the man who first ventured on the seq
must have had heart bound with oak and
triple brass. People then ventured only
from headland to headland and from island
TO island, and not until long after spread
hafr fasa A =
Before starting, the weather was watched.
and, the vessel having been hauled up on
the shore, the mariners placed theisS
shoulders against the gtern of ttisz
ship and heaved it Off, thsY
at the last moment leaping intoi
1t. Vessels were then chiefly ships Of burr
den--the transit of passengers being the
exception; for the world was not then
migratory as In our day, when the first De-
sire OF a man in ono place seems to be to,
get into another place. The ship from4
which Jonah was thrown overheard, and
that in which Paul was carried prisoner.
went out chiefly with the idea of taking q
cargo. As now, 30 then, vessels were ac4
customed TO carry flag. In those times Ii
was inscribed with the name Of heathsn
deity. A vessel bound for syra5
''Castor and Pollux." The ships were
provided with anchors. Anchors were
of two kinds; those that were dropped into
the sea, and those that were thrown uu
onto the rocks to hold the vessel fast. This
last kind was what Paul alluded to whom he
said: (Which hope we have as an anchor,
of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and
which entereth into that within the yaiiJS
That was what the sailors call q "hooks
anchor The rocks and sand bars, shoals
and headlands, not being mapped oVt, vas1i
sels carried plumb line. They would dYopl
it and find the water fifty fathoms, and |
drop IL again and find it forty fathous. ]
and drop it again and find 1t thirty faith
oms, thus discovering their near approach /
to the shore. In the spring, summer and
autumn the Mediterranean sea was white
with the wings of ships, but at the frstd
wintry blast they hied themselves to thsi
nearest harbor, although now the worlds
commerce prospers In January as well as fni
June, and In mid-winter, all over the wideI
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 the Christian passen-
ger, tippeted and shawlsd, sits under
the shelter Of the smokestack, looking
of upon the phosphorescent deep, on
which Is written, in scrolls OF foam
and fire: "Thy way. o God, is in the sea, 1
and thy path in the great watersp
1t is in those days Of early navigation
that see group OF men, women and chil-'
dren ON the beach of sne Mediterranean.
Paul is about to leave the congregation to |
whom he had preached and they are comei
down to see him off. 1t is a solemn thingj
to part. There are so many traps that watt
for a mans feet. The solid ground may
break through. and the sea-how many
dark mysteries it hides in its bosom
A few counsels, hasty good-by. Last
look, and the ropes rattle, and the sails arsk
hosted, and the planks are hauled in<
and Paul Is gone. / expect to sail over,
some of the same waters over which PAUL.
sailed, but before going want to urge you}
all to embark for heaven.
The church Is the drydock where souls
are to be fitted out for heaven. In makings
vessel for this voyage the first need Is
sound timber. The floor timoers ought to-
be of solid stuff. For the want of 1t vessels;
that looked able 10 run their jibbooms into1
the eye Of any tempest, when caught in q.
storm have been crushed like wafer. The
truths of Gods word are what mean by
floor timbers. Away with your lighters
materials. Nothing but oaks, hewn ip this
forest Of divine truth, are staunch enougtE
for this craft.
You must have Love for helm, to guide
and turn the craft Neither Pride, nor
Ambition, nor Ayarice viii do for rudder5
Love; not only in the heart, but flashing id
the eye aud tingling in tho hand-Lov4