Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-18
STORMS ON THE SEA.
TWO VOYAGES DESCRIBED By REY. DR..
TALMAGR
The Ship in a Cycons-Ths Christian in LIES
TsmpahOns-A Magnificent Sermon Preached
By the Brooklyn Divine at Brun-
disi Italy.
Special Tslsorom 10 ne Rs0,Wr.

Having VISITED your historical clty,
which we desired 10 see because it was the
terminus Of the most famous road OF the
ages, the Roman Appian Way, and for its
mighty fortress OvershadOwing a city
which even Haunibals hoBts could not
thunder down, we must tomorrow morn
ing leave your harbor. and after touching
OF Athens and COrinth, vOysge about the
Mediterranean to Alexandria, Egypt. l
have been reading this morning 10 my New
Testament of a Mediterranean voyage in
an Alexendri0n ship. 1t WAS this very
month OF November. The vessel was lying
in 8 port not very far from here. On
board that vessel were two distinguished
passengers: one, Josephus, the historian,
as we have strong reasons 10 believe; the
other, a convict, one Paul by name, who
was going to prison for upsettiDg thiDgs,
or, as they termed it, turning the world
upside down" This convict had gained
the confidence of the captain. Indeed, l
think that Paul knew almost as much
about the sea AS did the captain. He hsd
been shipWreeked three times alresdy; he
had dwelt much of his life amidst cap
stsns, ard yardsrms, and cables, aud
storms; and he knew what be was talking
about. Seeing the tquinoctial storm was
coming, snd perhaps Noticing something
unssAworthy in the vessel, he advised the
captain to
STAY IN THE HARBOR.
Bat hear the captain and the first mate
talking together. They say: 1--WE can
not afford TO take the advice of this lands
man, ard he a minister He msy be able
to preach very well, but don't believe be
knows a marlin spike from lutf table.
All aboardl CAST off, Shift the helm for
headway Who fears the Mediterranean
They had gone only q little way out when
whirlwind, called Euroclydon, made
| the torn sail its turbao, shook the mast as
you would brAndish spear, and tossed
| the hulk into the heavens. OVERHEARD
with the cargo 1t is oil washed with Salt
water, and worthless now; aud there are
no marine insurance companies. All
hands ahOy, and cut with the anchors
Great CONSERVATION comes on crew and
passengers. The sea monsters snoTt in the
foam, and the billOgs clsp their hands IN
glee OF destruction. 10 lull Of tha storm
| hear a chain clank. 1t ia the chain Of
the great apostle as he walks the deck, or
holds fast to the rigging amidst the lurch-
ing of the ehip-the spray dripping from
/ bis long beard So he cries out to the crew:
"Now / exh0ri you 10 be Of good cheer;
Tor there shall be no loss of any mans life
smoug you, but Of the ship. For there
stood by me this night the angel of God,
whose l sm, aud whom l serve, saying,
Fesr not, Paul; thou must be brought be-
fore Cse ,ar; and, 10, God hath given thee
all them that sail with thee"
FOURTEEN DAYS HAVE PASSED,
and there is no abatement of the storm.
1t Is midnight Standing on the lookout,
the msn peers into the darkness, and by a
fash Of Lightning, sees the lOrg white line
of the breakers, au6 knows they must be
coming nesr to some country, and fesrs
that IN a few moments the vessel will be
shivered on the rocks. TIE ship flies like
chaff in the tornado. They drop the
sounding lire, and by the light OF the Ian
tern they see it is twenty iathoms. Speed
ine along a little farther, they drop the
line again, and by the light Of the lantern
they see il is fifteen faihoms. Two hun-
dred and seyenty-six souls within ie"
1 feet Of awful shipwreck The managers
Of the vessel, pretending they want
TO look over the side Of the ship
and undergrad it, get into the small
boat, expecting in it to escape; but Paul
sees through the sham, and he tells them
that if they 20 off in the boat it will be the
death of them. The vessel strikesl The
n'soks eprinei The timbers crack! The
vessel parts in the laundering surgel o.,
what Wild struggling for lifel Here they
lean from plank to plank. Here they 90
under ss if they would never rise, but
catching hold of G timber, come Il lalpg
and painting on it to the beach. Here,
stropg swimmers spread their arms through
the waves until their Gains plow the sind,
end they rise up and wiring ont theis wet
locks On the beach. When the roll OF the
shjp is called, two hundred snd seventy
ak people answer to their names. And
ga. " saws my text, 'it came to pass that
they escaped all safe to land"
THE LESSON OF DISASTER.
learn fIom this subject: First, that
those who get Us into trouble will rot stay
IN helm MS oct. These shipmen got Paul
! ont of Fair Hsvens into the storm, but rs
, IA as the tempest dropped upon then'
tbav vvsp,.,' a" &c ca IN the amSlI Poa' l..'i
caring nothiog for VIVA. ''a'D' - ma.
and the passengers All me! human
ture is the ssme in all ages. They WHO
get rs into trouble never stop to help Us
out They who tempt that young man
into a life Of dissipation will be the hfst 10
laugh at his imbecility, aud to drop MIN
ont cf decent society. Gamblers always
make fun of the losses Of gamblers. Insy
Who tempt you into the contest with h9ls'
saving. II will back you" will be the
first 10 run. Look over all the preclca-
ments Of your life, and count the
names of those who have got you
into those predicaments, and tell roe
the name Of one who ever nelpeu
yOu out. They we're glad enough 10 ge'
YOU ont from Fair Havsns, but when, Win
damaged rigging, you tried to get INTO
barbor. did they hold for yOu a plank or
throw YOU a rope? Not one. Satan has
cot thousands Of men into trouble, but he
never gos one out He led them into
theft. but he would not hide the goods or
hail eut the defendant The spider shows
the flv the way over the gossamer bridge
into the cobweh; but it never shows the
Av the wey out Of the cobweb over the
ooasamer bridge. think that there were
plenty of fast young men to help the pred
igal spend his money; bat when ne mac
wasted his substance in riotOus hVlng,
thew let him 90 to the swine PASTURES
while thew betoOk themselves to s'me
other new conner. They who take Paul
ont Of Fair Havens will be of no help 10
him when he gets into the breakers OF
MelitA.
DANGEROUS TO REFUSE COUNCIL
remark sgsin, as a lesson learned from
the tex. that it is dangerous TO refuse the
counsel OF competent advisers. Paul toid
them not to 20 out with that ship. Ihey
tboucht he knew nothing abOutit They
said "He is only a minister" Iney
went. and the ship was destroyed. TheFe
are = great many people who now ssy OF
ministers: They know nothing about
the world. They cannot talk to us!" An,
nv friends, il is not necessary to have the
Asistic cholera before you can give =
treatment in others. II is not necessary
n have your own arm broken before you
can know how to splinter fracture. AND
We who stand in the pulpit, and IN the
office of a Christian teacher, know that
there are certain styles of belief and GER
tsin kiads of behavior that will lesd to de-
struc,ion IS certairly ss Paul knew that
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