The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-07
,J,MAGE'5 FAREWELL.
= WORDS OF GOOD CHEER,
/. ,mpressive scrmon ON Embark
ing for the Holy b'"h'

FsSeI tiog I'o for his text Acts Xxx. 80; "And
r ..onnenied him unto the ship" His
~, Il printed below in fun;
,t, more than twenty-five million pco-
y u.s n,snv countries 10 whom my sermons
\ u ~ 10 6v week, i'm English tongue and
y .sis,,ou through the kindness OF the
W., prcss. I address these words. L
f'i".,h .,hsr, TO n stenographer on the eve OF
,,srture for the Holy Land, Palestine.
n y -, road this sermon | will be mid
~ 90 to be gone few weeks on n
|lanu ;,,,.uey. | go because l want for
~ hearers and readers to see Beth
lsh .J Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and
r., al and ali tue other places connected
E.al! "a y;onr's lifc and death, and so re-en-
Ihnns n.s,v.elf Tor sermons. l go because |
~ ~ ~. Tho "Iifc Of Christ" and can be
4 p,'.., ....,,rote and graphic when have been
~, vines OF the sacred places. Pray
~ .rcccssful journeying and my safe
/, VA m the eve Of departure to pronounce
- bonediction upon all my friends In
n - and low, upon congregations TO
,,, .ermnns are read in absence of
.u. gpon groups gathered out on tho
e. opd IN mining districts, upon all
'rl invalid aud aged ones who cannot
~ ,burchcs. but % whom | have long
{-,,i.tsrel through the printed page. My
lemon will be addressed 10 you from
~. t,alv for | feel like Paul when ho
wso as much as in me is, | am ready
s.,,cs ibe Gospel 10 you that are at Rome
IN, fact Is that Paul was ever NOV
| .h,,,i ON land OF sea. lie was an old
- from occupation, but from fire.
..v of travel | think he could havo
vessel across the Mediterranean as
= s,me of the ship captains. The sail
,svcr rc1fred at him for being n Gland
b. Ii Pauls advice had been taken,
,rsv would never have gone ashore nc
ITlsn ,he vessel went scudding under barc
paul was the only self-possessed man
l.arl and, turning 60 the excited crew
lss-airing passengers, he exclnims, in q
,Iat sounds above the thunder of the
rest and the wrath Of tho sea: "Be of
cheer
IA men who now go TO sea with maps, and
r,s andmolern compass, warned by buoy
lighthouse know nothing of the perils Of
ent navigation. Horace said that tho
who first vcuturcd on the sea must have
heart bound with oak and triple brass
tle then vcnttircd only from headland To
and. and from island TO island, and not
long after spread their sail for voyage
b. toe sea. Before starting, the weather
watched. aud the vessel having been
up on the shore, the mariners placed
shoulders against the stern OF the ship
heayel it on-thcy, at the last moment,
Ing into It.
sSels were then chiefly ships of burden
transit Of passengers being the exception;
he world was not then migratory, as in
day, when the first desire of a man in
place seems 10 he 10 get into another
The ship from which Jonah was
gn overheard. and in which Paul
carried prisoner, went out chiefly with
el of taking cargo. As now, so then,
i were accustomed to carry n flag. In
timcs il was Inscribed with the name
heathen deity A vessel bound for Syra-
had on il the inscription, Castor and
ix7 The ships were provided with an
Anchors were Of two kinds-those
were dropped into the sea, and those
we're thrown up on TO the rocks to hold
essel fast. This last kind was what Pau
>ed 70 when he said: (which hope we
as an anchor OF the SOUL both sure and
fast, and which entoreth into that with
vail That was what the sailors
"hOok anchor The rocks and sand
shoals and headlands not being mapped
vessels carried a plumb line. They would
i and find the water fifty fathoms, and
itagain and find IL forty fathoms, and
II again and find il thirty fathoms, thus
|vei1ng their near approach 20 the shore.
The spring, summer and autumn the
tcrraneau Sea was white with the wings
lps but At the first wintry blast they
themselves 90 the nearest harbor: al
b now the worlds commerce prosper.
hnuary as well as in june, and in mid.
r all over the wide and stormy deer
hoat palaces Of light, trampling the
under foot and showering the sparks
frIbIo furnaces on the wild wind: ant
CHRISTIAN passenger, tippcted anC
lod sits under the shelter OF the smoke
looklng of upon the phosphorescent
on which is written in scrolls of foam
PR: Thy way, o God, is in the sea, ant
Nth IN the great watersw
IN those days of early navigation thai
Sloupot men, women and children OF
aAch OF the Mediterranean. Paul is
70 leave the congregation to whom II,
reached and thoy are come down /,
mot' 1t Is u solemn thing to part
are so many traps that wait for
ieet. The solid ground may breal
R and the seG-how many dark mys
u hides In its bosoml A few counsels
W good-by last look, and the rope
ana the sails are hoisted, and th
are hauled in, and Paul Is gone. lex
y SAIL over some OF the same water
which Paul sailed, but before going
70 urge you all TO embark for heaven
church is the dry dock where souls ar
l'tel out Tor heaven. In making ves
this voyage, the first need Is SCUM
Inber. The floor timbers ought 10 b
stun. For the want of it, vessels tina
able 10 run their iibbooms into the ey
tempest, when caught in a storm hav
Tnshed like "a wafer. The truths G
/" ord are what mean by floor timber,
with your lighter materials. Nothin
@ hewn in the forest Of divine trutl
nch enough Tor this craft.
must have love for q helm, TO guild
m the sraft Neither pride. nor am
nor avarice will do for a ruddpI
~. only m the heart, but flashing 4
anu ilngiing in the hand-loye maI
Work' which many look upon as !
prile-loye, not like brooks whic
"a ~ Iattle yet do nothing, but love Xix
runs up the steps OF mill wheei
rS m the harness OF factory bands
:. WIZ not pass by ON the other sid,
~ Tue man who fell among thiev,
IN |no' not merely saying; Poor fe
~ are dreadiully hurt but, like IA
.'iarltan, pours in oil and wine an
poard at the tavern. There mn,
prom, arranged 10 cut and oyorrid
lhat Is Christian perseverance,
He Three mountain surges Ina
assh against a soul in minute
.he hesh and the devil-and tina
ualL Prov that can bound ove
,, .,s ,ack Of this, many have put bacI
started again. Itis the broadsid
~ I" often sweeps the deck and an
''@' out that which strikes In from
a :, Meettroublos courageously an
ouht them. Stand ON the prov
~ wipe OIL tho spray of the splI
out with tho apostle: None &
- TLn move me-" Lot oil your fear
, Inc right must conquer. Kno,
4, N a,D The ark OF bulrushes, can ru