Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine
Now at Brindisi, an Ital-
ian Port.
From There He Will Go by the
Mediterranean to
Egypt.
Text Of the Regular Sunday Morn
ing Sermon; "And SO 1t Came
TO Pass That They All Escaped
Safe to Land"
"A. Meditcrranean Voyage"

WITT Talmage, ID. D., preached In this
Italian port today. His subject was "a
Mediterranean Voyage" and he took
for his text Acts xvii A: "And SO 1t
came to pass they escaped all safe to
land" DIR. Talmage said:
Having visited your historical city,
which we desired to see because it was
the terminus Of the most famous road
of the ages, the Roman Appian Way,
and for its mighty fortress overshadow-
ing a city which rel Hannibal's hosts
could not thunder down, we must TO-
morrow morning leave your harbor, and
after touching at Athens and Corinth'
voyage about the Mediterranean to AL
exandria, Egypt. have been reading
this morning in my New Testament of
q Mediterranean voyage in an Alex
andria ship. 1t was this very month of
November. The vessel was lying in q
port not very far from here. On board
that vessel were two distinguished pas
e one, ~Josephus, the historian,
az we have strong reasons to believes;
the other, a convict, one Paul by name,
who was going to prison for upsetting
things, or, as they termed 1t, turning
the world upside down" This convict
had gained the confidence of the cap
tain. Indeed, / think that Paul knew
almost as much about the sea as
did the captain. He had been ship
wrecked three times already; he had
dweit much Of his life amidst cap
STAINS, and yardarms, and cables, and
storms; and he knew what he
was talking about. Seeing the
e~quinoctial storm was coming, and
perhaps noticing something unsea-
worthy in the vessel, he advised the
captain to stay in the harbor. But l
hear the captain and the first mate talk
ing together. They say: ave cannot
afford to take the advice OF this lands
man, and he q minister. He may be
able to preach very we'll, but | don't be-
lieye he knows a marlinspike from a
lQn LdChl All boata S1ob ohs oAA
the helm for Roadway! Who fears the
Mediterranean They had gone only
Q little a out when a whirlwind,
cAllcd .curpclydonsenaaeNsho Torn sail
its turban, shook the mast as you would
brandish a spear, and tossed the hulk
into the heavens. Overheard with the
eargol 1t is all washed with salt water,
and worthless now; and there are no
marine insurance companies. All hands
lhoy, and ont with the anchors!
Great CONSERVATION comes on crew
and passengers. The sea monsters
snort in the foam, and the pillows clap
their hands in glee OF destruction. In a
lull of the storm l hear a chain clank
1t is the chain of the great apostle as he
walks the deck, or holds fast TO the rig
ging amidst the lurching of the ship
the spray dripping ron his long beard
q he cries out to the crew: Nov l ex-
hort you to be of good cheer; for there
shall be no loss Of any mans life among
you, but of the ship. For there stood
by me this night the angel Of God,
whose / am. and whom l serve, saying,
Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought
before Cesar: and, 10, God hath given
thee all them that sail with thee"
Fourteen days have passed, and there
IL no abatement of the storm. 1t Is
midnight. Standing on the lookout,
the man peers into the darkness, and
by q fash Of lightning, sees the long
white line of the breakers, and knows
they must be coming near to some
country, and fears that in lew moments
the vessel will be shivered on the rocks.
The ship flies like chat in the tornado.
They drop the sounding line, and by the
light of the lantern they see ii is fifteen
fathoms. Two hundred and seventy
six souls within q few feet of awful
shipwreckl The managers OF the vessel,
pretending they want TO look over the
side Of the ship and undergrad IL, get
into the small boat, expecting in 1t to
escape; but Panl sees through the sham,
and he tells them that If they 60 of In
the boat II will be the death of them.
The weasel strikesi Tho planks springi
The ttmbers crack The vessel parts
in the laundering surge. Oh, that wild
okruggling for life! Here they leap
nom plank 70 plank. Here they 60
under - II they would never rise, but,
catching hold Of q timber, come floating
and painting ON IL to the beach, Here,
strong swimmers spread their arms
through the waves until thei2 chins
blow the sand, and they rise up and
wiring out their wet locks on h beach.
When the roll Of the ship Is called, 276
ooub answer TO their names "And So"
oays my text, sit came to pass that they
escaped All safe to land"
i learn from this subject:
First, that those who get US into
trouble will not stay TO help US ont.
These shipmen got Paul out Of Fair
Ravens into the storm; but as soon as
the tempest dropped upon them, they
wanted TO 20 of in the small boat,
caring nothing for what became Of Paul
and the passengers. All me! human
nature % the same In all ages. They
who ret us into trouble never stop TO
help us out. They who tempt that
Young man into q life of dissipation
will be the first TO laugh at his inn
becility, and to drop him out of decent
society. Gamblers always make fun of
the losses Of gamblers. They who tempt
3 into the contest with hsts, saying,
~ wiil back yon," will be the first TO
run. LSyok over all the p~redicaments Of
your lifo, and count the names of those
who have got you into those predica-
ments, and tell me the name Of n
who cver helped you out They
doere glad enough 70 get you