The Forrest City times., 1889-11-23
A MEDITERRANEAN VOYAGE,
Dr. Talmage Breaches to the Italians at
 Brindisi, on His Trip.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine Drawn Les son from His Own Experience Exhorts His Hearers to Be of Good Cheer, Every Oua

text-Acts xvii, A; "And so 1t came to pass, that they escaped all safe to laad.n Dr. Talmage said:
 Having visited your historical city, which we desired te soc because # was the terminus of the most famous road of the ages, tho Roman Appian Way, and for it's mighty fortress overshadowins city which oven Hannibars hosts could not thunder down, we must tomorrow morning cave your harbor, and after touching at Athens and Corinth, voyage about the Medi- terranean to Alexandria, Egypt have been reading this morning in my New Testament Of Mediterranean voyage in an Alexan- drian ship. It was this very month of No vember. The vessel was lying in port not very far from here. On board that vessel were two distinguished passengers: ono, Josephus, tho historian, as we have strong reasons to believe; the other, a convict one Paul by name, who was going to prison for upsettlng things, 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 tho sea as did the captain. He had been shipwfecked three times already; he had dwelt much of his lie amidst capstaus, and yardarms, and cables, and storms, and he knew what nc was talking about Seeing the equinoctial storm was coming, and perhaps noticing something unsea- worthy in the vessel, he advised the captain to stay in the harbor. But hear the captain and the first mate talking to. gether. They say: "We cannot afford to take the advice of this landsman and he n minister. He may be able to preach very we'll but don't believe he knows mar iinespike from luff tackle. All aboard Cast oHl Shift the helm for headwayl Who fears the Mediterranean" They had gone only little way out when a whirl- wind, called Euroclydon, made the torn sail its turban, shook the mast as yoa would brandish spear, and tossed tho hulk into tho heavens. Overheard with tho cargo' It is all washed with salt water, and worthless now and there arc no marine insurance companies. All hands ahoy, and out with the anchorsl
 Great consternation comes on crew md passengers The sea monsters snort in the foam, and tho pillows clap their hands in glee of destruction. In a lull of the storm near chain clank It is the chain of the great apostle as he walks tho deck or holds last to the rigging amidst the lurcnng of tue shlp-the spray dripping from his long beard as no cries out to the crew; 'New exhort you to be of good cheer, for there snail be no loss of any mans life among you. but for 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 theen
 Fourteen days have passed, and there is no abatement of the storm. It is midnight Standing on the loolSout the man pears into the darkness and by a flash of lightning. sees the long white hne Of tho breakers, and knows they must be coming near to some country, and fears that in n few moments the vessel Will be shivered on the rocks. Tho ship flies like chaf in tho tor. nadc, They drop the sounding line, and by the light of the lantern they see it is twenty iathoms. Speeding along little farther. they drop the line again, and by the lantern they see 1t is fifteen fathoms Two hun. ared and seventy-six souls within a few feet or awful shipwreckl The managers ot tho vessel pretending they want 10 look over the side of tho 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 go of in the boat it will be the death of them. Tho vessel strikes Tho vessel parts in tho laundering surgei Oh. what wild struggling for life Here they leap from plank to plank. Here they 20 un- uer as II they would never rise, but catching hoid or timber come floating and panting on 1t to tho beach. Here, strong swimmers spread their arms through the waves until their chins plough the sand, and they rise up and ring out their wet locks on the beach When tho roll of the ship is called. two hundred and seventy six people answer to their names And so,n says my text. s4. Ii
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 learn from this subject;
 First, that those who get us into trouble Will not stay to h6lp us out These ship. men got Paul out of Fair Heavens into the storm but as soon as the tempest dropped upon them, they wanted 10 go of in tho small boat caring nothing for what became oi fanl and the passengers. An me human nature IS the same in all ages They who get us into trouble never stop to help us out They who tempt that young man into life of dissipation will be the first to laugh at his imbecility, and to drop him out Of decent society. Gamblers always make run or the losses of gamblers, They who tempt you into the contest with fists, say ing, "l will back you" will be tho hrst to run. Look over all the predicaments of your life, and count the names of those who have got you into those predica- ments, and tell me the name of one who ever helped you out They were glad enough to get you out from Fair Havens, but when, with damaged rigging you tried to get into harbor, did they hold Tor you plank or throw you a ropci Not one. Satan has got thousands of men into trouble, but he never got one out Ho jed them into theft, but he would not hide the goods or bail out tho defendant, Tho spider shows the fly the way over tho gos- samer bridge into the cohweh; but it never shows the fly the way out of the cobweb over the gossamer bridge. I think that there were plenty of fast young men to help the prodigal spend his money; but when he had wasted his substance in riotous living, they let him go to the swine pastures, while they betook themselves to sona other now comer. They who take Paul out or Fair Ravens will be of no help to him when lie gets iuto the breakers of AIolta
 remark again. as a lesson learned from .he text that it is dangerous 10 refuse the counsel of competent advisers. Paul told them not 10 go out with that shin. They thought he knew nothing about it. They said He is only minsterl' They went and the ship was destroyed There are great many people who now say of
 
 world They cannot talk to us!' An. my friends, 1t Is not necessary to have the Asiatic cholera before you can give it medical treatment in others. IL Is not neces- sary to have your own arm broken before you can know how to splinter fracture And we who stand in tho pulpit, and in the office of Christian teacher, know that there are certain iyles of belief and certain kinds of behavior that will lead to desfruc- ton as certainly as Paul knew that il that ship went out of Fair Havens 1t would ro to destruction. "iieioice, O young nan. in thy youth; and lot thy heart cheer thee In the days Of thy youth: but know thou that for all these things God Will bring thee into iudgiuentN Me may not know much. but we know that
 foung peopie refuse the advice of pa. rents They say. Father is oyer sus p'cloas. and mother is. getting oldn Hut those parents have been au tho sea Of fife They knulF xyhssfsss stnrrna 1fna.. a..f