The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-20
TALMAG'S FAREWELL.
The Brooklyn Divine Bids His Mil
lions of Friends Goodbye.
why He Goes to Europe ana What he
Expects to See in the Holy Land-How
to Fie Out and Sail Ship Bound
for the Port OF Heaven.

On his embarkation for the Holy Land
by the steamer City of Paris, Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage addressed his millions
of friends through the press. taking for
| his text Acts Xxx, is: "Aqd they ac-
companied him unto the ship" FOLLOW
ing is the sermon:
To the more than twenty-five million
people in many countries to whom M
Sermons come week by week, in EngllSh
| tongue and translation. through the
| kindness OF the newspaper press. L adj
dress these words dictate them to
,stenographer on the eye of my depaEsRTes
for the Holy Land, Palestine. When
| YOU read this sermon I will be mld-Al
| ilantic. go to be gone few weeks on
| a religiouS Journey. go because want
! for myself and hearers and readers to
see Bethlehem. and Nazareth, and Jeru-
salem, and Calvary, and all the other
| places connected with the Savlours lie
| and death, and so reinforce myself Tor
sermons. l 60 also becauSeI am writing
the ssLife of Christ and can be more
accurate and graphic when ! have been
an eyewitness of the sacred places. Pray
for my successful iourneying and safe
| return.
I wish on the eve of departure to pro-
nounce loving benedictlon upon all
my friends in high places and low, upon
congregations to whom my sermons are
read in absence of pastors, upon groups
| gathered out on prairles and IN mining
| districts, upon all sick and lnvalld ana
| aged ones who can not attend churcheS.
but to whom have long administered
through the printed page. My next ser
| =, 70 frNr Rome
| ITALY, for feel like Paul when he said:
$50. as much as in me is, I am ready to
preach the Gospel to you that are at
Rome alsor TIE fact is that Paul was
ever moving about on land or sea. He
was an old sailor-not from occupation,
| but from frequency of travel. think
he could have taken a vessel across the
Mediterranean as we'll as some OF the
ship captains. The sailors never scoffed
at him for being ''land lubber." II
Paul's advice had been taken tue crew
would never have gone ashore atMeIta.
When the vessel went scuddtng under
bare poles Paul was the only self-poS-
seSsed man on board, and turning to the
excited crew and despairing passengers.
he exclaims. in a voice that SOUNDS
above the thunder of the tempest and
the wrath OF the sea: ''Be OF good
cheer"
The men who now go to sea with maps
and charts and modern compass, warned
| by buoy and lighthouse, know nothing
of the perils Of ancient navigation.
Horace said that the man who first
ventured on the sea must have had
heart bound with oak and triple brass
People then ventured only from head
land to headland and from island to isl
and. and not until long after spread
their sail for a voyage across the sea.
Before starting the weatherwa watched,
and the vessel. having been hauled up
on the shore, the mariners placed their
shoulders against the stern of the ship
menu ieaptng INTO II. vessels We're then
chiefly ships of burden-the transit OF
passengers being the exception; for the
world was not then migratory as in our
day, when the first desire OF man
in one place seems to be TO get into
another place. The ship from 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, so then. vessels were
accustomed to carry flag. In those
times it was inscribed with the name OF
q heathen deity. A vessel bound for
Syracuse had on it the inscription 'Cas-
tor and Pollux" The Ships were pro-
vided with anchors. Anchors were Of
two kinds, those that were dropped into
the sea. and those that were thrown up
onto the rocks to hold the vessel fast.
This last kind was what Paul alluded to
when he said: (Which hope we have
as an anchor of the soul. both sure and
steadfast, and which entereth into that
within the vail" That was what the
sailors call 'book anchor. The rocks
and sandbars. shoals and headlands. not
being mapped out. vessels carried
plumb line. They would drop 1t an"
find the water fifty fathors. and drop j
again and find it forty fathoms. and dror
it again and find it thirty fathoms. thus
discovering their near approach to tn"
shore In the spring, summer and au-
tumn the Mediterranean Sea was white
with the wings of ships. but at the first
wintrv blast they hied themselves to
the nearest harbor. although now the
worlds commerce proSpers in January
as we'll as in June. and in uid-winter,
ali over the wide and stormy deep, there
float palaces of light. trampiHg the
billowS under foot, and Showerinc the
sparks of terrible furnaces on the wild
wind: and the Christian passenger,
tippeted and shawled. sits under the
shelter of the smokestack. looking of
upon the phosphoreScentd deep, on which
is written. in scrolls OF foam and fire:
eThv way, O God. is in the sea, and
Thy path in the great waters
It is in those days OF early navigation
that see group Of men.\ women and
children on the beach of the Mediterra-
mean. Paul is about to leave the con-
gregation to whom he had preached and
they are come down to see him off. 1t
is solemn thing to part. There are so
many traps that wait for mans feet.
The solid ground may break through.
and the sea-how many dark mysteries
hasty goodbye last look. and the ropes
rattle. and the sails are hoisted, and the
planks are hauled in. and Paul is gone.
T expect to sail over some of the same
waters over which Paul sailed but be-
fore going want to urge you all to en-
bark for Heaven.
The church is the dry-dockw where souls
are to be fitted out for Heaven. In max
inc vessel for this voyage, the first
need is sound timber. The floor tim bers
ought to be of solid stuff. For the want
of it. vessels that looked able to run
their iibbsoms into the eye Of any. tenn
pest. when caught in storm have been
crushed like wafer. The truths OF
Gods word are what I mean by floor
timbers. Away with your lighter ma
terials. Nothing but oaks, hewn in the
forest of divine truth, are 'staunch
enough for this craft.
You must have love tor a helm to
guide and turn the craft. Neither pride
nor ambition nor avarice will do for a
rudder. Love, not only in the heart,
5 but flashing in the eye and tingling in
the hand-love married to work, which
many look upon as so homely bride
love. not like brooks, which foam and
: rattle vet do nothing, but love like
river. that runs up the steps OF the mil.
wheels and works in the harness OF fac