The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIyINE's SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "a Mediterranean Voyage"
preached at Brindisi, Italyl

Subject: "a Mediterranean Voyage"
preached at Brindisi, Italyl
TEXT: and so IL came to pass that they
escaped all safe to land" Acts xvii, H.
Having visited your historical city, which
we desired to see because it was the terminus
of the most famous road of the ages tho
Roman Appian Way, and for its mighty
fortress overshadowing a city which even
Hannibars hosts could not thunder down
we must tomorrow morning leave your har-
Dor, and after touching at Athens and Cor
NTH, voyage about the Mediterranean to
Alexandria, Egypt. l have been reading
this morning in my New Testament of a
Mediterranean voyage in an Alexandrian
ship. II was this very month of November
The vessel was lying in a port not very far
from here. On board that vessel were two
distinguished passengers: one Josephus, the
historian, as we have strong reasons to
believe; the other, a convict, one Paul by
name, who was going to prison for upsetting
things, or, us they termed it turning the
world upside down. This convict had gained
the confidence Of the Captein. Indeed,
think that Paul knew almost as
much about the sea as did the Cap
tain He had been shipwrecked three
times, already; he had dwelt much of his
life amidst capstans and yardarms, and
cables, and storms; and he knew what
he was talking about. Seeing the
equinoctial storm was coming, and perhaps
noticing something unseaw3rthy III the
vessel he advised the Captain to stay in the
harbor. But l hear the Captain and the
first mate talking together They say: I'VE
cannot afford to take the advice Of this
landsman, and he minister. He may be
able TO preach very well, but I don't believe
he knows marlinspike from a huff tackle.
All aboard Cast OIL Shift the helm for
headwayl Who fears the Mediterranean
They had gone only little way out when a
whirlwind, called Euroclydon, made the
torn sail its turban, shook the mast as YOU
would brandIsh spear, and tossed the hulk
into the heavens. Overheard with the car
gol 1t is all washed with salt water, and
worthless now; and there are no marine in
suranee companies. All hands ahoy. and
out 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 de truction. In the lull of the storm
hear chain clank. Il is the chain of the
great apostle as he walks the deck. or holds
fast 10 the rigging amidst the lmclnng of the
ship-the spray dripping from his long beard
as he cries out to the crew: Now ] exhprt
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 1 am, and whom
serve, saying, Fear not, Paul: thou must be
brought before Cesar; and, -, 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 man peers into
the darkness and, bya flash of lightning, sees
the long white line of the breakers, aBl knows
a.
and fears that3E i few munients- me vessel
Wiz be shivered on the rocks The ship
aies ike eham in a tornado They drop the
sounding line, and by the light Of the Ian
tern they see it is twenty fathoms. Speed
ing along a little farther they drop
the line again, and by the light
Of the lantern they see 1t IS fifteen fath0Ins.
Two hundred and seventy-siS souls within 4
few feet of awful shipwreckl 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 go of in the boat it viii be
the death of them. The vessel strikesl The
planks spring. The timbers crack The
vessel parts in the laundering surgel On,
what wild struggling for lifei Here they
leap from plank TO plank. Here they go
under as if they would never rise but
catching hold of timber, come floating and
painting on it to the beach. Here, strong
swimmers spread their arms through the
waves until their chinS plow the sand, and
they rise up and wiring out their wet locks
on the beach When the roll OF tie slip is
called, two hundred and seventy-six people
answer to their names. 'And so, says my
text, lit came to pass that they escaped all
safe to land
learn from this subject:
First, that those who get US into trouble
will not stay to help US out. These slipmen
got Paul out of Fair Ravens into the storm;
but as soon as the tempest dropped upon
them, they wanted TO go of in the small
4 boat, caring nothing for what became Of
I Paul and the passengers. All mel human
4 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 a life
Of dissipation viii be the first to laugh at
I his imbeciiity. and 10 drop him out OF
/ decent society. Gamblers always make
/ fun of the losses of gamblers. They who
1 tempt YOU into the contest with fists saying,
Il will back you,a will be the first TO run.
\ Look over all the predicaments Of your life,
.|Asd count the names OF those who have got
q Z into those predicaments, and tell me the
6 !-er60Sn- who ever helped YOU out
- enough to get you out from