Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-13
DR. TALMAGE.s SERMON.
ia DISCOURSE ON HIS VISIT TO
PATMOS.
~" Tets How he Lett Esyp, anu vnyartn.
Fast Rhodes Reached tho Grrc,an Archi-
pe'n.o and Visit. tbs Island OF h;.
Joints lscyelaIiOn.
Gooh-Isye to Egypt.

3. "When VIC had discovered Cyprus
we left it on the left hands" and Revcla-
ton j, 8, 81, John, was in the isle that is
called Patmos.''
Goodbye, Egypt! This sermon finds us
on the steamer Minerva in the Grecian
archipelago, the islands of the Now
Testament, and islands Paulnian aud
Johannian in their Renaissance. What
t;radslaw's directory is To travellers in
Europe, and what the railroad guide is
10 travellers in America. the Book of
the Acts in the Bible is TO voyagers in
the Grecian, or as ! shall call it, the
Gospel archipelago. The Bible geog-
iaphy OF that region is accurate with
tut shadow of mistake. We are sail
,ng this morning on the same waters
that Paul, tut in the opposite direction
To that which Paul voyuged. He was
failing southwark and we northward.
With him it was Ephesms, Coos, Rhodes,
Cyprus. With us it is reversed, and j; is
Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos. Ephesus. There
!, no book in the world SO accurate as
the Divine Book.
My. text says that Paul left Cyprus on
the lett; We going in an opposite di-
rectlon, leave it on the right. On our
ship Minerva were only two or three
passengers besides our party, SO we had
plenty of room to walk on deck, and oh,
what night was Christmas night of
1889 in that Grecian OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OF light above, islands of ueauty beneath!
1t is royal family of islands, this Gre
clan archipelago-the crown of the
worlds scenery set with sapphire and
emerald topaz and chrysoprasus,
nnd ablazc with glory that oseems
Jet down cut of celestial landscapes.
God evidently made up his mind
that just here He would demon
ttratc the utmost that can be done
earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped during she
night. and in the morning the ship was
US quiet as this floor, when we hastened
up TO the deck and found that we had
anchored off the island of Cyprus. In q
boat which the natives lowed standing
up, as is the custom, instead of sitting
down. as when we row, we were soon
landed on the streets where Paul and
Barnabas walked and preached. Yea,
when at Antioch, Paul and Barnabaa got
into iight--ns ministers some ines did,
and sometimes do, for they all have i'm
PROJECTIONS enough to anchor them to
this world till their work is done, ] shy
when, because of that bitter CONTROVERSY,
Paul and Barnabas parted, Barnnbas
came back here to Cyprus, which was
his birthplace Island, wonderful for
history! 1t has been the prize sometimes
won by Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by
the Saracens, by the Crusaders, and last
| of all, not by sword but by pen, and that
the pen Of the keenest dipIomatist Of tho
century, Lord Beaconsticld, who, under
lease which was as good as pur-
chase, set Cyprus among tho jewels Of
Nictoria's crown.
| We went out into the excavations :rona
| which Di Cesno]a has enriched our
American museums with antiquities, an j
with no better weapon than our foot we
stirred up the ground deep enough to get
q tear bottle in which some mournsr
shed his tears thousands OF years ago,
! and lamp which before Christ YVES born
lighted the feet of some poor pilgrim on!,is
way. That island of Cyprus has enoL Oh
to set an aiti4aaran Wild The ,Nas, of
it's sioiH IS the glory OF the past, ;si,d ihe
typhoid fevcrs that sweep Its cGaa;, and
! the clou,;s ot ioensts that often i.iac!s en-
its skies (though 100000 were sxppnd-
| ed by the British Empire in oae wear
for the extirpation of these nojtous in-
sects, yet falling to do their wefk), and
the frequent change of governmental
masters hinder prosperity.
but when the islands OF the Fsa come
to God, Cyprus will come with them, and
the agricultural and commercial opu-
lence which adorned it in ages past will
be ecipsed by the agricultural End COM
mcrcial and religious triumrEs Of the
ages to come. Why is the worl1 40 stu.
pid that it cannot see that nations arc
prospered in temporal things In pro.
portion as they are prospered in religious
things? Goodness is profitable not only
for individuals, but for nation7. Cues.
tions of tariff, questions OF Silver bill,
questions of republic or monarchy have
not so much to do with a natien's ten.
poral welfare as questions o: religion.
Give Cyprus to Christ give England tc
Christ, give America to Christ, give the
world to Christ, and He will give then
all prosperity unlimited. Why Is
Brooklyn one Of the queen cities of the
earth? Because it is the Qucen city o.
churches.
Blindfolo me and lead me In 20 any cit,
OF the earth so that cannot rec q stree
or warehouse or a home, ara then leae
me into the churches and teen remov,
the bandage from my eyes, and viii
tell you from what see insf.le the con
secrated walls, having seen rothing out
side, what is that city's merchandise, it,
literature, its schools, rs println.
presses, its government, it's bones, it,
arts, its sciences, its prosperity or it,
depression, and Ign ORANGE and pauperisu
and outlawry. The altar OF God in tn,
church is the high water mark of til,
worlds happiness. The Chr'stian relig
ion triumphant, all other Interests tri
umphant The Christian raligion low
down: all other interests low down. 81
though on tho evening of that day W,
stepped from the filthy streets of Larna
ca, Cyprus, onto the boat tfat took IL
back to the steamer Minerva which hat
already begun to paw the waves like
courser impatient to be COMA, and thel
we moved on and up among the islands
Of this Gospel archipelago.
Night came down OH land and sea ant
the voyage became to me mure and NOR,
suggestive and solemn. II you are pac
ing it alone ships deck IN the dark
ness and at sea is q weird place. and al
active imagination may conjure up al
most any shape he will, and it snail wall
the sea to confront him by the smoke