Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-11-12
GOSPEL ARCHIPELAGO.
DR.. TALMACE breaches ON
RHODES AND PATMOS.
A Night View of the Island Visited
By PauI-The birthplace Of the
Gospel OF So. Johu-Last Glimpse
Of Egypt

OVERLOOKING congregation III lhc DEOOh-
Ign Tabernacle this morning attested
the interest the religious public Is talk
ing in the series of sermons Nr. Tai
mage is preaching on what he saw,
contirmatory of the Scriptures, during
his tour from the Pyramids 10 tho
Acropolis. This morning S sermon,
the fourth of the sc! les, was on the
Islands of the Greek archipelago. The
Doctor took two texts: Acts 2l:3,
"When we had discovered Cyprus we
left it on the left hand and Rcvela-
ton 10, Il, John, 49,. was IN the Isle
that is called Patmos.
Good-by, Egypt! Although interest
ing and instructive beyond any country
in the world, excepting the Holy Land,
Egypt was to me somewhat depressing.
1t was post-mortem exam nation of
great cities that died 1000 years ago.
The mummies or wrapped Up bodies
Of the dead, were prepared with refer
ence to the Resurrection day, the
Egyptians departing this life wanting
their bodies TO be kept in as good con-
dition as possible so that they would
be presentable when they were called
again to occupy them.
This sermon finds us on the steamer
Minerva IN the GrecIan archipelago,
the islands of the new testament, and
islands Paulinian and Johannian in
their Renaissance. What Bradshaw's
directory is to travellers in Europe,
and what the railroad guide is to
travellers in America, the book of the
Acts in the bible is 10 voyagers in the
Grecian, or as | shall call it, the Cos
pei archipelago. The bible geography
of that region is accurate with
out a shadow of mistake. We are
sailing tn morning on the same
waters at Paul sailed but in the op.
pOsite direction to that which Paul voy-
aged. he was sailing southwark and
we northward. With HIM it was:
Ephe us, Coos, Rhodes, Cvlrus With
us it is reversed and it is: Cyprus,
Rhodes, Coos, EpnGsus. There is no
book in the world so q .curate as the
divine book My text says that Paul
left Cyprus on the left; we, goiEg in
the opposite direction. have it on the
right. On our ship Minerva were only
two or three passengers beside our
party, so we had plenty Of room to
walk the deck and on, what a
night was Christmas night of 1859 in
that Grccian NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
light above, islands of beauty be.
meath! 1t is a royal family of islands,
is GreCian archipelago: the crown of
the world scenery set with sapphire
and emerald and tOpa. and chryso-
prasus and ab!aZe wI.h u glory that
seems let down out of celestial land
scapes. God evidently made up his
mind that just here he would demon
strate the utmost that can be done
with islands for the Identification of
earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped during the
night and in the morning the ship was
as quiet as this floor, when we fastened
up to the deck aud fOunI that we had
anchored off the Island OF Cyprus. In
boat, which the natives rowed stand.
ing up as is the custom, instead of sit
ting down as when we row, we were
soon landed on the streets where Paul
and Barnu bas walked and preached.
Yea, when at Antioch Paul and Rarna-
Us got into fght-as ministers some
times did, and sometimes do for they
all have imperfeUtions enough to
anchor them to this world till their
work is done | say--when because of
that bitter controversy nul and Bar
nabaS parted BarnaIas came ia TX
here to Cyprus, which was his birth
place. Island wonderful for history!
1t has been the prize sometimes won
by Persia, by G. ce.c, by Egypt by the
SaraCcns, by the Crusaders. and last of
all, not by sword but by pen. and that
the pen Of the keenest diplOmatist of
the century, Lord Bcaconsteld, who.
under a lease which was us good as
a nnTphaER "a Al.
jewels OF Victoria crown. We went
out into the excavations from which
Di CesnUla has enriched our American
museums with antiquities and with no
better weapon than our foot we stirred
up the ground deep enough to get n
tear bottle in which some mouruer
shed his tears thousands of years ago
and lamp viii befure Christ was
born lighted the feet of some poor pll-
grim on his way. That island of
Cyprus has enough to set an ANTIGUA
rian wild, The most OF it's glory is
the glory OF the past, and the typhoid
levers that sweep its coast and
the clouds of locustS that often blackeu
its skies, though 500, 900 were ex.
pended by the British empire in one
year for the extirpation of these nox-
lous insects, yet failing to do the
work. and the frequent change of
governmental masters. binders pros.
perity. But when the islands of the
sea come to God, Cyprus will come
with them, and the agricultural and
commercial opulence which adorned
IT in ages asst will be eclipsed by the
agricultural and commercial and re.
ligiGus triumphs of the ages to come.
Why is the world so stupid that IL
cannot see that nations are prospered
In temporal things in proportion as
they are proSpered in rel giuus things?
The Chr stian religion triumphant, all
other interests trlumphant he Chris.
tan religion low down, all other inter-
esh low down. So | thought as on
the evening of that day we steppsd
from the filthy streets of Larnaca.
Cyprus, on to the boat that took us
back to tho steamer Minerva which
had already begun to paw the waves
like courser impatient to be gone.
and then we moved on and up among
the islands of this Gospel Archipelaqo,
Night came down on land and sea
and the voyage became to me more and
more suggestive and solemn. II Won
are pacing it alone, a ship deck in
the darkness and at sea is a weird
place, and an active imagination NAV
conjure up almost any shape he will
and 1t shall walk the sea or confront
him by the smolSesta K, or meet him
under the captains bridge But hero
l was alone on ships deck in the Cos.
pei Archipelago and do You wonder
that the sea was populous with the
past and that down tie rdtlines bible
memories descended? Our friends
had all gone to their berths." Captain"
| said. when will we arrive at the
Island OF K odes?" Looking out from
under his glazed cap. he responded in
sepulrhral voice: About midnight. +"
Ihougl.it would be keeping uurea SON
able hours, concluded to stay on deck.
Tor mustsee khUdes. one of the islands
associated with the name of the
greatest missionary the world ever saw
or ever will see. Paul landed there
ana that was enough to make 1t
famous while the world stan is and
famous in heaven when the world has
become charred wreck.
This island has had wonderful his.
tory. With 5000 knights of st, John
II at one time stood out against 9OU. 00o
warriors under "SOlyman the Mopni(i.
| cent" The CITY had z IN a et,tra.9 -