Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-06-25
AsOJJL's DEPARTURE.
DR. rALMAee SENDS FROM The
OCEAN A SERMON TO HIS READERS.

IV>< FN6NN6G S't-tsOS i'O" -
OCEAN A SERMON TO HIS READERS.
The Hour OF Death and Other Lossona
frora St. i'auis Fareweis-Thero Ia JOY
In the Thoughts Of Death as Well as
sadness-0ur Frsoods Como Before,
BRooKLvN. June l0.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage Is noy on tho Atlantic. having
sailed from New York On the 18th mat
for Liverpool, for o preaching tour In
England, Scotland. ireland and Sweden.
Before visiting Sweden Dr.. Talmage
will 20 TO Russia, there Il, witness tho
reception and disposition Of the cargo Of
breadstuffs ON board The Christian Her.
aid relief steamship Leo, which sailed
last week for St. Petersburg. Previous to
his departure be dictated TO his stenoy-
Esrapher the following farewell! sermon,
toibe read by the vast and widely scat-
tered audiences whom 1t is his weakly
privilege to address through tho medium
OF si,is- newspaper press. 10 took bis
taxa from Ii Timothy ~, O, Tho time
OF my departure Ia az hanle
Departure! That Is a word used only
twice IN all the Dible. Dut 1t Is word
often used In the courtroom end means
the desertion Of one course OF pleading
for another. Es Is used In navigation to
describe tho distance between two me
ridians passing through the eztzenities
OF course. It Is word ! have recent
ly heard applied to my departure from
Americs to Europe for preaching tour
to Inst until September. In smaller
and less significant sense than that I'm
Piled In the text can say, "The time of
my departure Ia et hand
Through the printing press ! address
this sermon to my readers all the world
over, and when they read II J will be
n,idocean, and unless something new
happens In my msrino experiences 1 will
TO In no condition to preach. But how
unilnlortant tho word departure when
applied to!exchangc OF continents as
when applicsl to exchanges Of worlds Us
when PAul wrote. Tho time Of my de-
parture b. at hand.
Now departure Implies starting
place and place Of destination When
Paul left this wo:ld, whns was the START
ing point It WIS scene OF great phys
ical Distress i wi,s tbs Tullianuin. tho
lower dungeon OF the Mamertine prison,
Rome. Italy. The top dungeon was bnd
enough, 1t having no means 0f !pgress
or egress but through all opening In the
top, Through that tho prisoner wos
lowered, and through thas came oil the
food and AIR and light received Il wes
terrible place. tlirt uppcs dungeon;
Int the Tulliannm WAS Tho lower dun-
eeon, end that was still more wretchctl.
the only light and the only mir coming
through the roof, und that roof the floor
Of the upper dungeon That was paul's
last earthly residcuce.
! was Ia taat lower dungeon In No
venber, 1850. u Is nisdo Of volcanic
stone. measured j., and from wall to
will It was fifteen feet The highest Of
the roof was scven feet from the floor
and the lowest o! tho roof flve feet seven
inches. The opening In the roof through
which Pacl was lei Gown was three feet
wide. The dungeon has seat OF rock
two and bcH feet high and shelf OF
roclt four feet high It was there that
Paul spent his last days on esrth. and IL
is there TINT see him now. In the fear
full dungeon. shivering, blue with the
culd, wsiting for thas old oyercos;t which
I,a had sent for up Il, Treas and which
they lad rot YET Gent down. notwith-
standing b. he'd written for 1t,
TAE DUNGEON OF ST. PAUL
II come skillful surgeon should 60 into
thar dungeon where Paul Is incarcerate,l
we might end out what sre the pros
poets OF Paul's living through the rough
imprisonment In the first !dace he IL
an old man, o1iy two years short OF SOW
snty. AZ shat very time when he most
needs the warmth. mud the sunlight, and
the fresh DIR he Is shut out from the sun-
WhGs arc those scars on his ankles?
Why, those were got when he YVES fast,
his fees in tle btockA Livery Ams he
turned abe flesh on his ankles started.
What are shsse scars on his backa You
know he wes whipped i've times. each
time getting tilirty-nino strokea--one
hundred and n.nety-Gve bruises on the
back count tLern) made by the Jews
with fools Of elmwood. each ono Of tho
one hundred and ninety-Rve strokes
bringing the blood.
Lool at paul's face and look st his
arms, Where did lie get tlsoso bruises7
think Il WIS VIII. u be was struggling
ashore smid tho shircrcd timbers Of the
shipwreck. sec gash In Peul's side.
Where did no yet that think ne got
that In the tdssle with highwaymen, foT
he had been In pcr1 OF robbers and he
had money Of bis own He was me
chanic as well cs On apostle, and think
the tents he made were as good es his
serMOCs,
There b wsnneas about Pants looks
What makes that? think part OF
thas came Fl, Az the fact tliat he was Tor
twehty-four hours on plank in the
Mediterranean sea. Enffsring terribly,
before he was rescued, for he says posi-
lively, ri was . night and day III the
Deep On, worn out. emaciated old
mani surely yvu must be melancholy:
DO constitution could endure this and be
cheerful But press my way through
the yrison until come mp close 10 where
he Is, and by che faint light thet streams
through tho opening SOS ON bis fsoe g
supernatural Joy, and | bow before him,
aud say, aged man. how can you
keep cheerful sulid ell this gloon" His
voice startles tho darkness OF the piece
as he cries out, III am how ready TO be
offered, and the time Of my departure Is
at hand
Harhl what IS that shualing Of feet in