Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-03
0UTINTO THE DEEP.
CaRETS ADVICE TO SIMON TO LAUNCH INTO
TIE LAKE.
Tie Great Brooklyn Divine Draws Morals frOm
this Texs-GO Far Out into the Sea Of
Gods Morcy-Ohrist Has Paid
hr 81 Your Sins.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, October 2.-Since
his return from Europe DR.. Talmage
has faced audiences unusually large
and enthusiastic, who are attracted TO
the Tabernacle no less by the potent
eloQuence Of the preacher than through
desire to hear from his own lips the
message Of thanks entrusted TO him oy
the Car to the contributors OF the
Christian Herald famine cargo, which
he and Mr.. Klopsch conveyed to Russia
in the steamer Leo 1t is understood
that DR.. Talmage has in preparation
full account Of the mission TO Russia,
as well Of his own preaching tour TO
Germany, England, scotland and Ire
land. The text this morning was taken
from Luke 5, 4: Launch out into the
deep"
Christ, starting on the campaign Of
the worlds conquest, was selecting his
staff officers. There were plenty OF
students with high foreheads, and
white hands, and intellectual faces,
and refined tastes, in Rome and Jerusa-
lem. Christ might have called into the
spostleship twelve bOOk-worms, or
twelve rhetoricians, or twelve artists.
Instead, he tales a group Of men who
had never made 2 speech, never taken
a lesson in belisS-lGttreS, never been
sick enOugi. to make them look delicate
their hands broad, clumsy and hard
Knocked. lie chose fishermen, among
othNr reasons, I think, because they
were physically hardy. Rowing makes
strong arms and hard chests Much
climbing Of ratlines makes ones head
steady.
A GALILEE TEMPEST
wrestled men into gymnasts. The
opening work OF the church was rough
work. Christ did not want twelve in
valids hanging about him, complaining
All the time how badly they felt. de
leaves the delicate students at Jerusa-
lem and Rome for their mothers and
aunts to take care of, and goes dOwR to
the sea-shore, and out OF the toughest
material makes an apOstleship. The
ministry need more corporal vigor than
any other class. Fine minds and good
intentions are important, but there
must be physical force TO back them.
The intellectual millwheel may be well
built and the grist good, but there must
be enough blood in the mill-race TO turn
the one and 10 grind the other.
He chose fishermen, also, because
they were used TO hard knocks. The
man who cannot stand assault is not MT
for the ministry. IL always has been
and always will be rough work; aud the
man who, at every cenSUre or caricature,
sits down to cry, had better be at some
other work. II is no place for ecclest-
astical doll-babies. A man who cannot
preach because he has lost his manu-
script or forgotten his spectacles ought
not to preach at all. Heaven deliver
the church from a ministry that preach
in kid gloves, and from sermons in black
morocco covers! These fishermen were
rough and ready. They had been in
the severest OF all colleges. When they
were knocked over by the main boom
OF the ship they entered the "Sopho-
nore;" when washed OF by great wave
they entered the "JuniOr;" when hoat-
ing for two days
WITHOUT FOOD OR DRINK,
on plank, they came to the ''Seinor,"
and, when, at last, their ship dashed
on the beach in midnight hurricane,
they graduated with the first honor.
MY text finds Jesus on shipbOard
with one Of these brOnzed men-Simon
by name. The fisherman had been
sweeping his net in shoal water.
"Push out" says Christ: what is the
use Of hugging the shore in this boat?
Here Is a lake twelve miles long and
six wide, and II is all pOpulated-just
waiting for the sweep Of your net.
Tannch ont into the deep."
The advice that my Lord gave to
Simon is as appropriate for Us all in q
spiritual sense. The fact Is that most
Of Us are just padding along the shore.
We are afraid to venture out into the
great deeps Of God and Christian ex-
perience. We think that the boat will
be unset or that we cannot ''clew down
the mizzen top-sail, and our cOwardlce
makes US poor fishermen. L think l
hear the voice Of Christ commanding US,
as he did Simon, on that day when
bright Galilee set in among the green
hills Of Palestine, like water flashing In
an emerald cup: Launch out into the
deep"
This divine counsel comes, first, to all
those who are padding in the margin
Of Bible research. Ny father read the
Bible through three times after he was
eighty years of age, and without specta-
cles; not for the mere purpose OF say
ing he had been through 1t so often, but
for his eternal profit. John Colby, the
brother-in-laW Of Daniel Webster,
\learned to read after he was eighty
four years OF age, In order that he
might become acquainted with the
o. In,
world that demands so much Of our at
tention as the Bible. Yet nine-tenths
OF Christian men get no more than
ankle deep. They think IL is q good
sign
NOT TO VENTURE TOO FAR.
They never ask how or why; and IL
they see some Christian becoming in
ouisitive about the deep things Of God,
they say: 'Be careful; you had better
mt 20 $ far from shore" My answer
Is: The farther you go from shore the
better, II you have the right kind Of
ship. IfyOL have mere worldly philOs-
ODhy for the hulk, and pride for sail,
and sels-ccnceit ior the helm, the first
-auall will destroy you. But il you
take the Bible for yO..r craft, the fartk
er you 20 the better; and after you have
gone ten thousand fut,Ongs, Christ will
still command: Launch out into the
deep" Ask some such questions as,
fWho Is God?" aud go on for ten years
asking It. Ask il at the gate Of every
parable: admist the excitement OF
every miracle; by the SOL
ita4fness of every patriachal
fbreshing-focr amidst the white faces
~ S4ppacherib's slain turned up into
tbo raSonlight: amidst the flying chariOts