The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-20
TALMAGE ON THE OCEAN.
A SERMON WRITTEN FOR HIS
THOUSANDS OF READERS.

The Discourse GlVen the Appropriate
Title of Departure" The Word
Used Only Twice in the Bibles Is
60 Preach in England, Ireland and
sweden.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, June 1a-Rev. DR..
Tslmage is now on the Atlantic, having
sailed from New York June Is for
Liverpool, for preaching tour in England,
scotland, Ireland and Sweden. Before Wis.,
ting Sweden DR.. TalnlAge will 20 to Rus
ala. there to witness the reception and dis
position of the cargo of breadstuffs ON
hoard the ChriStidn Herald relief steam
ship Leo, which sailed last week for st. Pc
tersburg Previous to his departure he die
tsted to his stenographer the folio wing fare.
well sermon, to be read by the vast and
widely scattered audiences whom it is his
weekly privilege to address through the
medium of the newspaper press. He took
his text from IL Timothy w., 6; "The
time Of my departure is at hand"
Departure That is a word used only
twice in ali the Bible. But it is word often
used in the court room and means the de-
sertion of one course of pleading for. an-
other. 1t is used in navigation to describe
4 the distance between Two meridians passing
through LD6 6ALE6llllblBS Oh u course. III Is q
word l have recently heard applet to my
departure from America to Europe for a
4 preaching tour to last until September. In
4 q smaller and less significant SO Sc than
1 that implied in the text | can say, THE
time Of my departure is at hand.n Through
the printing press | address this sermon to
4 nv readers all the world over and when
they read it l will be mid-ocean and unless
something new happens in my marine ex-
periences will be in no condition to preach
4 But how unimportant the word departure
/ when applied to exchange of continents as
| when applied to exchange of worlds as
when Paul wro o, THE time Of my DEPART
4 ure is at hand"
Now, departure implies a starting place
/ and a place of destination. When Paul
left this world what was the starting pointi
/ It was a scene of great physical distress. 1t
was the Tullianum, the lower dungeon Of
the Ma ertine prison. Rome, Italy The
top dungeon was bad enough, 1t having no
means of ingress or egress but through an
opening in the top. Through that the
prisoner was lowered, and through that
came all the food and air and light received.
IL was terrible place, that upper dungeon;
but the Tullanum was the lower dungeon
and that was still more wretched, the only
light and the only air coming through
the roof, and that roof the floor of the
upper dungeon. That was Paurs last
earthly resldence. | was in that lower
durgeou in November 1889. 1t is made of
volcanic stone. l measured it, and from
wall 70 wal it was fifteen feet. The high
est of the roof was seven feet from the
floor aud the lowest Of the roof five feet
seven inches. The opening in the roof
through which Paul was let down W as three
feet wide. The dungeon has a seat OF rock
two and a half feet high and a shelf of rock
four feet high. II was there that Paul spent
his last days on earth, aud it is there that
see hin now. IN the fearful dungeon, sniv-
eTing, blue with the cold waiting for the
old vercoas whicn he had sent for up to
Troas, and when they had not yet sent
down, notwi .hstandlng he had written
i for it.
If some skillful surgeon should go into
that dungeon where Paul is inearc rated
we might find out what are the prospects OF
Psups living through the rough imprison-
ment In the first place he is an old man,
only two years short OF seventy. At that
very time when he most needs the warmth
and sunlight aud he fresh air he Is smut
out from the sun. What are thore scars on
his ankles? Why, those were gotten when
be was fast, his feet in the stocks, Every
time ne turned the flesh on his ankles
started. What are those scars on his backs
You know he was whipped five times, each
time getting thlrty-nine strokes-oue
hundred and nluetY-tive bruises on the
back count them made by the Jews with
rods Of elmwood, each one of the one
one hundred and ninety-five strokes bring
ing The blood. Look at Paul's face and
look at his arms Where did he get those
bruises? | think it was when he was strug-
Cling ashore u midst the shiverei timbers of
the shipwreck. l see cash in Paups side.
Where did he get that! | think ne got that
the tussle with highwaymen, Tor he had
been iii peril Of robbers, and he had money
OF his own. He was mechanic as well as
anOStia and I think tanES ha mazda
we're as good as bis sermons.
There is a wanness about Pauls looks.
What MAJ les that! | think part OF that
came from the fact that he was for twenty
four hours on plank IN the Mediterranean
sea, suffering terribly, before he was res
cued; Tor he says positively: ~ was night
and a day in the deep" Q. WORKOUT,
ensciated old man! surely you must be
melancholy; no constitution could endure
this and be cheerful But press my way
VI ough the prison until | come up close to
where he is, and by the faint light that
Streams through the opening l see on his
lace supernatural joy, and | bow before
him, and say: "Aged man, how can you
Keep Oh erful amidst all this gloomP His
voice startles the darkness of the place as he
cries out: 81 am Low ready to be offered,
and the time OF my departure is at hand"
Hark! what is that shutfiing of feet Ia the
upper dungeoll Why, Paul has an invita-.
70 di to-day with the king. Those shut
ling feet are the feet of che executioners.
They come. and they cry d )wn through the
pole OF the dungeon, hurry up, old man.
ZONE now; get yourself ready" Why,
faul was ready. He had nothing to pack
np' He had no baggage to take. He had
peen ready good while. l see him rising
pp, and strengthening out his stiffened limbs
tnd pushing hack his white hair from his
Ere iced forehead, and see him looking up
enough the hole in the roof Of the dungeon
into the face of his executioners, and hear
pm say, 81 am now ready to be offered.
Snd the time of my departure is at hand"
hen trey lift him out of the du geon, and
tley start with him to the place of exc
pution, they say, Hurry along, old man,
y you will feel the weight of our spear.
narry along" "How far is it, says Paul,
We have to travelp "Three miles " Three
piles is good way for an old man to
fsVei after be had been whipped and
Nlppled with maltreatment. But they SOON
W o. the place of execution-Aoqu@ Saliva
and he Is fastened to the pillar of martyr
ION. lie does not take any strength to tie
- fast. He makes no resistance, .
all! why not now strike for your lifef
gu have great many friends here With
Iat wlthered hand just launch the thunder
~ OF the people upon those Infamous
uiers. No! Paul was not going TO inter