The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1892-06-28
BOUND FOR RUSSIA.
DR. TALMAaE IS ON THE BROAD
ATLANTIC.

ne dictates y sermon ON tho TEX. ..ror
shs : lime o. NY DepartDre is at Hanay..
Significance OF the Word Departure.
BROOKLYN, June 19-Rey. DIR. Tai.
mage is now ION the Atlantic, having
sahed rom Nov York on the 18th inst.
,vr LiVerpoobfor o preaching tour in
Englanas Notland, Ireland and Sweden.
besefC visiting Sweden DIR. Talmage
VIII 20 to Russia, there TO witness the
reception and disposition Of the cargo of
breadstnffs OF board The Christian
H~earldrelief steamship Leo, which sailed
last week for st. Petersburg. Previous
to his departure he dictated 10 hie
s~tenographer the following farewell SER
mon, TO be read by the vast and widely
scattered audiences whom it is his week
!Iy privilege TO address through the me-
dunn OF the newspaper press. He took
his text from III Timothy iy, @, s'The
time of my depa we is at hand.D
D~eparturel lat 10 q word used only
twice In all the Bible. But It is a word
often used In the courtroom, and means
the desertion of m course of pleading
for another. 1t Is used in navigation
TO describe the distance between two
m%eridians passing through the extremi-
ties OF o course. 1t is o word I have re-
Gently heard applied to my departure
from America to Europe tor preaching
tour TO last until September. In O
smaller and less significant sense than
that implied in the text, 1 can q v
"The time of my departure is at hand.n
Through the printing press / address
This sefmeft to my readers all the world
over, and when they read it 1 will be In
midocean, and unless something new
happens in my marine experiences I will
be in no condition to preach. But how
unimportant the word departure when
applied to exchange of continents as
when applied to exchange of worlds as
when Paul wrote, ''The time Of my
departure is at hand"
Now departure implies q starting
place and place OF destination. When
Paul left this world, what was the start
ing pointp 1t was a scene of great
physical distress. It was the Tullianum,
the lower dungeon of the Mamertine
prison, Rome, Italy. The top dungeon
was bad enough, it having no means of
ingress or egress, but through an open.
ingi in the top. Through that the pri-
soner was lowered, and through that
came all the food and air and light re-
ceiyed. 1t vas a terrible place, that
X upper dungeon, but the Tullianum was
the lower dungeon, and that was still
more wretched, lie only light and the
only air coming through tho roof, aud
that roof the floor ofthe upper dungeon.
That was Paul's last earthly residence.
{ was in that lower dungeon in No
yember, 1889. 1t Is flade of volcanic
stone. / measured 1t, and from wall to
wall 1t was fifteen feet. The highest roof
was seven feet from the floor, and the
lowest roof five feet seven inches. The
opening in the roof through which Paul
was let down was three feet wide. The
dungeon has q sent of rock two and a
half feet high and a shelf of rock four
feet high. 1t was there that Paul spent
his last day on earth, and it is there that
1 see HIM now, in the fearful dungeon,
shivering, blue with cold, waiting for
unto Troas, and which the had not vet
isentdown, Notwithstanding he had writ
ten for it.
IF some skilliul surgeon should 90 into
that dungeon were Paul is incarcerated,
we might find out what are the PROS
nects o gaNl,s living through the rough
imprisonment. In the first place he is
an old man, only two years short of
seventy. At that very time when he
mostneeds the warmth, and the sunlight,
and the fresh air, he is shut out from the
sun. What are those scars on his
ankles? Why, those were gotten when
he was fast, his feet in the stocks.
Every time he turned, the flesh on his
ankles started. What are those scars
on his back? You know he was whip.
ped five times, getting thirty-nine strokes
--one hundred and ninety-five bruises on
the back Count them made by the Jews
wifi Ids Of elm wood, each one of the
1"ed and ninety. five strokes
'ood.
face and look at his
ret those bruises!
hers OF the
Ps SIDE.
DIX he got
.ymen, tor
.Jpbers' and he
o,, lie was q me-
t tatic as wel' ~ apostle, ana l thlnk
.on.s nc maze were as goodas hs
0ohs'
There lS a Wanness' ah0ut Poul,a