Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-10-28
UNSAFE LIFEBOATS.
REV. pa. TALMAeE STILL FINDS NEW
SUBJECTS AND NEW THoUeHTa

REV. DR.. rALMAGE STILL FINDS NEW
SUBJECTS AND NEW THoUGHTa
Tho Recent Yncht Raoe-Importanoo o.
the Iifeboats--one 7hnt Onn Live Ii
Any SEGA Suro Refuge In the Storm
Of Lffs.
BnooKlYN, Oct. 2a.-After preaching
on nearly 1000 different subjects and
being closely followed by the printing
presS for about 80 years Rev. DR.. Tai
mage still SEEING to find new subjects
that have never been preached on. This
forenoon be chose for his subject "Un-
safe. Gifehoats,h the text being, Acts
xvii, SO, "Then the soldiers cut Off the
ropes Of the boat and let her fall off"
While your faces are yet somewhat
bronzed by attendance on the interna-
aonal boat contest between the Vigilant
and the Valkyrie I address you. Good
things when there Is no betting or dissi-
patton, those outdoor sports. We want
more fresh air and breeziness In our
|,temperaments and our religion. A stale
and allow and lugubrious religion may
haye'dons for other times, yet will not
sdo for these. But my text calls our at
tenhon to q boat Of o different sort, and
instead Of the Atlantic 1t Is the Mediter-
rapean, aud instead Of not wind enough,
as the crews Of the vigilant and Valky-
Srie the other day complained, there is
foo much wind and the swoop Of Eu-
roclydon.
/ / am not calling your attention SO
smuoh to tho famous ship on which Paul
was the distinguished passenger, but to
/ the lifeboat of that ship which no one
Seems to notice. For a fortnight the
+apain vessel had been tossed and driven.
For that two weeks, the account says,
Ethe passengers had CONTINUED fasting.
sIsuppose the salt water, dashing over,
Aad spoiled the sea biscuit, and the pas
were seasick anyhow.
The sailors said, SIT Is no use; this ship
;;nllust go down." and thoy proposed
among themselves to lower the lifeboat
End get into 1t and take, the chances for
Snaching shore, although they pretended
they were going to got over tho sides Of
tie big ship and down into the lifeboat
ssl1lyy to do sailors duty. That was not
es1orlike, for the sailors that have
Known were all intrepid fellows and
would rather go down with the ship
do such mean thing as those Jack
sTsfsof my text attempted.
When on the Mediterranean last June
tbs Victoria sank under the ram Of the
SGSnperdown, tho most majestic thing
about that awful scene was that ali the
sailors staid at their posts doing their
AS class all over the world sail
OH are Yalorous, but these sailors Of ths
sax were exceptional and pretended to
dod1ty while they were really preparing
ght In the Ifeboat. But these "ma-
;rfne ON board-sea soldiers-had In es-
:peosS charge.a little missionary who
Tning the world upside down, and
these marines saw the tfi eaI{, Tbs
;s eS1tasd from the giTdle and chopl chopl
went those cutlasses into the ropes that
held the lfeboat, and splashl 1t dropped
into the sea.
My text describes it, 1.-THE soldiers cut
of the ropes Of the boat and let her fall
orr AS that empty lifeboat dropped
and was capsized on sea where for two
weeks winds and pillows had been in
hattleI think that many on board the
main vessel felt their last hope Of ever
reaching homo had vanished. In that
tempestuous sea small boat could not
have lived five minutes.
Ny subject is "Unsafe Lifeboats. )"
We cannot exaggerate the Importance OF
the lfeboat. All honor to the memory
OF Lionel Lukin, the coach builder of
Long Acre, London, who invented the
first lifeboat, and I do not blame him for
ordering put upon his tombstone in Kent
the inscription that you may still read
there,
.sThis Lionel Lulin was the first who
built a. lifeboat and was the original In
ventor of that principle Of safety by
which many lives and much property
have been preserved from shipwreck,
and he obtained for 1t the kings patent
IN the year 1885,"
WORD OF CAUTION.
All honor to the memory of Sir WIZ
liam Hillary, who, living in the isle Il
Man, and after assisting with his OWL
hand in the rescue Of SO5 lives Of the
shipwrecked, stirred the English parlia,
ment to quick action in the construction
of Ifeboats. Thanks to God for the
sublime and pathetic and divine mission
of the ifeboat. No one will doubt its
important mission who has read of the
wreck of the Amazon In the bay Of Bis
cav. of the Tweed running on tho reefs
of the gulf Of Mexico, or of the Ocear
Monarch on the coast of Wales, or of the
Birkenhead on the Cape of Good Hope
or Of the Royal Charter on the coast o.
Anglesea, or Of the Exmouth on the
Scotch breakers, or Of the Cambria OF
the Irish coast, or of the Atlantic on the
rocks Of Nova Scotia, or of the Licking
ton on Long Island sound. =
To add still further to the Importance q
the lifeboat, remember there are at leas'
5000, 600 men following the sea, to say
nothing of the uncounted millions THU
moment ocean passengers. We Gland
lubbers," as sailors call us. may no
know the difference between MARINE
spike and ringbolt, or anything abou
heaying log, or rigging out flying
iibboom, or furling topsail, butwe al
realize to greater OF less extent the I'm
portance Of nfeboat In every marin
equipment.
But do we feel the Importance of
liSeboat in the matter Of the soul'srescue
There are times when we all feel that "
are out at sea, and as many disturbing
and anxious questions strike us aswave
struck that vessel against the sides o
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