The Penn's Grove record., 1893-10-27
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
TIE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.


While your faces are yet someWnlt brohZet
by attendance on the ~international boat con
test between the Vigilant and the Nalkyrie
address YOU. Good things when there is NJ
bettln: or dissipation, those outdoor sports
We want more fresh air and breeziness il
our temperaments and our religion. A stalt
and slow and lugubrious religion may havt
done for other times, yet Will not do FOL
these. But my text calls our attention to
boat Of n different sort, IN instead OF the
Atlantic it is the Mediterranean, m instead
of not wind enough, as the crews oil theNlSi
liant and the yaikyrie the other day com,
planned. there is too much wind and thu
swoop OF O Euroclydon.
1 am not calling your attention so much
to the famous ship on which Paul was the
distinguished passenger, but TO the llfehoai
Of that ship which no one seems to notice,
For a fortnight the main vessel had beer
tossed and driven. Fol that two weeks, the
account says, the passengers bad "contin'
ued fasting" l suppose the salt water
dssbjng over. had spoiled the sea biscuit
and the passengers were seasick anyhow.
The sailors said, at Is no use this shiI
must 90 down" and they proposed among
Themselves to lower the lffeboat and get into
IL and lake the chances for reaching shore
although they pretended they were going tc
get over the sides Of the big ship and dowr
into the hfeboat only to do sailors duty
That was not sailorlike, for the sailors that
have known were all intrepid fellows anC
, would rather go down with the ship than dc
such q mean thing as those Jack Tars OF my
text attempted.
When on the Mediterranean last June the
Victoria sank under the ram OF the Camper
down, the most majestic thing about that
awful scene was that all the sailors staid al
their posts doing their duty. AS a lass al
overthe world sailors are valorous, butthesc
sailors Of the text were exceptional and pre-
tended to do duty while they were really pre-
| paring for flight in the lifeboat. But these
;imarfnes" on board-sea soldiers-had il
especial charge q little missionary who wa
turning the world upside down, and wher
these marines saw the trick the sailors wert
| about to play they lifted the cutlasses from
the girdle and chop! chop! went those cut
lasses into the ropes that held the hfehoat
/ and splash it dropped into the sea.
MY text describes it, "The soldiers cut OF
the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.
As that empty lifeboat dropped and was cap
sized on a sea where for two weeks winds
| and pillows hal been in battle | think that
| many on board the main vessel felt tnel
last hope Of ever each,ng home had vanished
In that tempestuous sea u small boat coulC
! NOT have lived five minutes.
Ny subject Ia Unsafe Liieboats.' w
sannot exaggerate the importance OF int
hl5DDat. AL uOuDl ~ hho hShASAJ
| Lukin. the coach builder OF Long Acre, Lon
| don, who invented the first lifeboat, and ldC
not blame him for ordering put on his tomb
| stone in Kent the inscription that you may
| still read there;
s'Thls Lionel Lunkin was the first wht
| built a lifeboat INC WAS the original inventor
Of that principle OF safety by which many
lives and much property have been pre-
served from shipwreck, n he OBTAINED ioi
1t the kings patent in the year 1855.
All honor to the memory Of Sir William
| Hillary, who, living in the Isle of Man, and
after assisting with his own hand in the res
cue Of 3O5 lives of the shipwrecked, stirred
the English Parliament to quick action IL
the construction of lifeboats. Thanks TO Goo
for the sublime and pathetic and divine mis-
sign OF the lifeboat. No n will doubt III
important mission who has read OF the wrecH
oftha Amazon in the Bay of Biscay, OF the
Tweaa running on the reefs of the Gulf OF
Mexico, or of the Ocean Monarch on thu
coast OF Wales, or of the Birkenheat on this
Cape Of Good Hope, or Of the Royal Charter
on the coast OF Anglesea, or of the EXmoutE
on the Scotch breakers, or Of the Cambria OIL
the irish coast, or OF the Atlantic on the rocks
OF Nova Scotia, or OF the Lexington "a Long
Isla1d Sound.
To add still further to the importance o.
the lifebolt, remember there are at leas
L O,UuOyUUJ uCh AOiiOWAhS u oOo' = 9"t
ing of the uncounted millions this moment
| ocean passengers. We 'land-lubbers, al
sailors call us, may not know the difference
4 between q marine spike and a ringboit, oil
anything about heaving q log, or rigging GU
o flying jibboom, or furling q topsatl, but W.
all realize to greater or less extent the I'M
portance OF a hfeboat in every marine equip
uent.
But do we feel the importance OF a lifeboaI
Il a. a.. ,,aktar ~ al ~anpib. rauo1aD Thnrp are
times when we all feel that we are out at sea
and as many disturbing and anxious quas'
ions strike US as waves struck that vesse
against the sides Of which the liteboat oil my
text dangled. Questions about the church
Questions about the world. Questions aoou
God. Questions about our eternal Destiny
Every thinking mar and woman has ines
questions, andin'proportion ashley arethihK
ing people do these questions arise.
There is no wrong in thinking. Ii GOD hae
not intended US to think and keep on tnlnk
ing, He would not lave built under TIM
wheelhouse of the skull this thinking ma
chine, which halts not in Its revolutionstron
cradle to grave. Even the midnight doe
not stop the thinking machine, for when W
are In dreams we are thinking, although W
do not think as well. ALI of us who are &C
eustomed to thinking want to reach SOM
solid shore Of safety and satisfaction, ana
Ally Ii huo q RVOu tliCDOdt theN
honorably takei wish he would unswing
from the davits and let US get into itand pu
for the shore.
But I give you fair notice ! must first ex
anime the lifeboat before / risk my soul IN !
or advise you to risk your soul In it. All I'M
splendid Ramsgate hfeboats, and Marsat,
hfeboats, and South Shield ifeboats, ahC
American hfeboats were tested before neiht
put into practical use as to their buoysncA
I'D nAAAI ard l.-aa I'D aA1F FfVnf1nU Oh
pacity. And when you offer my soul a NE
boat / must first test II.
Here is a splendid new lifeboat calie.
Theosophy. 1t has only a little While peel
launched, although some of the planks are
really several Thousand years old, and IRON
q worm eaten ship, but they are painted
over and look new. They are really fatalism
and ~pantheism Of olden time. But we mus
forget hat and call them theosophy. INT
Grace Darling Of this lifeboat was an oars
woman by the name of Mime. Blavatsky.
but the oarswoman now is Annie Besant. &c
many are getting aboard the boat IL n
worthy Of examination, both because OF tnt
safety OF those who nave entered II anu po'
cause we ourselves are invited to get IN.
Its theory is that everything Is God. HorSe
and star and tree and man are parts OF uol'
We have three souls-an animal soul, a nuI
man soul, q spiritual soul. tn animal sou
DccOhecB SAtcI dWuucy q WdhuoAMo 80
trying to express itself through mediums
It enters beasts or enters a human being,
and when you find an effeminate man II Il
because q woman's soul has got INTO lut
man, and when you ind q masculine woman
1t is because a mans soul has taken posses
sion OF o woman's body.
If you find q woman has become a platform
speaker and likes politics, she is possessed y
q dead politician, who forty years ago maze
b platform quake. The soul keeps Wahuer'
ing on and on, and may have Atty or innu'
merabie different forms, and finally Is az,
sorbed In God. 1t was God at the start am
will be God at the last. But who gives tht
authority for the truth OF such a religion
Some beings living in a cave in central asa,
They are invisible 10 the naked eye, but they
Gross continents and seas in a fash.
My Baptist brother DR.. Halieman say1
thai . theosophist In New York was Ystei
by one OF these mysterious beings non
central Asia. TIL gentleman knew 1t non
the fact that the mysterious being leit ny
pocket hand kerchiei, embroidered with MI
name and Asiatic residence. The most won
derful achievement Of the theosophists N
that they keep out OF the insane asylum.
They prove thetruth OF the statement thar ne
religion ever announced was so absurd ou'
ii gained disciples.
Societies In tho United States and Englano
and other lands lave been established Ioi
the PRONUNCIATION OF theosophy. lnstesu y
needing the revelation of a Bible you CAL
have fhana anf<f4. 49, o. aantral ASll