The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-23

He Makes unsafe LiiebOatS" the
Subject Of a Timely Sermon.

of the Mist Made to Illustrate and
Bear Out the Story of the Old Ship
OF Zion.
Brooklyn. Oct 22.-After preaching on
nearly 4. 900 different subjects, and being
closely followed by the printing press for
about twenty-five years, Rev DR.. Tai
mage still seems to find new subjects that
have never been preached on This fore
noon he chose for his subject: Unsafe
Iifehoats." The text being; Acts q :32,
'Thou the soldiers cut of the ropes Of
the boat, and let her fall off. "
While your faces are yet somewhat
bronzed by attendance on the inter
national boat contest between the Nigi-
liant and Valkyue, 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 tenn
peraments and our religion. A stale and
slow and ugubrious religion may have
done for other times, yet will not do for
these. But my text calls our
attention to a boat of a different
sort and instead Of the Atlantic, it
is the Mediterranean, and instead of not
wind enough. as the crews Of the Nigi-
liant and Nalkyric the other day com
planned, there is too much wind and the
swoop of a Euroclydon ! am not call
ing your attention 50 much to the famous
ship on which Paul was the distinguished
passenger, but to the life boat Of that ship
which no one seems to notice. For fort
night the main vessel had been tossed and
driven. For that two weeks, the account
says, the passengers had continued fast
ing. 1 suppose the salt water, dashing
over, had spoiled the sea biscuit, and the
passengers were seasiCk anyhow. The
sailors said, cit is no use this ship must
20 down." and they proposed among
themselves to lower the Hfeboat and get
into il, and take the chances
for reaching shore, although they pre-
tended they were going to get over the
sides of the big ship and down into
the lifeboat only TO do sailors duty. That
was not sailor-li1e, for the sailors that
have known We're all intrepid fellows, and
would rather 20 down with the ship than
do such a mean thing as those Jack Tars
OF my text attempted. When on the
Mediterranean last June the Victoria
sank under the ram Of the Camperdown,
the most majestic thing about that awful
scene was that all the sailors staid at
their posts doing their duty AS class
all over the world sailors are YalOrous, but
these sailors of the text were exceptional
anu lItbtuutn " W uulN NHllt butg
were really preparing for flight in the
lifeboat. But these Marines on board
-sea-sOldiers-had in especial charge a
little missionary who was turn
ing the world upside down, and when
these marines saw the trick the sailors
were about to play, they lifted the cut
lasses from the girdle and chop! chOpl
went those CutlaSseS into the ropes that
held the lifeboat, and splash it dropped
inf 40 Nv q, vt aesribae ssrEbo
soldiers cut off the ropes Of the boat,
and let her fall off, As that empty life
boat dropped and was capsized on sea
where for two weeks winds and pillows
had been in battle. / think that many on
board the main vessel felt their last hope
of ever reaching home had vanished In
that tempestuous sea a small boat could
not have lived five minutes.
My subject is Unsafe Lifeboats" We
cannot eXaggerate the Importance of the
liieboat. All honor to the memory of
Lionel Lukin. the coach-builder of Long
Acre, London, who invented the first
lie boat, and ! do not blame him for or
uering put upon his tombstone in Kent
the inscription that you may still read
there.
This Lionel Lullin was the first who
built "a liiebOat, 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 it the kings pat
Cnt in the year 1883"
All honor to the memory of Sir William
Hillary, who living in the Isleof Man. and
after assisting with his own hands in the
rescue of 300 lives Of the shipwrecked,
stirred the English Parliament to quick
action in the construction of lifeboats
Thanks to sod for the sublime and pa
thetiC and divine mission of the lifebOat.
No one will doubt its important mission
who has read OF the wreck of the Amazon
IN the Bay OF Biscay; of the Tweed run
nnt on the reefs of the Gulf of Mexico,
or of the Ocean Monarch on the coast Of
Wales, or Of the Birkenhead on the Cane
Of Good Hope, or of the Royal Charter on
the coast OF Anglesea, or of the Exmouth
on the Scotch breakers, or of the Cambria
on the irish coast, or of the Atlantic on
the rocks OF Nova Scotia, or of the Lex
ington on Long Island Sound. To
add still further 20 the Importance of
the liteb0at, remember there are at least
three million men following the sea, to
say nothing of the ncOunted millions
this moment ocean passengers We
"land-lubbers," as sailors call US, may
not know the difference between a mar
Inspire and a ring bolt, or anything
about hcaNlng log, or rigging out fly
ing JlD- boom, or furling "a top-sail, but we
all realize, TO greater or less extent, the
Importance Of lifeboat in every marine
equipment. But do we feel the i'm
portance Of lifebOat in the matter of the
souls rescue1 There are times when we
all feel that we are out at sea. and as
many disturbing and anxious questions
strike us as waves struck that vessel,
against the sides of which the lifeboat of
IE text dangled. Questions about the
church Questions about the world
Questions about God. Questions about
our eternal destiny. Every thinking
man ami woman have these qucs-
tons, and, in proportion as they are
thinking people, do these questions arise
There IS no wrong in thinking If God
had not intended US TO think and keep on
thinking he would not nave built under
this wnee--hOuse OF the skull this think
Ing machine which halts not in its revolu-
tons from cradle TO grave Even the
midnight does not stop the thinking ma
Chine, for when we are in dreams. we are
thinking although we do not think as
well AL of us W no are accustomed to
thinking want to reach some solid shore
OF safety and satisfaction, and if any one
has good lifebOaJ that we may honor
ably take, / wish he would unswing it
from the davis and let us get into il and
put for shore. But ] give yOu far notice.
must first examine the lifcbOat before |
risk my soul in it or advise you to risk
your soul in it. All the splendid Rams
gate iitebOlts and Margate ifeboats and
south Shields lifeDoats and American