The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-02
.TABERNAeEE PULPIT
TAEMAcE's FUND OFTHOUGHT
IS INExHAUsTIBLE.
~Unsafe Life boats" the Subject of n
Stirring: Sermon Preached Last SUN
day-sThen the Soldiers Cat on the
Ropes" etc, In Acts.

| closely followed by the printing press LOT
! about twenty-fFs years, Rev. Dr. IaImago
| still seems to find new subjects that nave
| never been preached on. This AFTERNOON
boats" The text being: Acts ::Zs,
Then the soldiers cut OF the ropes Oh Ine
! boat, and let her fall off. y
While your faces are yet some" nat
| bronzed bv attendance on the inter
national boat contest between the
| Vigilant and the Valkyrie, l address
you Good things when there is no
! betting or dissipation. those outdoor
sports. We want more fresh air and
breeziness in our temperaments and
our religion. A stale and SOW
lugubrious religion may have done for
other times, yet will not do for these.
| But nv 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 Nigilant and Val
kyrie the other day complained. there
is too much wind and the Swoop
of a Euroclydon. l am not call
ing your attention so much to the
famous ship on which Paul was the
distinguished passenger, but to the
lifehoat of that ship which no one
seems to notice. For a fortnight the
main vessel had been tossed and
driven. For that two weeks, the ac-
count says, the passengers had con
tinued fasting" / suppose the salt
water, dashing over, had spoiled the
sea- biscuit, and the passengers were
seasick anyhow. The Sailors said, ut
is no use: this ship must go down"
and they proposed among themselves
to lower the lifeboat and get into 1t,
and take the chances for reaching
shore, although they pretended 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-like, for the sailors that
have known were all intrepid fellows,
and would rather go 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 cf the Camperdown, tie
most ajestic thing about that awful
scene was that all the sailors staid at
their DC SITS doing their duty. As
class all over the world sailors are val
orous, but these sailors of the text We're
exceptional and pretended to do duty
while they were really preparing for
flight in the lifeboat. But the ma,
rines" on board-sea soldiers-had in
especial charge little missionary who
was turning the world upside doM3-
and when these marines saw the trick
the sailors were about to play. they
Lifted the cutlasses from the girdle and
choIs chop. wen these cutlasses into
the ropes that held the lifebo2t and
spiash,.it cropped into the sea. My
text Ncribes it: The soldiers cut off
the 4opes of the boat and let her fall
& = 1,14 Irnnpnd
and was capsiZed on sea where Tor
two wee,s w nds and billows had been
in battle, think that many on board
the main essel felt their last hope of
ever reaching home had vanished. In
that tempestuous sea small boat
could not have lived five minutes.
NV subject is "Unsafe L,feboats." :"
We cannot eXaggerate the Importance
of the lifetoat. Al. honor to the mem
ory Of Lionel Lul1in, the coach bdilder
of Long Acre, London, who invented
the first lifeboat, and | do not blame
him for ordei :f1e, put upon his tomb
stone in Kent the inscription that you
may sti / read ther6
This Lionel LuAin was the first
who built a Iifeboat, and was the
original inventor of that principle of
safety, by which many lives and much
shipwreck; and he obtained for 1T the
kings patent in the year 1TS5.
All honor to the memory of Sir Will
liam Hillary, who, living i'm the Isle of
Man. and after assisting WITH his own
hand in the rescue of 3O5 lives. OF the
shipwrecked. stirred the English parlia-
ment to quick action in the con Struc-
ton of Iifeboats. Thanks to God fer
the sublime and pathetic and divine
mission of the lifeboat. No one Will
doubt it's important mission who has
read of the wreck of the Amazon
in the bay OF Biscay; of the Tweed
running on the reefs of the
gulf of Mexico, or Of the Ocean
or of the Birkenhead on the Cape of
Good Hope, or of the Royal Charter on
the coast of Anglesea or OF the FIX
mouth 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 Lexington OIL Long
Island Sound. To add still further 10
the Importance of the lifeboat, remem-
ber there are at least 1000, 600 men fol-
lowing the sea, to say nothing of the
uncounted millions this moment ocean
passengers. We land-lubbers, as
sailors call us. may not know the diff
ference between n lnarlinespille and a
ring bolt, or anything about heaving
a log, CT rigging out flying jib-boom,
or turling top-sail but we all realize
to greater or less extent the import
ance of a lifeboat in every marine
equipment. But do we feel the inn
portance of a lifeboat in the matter of
the souls rescue? There are times
when we all feel that we are out at sea,
and ss many disturbing and anxious
questions strike us as waves struck
that vessel against the sides of which
the lifeboAt of my text dangled. Cues
uions about the church. Questions
about the world. Questions about
God. Questions about our eternal
destiny. Every thinking man and
woman have these questions and in
proportion as they are thinking people