Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-23
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAoE FINDS MANY LESSONS
IN THE uFeeoAT.

Touch Of saroasm on Iheotophy-AG Good
word For noraiI.rn, but II Is Not SUM-
client = The Only Ark of Safety - Get
Aboard
BRooK1Ys, oct. e2.-After preaching on
nearly 4. coo different subjects and being
closely followed by the printing press for
about % hears Rev. Dr. Talmage still seems
TO find new subjects that have never been
preached OIL This forenoon he chose for
his subject Unsafe Lifeboats," the text
being Acts xvii, &c. "Then the soldiers cut
off the ropes OF the boat and let her fall
or
While your fnces are yet somewhat
bronzsd By attendance on the international
boat contest between the Vigilant and the
Valkyrie, address you. Good things when
there is no betting or dissipation. those
outdoor sportA We want more fresh air
and breeziness in our tempenments and
our religion. A stale and slow and lugu-
brious religion may have done for other
times, yet win not do for these. But my
text calls our attention 70 boat Of dit
ferent sort, and instead Of the Atlantic it
is the Mediterranean, and instead Of not
wind enough, as the crews Of the Nigilgnt
and Valkyrie the other day complained,
AhtAt Is AlD nuNh " AhA hAL ALg hNnbl VI "A
Euroclydon.
am not calling your attention so much
to the famous ship on which Paul was the
distinguished passenger, but to the lifeboat
OF that ship which no one seems to notice
For fortnight the main vessel had been
tossed aud driven. For that two weeks. tho
account says, the passengers had con
tlnued fasting" suppose the salt water,
dashing orer, had spoiled the sea biscuit,
and the passengers were scHsick anyhow.
The sailors said, at 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 lifebont only to do sail
! on duty. That was not snilorlike, for the
sailors that have known were all intrepid
fellows and would rather go down with
the ship than do 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 Cam.
perdown, themOst Majestic thing about that
awful scene was that all the sailors staid at
their posts doing their duty Asa class all
over the world sailors are valorous, but
these sailors Of the text were exceptional
and pretended to do duty while they were
really preparing for flight In the lifeboat.
| But these marines on board-sea sol
diers-had in especial charge a little mis-.
sionary who was turning the world upside
down, and when these marines saw the
trick the sailors were about to play they
lifted the cutlasses from the girds and
chopi chop went those cutlasses into the
ropes rnat held the lifsboat, and splash 1t
dropped into the sea,
Ny text describes 1.-THE soldiers cut
OF the ropes OF the boat and let her fall
off," Az that empty lifeboat dropped and
WIS capsiZed on II 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 Compositions sea
small boat could not have lived live min
utes.
A TRIBUTE TO SAILORS.
My subject is Unsafe Lifeboatsn We
cannot exaRgerRte the Importance OF the
lileboat. All honor to the memory Of
| Lionel Lukin, the coach builder of Long
Aero. London who invented the first Inc
boat, and do not blame him for ordering
| put upon his tombstone Ia Kent the in.
scription that you may still read theroi
This Lionel Lukin was the first who
built lifeboat. and was the original in
ventor o. that principle Of safety by which
many lives and much property have been
preserved from shipwreck. and he obtained
for It the kings patent in the year 1885"
All honor to the memory to Sir William
Hillary, who, living in the isle of Man, and
after assisting with his own hand In the
rescue OF SO5 lives Of the shipwrecked,
stirred the English parliament TO quick NC
ton in the construction of lifeboats.
| Thanks TO God Tor the sublime and pa
thotic 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 running
on the reefs OF the gulf Of Mexico, or OF
the Ocean Monarch on the coast OF Wales,
or OF the Birkenhead on the Cape 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
ofNova Scotia, or OF the Lexington on Long
Island sound.
To add still further to the Importance OF
the lifeboat, remember there are st least
100000 men following the sea, to say moth.
ing Of the uncounted millions at this mo
ment ocean passengers, We "lRnd Tub
bers,n as sailors call us, may not know the
| ulucrtnct pctNeEu n ElAIAlutsplke ana a
ring bolt, or anything about heaving log,
or rigging out Aging jibboom, or furling
topsail, but we all realize TO greater or
less extent the importance Of lifeboat in
every marine equipment
THE sous LIFEnoAT.
But do we feel the Importance Of a lifeboat
in the matter OF the souls rescued There
are times when we all feel that we are out
at SEA, and US many disturbing and anxious
Questions strike us us waves struck that
vessel against the sides OF which the life
boat Of my text dangled. Questions about
the church. Questions about the world
| Questions about God. Questions about our
eternal destiny. Every thinking man and
woman has these questions, and in pro
| portion as they are thinking people do
these questions arise, There Is no wrong
| in thinking II God had not intended us
to think and keep on thinking, he would
| not have built under this wheelhouse Of
the skull this thinking machine, which
halts not IN It's revolution from cradle to
grave. Even the midnight does not stop
the thinking machine, for when we are in
dreams we are thinking, although we do
not think as welh
an Of us who are accustomed to think.
ing want to reach some solid shore OF safety
aud satisfaction, and Il any one has good
hieboat that we may honorably take wish
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