Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-08-09
JONAH'S PERVERSITY
MORAL LESSONS OF THE MEMORABLE
JOURNEY TO TARSHlsH.

DR.. Talmage breaches an Interesting Ser
mon on the waywardness of Man, the
Decisions Of Life and the Wages of Sin
NEW YORK, Aug. AT this season
Of the year, when a large portion Of the
community is jonneying either by land
or sea, 8ev. Dr.. Talmage, who is still
absent on his midsummer preaching and
/ lecturing tour, has chosen a. the subject
/ Of his sermon for today, "Man Over
board, " the text being Jonah j, G "S So
the shipmaster came to him and said
unto him: What meanest thou, 0 sleep
er? Arise, call upon thy God. if so be
that God viii think upon rs, that we
perish not. p"
God told Jonah to 60 to Nineveh on
an unpleasant errand. He would not 60
He Thought to get away from his duty
by putting to sea. With pack under his
arm find him on his way to Joppa, q
seaport. He goes down among the ship
ping and says to the men lying around
ON the docks, (Which of these vessels
sails today?' The sailors answer, 'Yon-
der is a vessel going to Tarshish think
If you hurry you may get on board her. -
Jonah steps on board the rough craft,
asks how much the fare is and pays it.
Anchor is weighed, sails are hoisted,
and the rigging begins to rattle in the
strong breeze of the Mediterranean.
Joppa is an exposed harbor, and it does
not take long for the vessel to get on the
broad sea. The sailors like what they
cali 0spanking breeze" and the
plunge of the vessel from the crest Of a
tall wave is celebrating to those at
home on the deep. But the strong breeze
becomes gale, the gale hurricane.
The affrighted passengers ask the cap
tain if he ever saw anything like this
before.
"Oh, yes" he says. "This is moth
ing" Mariners are slow TO admit dam
ger to landsmen. But after awhile
crash goes the mast, and the vessel
pitches so far "abeam' S end" there is a
fear she will not be righted. The cap
tain answers few questions, and orders
the throwing out of boxes and bundles
and Of so much of the cargo as they can
get at. The captain at last confesses
bher5 is bnt little hope and tells the
passengers that they had better go to
praying. It is seldom that a sea captain
is an atheist. He knows that there is a
God, for he has seen him at every point
of latitude between Sandy Hook and
Queenstown. Captain Moody, command
ing tho Cuba of the Cunard line, at Sun
day service led the music and sang like |
a Methodist. Tie captain Of this B1edi-
terranean craft, having set the passen- /
gors to praying, goes around examining |
the vessel at every point He descends /
into the cabin to see whether i'll the |
strong wrestling of the waves the vessel !
had sprung aleak, and he finds Jonah |
asleep. Jonah had HAD wearisome
tramp and had spent many sleepless
nights about questions of duty, and he
is SO sound asleep that all the thunder
Of the storm and the screaming of the
does not disturb him. The
captain lays hold Of him and begins to
shake him out of his Inconsistencies
with the cry; "Don't you see that we
ire all going to the bottom? Wake up
md go to praying if you have any God
% go to. What meanest thou, o sleep
II? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be
hat God will think upon us, that we
perish not. " The rest Of the story I will
lot rehearse, for you know it we'll. To
lppease the sea they threw Jonah over
loard.
Learn that the devil takes a mans
money and then sets him down in poor
anding place The Bible says he paid
lis fare to Tarshish. But see him get
nut The sailors bring him to the side
f the ship, lift him over the guards and
ct him drop with loud splash into the
waves. He paid his fare all the way to
'arshish, but did not get the worth of
is money. Neither does any one who
urns his back on his duty and does that
which is not right.
The Rewards of Dissipation.
There is a young man who during the
asst year has spent a large part Of his
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