Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-08-09
JONAH'S PERVERSITY
MORAL LESSONS OF THE MEMORABLE
JOURNEY TO TARSHlSH.


DIR. TaImage Preaches an Interesting Ser
mon on the Waywardness OF Man, the
DeiusIons Of Life aud the Wages Of Sin.
NEW YORK, Aug. Al this season
Of the year, when large portion Of the
community is journeying either by land
OF sea, Rev. DR.. Talmage, who is still
absent on his midsummer preaching and
lecturing tour, has chosen as the subject
of his sermon FOR today, MAN Over
board, &" the text being Jonah /, 6: 80
the shipmaster came to him and said
unto him: What meanest thou, o sleep
er? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be
that God will think upon US, that we
perish not. "
God told Jonah to go 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,
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, lyon
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
call a spanking breeze" and the
plunge Of the vessel from the crest Of a
tall wave is exhilarating to those at
home on the deep. But the strong breeze
becomes a gale, the gale a hurricane.
The affrighted passengers ask the cap
tain If he ever saw anything like this
before.
"Ob, yes, ," he says. "This is moth
ing" Mariners are slow to admit dan
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
there is but little hope and tells the
passengers that they had better 60 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 the Cuba Of the Cunard line, at Sun
day service led the music and sang like
a Methodist. The captain Of this Medi-
terranean craft, having set the passen-
gers to praying, goes around examining
the vessel at every point he descends
into the cabin to see whether in the
strong wrestling Of the waves the vessel
had sprung aleak, and he finds Jonah
asleep. Jonah had had = vearisome
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
Messengers 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
are all going to the bottom' Wake ny
and 20 TO praying II you have any God
10 20 TO. What meanest thou, o sleep
er? Arise, call upon thy God, II so be
that God will think upon US, that We
perish not" The rest Of the story vii
not rehearse, for you know it well. TC
appease the sea they threw Jonah over
board
Learn that the devil takes a mans
money and then sets him down in pool
landing place. The Bible says he paic
his fare to Tarshish. But see him ge
ont. The sailors bring him to the sid'
of the ship, lift him over the guards and
let him drop with loud splash into th'
waves. He paid his fare all the way t.
Tarshish, but did not get the worth o.
his money. Neither does any one wh'
! turns his back on his duty and does tina
{ which is not right.
Tho Rewards of Dissipation.
There is a young man who during tn
past year has spent large part OF HI
salary in carousal What has he gained
!. by it? A soiled reputation, half stary
i, ed purse, a dissipated look, petulan
temper, a disturbed conscience. Th
, manacles Of one or two bad habits tina
are pressing tighter and tighter VII
keep on until they wear to the bone
You paid your fare to Tarshish, but yol
have been set down in the midst OF
sea of disquietude and perplexity
( One hundred dollars for Sunday hors
=, hire
One hundred dollars for wine suppers
o One hundred dollars for cigars.
One hundred dollars for frolics tha
b. shall be nameless =.
Making four hundred dollars for hi
damnationl :,
q Instead Of being In Tarshish now h
o is in the middle Of the Mediterranean.
Here is literary man tired OF Tn
( faith of his fathers who resolves I
: launch out into what is called freethlnL
20 ing. He buys Theodore Parker s worS
10 for s12. Remains Life Of Christ fo
s s1.5O. Andrew Jackson Davis work
- for $40. Goes to hear infdels talk at IN
clubs and to see spiritualism at the taol
rapping. Talks glibly OF David IN
psalmist, As an old hbertine, OF Paul a
. a wild enthusiast and Of Christ as d'
@ cent kind Of a man, a little weak !
, some respects, but almost as good
himself. Talks smilingly OF Sunday
a good day to put a little extra blackin
It ON ones boots and Of Christians as, fC
n the most part, hypocrites and OF eternit
as "the great to be, the everlastin
now" or 1.-THE infinite what is 1t.
Some day he gets his feet very wet an an
nnds himself that night chilly; Il
a next morning has a hot mouth and
headachy; sends word over to the stol
that he will not be there today; BATH
his feet; has mustard plasters; calls u
doctor. The medical man says asid
PIP "This Is going to be a bad case OF col
restion Of the lungs" Voice falls Chi
drsn must be kept down stairs or sent