The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-17
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
lessons Taught by Jonah's Inter-
rupted Voyage.
There be Many Who Fay Their Fare
% Tsrshish. hut Never Get There
Men Who Sleep In the
Midst of Danger.

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| Rev. 7. Dewitt Taimage who Is still
absent from New York on his summer
lecture tour, selects the following SER
mon for publication this week. The
subject Is ''Man Overheard" b.,ing
based on the text:
$50 the shipmaster camo to him, and said
unto him: What meanest thou. Oh. sleepert
Arise. coll upon thy God. II so be that God will
think upon us, that we perish not"-Jonah.
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God told Jonah to 60 to Ninevah 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, 1 find him on his way
to Joppa, a sea port He goes down
among the shipping, and says to the
men lying around on the docks:
(which OF these vessels sails to-dayw
The sailors answer: "Yonder is a ves-
sel to Tarshish. / think, IL you hur-
ry, you may get on board her." Jo-
nah steps on board the rough craft,
asks how much the fare is, 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, apd 1t
does not take long for the vessel to get
out on the broad sea. The sailors like
what they call spanking breeze"
and the plunge of the vessel from the
crest of tall wave is exhilarating to
those at home on the deep. But
the strong breeze becomes a
gale, the gale hurricane. The
affrighted passengers ask the cap
tain II he ever saw anything
like this before. "Oh, yes" he says;
this is nothing" Mariners are slow
to admit danger to landsmen. But,
after awhile, crash goes the mast, and
the vessel pitches so far "a-bcam's-
end" there is fear she will not be
rightcd. The captain 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 passen-
gers that they had better go to pray
ing. 1t is seldom that sea captain is
an ATHEIST, He knows that there is
God, for he has seen Him at every
point of latitude between Sandy Hook
and Queenstown. Capt. Moody, COM
handing the Cuba, of the Cunard line,
Mt Sunday service led the music and
sang like Methodist. The captain
of this Mediterranean craft, having
set the passengers 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 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 pas
sepgers does not disturb him. The cap.
tain lays hold of him, and begins tn
shake him out OF his Inconsistencies
with the cry: Don't you see that we
are all going to the bottom? Wake up
and go to praying, If you have any
God to go to. What meanest thou, Oh,
sleeper? Arise. call upon thy God, il
SO be that God will think upon us, that
we perish not" The rest of the story
will not rchearse, for you know it
well. To appease the sea, they threw
Jonah overheard.
Learn that the devil takes mans
money and then sets him down in a
poor landing place. The Bible says he
paid his fare to Tarshish. But see him
get out. The sailors bring him to the
side Of the ship, lift him over ''the
guards" and let him drop with a loud
splash into the waves. He paid his
fare all the way to Tarshish, but did
not get the worth of his money. Meth
err does anyone who turns his back on,
his duty and does that which is not
right. So
There Is a young man who, during
the past year, has spent a large part
of his salary in carousal. What has
he gained by it? A soiled reputation,
a half-starved purse, a dissipated look,
petulant temper, disturbed con-
science. The manacles of one or two
bad habits that are pressing tighter
and tighter will keep on until they
wear to the bone< You paid your fare
to Tarshish. but you have been set
down in the midst of sea of dis
quietude and perplexity.
One hundred dollars for Sunday horse
hire! @
One hundred dollars for wine sup
pers!.
One hundred dollars for cigars!
One hundred dollars for frolics that
| shall be nameless!
Making four hundred dollars for his
| dannntion!
Instead of being in Tarshish now, he
is in the middle of the Mediterra-
mean. Here is a literary man, tired Of
the faith of his fathers, who resolves
to launch out into what Is called Free
Thinking. He buys Theodore Park
er's works for twelve dollars; Remains
Life of Christ" for one dollar and fifty
cents; Andrew Jackson Davis works
for twenty dollars. Goes to hear inf
dels talk at the clubs, and to see spir-
itualism at the table-rapping. Talks
glibly Of David, the Psalmist, as an
old libertine; of Paul as n wild en-
thusiast; and of Christ as a decent
kind of a mana little weak in some
respects. but almost as good as him
self. Talks smilingly of Sunday as .
good day to put little extra black