Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-08-10
J0NAH'S PERVERSITY
MORAL LESSONS OF THE MEMORABLE
JOURNEY TO TARsHlsH.

JOURNEY TO TARSHlSH.
Or. Taimngc breaches an Interesting Ser
mon on tho Waywardness OF Man, tn
Deiusions of Life and the Wages Of Sin
New YORK, Aug. AT this season
of the year. when a large portion Of tn,
community is jonr1ieying either BY lant
or sea. Rev. DIR. Talmagc, who is still
absent on his midsummer preaching anf
lecturing tour, has chosen rs the subject
of his sermon for today, MAN Over
board. !" the text being Jonah i. 6: .St
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 will think upon us, that We
perish not.
God told Jonah to so to Nineveh on
an unpleasant GRAND. He would not go.
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" Tho sailors answer, lyon.
der is 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 il.
Anchor is weighed, sails arc ho.stcd,
and the rigging begins TO rattle in the
strong breeze of the Mediterranean.
Ioppa 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 Spanking breeze" and the
plunge Of the vessel from tho crest of a
tall wave is exhilarating 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 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 rs they can
get at. The captain at last confesses
there is but little hope and tolls the
passengers that they had better go to
praying. 1t is seldom that a sea captain
is an atheist. He knows that there is a
God, for he has seen him ut every point
of latitude between Sandy Hook and
Queenstown. Captain Moody, command
ing the Cuba Of tie Cunard line, at Sun
day service led tho music and sang like
a Methodist The captain Of this Medi-
terranean craft, having set the passen-
gers to praying, gees around examining
the vessel Mt every point He descends
into the cabin to see whether i'll the
strong wrestling of the waves the vessel
had sprung alea1, and he finds Jonah
asleep. Jonah had had wearisome
tramp and had spent many sleeplcss
nights about questions of duty, and he
is so sound asleep that all the thunder
Of the storm ard the screaming of the
BacSSAlSCAo bOSs iiOb 1ut
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 up
and go to praying if you Lave any God
to go to. What meanest thou, o sleep
er? Arise, call upon thy God, if SO be
that God will think upon us, that we
perish not. " The rest Of the story will
not rehearse, for you know it well. To
appease the sea they threw Jonah over
board.
Learn that the devil takes man s
money and then sets him down III 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 loud splash into the
waves. He paid his fare all the way to
Tarshish, but did not get the worth of
his money. Neither does any one who
turns his back on his duty and does that
which is not right
Tho Rewards of Dissipation.
There is a young man who during the
past year has spent large part of his
salary in carousal What has he gained
by it? A soiled reputation, half starry
ed purse, dissipated look, petulant
temper, disturbed conscience. 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 Tashish, but you
have been set down i'll the midst of a
sea of disquietude and perplexity.
One hundred dollars for Sunday horse
hire.
One hundred dollars for wine suppers.
One hundred dollars for cigars.
One hundred dollars for frolics that
shall DO nameless.
Making four hundred dollars for his
damnationl
Instead Of being in Tarshish now he
Is i'll the middle of the Mediterranean.
Here is a literary man tired of the
faith of his fathers who resolves to
launch out into what is called freethink-
ing He buys Theodore Parker's works
AOl FI~, ItObtth l1IlC vi oIll iSb lOI
81. 80, Andrew Jackson Davis works
for $50. Goes to hear infidels talk at the
clubs and to see spiritualism at the table
rapping. Talks 6libly of David, the
psalmist, as an old libertine, of Paul as
Il wild enthusiast and of Christ as de-
cent kind of a man, little weak in
some respects, but almost as good Us
himself. Talks smilingly of Sunday as
n good day to put Il little extra backing
on ones boots and Of Christians as, for
the most part, hypocrites ard of eternity
as 1.-THE great to be, 1.-THE everlasting
now" or 1.-THE infinite what is it. "
Some day he gets his feet very wet and
finds himself that night chilly; the
next morning has a hot mouth and is
headachy; sends word over to the store
that lie will not be there today; bathes
his feet; has mustard plasters; calls the
doctor. The medical man says aside,
This is going to Es bad case of CON-
gestion of the lungs" Voice fails. Chill
dren must be kept down stairs OF sent to
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