The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
"MAN OvERBOARD."
Lessons Drawn by DR.. Talmage
from Jonah's Experience.
The Devil VIII Take a Mans Money and
Set Hin Down on a Poor Landing
PIace-Meu Sleeping In the
Midst af Danger.


''Man Overheard" aud the text was
from Jonah i. 6: $50 the shipmaster
came to him, and said unto him, What
meanest thou, Oh. sleeper? Arise, call
upon thy God, if so be that God will
think upon us, that we perish not"
Following is the sermon:
God told Jonah to go to Ninevah on
an unpleasant errand. He would not
GO He thought to get away from his
duty by putting to sea. With pack un
der his arm, find him on his way to
Joppa, a seaport. He goes down
among the shipping and says to the
men lying around on the docks: (Which
of these vessels sails to-day?" The
sailors answer: "Yonder is vessel to
Tarshish. l think, if you hurry, you
may get on board her" Jonah 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, 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 exhilerating to those at
home on the deep. But the strong
breeze becomes gale, the gale hur-
ricane. The affrighted passengers ask
the captain if he ever saw anything
like this before. ''0h, 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-beam send"
there is fear she VIII not be righted.
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 passengers that
they had better go to praying. 1t is
seldom that a 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, command
ing the Cuba of the Cunard line, at
Sunday service led the music and sang
like Methodist The captain of this
Mediterranean craft. having set the
passengers TO praying, goes around ex-
amining 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 a 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 passengers
does not disturb him. The captain laws
hold of him and begins to shake him
out of his Inconsistencies with the cry:
Don't you see 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, if so be that God will
think upon us, that we perish not. ="
The rest of the story l will not re-
hearse, for you know it we'll 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 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
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,
a half-starved purse, a dissipated look,
a petulant temper, a disturbed con-
science. The manacles of one or two
shabits that are pressing tighter and
tighter will keep on until they wear
to the bone. You paid your fare tc
Tarshish, but you have been set dowr
in the midst of a sea of disquietude anC
perpleXity.
One hundred dollars for Sunday
horse hire!
One hundred dollars for wine sup
persl
One hundred dollars for cigars!
One hundred dollars for frolics tha
shall be nameless!
Making $500 for his damnation!
Instead of being in Tarshish now
ne is in the middle of the Mediterra
mean.
Here is a literary man, tired of tn
faith of his fathers, who resolves L
launch out into what is called fre
thinking. He buys Theodore Parker
works for Sl2; Remains Life of Christ
for 81. 50: Andrew Jackson Davi:
works for $50. Goes to hea
infidels talk at the clubs, and to Sc
suiritualism at the table-rapping
Talks glibly of David. the psalmist, a
an old libertine; of Paul as wild er
thusiast, and OF Christ as a decen
kind of a mana little weak in som
respects. but almost as good as him
self Talks smilingly of Sunday as
good day to put little extra blackin
ON ones boots, and of Christians a:
for the most part. hypocrites, an
of eternity ss 1.-The great to be,
ssthe everlasting now" or 18th
infinite what is ii" Some day h
gets his feet very wet, and find
himself that night chilly. The ne1
morning has hot mouth, and is hea'
achv. Sends word over to the stol
that he will not be there to-day. Battle
his feet; has mustard plasters; calls ii
doctor. The medical man says asid
~'This is going to be bad case of col
yestion of the lungs" Voice fail
children must he kept down stairs,
sent to the neighbors, to keep the hou'
quiet You say: ''Send for the mini