The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-28
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Lessons Taught by Jonah's Inter
rupted Voyage.
There be Many Who Pay Their FAR
to Tsrxhislt. Hut Never Get There
Men Who Sleep la the
Midst OF Danger.

Rev. Z. Dewitt Talmage VINO 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" being
based on the text;
$50 the shipnaster came to him. and said
unto him: WHAT meanest thou. Oh. sleeper?
Arise call upon thy Gcd, II so be that God will
think upon us, that we. perish not. Jonah.
L,6.
God told Jonah to go to Ninevah on
an unpleasant errand. He would not
90. he thought to get away from his
duty by putting to sea. With pack
under his arm. find him on his way
to Joppa. sea port. He goes down
among the shipping, and says to the
men lying around ON the docks;
(which of these vessels sails today"
The sailors answer: "Yonder is a YES
sci to Tarshish. I think, Ii 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, and 1T
does not take long for the vessel to get
out on the broad sea- The sailors like
what they call i 'spanlking breeze, !"
and the pIunge of the vessel from the
crest of tall wave is celebrating 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. '0h, yes" he saws;
ssthis 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'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 a sea captain is
an ATHEIST. lie knows that there is a
God, for he has seen Him at every
point OF latitude between Sandy Hook
and Queenstown. Capt Moody, COM
manding the Cuba, of the Cunard line,
at Sunday service lei 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 desccnds into the cabin to
see whether, in the strong wrestling
of the waves, the vessel had sprung
aleak. and he fiuds Jonah asleep.
Jonah had had wearisome tramp. and
had spent many sleepless nights about
questions of dnty, and he is so sound
asleep that all the thunder OF the
storm and the screaming OF the pas
sengers does not disturb him. The cap
tain laws 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, II you have any
God to go to- What meanest thou. Ga,
sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, ii
so be that God will think upon us, that
we perish not" The rest of the story
will not rehearsc, for you know it
| we'll. To appease the sea, they threw
Jonah overheard.
Learn that the devil takes a 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 ont. The sailors bring him to the
side of the ship. lift him over 1.-THE
guards" and let him drop with lond
splash into the waves. He paid his
| fare all the way to Tarshis't, but did
not get the worth of his money. Meth
er does anyone who Turns his back on
his duty and does that which is mol
right.
There is young man who, during
the past year. has spent large par
of his salary in caronsal. What ha:
he gained by it? soiicd reputation
half-starved purse, dissipatcd look
a petulant temper, disturbed con
science. The manacles of one or tvs
bad habits that are pressing tighter
and tighter will keep on until they
wear to the bone. You paid your fart
to Tarshish. but You have been Sc
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quietude asld perplexity.
| One hundred dollars for Sunday hors'
One hui arsa dollars for wine sup
One hundred dollars for cigars!
One hundred dollars for froiics tina
shall be nameless!
Making four hundred dollars for hi
damnaticn!
| Instead OF being in Tarsbish now, h,
is in the middle of the Mediterra
mean. Here is literary man, tired o
the faith of his fathers, who resolve
to launcll out into what Is called Ere
| Thinking. He buys Theodore Park
er's works for twelve dollars; Renan'
Life of Christ" for one dollar rni flft.
ceuts; Andrew Jackson Davis work
1 for twenty dollars. Goes to hear inf
dels talk at the clubs, and to see spir
itualism at the table-rapping. Talk
/ rlibly of David, the Psalmist, as al
old Iibertiue; of panl as a wild en-
thusiast; and of Christ as decen
kind of mana little weak in som
respects, but almost as good as hin,
self Talks smilingly of Sunday US
good day to put little extra black
ing ON ones boots; and of Chris
tians as. for the most part, hype
critics; and OF eternity as '.th
| great to be" the everlastin
now" or s'the infinite what is it.
Some day he gets his feet very wei
and finds himself that night chilly
The next morning has . hot mouth
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