Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-08-22
A NAN OVERHEARD.
Raw. Talmage Tells the Story Of
Jonah.
Ne Warns the People That Satan VIII
swindle Them. and Urges his Hear
ers to Call Upon tho God OF
Their Fathers.

chose for his latest discourse: Man
overheard, /" the text being Jonah lie,
so the shipmaster came in, and said
unto him, what meanest thou, o
sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if
50 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
90. 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, seaport He goes down
emong the shipping, and says to the
men lying around on the docks:
switch of these vessels sails to-day?"
The sailors answer: "Yonder is q YES
eel going 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, and pays
it. Anchor is weighed, sails are
hoisted, and the rigging begins to rat
tie in the strong breeze Of the Medi'
terranean. Joppa is an exposed harbor,
and it does not take long for the vessel
to get out on the broad sea. The sail
ors like what they call spanking
breeze" and the plunge of the vessel
from the crest Of tall wave is exhila-
rating to those at home on the deep.
But the strong breeze becomes a gale,
the gale hurricane. The affrighted
passengers ask the captain if he ever
saw anything like this before. "Oh,
yes" he says, ''this is nothing" Mari
ners are slow to admit danger to lands
men. But, after while, crash goes
the mast, and the vessel pitches SO far
"a-beam's-end" there is fear that she
will not be righted. The captain an
swers 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
a 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, at Sunday service led the music
and sang like Methodist. The cap
tain of this Mediterranean craft, hav-
ing 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 leak
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 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 pray
ing, if you havs any God to go to.
What meanest thou, 0 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 well. To APP
pease the sea, they threw Jonah over
board.
Learn that the devil takes mans
money and then sets him down in
poor landing place. The Bible says he
paid his fare to Tarhish. But see him
get out. The sailors bring him to the
side of the ship, lift him over 1.-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. Neither
does any one who turns his back on
his duty and does that which is not
right.
There is 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-starved purse, dissipated look, a
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 Tarshish,
but you have been set down in the
midst Of a sea OF disquietude and per-
plexity.
One hundred dollars for Sunday horse
hire.
One hundred dollars for wine sup
pers.
One hupdred dollars for cigars
One hundred dollars for frolics that
shall be nameless!
Making four hundred dollars for ms
damnation!
Instead Of being in Tarshish now he
is in 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 free
thinking. He buys Theodore Parker's
works for twelve dollars; Remains Life
Of Christ for one dollar and fifty cents;
Andrew jackson Davis works for twen-
ty dollars. Goes to hear infidels talk
at the clubs, and to see spiritualism at
the table-rapping. Talks glibly OF Da-
vid, the Psalmist, as an old libertine;
Of Paul as wild enthusiast; and OF
Christ as decent kind of mana little
weak in some respects, but almost as
good as himself. Talks smilingly OF
Sunday as good day to put a little ex.
ira backing on ones boots; and OF