Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-14
REV. DR.. TaLMaGE.
The Brooklyn Diviue's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "Man Overheard"

Subject: "Man Overheard"
TEXT: 80 the shipmaster came to him an
said unto him: what meanest thou, I
sleeper? Arise. call upon thy God, II so
that God will think upon US. that we peris
not. Jonah l., 6.
God told Jonah to 60 to Nineveh on an mn
pleasant errand. He would not go. H
thought to get away from his duty by putin,
to sea. With pack under his arm And hin
on his way to Joppa, a seaport. He goe
down among the shipping and saws to tn
men lying around on the docks. (which O
these vessels sails today" The sailors an
swer, "Yonder is q vessel going to Tarshish
l think II you hurry you may get on boar
her. Jonah steps on board the rough craft
asks how much the fare is. and pays ii
Anchor is weighed. sails are hoisted, and tn,
rigging begins to rattle in the strong breez
OF the Mediterranean. Joppa is an exposed
harbor, and it does not take long for the YES
sci to get on the broad sea. The sailors lik,
what they call spanking breeze" and tn,
plunge Of the vessel from the crest Of a tai
wave is exhilarating to those at home on tn,
deep. But the strong breeze becomes gale
the gale a hurricane. The afYrighted passan
gers ask the captain il he ever saw anything
like this before.
"Oh. yes" he says. SThis Is nothing. =
Mariners are slow to admit danger to lands.
men. But after awhile crash goes the mast
and the vessel pitches so far "abeam's end''
there is fear she will 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 lit
tie hope and tells the passengers that they
had better go to praying. 1t is seldom that
a sea captain is an atheist. He knows tina,
there is God. for he has seen Him at every
point OF latitude between Sandy Hook and
Queenstown. Captain Moody, commanding
the Cuba Of the Cunard line. at Sunday SER
vice led the music and sang like a 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 vesse
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 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
II You have any God to go to. What mean
est thou. o sleeper? 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 we'll. Tc
appease the sea. they threw Jonah over.
board.
Learn that the devil takes a mans money
and then sets him down in a poor Iandinl
place. The Bible says he paid his fare tc
Tarshish. But see him get out. The sailor.
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 al
the way to Tarshish, but did not get tn.
worth of his money. Neither does any one
who turns his back on his duty and does tha,
which is not right.
There is young man who during the past
year has spent II large part of his salary il
carousal. What has he gained by it? 4
soiled reputation, half starved purse, g
dissipated look. petulant temper, a dis
turbed conscience. The manacles of one OF
two bad habits that are pressing tighter anG nd
tighter will keep on until they wear to tn.
bone. You paid your fare to Tarshish. bu
you have been set down in the midst Of a sea
'f 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
be nameless.
Making four hundred dollars for his dam
nationl
Instead of being in Tarshish now he is IL
the middle Of the Mediterranean.
Here is a literary man tired of the faith OF
his father who resolves to launch out into
what Is called freethinking. He buys Theo
dOre Parkers works for $12, Remains "Life
OF Christ" for S1.50, Andrew Jackson Davis:
works for 800. Goes to hear infidels talk al
the clubs and to see spiritualism at the table
rapping. Talks glibly Of David. the psalm
ist, as an old libertine, of Paul as a wild en-
thusiast and Of Christ as decent kind of q
man, little weak in some respects. but al.
most as good as himself. Talks smilingly OF
Sunday as a good day to put a little extra
for the most part, hypocrites of eternity
as "the great to be- "the everlasting now
or "the infinite what is it." Some day he
gets his feet very wet and finds himself that
night chilly; the next morning has no,
mouth ami is headachy; sends word over tc
the store that he will not be there to-day
bathes his feet: has mustard plasters; calls
the doctor. The medical man says aside
"This is going to be bad case Of congestion
Of the lungs" Voice fails. Children must
be kept down stairs or sent to the
neighbors to keep the house quiet.
You say. "send for the minister" But
no. He does not believe in ministers.
You say, "Read the Bible to him" No;
he does not believe in the Bible. A law
yer comes in. and sitting by his bedside
writes q document that begins: 'In the
name Of God, amen. I, being of sound mind
do make this my last will and testament. "
It Is certain where the siok mans body will
be in less than q week. 1t Is quite certain
who will get his property. But what will
great to be" or ''the everlasting now," OF
''the infinite what Is it," His soul is in deer
W tiers, and the wind is 'blowing great guns. +
Death cries, Overheard with the un.
believer" A splash. He goes to the bot
tom. He paid IS for his ticket to Tarshish
when he bought the infldel books. He
landed In perdition.
swindle you out of. He promises you shall
have thirty per cent. or great dividend.
He lies. He will sink all the capital. You
may pay full fare to some sinful success, but
you will never get to Tarshish.
Learn how soundly men will sleep in the
mids: of danger. The worst sinner on ship
board, considering the light he had, was
Jonah. He was a member OF the church,
while they were heather. The sailors were
engaged in their lawful calling, following
the sea. The merchants ON board, sup
pose, were going down to Tarshish to barter,
but Jonah, Notwithstanding his Christian
profession, was flying from duty. He was
sound asleep in the cabin. He has been
motionless for hours-his arms and feet in
the same posture as when he lay down-his
breast heaving with deep respiration. Oh.
how could he sleep? What II the ship struck
a rock2 What II it sprang aleak? What If
the clumsy oriental craft should capsize,
What would become of Jonah2
So men sleep soundly now amid perils
infinite. In almost every place, suppose,
the Mediterranean might be sounded, but no
line is long enough to fathom the profound
beneath every impenitent man. Plunging a
thousand fathoms down, you cannot touch
bottom. Eternity beneath him, before him.
around him! Rocks close by and whirlpools
and hot breathed Levanters. Yet sound
asleep! We try to wake him up, but fail
The great surges Of warning break over the
hurricane deck. the gong OF warning sounds