The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-28
A STRONG SWIMMER.
From Him Dr.. Talmage Draws a
Noble Lesson.
The Always Ready Heipfulness OF
Religion for Those Who struE-
Eio Against Adverse Cir
cumstnnces.
Copyright. Louis Klcpsch. iS9o)

ploys Il very bold figure OF the Dibie Il
bring out the helpfulness of religion foi
an those in any kind of struggle. The
text is Isaiah 25:ll: "Ilc shall spread
forth His hands in the midst OF them, as
he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his
hands"
In the summer season multitudes oil
people wade into the ponds and lakes
and rivers and seas to dive or feat or
swim. In world the most of which is
water all men and women should learn
10 swim. Some of you have learned the
side stroke introduced by George Pew
tiers in 1850, each stroke of that kind
carrying the swimmer distance OF six
feet, and some of you may use the over
hand stroke invented by Gardener, the
expert who by it won the $50 yard cham
pionship in Manchester in 1sc2, the
swimmer by that stroke carrying his
arm in the air for n more heightened
reach, and some of you may tread the
water as though you had been made TO
walk the sea, but most of you usually
take what is called the breast stroke,
placing the hands with the backs up
ward, about five inches under the water,
the inside of the wrists touching the
breast, then pushing the arms forward
coincident with the stroke of the feet
struck out TO the greatest width posi-
BILE, and you thus unconsciously Illus
trate the meaning of my text: lie shall
spread forth His hanGs in the midst of
them, as he that swimncth spreadeth
forth his hands 10 SWIM"
The fisherman seeks out unfrequcnt-
cd monks. You stand to-day on the
bank of river in the broiiing sun and
fling out your line and catch nothing,
while an expert angler breaks through
the Jungle and goes by the shadow of
the solitary rock and, in place where
no fisherman has been for ten years,
throws out his lire and comes home at
night, his face shining and his basket
full. ] do not know why we ministers
of the Gospel need always be fishing in
the same stream and preaching from
the same texts that other people preach
from. ] cannot understand the policy
OF the minister who, in Backfriars,
London, England, every week for 30
years preached from the Epistle to the
Hebrews. 1t is an eNhilaration to me
when ! come across a theme which |
feel no one else has treated, and my
text is one of that kind. There arc
paths in Gods Word that are well beat
en- by Christian feet. When men want
to quote Scripture, they quote the old
passages that everyone has heard.
When they want chapter read, they
read n chapter that all the other peo-
pie have been reading, so that the
church to-day is ignorant of three
fourihs of the Bible
Yun cointo the Louvre. at Paris. You
confine Yourself 10 one corridor of that
opulcnt gallery of paintincs. As YOU
come out your friend saws 10 Won: "Did
YOU see that Relnbrandt?" No" ibid
you see that Reubcns?" NO" "Did
Won srr that Ti,iaup" .Xo " mid vo,
see that Raphac!?" $40" WELL"
says your friend, "thcn YOU did not see
the Louvre" Now, my friends, think
we are too much apt to confne ourselves
TO one of the great corridors of Scrip
ture truth, and so much so that there is
not one person out of million who has
ever noticed the all suggestive and pow
erful picture in the words of nv text.
The text rcnresents God ms n stropr
swimmer, striking out TO push down in
iuuity and save the souls of men. "Ue
shall spread forth His hands in the
midst of tbem. os he that syyimmeth
sprcadcth forth his hands TO swim"
The figure is bold and many sided.
Most of Won know how ia swim. Some
of Won learned If in tbc civ school
where This art is touoht. some of Won
I'm boyhood. in the river near vour
fathers louse: some of Won since Won
came I'm manhood or womonbood while
summcring ON the beach of the sea. Ills
n good tbinr IN know how 10 swim NOT
only for Yourself, but because Won will
after awhile pcrhaps have TO helm 9TH
ers.
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mr. sr,,;,no ,tor 90 COO so,,o no., lil,o
Norrr,n NcTor,in Io,n;,,, fror, ,hn
chin Madras into tho sea tn save Charles
,Trrn.r who had dronnad from ,Lc rov.
nj yord while tryins TO loosen the sail.
bringing him back TO the deck amid the
buzzns OF the messengers and crew. If