The Republican journal., 1905-10-26
LESSONS FROM THE SEA.
Generalization at SUBWAY rayern,s Failur

Congratulation at Subway Tavern's Failure.
"My Ships at Sea-Some Midsummer
Seashore Reflections was the subject
| of recent sermon preached by the
Rev. DIR. Charles Edward Locke in the
Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. His text
was; "The sea is His, and He made it, -
Psalm kew, 5. DR.. Locke said, in part
Ii any man would hear all that God
would speak to him he must get out of
doors and away from the noises and
compiexlty of a busy life. All nature
Is voca! with Gods truth and radiant
Win HIS presence. The sea is a mighty
preacher. The lisping of the waves OF,
the strand are like the whisperings of
Gods voice. The ocean is a symbol of
the vastness, the eternity and the power
OF God. HE plants His footsteps in
the sea and rides upon the storm" The
anclents. beholding the mysteries and
phenomena Of the sea, deified it. and
worshipped Neptune with his trident.
but the Christian finds in the sea a mani.
festation of his God and ''worships Him
who made the sea-
| The wonder concerning Jesus ex.
pressed by the disciples in their excla.
nation, "What manner of man is this.
that even the winds and the sea obey
| Him?" may without irreverance be an.
piled to man today. Man, who was
commanded to subdue the earth, has
today conquered the sea; he has har.
messed the winds and the mountainous
| pillows to his palatial ships and his
gigantic merchantmen. Man has seized
the trident of Neptune and the reins of
hr,f oil nj h.
! subdued himself! Man yet remains
untamed. The subjugation of his own
will is mans hardest task.
The omnipOtence and vastness of
God is measured by the wide distance
traceries rival the maSterful etchings
of the artist, and the lofty bows of tie
seQuoia: between the crystal globules
riotous waves and the mighty ocean
which Jehovah holds in the hollow of
His hand.
Jesus Christ came to redeem the
world from sin, and on the throne is
presiding over the gradual triumph of
right over wrong. AS we sit by the sea
we can foresee the day of the universal
sway of Emmanuel. We are charged
in the Word not to fret ourselves be-
cause of the evildoers. for they shall be
cut off But with so high hand does
evil at times override the good that we
are well-nigh discouraged when we see
prosperity of the wicked. However.
now and then there are gratifying in
dications of the virility of righteous
ness. Recently we have joyously be-
held the power of the peacemaker as he
has transformed bloody belligerents in
to fraterniZing friends, and also the
calling to account of the officials of the
great Insurance companies, the refusal
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany to continue particers criminis in
racetrack gambling; and last, but not
least in significance, the failure of the
Subway Tavern.
GamaiieFs test to the latter, eff this
thing be of man it will come OF naught,
but If of God, ye cannot overthrow it, -
would show the origin and inevitable
result of the dismal experiment. The
wonder is that a group of sane and
sensible men could have hoped for any
other outcome. The entire Christian
Church Was bitterly Inundated and
stultitied by this effort to sell intoxicat-
ing liquors for the safety of men and
the glory of God. When will reformers
learn that there is an impossible gulf
between right and wrong, rum and
! religion, food and poison, the home and
the saloon, Scripture and sacrilege,
character and alcohol? 1t cost a few
| liberal men $4,000 to test self-evident
truth. At the opening of the Subway
saloon a prelate said, This is the great
est social movement New York has
ever seem" and his little company of
/ deceived co-laborers sang the Doxology.
The other day, when the Subway
Tavern passed over into the hands of
an ordinary saloonkeeper, the pur-
chaser showed himself wiser than the
others when he INDUCED in remark,
which, in spite of it's rhetoric and origin,
might be accepted as an aphorism.
's1 on can't follow the Lord and chase
the devil" The Subway Tavern is no
more, and the whole Christian Church
sings, praise God, from whom all
blessings flow"
No, the saloon must 60 The drink
habit can never be made respectable.
The traffic in rum is civilizations worst
curse. The battle between sobriety
and drunkenness cannot close until the
saloon is OverthroWn.
/ Surprising in beauty is a full rugged
ship, night full orbed, a flower full
bloomed, a tree full leaved; but more
exquisite than all Of these is a character
full jeWelled. All of us have our hopes
and dreams and affections and ambi.
lions and faiths; they are our ships at
sea. There are some dreams which will
never be realized, some hopes which
will not be fulfilled, some ambitions
and faiths which will not reach frui
ton; but, even with the poet, we
breathe a prayer that if all except one
OF our ships must 'go awrack" we
would most desire that our love shir
should come home safe to us. Fol
what are all earthly gains to us if there
are no love promptings in our owr
soul and no responses in the hearts OF
others. So we thank the old ocean fol-
. its ola and new lessons. The God that
made the sea made me, and the Coco
Father cares for all His works. There