The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-21
Gipsy Smith 5 Sermon
Last Evening
A sHIPwRECKED LIFE"


Mr.. Smith read his scripture lesson
from the twenty-seventh chapter Of
the Acts Of the Apostles, in which Is
recorded the experiences of the voy-
age of the Apostle Paul as he was be-
ing carried prisoner to Rome
The text was "And when much time
was spent and sailing was now dam
gerous," and his subject was "a ship.
wrecked life"
Mr.. Smith said that in these days
it is very easy thing to be wrecked
on the voyage Of life. Life is rre-
inendous thing with great opportuni-
ties and privileges as well as respon-
s:b.l.ties and duties, and all we have
to do is to give full play to our own
passions and lust to be wrecked on
the voyage Of life.
Oldest Questions of All Time.
The oldest questions of all times are
Lhese: Where did / come from? Why
am l here? Where am / going to Z?
Yesterday out of the unknown, today
taking little flight across the great
continent Of time and to its eternity.
/ haven't any message for the man
who believes that six feet of ground
pld 81 casket are the end of this life.
y" when ! see a caterpillar crawling
ac oss the sidewalk in the fall of the
year, watch it as it crawls up the
trunk of tree, and then out onto q
bough and builds around itself q
shell, which the scientists have taught
VI is a chrysalis. Then in the spring
of the year, kissed by the sun, it
breaks it's shell and comes out no
more caterpillar, but a beautiful
butterfly, not crawling, but flying, and
feeding on different vegetation and
with brand new life. If God can do
tnat in the animal kingdom, it simply
Joints to the fact that there are great
e. things in store for US if we will
obey.
The shores of time today are strewn
with the wrecks of men and women.
L fe is full of shipwrecks and sand
bars and hidden rocks and cross cur
ron's and it is very easy thing to
," shipwrecked. What you and I need
is pilot for our lives and so l offer
~ you Jesus Christ.
Three Men: I want to bring to the
f'lpit this evening three men, and
Trey are the three men from our text.
[ want them to stand for the men and
women who are present this evening.
And the first man that comes into the
pulpit this evening is Paul, who
stands for. the man of God, warning,
coaxing, pleading with you to take
the right step. Very often you have
not been fair to the preachers and
priests. They have nothing at stake
hnt your life and they are anxious
that you should not only make the
most of your life, but get the best out
Of life, too.
The next man that comes into the
pulpit is the captain of the ship.
which has been chartered by the Ro-
man government to take Paul with
other prisoners to Rome. / want him
to stand tonight for the man of the
world In my audience. The man who
%!s, "Gcd has given me reason to
.'~", AID will not accept anything
that cannot understand" The man
Ct the twentieth century who is wise
= his own con"eit and who only be-
."Tes in material things.
You do not understand how God
fathers the dew drop, but you like to
see them hanging in the eyes of the
rose on summers morning. You
are not consistent in your statements
about not accepting anything that you
cannot reason through.
The next man that I want to bring
into the pulpit is the centurion, the
captain of the guard. He stood be-
tween Paul on one side and the cap
tam of the ship on the other. The
power of decision lay with him. He
could order Paul. to be put in irons
and sent down into the "tweendecks,
or he could command the skipper to
set sail or remain tied up in deck. /
want him to stand for human will.
The Imperial Will: When you reach.
ed the age of activity the first thing
that God gave to you was human
will and he vested it with imperial
rights and said to you, DO not think
or study, but choose and so you have
held and do hold in your own hands
he destiny Of your own life.
Now, | want you TO overhear the !
conversation of these three men. First. !
Paul says, If I were you men would
not set sail for ! am afraid we are
going to have tremendous stcrm
which will not only endanger the car
go and ship, but also our lives L
think the skipper said something like
his, well, are you going to listen to
Il landlubber, fool preacher, who
knows nothing about ship and the
coast, to tell you what to do? Why, I
have sailed up the Mediterranean as
a boy and man until have become
"aster and owner of my own ship.