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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
Human Wrecks.
“Lest that by any means. . . . 1 myself should
pe a castaway.’—1 Cor. 9 : 27,
IN the presence of you who live on
the Pacific coast, I who live on the At-
lantie const may appropriately speak on
this marine allusion of the text, for all
who know about the sea know about
the castaway. The text implies that
miaisters of religion may help others
into heaven and yet miss it themselves.
The carpenters that built Noah's ark
dil not get into it themselves. Gown
and surplice and diplomas and canoni-
sals are no security, Cardinal Wolsey,
ifter having been petted by kings and
having entertained foreign ambassadors
at Humpton Court,
DIED IN DARKNESS.
One of the most eminent ministers of
religion that this country has ever
known plunged into sin and died; his
heart, by post-mortem examination,
found to have been, not figuratively,
but literally, broken. We may have
hands of ordination on the head, and
address consecrated assemblages, but
that is no reason why we shall necessar-
ily reach realm celestial, I'he
clergyman through the same
gute of pardon as the layman. There
Lisave been cases of Spw rock w here all
Dora escaped excepting the cap-
if, having ‘preached to
1f should be a castaway’!
the
must go
«il
tall
others, I mys«
God forbid it!
1 have examined some of the com-
mentaries to what they thought
about this word “‘castaway,” and I find
they differ in regard to the figure used,
while they agree in regard to the mean-
ing. do I si make my own
hall
tion, and take it In nautical and sea-
you that men
Lins,
Nt
seloe-
Hn
faring sense, and show
way become
fs PIRITUAL CASTAWAYS,
and how, finally, they drift into that
calamity, You and 1 in seaboard
cities. You have all stood on the beach.
Many of you have erossed the
Some you | managed vessels
great stress of There 1s
captain, and there 1s another, and
der is another, and there are a goodly
number of you who, though once vou
did not know tl} between a
brig and a bark, ane between a
mond knot i
and alt}
tie weather Crossjnck brace,
live
of have in
Wi a SOR-
ther
von-
re flerence
din-
not,
nw
nat i
Tl i
nu i
i
r
{
yOu cond 1m the fore elev net, |
i
how you i
Yold are
Wore Lex id
clear across to i
without the |
there is a dark night in your me: {
of the sea. The vessel became unman- |
ageable. You saw i i
ward the shore. You heard th i
BREAKERS AHEAD!
bow!” The vessel |
struck the rock, and you felt the deck
breaking up u r your feet, and you
were a castaway, as when the Hes
drove on )
the Portuguese brig we
ting, grinding, crashing on
wins. But whether vy
the sea or not, you all understand the
figure when I tell yon
men who, by and tempta-
tions, are thrown helpless! Driven be-
fore the gale! Wrecked for two worlds!
Castawavs! Castaways!
By talking with some
have found ont ti
four causes I
vessel !
times «
on th
t was
1
ea
Land on tae
nde
tha o i
Lait ‘
ntstaving, spil
the
wit have |
Youd +}
that there are
thelr sins
37:
sea-cal
in
olden times,
indeed,
up and down th
ashore in the
lights in their pre ¢ and
them, that they may despoi
sack thom. All k nds of i
INFERNAL i
that
were used to accomyj lish thi
night, on the (
308 ming in fearfully,
laius took a lantern and tied a
horse, anda led the bLorse up and down
the beach, the lantern swinging to ti
motion of the horse; and a sea-captain
in the offing saw it, and made up lus |
mind he was not anywhere
i “Lhere’s a
IRE ; rit has a i
¢ light!” and he had no apprehen- |
«ion till he heard the rocks grating on
toe ship's bottom, an 1 it went to pieces,
and the villains on shore gathered np
the packages and treasures that were |
washed to the land. And I have to |
tell you that there are a multitude of |
souls. i
EUINED BY FALSE LIGHTS
on the Leach. In the dark night of
man's danger, false religion goes up and
down the shore shaking its lantern, and
men look off and take that Hickering
and expiring wick asthe signal of safety,
aud the cry 1s, ““Heave the maintopsail
to the mast! All is well!” when sudden
destruction cometh upon them, and
they stall not escape. So there are all
kinds of lanterns swung on the beach
philosophical lanterns, educational lan-
terns, humanitarian lanterns. Men look
at them and are deceived, when there is
nothing but God's eternal lighthouse of
the gospel that can keep them from be-
coming castaways.
Once on Wolf Crag Lighthouse they
tried to build the copper woll with its
mouth open, 80 that, the storm beating
into it, the wolf would howl forth the
danger to mariners that might be com-
ing suywhere near the const. Of course
it was a failure. And so all new inven-
tions for the saving of man's soul are
unavailing. What the human race
wants is a light bursting forth from the
eross standing on the great headlands
the light of pardon, the light of corfifort,
the light of heaven. You might better
to-night and destroy all the great
fant houses on the dangerous coasts—
the Barnegat lighthouse, tue Fastnet
Bock Lighthouse, the Sherryvore
lighthouse, the Longship’s lighthouse,
the Hollyhead lighthouse—thsn to put
out God's great ocean lam p-—the gospel.
Woe to those who swing lanterns
on the beach till men ccash into ruin!
Castaways! Castaways!
By talking with sea-captains I have
ard also that sometimes ships come to
this calamity by :
SUDDEN SWOOP OF A TEMPEST,
For instance, vessel is wailing along in
tbe Fast Incio, and Boro is not 8
Orns Cx w
WES ¢ LA i
/
1 0
HORT |
i
sud; |
Vise
}
a vessel, 1
single clond on the sky; but suddenly
the breeze freshens, and there are swift
fect on the ratlines, and the ery is,
“Way, haul away there! but before
they can square the booms and tarpan-
lin the hatohways, the vessel is groan.
ing and creaking in the grip of a tor-
nado, and falls over into the trough of
piercing outery for help, Lifting the dis-
tress signal for the Church's prayer,
lifting the distress signal for heaven's
mrdon, Pray! pray! The voice of the
Ford now sounds in your ears: “In Meo
beach and keels over, leaving the crew
to struggle in the merciless surf. Casta-
way! Castaway! And so I have to tell
vou there are thousands of men destroy-
ed through the sudden swoop of temp-
tations. Some great inducement to
worldliness, or to sensuality, or to high
temper, or to some form of dissipation,
comes upon them
IF THEY HAD TIME
to consult their friends, if they had time
to deliberate, they could stand it; but
the temptation came so suddenly—an
euroclydon on the Mediterranean, a
shirlwind of the Carribean, One awful
surge of temptation and they perish.
And so we often hear the old story: *‘I
budn't seen my friend in a great many
years. We were very glad to meet. He said
the cup until the bubbles ran over the
edge, and in an evil momentall my good
resolutions were swept away, and to the
outraging of God and my own soul, 1
fell.” Or the is: “I had hard
work to support my family. I thought
that by one false entry, by one decep-
tion, by one embezzlement, I might
spring out free fromall my trouble; and
the temptation came upon me so fiercely
i could not deliberate. I did wrong,
and having done wrong once, I could
not stop.” Oh, 1t is
story
THE FIRST THAT COSTS,
the second 1s easier; and the third, and
on to the last. Once having
loose from the anchor, it is not ) :
to tie the parted strands. How often it
is that men are ruined for the
that the temptation comes from
unexpected quarter! As veese
Margate Roads, from
winds; but the changing
northeast, they are driven helpless and
go down. Oh that God iid have
mercy upon those upon whom
comes the sudden swoop of temptation,
hey perish, beos
castaways!
By talking wi
found out also t
this calamity thro
STEF
reason
Some
i 1+ 11
is le 1n
safa southwest
2
wind to the
wot
there
est
NINE CARSLAWARYS
SHEER HE
There are three mill
the seal
ra livin ¢
Average
less th
comes from the {ac
liarity with
Sen IS sive
that 1
sometin
the
the loc
nine
that »
So I have totell
iy SHpUH ked
Eiosanosas, AT
danger
thie captain,
the stoker, the man on
mes reckle in
shipwrecks, it is found
awfully to blame
that .
through sheer roc
thousands who do not ©
xs, and
me
you
men are
her
sre where they
They do n i
sailing, and
ilks tha
with hooks of
snd make them
‘walk the plank.” They do not kn
next momen muy bring
Drifting in their theols
wir habita
sparitual thangs
g %
which wav are
. bi 1 * sl
the BOR C8 DIRK REIOARL
£y
Drifting it
all
the t
A DANGE HH COAST
them are ire with evil}
burn on
tossed up on the barren
them with great trou
t domestic trou
les: Dut
With
shail the = the
"a,
. %
ibhiles,
they
pray B’i
fio
SAL5R
They de
dances 1a: l1
n's harbor;
thay com
further
‘
fluences, furth
heavy
ont,
further fr
religions
takino
MRING
4
As
USCONSCIO
Arctic o
moment before the Vosta orasiie d 11
Wrapped up int business of
store, not thint
hey must qui all their earthly poss
Absorbed in their
tion, not knowing that v
will have sttended the last
the last schottische
a8 the passengers aboar i the
16T. he
hie remembering GOON
i
SoCal poss
ery soon they
lovee, and
Chey
do not delib stately chooses to be rrined:
French frigate Medusa
aim for the Arguin banks, but there it
went to pieces. I wish I eonld wake
you up. The perils are so augmented,
you will die just as certainly as you sit
there unless you bestir yourself. Are
you willing to become a castaway? You
throw out no onr. You take no sound-
ings. Yon watch no compass. You
are not calenlating your bearings while
the wind is abaft, and yonder is a long
line of foam bounding the horizon, and
you will be pushed on toward it, and
thousands have perished there, and you
are driving in the same direction.
Man the life-boat! Pull, my lads, pull!
ed, and that without remedy.”
But some of you are saying within
ourselves: “What shall I
Vhy, my brother, do what any ship
does when it is in trouble
LIFT A DISTRESS SIGNAL,
On the sea there is a flash and a
boom. You listen and you look. A
vossel is in tronble.
is sounded, or a rocket is sent up, or a
blanket is lifted, of a bundle of rags
anything to catch the eye of the passing
eraft. Bo if you want to be taken of
the wreck of your sin, you must ut a
distress signal, The publican lifted the
distress signal when be eried, ‘God be
merciful to me a sinner!” Peter lifted
the distress signal when he said, ‘Lord,
save me, 1 perish]” The blind man
lifted the distress signal when he said,
“Lord, that my eyes may be opened!”
The jailer lifted the distress signal
when he smd, “What must I do to be
saved? And help will never come to
our soul until you lift some signal.
on must make some demonstration,
give some sign, make some heaven.
There was an old sailor thumping
about in
A SMALL BOAT IN A TEMPEST,
He
broak-
“1 took
The surf was
ing over the boat, and he smd:
off my life-belt, that it might soon be
over, and I thought, somewhat indis-
tinctly, about my friends on shore, and
then I bid them good-bye lke, andl
was about sinking back and giving it
The elouds
were breaking away, and there that
O sinking soul, see
of the storm cloud? That 18 the star
Deathstruck ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly a star arose
It was the star of Bethlehem!
If there are any here who consider
themselves castaways, let me say God
is doing everything to save you. Did
you ever hear of Lionel Luken? He
was the inventor of the insnbmergible
life boat. All honor is due to
memory by seafaring men, as well as by
landsmen. How many
by his invention! n after days that
invention was improved, and one day
there was
A PERFECT LIFE-BOAT,
lives he saved
the Northumberland, ready at Rams-
The lifo-boat be ready
testing, the crew came
gute, Nn for
out and le aped
on the gunwale on one side to see if
boat would upset, it
upset it. Then, ami
cited thor ds, th
and AS ne
Was H
i the hu:
¢ boat was launched
and come,
great m of the shipw reck
anve i {
aunce
Aven
was beating on the rocks
the potentates
of the i
Hastings,
with sou
tie
of the lo
arash o
came
le families here
to bo save d. and saved
us that child for Ch
child, that other!
give us the father,
They must all coms
wades 1
(rive
the whol
I claim ¥
nere wWiio have
wii
Foy
i
without any God
are dead.
brother; I claim all
nave to pray s
n Pw
er of ron
into vour ca rather
your prayer until your chane
aud the night drops, and the sei washes
you out, and the appalling fact shall be
announced that, notwithstanding a
your magnificent opportunities,
have become a castaway.
when vou
my
than
1th
You
.
————_ ae
What Women are Doing.
A woman living near West Seneca,
New York, has a well-enltivated flower
farm of seventeen acres, with four
greenhouses, She sometimes clears
£2,000 a year from the sale of her tlow-
ers and plants. She says tloriculture
is a good business for women, but the
west is the best field for it, and if she
i
|
:
there.
BOUNDLESS POSSIBILITIES, — A slab
sided, mud covered granger entered a
Broadway clock store after dusk the
other evening, and, with a bewil ered
look, asked:
“Mister, is this where a man kin git
a clock?"
“Yes, sir,” said the clerk
“Wall,” said the granger, ‘‘what be
that ticker worth?’ pointing to an or-
nate and intricate piece of time record.
ing mechanism on the shelf.
“That, sir,” said the clerk, ‘is a
wonderful time piece. 1t is worth $200
and will run 3 years without winding. "’
“Great Scott!” gasped the granger,
“1hires years without winding! Say,
mister, how long would the blamed
thing run if she was wound up?"
EC ———
[AK ELY TO PROVE USEFUL. ~Stran-
er. At the counter, to bank teller
111 you please give me Canadian mon.
Ffank Teller, politely — *
Jan ‘eller itely - *‘So sir;
but our cashier has Just left ad took
all the Canada bills we bad when ue
wont away.’’
THE POWEROF MUSIC,
An Appeal for Melody of a Whole~
some Character,
(iive the people music and let it be
both popular and good.
Music rouses and trains the emotions,
as the gymnasium trains men in the ex-
ercise Ey limbs, Inward activities
long dormant or never before awakened
are called up and become new powers
within the breast and emotion nerves
for action. The most stupid horse that
goes up hill to the addy of bells, the
most timid soldier who marches to battle
with fife and drum, the most delicate
girl who spins round and round tireless
in the dance, the poorest laborer who
sings at his work—any of them are good
enough to prove that music rouses and
sustains the emotions. But that 1s not
all, It will discipline and control emo-
tions; that is the explanation of the art
of music ss distinguished from the mere
power of musical sonnds.
IT MAKES THEM BETTER,
Harve vou ever noticed how men, wo
door of a saloon listening to the wretch-
ed version of some finemelody executed
by a gutter band? Many
the door will not enter
who come
preferring
ing, dog worrving
atid
boys, will all stand
wnt and Oy
. +f . 3
about? A fiddle, te
wretched cornet, and a harp of which
no two
in wonderm
all cracked
strings are in tune, trying wild
“The Last Rose of Sum-
» masses of the people want music
i
it be
do them g
I'he
1 11
of a suitable quality it will
yod
masses who attend the free
neerts
in the parks include many
and
MJOTILY Care
wwually called
To them t 1
with great
wealth refinement,
obi y
ht
what is 1 Yelassical”’ music
'
His means something grounda
eXeruon
Hail Col
and “Marchi
hev will dis
pretty
mi peras
{ France, (Germany,
and Ireland can also be
the free park £
ta
rin
new
iensant chals
3
i
i
BETTER THAN MED!
] » their grand
concerts,
and
2 Dass, Un
Pleasare
¢: restraint, the
is unknown;
in their feelings, habits
v £1 ul
ng the impulses
y
sOROMIZIE the f
Lisciplin
3
with many means
1 3
Dandinaia o
order
Ff
real f
system,
i
Bacnme
nal 1 attracts
fn, but
not go
1 2
$6 ANY
ti Corin
of the poor do
Y¢ ’
1
emotions,
t these P
ana a vean-
or
rr, 18 As likely to cause a sob with
in fustian as within
ie, whether sacre d
seculs
preast clad
one attired in milk
Music will some day become a power-
And
Half our diseasessome
Come
disorder of the How
from Herves
of the body? Boredom makes more pa-
Want of interest and
excitement, stagnation of the emotional
life, or the fatigue of overwrought emo-
tion, lies at the root of half the ill health
of our young men snd women. Can
we doubt the power of music to break
up that stagnation? Or can we doubt
its power to soothe, to recreate an over-
strained emotional life, by bending the
bow the other way?
of exhansted feeling in which certain
kinds of mosic would act like poison,
just as whip and spur which encourage
last. There are other kinds of music
which soothe, and, if one may use the
word, lubricate the worn ways of the
nervous centers.
When good music ceases to be the
luxury of the rich and the degradation
of the poor it will open the golden gates
of a wider and happier realm of recrea-
ton for the masses. It will have a
marked influence on orime, and it will
promote thrift and increase the sum--
now lamentably small—of the people's
wholesome pleasures,
FLORENCE, 8 years old" Mamma,
do dogs get married?’
Mother—No, my dear."
“Then what right has Hark to growl
at Jennie when they are eating their
broakfust?"
SUNDAY sCHOOL LESSON,
Buspar Berrewsen 15, 1333,
David Sparing Saul,
LESSON TEXT,
1 Bam. 24 : 4-17. Memory verses, 11, 12)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric oF THE QUARTER:
and Disoli diene,
Obedience
GoLpex Text vor THE Quanrer: Be-
hold, in better than sacrifice,
and to hearken than the fal of rams,
1 Sam. 15
to obey
« 430)
Liessox Toric 1 Magnanimily of the
Obedient,
1. David's
{ ve, 4%
| » vl
ring: 2 Davids
Forbearance,
Lussox O1
Idavid's Vie
in, {
fioLpEN He not overeaing of
evil,
Text :
bud overcome
Rom. 12 : 21.
evil
with good,
Dany Hove Rreapixos :
M.—1 Sam. 24 : 4-17.
ity of the obedient.
1 Sam. 21 : 1-15
from Saul.
1 Bam. 22
ignant sprit
T.—1 Sam, 23
sistent pursuit
F. 1 Sam. 23 : 1
FoOw «
Magnanim-
@
T. flight
David's
16
a of .
1 Sam
r kindness
Psa. 18
<b
LESSON
I. DAVID S
ANALYSIS,
FORBEAEAN
{ 1. Opportunity :
Behold,
said unto th
| Saul went
Wore
i1l. Reverance:
Dravid i
earth. and did
bows
Hearsay
re har
. Against
Where!
words? (9
Thou
ii. For Candid Judgment:
+3
thou and see tl
10 trans
(11. For Divine Vindication
The L
“ oY |
Tal JU De tween me and thee
¢iween me an i tho
(ren. 1
I'he God of their father,
us (Gen, 31 : 53
The Lord, the Judge,
(Judg. 11 i
{| Unto God
(Job 5
1. “Wherefore hearkens st thou tomen's
words? (1) Popular rumors; (2)
Hasty conclusions; (3) Candid re-
moustrance,
“i will not put forth mine
against wy jord.” (1) Saal's re
cognized kingship; (2) David's ap-
pointed sovereignty; (3) Sauls nn-
reasoning enmity; (4)
magnanimous loyalty.
. “The Lord judge between me and
thee.” (1) The contestants; (2) The
controversy; (3) The court,
judge betwixt
be judge this day
-i
wonld I commit
«
my cau
“i
111. DAVID'S VICTORY.
1. His Enemy Subdued:
| Saul lifted up his voice, and wept ( 16).
{ Then said Saul, 1 will no more do
| thee harm (1 Sam. 26 : 21).
| Banl said to David, Blessed be thou,
| my son (Sam. 26 : 25).
i Saul. .. sought no more again for him
(1 Sam. 27 : 4).
He maketh even his enemies to be at
place with him (Prov. 16 : 7).
11. His Righteousness Confessed:
Thou art more righteous than 1 (17).
Thee have I seen righteous before me
I (Gen.7:1)
Thou hast not defranded us, nor op-
pressed us {1 5am. 12: 4)
A ot and au upright man (Job
: 8B)
Thine alms are had in remembrance in
the sight of God (Acts 10 : 81),
(11. Mis Generosity Acknowledged:
Thou rendered unto me good
whereas 1 have rendered unto thee evil
17).
shalt not tak :
ayes se be
If thine enemy be hungry, give him
bread to eat (Prov, 25 : 21).
Love your enemies (Matt, b : 44).
Overcome evil with good (Rom. 12 : 2),
1. ‘Is this thy voice, my son David?”
(1; David's appeal; (2) Baul’s sur-
prise,
9. “Thou art more righteons than 1.”
(1) David's righteousness conceded
(2) Sanl's nurights otikness cotifess
ed.
8. “Thou hast rendered unto
good, I AV rendered
theeevil.” (1) David smagnanimity
(2) Baul's 1 (1) David's
humiliation
Ins
unis
nsiignity
honor; (2) 8
-—
LESSON BIBLE READING.
LOYE TO MAX,
Is of God (Jobin 3 : 16 : 1 John 4 : 7.
Ilustrated (Matt. 5 : 44-48 ; John 15
34; ph. 5:2)
Commanded (John 15 : 12; 1
4:21.
John
1
andment (Matt
Si
36-39). .
Is the end of the commandment (1
1 * DH).
a fruit of the
Col. 1 : B).
Its characteristics (1 Cor
{1 Cor. 13
sity (1 Cor. 13 : 1-3
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS
VENTS he
Lum.
Spirit (Gal
La
tween
seribed
ri
rene!
Things a Lady
dirt Ex
a new
Hates.
hates mornit
she
mn against dirt,
i ver |
1 Whereve hides
CRIA
1tmell,
or lazy husband can n
an when it Nhe knows
descries if
and comes dow upon it witl
ster like a wolf upon the fold, om
ike an angel with feathery
i
on soon 11 She
{AT
her du
But shy does not ipprove of feather
dusters, which, remarks, set the
dnst flying in the air, only to settle
ymin upon the furniture as soon as hes
back is turned. She 1s not content un
til has gathered the dust,
shaken it out of the window into the
NRIVeTrs [hat where it belongs
but. owing to the total depravity of in
animate things, it returns to vex her
as she
she anc
is
She hates disorder, though not as in
sometimes peculiar ideas of what dis
order is: but she hates disorder, never
As a rule, a lady is a natural lover of
order, and many interiors are complete
triumphs over the tendency to chaos
that pervades all creation.
Ah, those shelves, those drawers,
those chests, where, at this moment,
next summer's “things” are all so nice
ly put away in neat parcels, labelled,
smelling of camphor, where neither
moth can corrupt not boy break through
and throw about!
How scrupulous, too, she is upon the
point of courtesy! How she detest
everything that savors of the uneivil,
the too familiar, the omission of the
polite observances which go so far to
redeem and dignity human life! She
would almost rather die than commit a
dispourtesy; but then there ix little
danger of her coming to an untimely
end for such a cause, since a true lady
cannot commit » discourtesy. — Youth's
Never kop food
tinually.
ARN
belo. &.¢ hens con