REV. DR TALMAGE
The Eminent Washington Divine
Sunday Sermon.
Subject: *‘A Shattered KFalth.,”
TEXT: “And some on broken pieces of the
ship." —Aets xxvil,, 44,
Never off Goodwin sands or the Skorries
or Caps Hatteras was ashipin worse predien.
ann
wih
was the grain ship on whieh passengers
were driven on the coast of Malta, five miles
from the metropolis of that isian i,
Citta Vecchia, After a two weeks’ tempest,
when the was entirely disabled and
captain and crew had become eo nplately
demoralized, an old missionary took
command of the vessel, He was small,
crooked-backai a sore-oved, accord.
ing to tradition.
unseared mana
of a Eurociydon
ship
He was no more afraid
g the Mediterranean
san, now upto the gates of heaven and now
sinking it to the gates of , than he was
afruid of a kitten playing with a string.
orderad
first asking for them a .bles % I'l
insured all their lives, t
would ba rescued, and, 8
their heads, they w
their hair as you oe
of the seissors—nay,
whether iv were grav
with youth, *‘There
from the head of any of vou
hat they can never
they mal he sea
ae
wn he
thoy
’
thread o
nage
not a
not
not
with
asl
sand
or golden
\nowing t get tot
sired port,
tcenth night black
that when the
Arike so heavily,
reek and in their e
forit. And so tl}
the two paddies t! hos
and hoistad the mais
come with
up on thet rtunate bill
There she goes, tumbling toward
now prow foremos )
rolling ever to th
the larboard; no
the deck. and it
ha 2 forey
nth
irown
overt
sO
si © driven higl
¢ .
8 the ro
D6
Paul's
cries “All is
all those that
went the pr
off the mast,
seas rushed throu
Again,
wall,
vessel, She 1
thousand frac
the waves
Boma o
Joha Calvi
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sieve in Armin
n th
a the
hirist is saved,
:
accept hin
deer
is lost
I believe in both the Hei lelberg and West.
minster catechis . and I wish u all did,
but you may believe in nothing tt
*xcept the one idea, ti
Bave sinners, and that ye
and you are inst
come in on
rather have get abo
only figd a prece of w
man body, «r a
spread human arms
piece of or
thousands «
out of Kingd
earaot belfeve ave
[amy Ik
his
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intiy reseed,
tha
the grund
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piece
the a,
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the
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has inte
who Healy tray
New England and passed the g
have no admiration. Bat the Bible does no,
say, "Bolleve in perdition and be saved.’
Because all are saved, according to your
theory, that ought not to keep vou from lov-
ing and serving Christ. Do not refuse to
come ashore because all the others, accord.
ing to your theory, are going to get shore,
| You may have a different theory about chem-
istry, about astronomy,about the atmosphers
from that which others adopt, but you are
| not therefore hindered from action.
Bocause your theory of Hght ts different
from others do not refuse to open your eyes,
| Because your theory of air is different wou
not refuse to breathe, Because your
| theory about the stellar system is different
you do not refuse to acknowledge the north
star. Why should the fast that your theolo-
{ gical theories nre different hinder you from
acting upon whut you know? If vou have
{ Bot a whole ship fastensd in the theological
{ drydocks to bring you to wharfage, vou have
at least a plank, “Some on broken
of the ship,”
“Bat I don't believe revivals!" Then
»to your room, and all alon with your
door locke I, give your heart to God, and
join where the thermometer
i do
pieces
in
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church
never gets higher than fifty in the shade.
“But Ido not believe in baptism!” Come
without it and settle that matter after-
ward, “But there are many in-
consistent Christinns” Then come
in and show them by a good example
| how prof should net. “But I don't
elleve in Old Testament!” Then
ome in on the New, “Bat I don't like the
book of Romans.” Then come in Mat.
or Luke, Rafusing to comes to Christ,
1 you admit to be the Sa the
‘Aus you cannot admit other thiogs,
you s like a mau out thera in that Meditor-
ranean te und to«ssl in the Melita
ikers, refusing to o until he
an mend the plec { tho broken ship. I
hear him say: * on any of these
until I what part of
b When I ean
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roken pleces of th
My sympathiss
more becaise
lisposad
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ror of
being séa than any
arancan break.
and I was sor nes the anaoyaace
r theoio i a
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I knew Christ was the Savion:
nat I was a sinner, nod I got
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in this life the des iny is {rrevo iy
think there will another opportunity
répestance after death,” lsay to hug
brother, what has that to do with
Don’t you realigs that the man
waits for another caenes alter
prop its them lor
fixed hirty seconds,
I would rather in a mud scow try to
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is 8 stark fool? Had not you b
the plank that is thrown to + yi
and head for shore rather than wait fe
piank that may by invisible hands be
to you yy Doasy
but as for mysel?, pardon [
sins offered mo n all the je f
and eternity now, I instantly
take them, rather than ran the risk of
other chance as wise men t
off or twist Seriptare passage
that his for afl the ( iristian ecnturies
been interpreted another way." ¥
do not like Prine theology,
Haven theology, or Andover theology.
not ask you on board f :
men-of-war, their
great siege guns of
Idonsk you to take the one p'ack of the
gospel that you do believe in and strike out
for the pear! strung beach of heaven,"
Bays some other man, “I woul! attend
religion i I was quite sure abou. the doc
trine of election and
mixes ms all ap
bother me, but |
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I'hose things used to
HAYe no more perplexity
about them, for I say to myself, “It [ Jove
Christ and live a good, honest, useful jife, I
I am elected to ba saved, and it I do not
love Christ and live a bad life I wiil be
damned, and all the theological sem.
inaries of the universe cannot make ft
any different.” | flouudered a long while
in the sen of sin and doubt, and it was as
rough as the Mediterransan on the four-
teenth night, when they threw the grain
overboard, but I saw thers was merey for a
sinner, and that plank I took, and I have
been warmiag myssit by the bright fire on
the shore ever since,
While I am taiking to another man about
his soul he tells me, “I do not a
Christian because [ do not believe there is
any hell at all.” Ah, don’t you? Do all the
people of all beliefs and no belief at all, of
geod morals and bad morals Ko straight to a
happy heaven? Do the holy and the de-
baached have the samo destination? At mid-
night, in a hallway, the owner of a
house snd a burglar meet, They both
fire, and both are wounded, but the
su dies in five minutes, and the owner
of the house lives a week after. Will the
burglar be at the gate of heaven, waiting,
When the house owner comes in? Wil the
a and the libertine go right in
among the lumilies of heaven? wonder if
Herod is playing on the banks of the river
life with the children be massacrsd, 1
onder if Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes
do an. . it, although I
not now controvert ti must
8ay that for such sm miserable hesven I
duiging. They remind me of a
of salors standing on the AIR.
"head, from which the Hfeboats are
usually launched, aad eo
lifferent ex of oarl
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pate pis
sty ocks and how
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iurricane is is
feamers crowded with passengers going to
An old tar, the musales
King with nervous excitement,
“This is no time to discuss such
Man the lifebos Who will volun
Uut with her into the sur! Pull, my
pul for the wreck! Ha, ha' Now
We bave them. if them in and lay them
| down on the bottom of the boat. Jack, you
{try to bring them to. Put these flannels
ound their heads and feet, and I wili pull
{ for the shore. God help me! There! Landed!
{ Huzza!" When thers are eo many struggling
| in the waves of sin and sorrow and wretch
| edness, lot ali else gn but salvatiofi for time
| and salvation forever
{ Youn mit you are all broken up, one de-
your life gone by, two decades, three
oon
ing.
{lew
sade of
iecades, four decades, a half « entury, perhaps
| three-quarters of a century, gone. The
hour hand and the minute hand of your
{ clock of fe are almost parallel, and soon ft
| will be 12 and your day ended, Clear aise
j couraged, are you? I admit it 1s a sad thing
| 10 give ail of our lives that are worth any.
{thing to sin and the devil and then at
[Inst make God a present of a first rate
{ eorpse, But the past you cannot recover,
Get on board that old ship you never will,
Have you only one more year loft, one more
month, one more week, one mors day, ona
more hour-—coms in on that Perhaps it
you get to heaven God may let you go out
on some great misdion to some other world,
where you ean atons for your lack of ser.
vice in this,
From many a deathbed I have roan
the hands thrown up in deploration
something like this: “My life has been
wasted, I had good mental fasultfes
and fine social position and great oppor.
tunity, but through worldliness and neg-
leet all has gone to waste save these
few remaining hours. I now ascept of
Christ and shall enter heaven through
His mercy, but alas, sins, that when I might
Javé sutéred the haven of oy Tout with
A full eargo, and been greet Way.
ing bands ofa multitude in whose salvation
1 had borne a blessed part, I must confess
BOW enter the harbor of heaven om broken
pieces of the ship,”
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pdver. VY hal was it?
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