, k 2 REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject: *YVhat Sea Captains Say." (Preached at Portland, Oregon.) TEXT: “Lest that by any means I myself should be cast away."—Cor, ix., 27. In the presence of you who live on the Pa. cific coast, I who live on the Atlantic coast may appropriately speak on this marine ally. won of the text, for all who know about the son know about the castaway, The text implies that ministers of re. ligion may help others into heaven and vot miss it themselves. The carpenters that built Noah's ark did not get into it them. selves. Gown and surplice, and diplomas, and canonicals are no security, Cardinal Wolsey, after having been pettod by kings, und having entertained foreign ambassadors | at Hampton Une of the most endnent 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 assem blages, but that is no reason why we shall necessarily reach the realm celestial. The clergyman must go through the same gate of pardon as the layman. * have been cases of shipwreck where all on board escaped excepting th captain, Alas! if, having “preached to otners. 1 myself should be a castaway.” God forbid it I have examined s s of the ox to see what they the t “castaway.” and to the figure used ile they agree in regard to the meaning shall make my own s lection, and take it in a nautical and s wa far ing sense, and show you that men may be come spiritual castaways, and how finally they drift into that calamity You and I live in have all stood the have crossed the an 53%: d vessel There is a « and vonder is number of vo know the diff and it sheet Court, died in darkness ministers of ere mmentiaries this word differ in regard about 14 3 id upon beac] Son bark, su y not point out the and though you « garnets, now you ship as you and if it ar ath Cross 1 o : mld not man the are as found out for such a told that false lig in old Mars and : pore mind that he . rp 1 and he had nw false lights o of man's dan down th look off » wick a ‘Heave the well wh down, O that God would have merey upon those upon whom there comes the sudden swoop of temptation, lost they perish, becom. ing castaways! castaways! By talking with see captain I have found out also that some vessels come to this cal amity through sheer recklessness, There are three milion men who follow the sea for a living. It is a simple fact that the average of human life on the sen iv less than twelve on. This comes from the fact that men | come reckless—the captain, the helmsman, | the stoker. the man on the lookout, become reckless, and in nine out of ten shipwrecks, it {is found that some one was awfully | to blame So I have to tell you { men are morally shipwrecked through sheer | recklessness. There are thousands who do not care where they are in spiritual things They do not know which way they are sail { ing and the sea ix black with piratical hulks that would grapple them with hooks of steel { and blindfold them and make them “walk { the plank.” They do not know what the | next moment may bring forth. Drifting in { their theology. Drifting in their habits, { Drifting in regard to all their future No God, no Christ, no settled antici pations of eternal felicity: but all the time coming nearer and nearer to a dangerous coast. Some of them are on flre with evil habit, and they shall burn on the sea, the | charred hulk tossed up on the barren beach Many of them with great troubles, financial troubles, domestic troubles, social troubles: | but they never pray for comfort. ‘With an aggravation of sin they pray for no pardon 1 ¢ do not steer for the lightship that dances in gladness at the mouth of heaven's harbor; reckless as where they come out, drifting further from God. further from early religious influe , further from happin . and what ix the worst thing about taxing : | | Come a castaway, i i wy familiarity with danger sometimes be | that | | chance is past, and the night drops, and the sea woshes you out, and the appalling fact shall bs announced that notwithstanding afl your magnificent opportunities, you have be- A Snake Steals a Boat, Captain A, B. Couldwell had an inter- esting and unusual experience for this Intitude with a snake at Wigton's Point the other day. He was fishing in the | ereck, snd had occasion to go ashore, and, (ifter tying his small string of perch to the stern of the boat, the Nellie C.. he pulled her upon the beach, Half an hour later he returned, but just in time to se | his prized boat moving slowly toward tl Without a second thought he rushed into the water, through the wild rice, and leaped into the boat The mystery which had shrouded the affair was dissolved when he that a monstrous had one of the perch and had towed the boast out, Couldwell got a lit He seized an unwieldy punt pole, and, with nt well-directed aim, the across the back, which center of the stream. lis overed snake swillowed tle excited Riruck had the snake effect of enraged the the Gen breaking the stringer but “It whirled occupants of the with mouth,” said Cauldwell, “that would take in a forty-five.cent watermelon.” The of tl boat Le young daughicr, became frightened i H $ ’ snake, and started for boat an other oc cupant thought it is, th are their flies along with them, and One ‘ the proba bility is they Yet y. As | unconscious ¢ seaboard eitie fou | of all the wonderful pi show bills where oxen as being devoured by these enorm tiles. Couldwell took to the new of in are re I¢ snake urage. ngside and forced an ancl good nature trength of a Her the iy wntage witli wi weheld his upon he! In fore mp sped 108 the —— Gum in Felt Hats, The Battle of s | ] the Bucks Northern Hemp Culture, The subject of hemp culture is draw- ing the serious attention of farmers in | the Northern States, At present hemp | is chiefly grown in Kentucky, Missouri | and Tennessee, or on the rich bottom | lands. 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For instance, a vessel is ling ¢ in the East Indies, and there is not a single cloud on the sky: but suddenly brew chenis, and thery are swift feet on the ratlines, and the ery in: “Way, haul away there” but before they ean square the booms and tarpaulin the hatchwars, the groaning and creaking in grip of a and falls over into the trough of the ses and broadside it rolls on to the beach and keels over, lmmving the crew " struggle in the merciless surf. Castaway astaway' And so Lhave to tell you that there are thou sands of men destroyed through the sudden swoop of tempiations, Some great indece ment to worklliness, or to sensuality, or to high temper, or to some form of dissipation, comes upon them. If they had time to ex amine their Bible, if thay had time to consult with their friends, if they had time to delib erate, they could stand it; but the templia tion came so suddenly —an suroclydon on the Mediterranean, a whirlwind of the Carib bean. One awful surge of temptation and h. And no we often . “I hadn' soon my friend in a great many years. We were ve iad to meet. Ho mid | must drink andl bie took me by the arm and pressed i. und filled the cup until the bab over the edge, and in an evil moment all my good resolutions were opt away, and to the outraging of God and m soul, T fell” Oy sory is: “1 hard work to support my family, | thought that by one fale etry, b one deception, by one embexglomant, | might spring out free from all my trouble; and Ya, in the ire wal is tornado, t | and succor, B own | ring ny hv day v day at hols fn the ae boat LTT It anal side to sew if 8 : peed wae amid pm ts being and they | hot both of th y wou I kept and the next } h : who had com Hh nee fi phi in : work » i that Ix VHT cited] thousar it has gone and naay of the shipwras you now of a grander the dry docks of heaven that a world was the presence of the life boat of th Isunched. It amid angelic h iss beat ag i= launching Word besting on the potantates of worll's rede veel off the wannas, The surges sinst its bow, but it sailed on and it in sight of us this hour It comes for you, it comes for me into it Make one boat COMPr< Soul! sm ot heavon opportunity leap | the go past and your gone I am expecting that t families here will got In 8, the Isabella came ashore {ings, England. The air was the hoarse sen trumpet the axes, and the bellowing of the A boat (rom the shore came under of the dismbled vessel. There were women | and children on board that ve Rome of the satlors jumped into the small boat and said: “Now give us the children A father who stood om deck took his first born and threw him to the boat. The sailors eanght him safely, and the next, and the next, to the Ixst. Still the sea rocking, the storm howling “Now.” said the milors, | “now the mother” and she leaped, and was [saved, The boat went to the shore: but be fore it got to the shore the landsmen were so | impatient to help the suffering people that { they waded clear down into the surf with | blankasts and te, and prousises of help there are whole families here | who are Kring to be saved and saved alto. . Give us that ohild for Christ, | that other child, that other. Give us | the mother, vo us the father, the | whole family, must all come in, Al heaven wades in to help you. | claim this whole andience for Geox will be who tisct life boat oT Hast fills! with the crash of t wnndo the stern I into Who wots wl : h admired them so wh that I sold them to him.’ —— oC ————— A Pet Blacksnake, the noted horse fair ground ® San Cy trainer at A pet sy in charge of the srles possessor of Lawrenceburg, is the black of ry fond of in whist enormous size. The reptile will re i from his Not obeying ted recently, apartment of the weertain why his pet not forth, and astonished to find the snake colled over a of egus she had laid. Since the discovery the num ber of eggs has been increased, and the reptile now squirms over ten A crowd of persons surrounded the cage the other day to see the unusual sight, but the snake soon grew furious, and even her master thought best to keep out of reach, as she showed flerce anger at any attempt to disturb the CRY. - Philadelphia In quire 2 nv 18 Masts and spond to | nd crawl ver he desires he nner him as readily as CXIH Sam open i the cage would Come wns nest I — Oriental Vigor, There has just died at Mian Mir an old Mussulman woman named Bhuorle, who, says the Lahore paper, is credited with having reached the advanced age of 150 years. 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