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]^v 7 d 1 {. talmage. BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN the SERMON. PAY 4 Sahject: “The Oarsmen Defeated." Tvrr “The men rowed hard to bring it to the land, but they could not, where cried unto “ a Lord.”—Jonah for* t hey i i’ Vavieatk® w- 14 - in the Meditteranean Seaal I l perilous, especially in early I-a propelled partly so by I V>«ie ls were sail I I l -ably by oar. When, by reason of great of weather, it was necessary to reef I thBcanvss or haul it in, then the vessel was 1 I lately r«ntror‘ dependent hirt of upon tbem the oars, either sometimes side Y on of I iLgnr ,he vessel- harbor You with would such a not oraft venture outside ■Lie as my text Jonah sailing in. bnt be had not mueh Kjjoice KLg the of Lord, vessels. and when He was a running Is running away man Kfffty from had the told Lord Jonah be to has to to run Nineveh very fast. Qod go to rresch about the destruction of that city. Jonah disobeyed. That always makes rough •wider, whether in the Mediterranean, or the a Atlantic, or the Pacific, or the Caspian Sea. Efpisa very them, hard when thing%to the brow scare of sailors. the vessel I haveseen under water, and they W n« almost wero talking the deck knee deep in the surf, and the small boats by the side of the vessel had been crushed as small ns kindling wood, whistling as though nothing had happened, hut the Bible says that these marinersof vhom I speak were frightened. That which sailors call “a lump of n sea” has become a mad blinding, wind deafening, swampfng furv. How the can get at the miter, and the water can get at the wind, von do not know unless you have been spectators. I have In my house a piece of the sail oi a. That ship, no larger than the palm of my band. piece of canvas was all that ■was leit ofthe largest sail of theshlp Greece, that went into the storm 200 miles off New¬ foundland. Oh, what a night that was! I suppose it was in some such storm as this that Jonah was caught. He knew that the tempest was on his ac¬ count. and he asked the sailors to throw him. overboard. Sailors are a generous hearted race, and they resolved'to make their es¬ cape. il possible, without resorting to such extreme measures. The sails are of no use, and so they lay hold on their oars. I* see the long bank of shining blades on either side tho vessel. Ob, bow they did pull, the bronzed But seamen, rowing as they the lay back into the oars! on sea to very differ¬ ent from rowing the upon skip a river, the and aa the ves¬ sel hoists oars wave and miss the stroke, and the tempest laughs to soora the flying paddles. It that to of no use, no use. There oomes a wave orashes the last, most and sweeps the oarsmen from their glares and tumbles everything in the con naion of impending shipwreok, or, as my text has it, “The men rowed hard to bring it to the land, but they oould not, wherefore they cried unto the Lord.” This scene to very suggestive to me, and I pray God I may have grace and strength enough to represent it intelligently to you. Years ago I preached a sermon on another phase of this very subject, and I got a letter from Houston, Tex., the writer saying that the reading of that And sermon I in London had led him to God. received another let¬ ter from South Australia, saying that the reading of that sermon Christ. in Australia had brought several souls to And then, I thought why not now take another phase of the same subject, in for perhaps which that is God who can raise power that sown if weakness may now, through another phase of the same who subject, bring salvation to the people shall hear and salvation to the people know who shall read. Men and women who how to pray, lay hold of the Lord God Almighty, and wrestle for the blessing. Bishop Latimer would stop sometimes in his sermon, in the midst of Hs argument, and say, “Now, I will tell von a fable,” and to-day I would like to bring the soene of the text as an illustration of a most Important re¬ ligious truth. As those Mediterranean oars¬ men trying I tobring Jonah ashore were dis¬ comfited, have to tell you that they were wot the only men who have broken down on their the paddles Lord for and help. have I been obliged to , call on want to say that the unavailing efforts of those Mediterranean oarsmen have a counterpart in the efforts we an making and to their bring souls to the shore of safety set feet on the Book of Agee. You have a father or mother or husband or wire or child or near friend who is not a Christian. Then have been times when yon have been in agony about their salvation. A mlnisterot Christ, whose wife was dying without any hands, hope in Jeeus, walked the floor, wrung his cried bitterly and said, “I believe I shall go insane, for I know she is not prepared to meet God.” And then, may have been days of tooknese in your house¬ hold, when you feared it woald be a fatal sickness, face of the and doctor how closely he you examined In and the as came sera tinised the patient and felt the pulse, and you followed him Into the next room and said “Then isn’t any danger, is there, doc¬ tor?*' Aad the hesitation and the unoer tainty of the reply made two eternities flash before your vision. And then you went and talked to the sick one about the (treat tuture. Oh, there Are thoee here who have tried to bring their friends to God! They have been unable to bring them to the shore of safety. They are no nearer that point than they were twenty years ego. You think you have got them almost to the shore, when you are swept book again. What shall you do? Put down but the I oar? do Oh, advise no, I do not •dvtoe that, that you appeal to that God to whom the Mediterra¬ nean ■tonne earsorea appealed—the and Gol whe oould the tempest bring the ship in Saf that el y there to the tms port! 1 be tell you. deal my friends, got to a good of pray¬ ing before ouf families ate brought to Christ. Ah, It is an awftil thing to have half a lease¬ hold oh oaoflde tho the line and the other part of the houshold on other side of the fine! Two veseels pact oa the ocean Af eternity, dsnssihg to rhwtfght an 1 tho other to the left—farther apart and farther apart—until to be recognise! and there two specks on the horizon, and then they ore lost to sight forever! that tho mnawsUlog eft have a mart in the efforts of are Aing'to There bring our children to the shore of ety- awrer.wer people so many tampta as for young are now. a literary aad the social tag sooth. be against their spiritual entirety Into Christ |ps to be driv. a almost from tho tool and the pleasurable oon coarse, yet Uhl Ws cannot think of going into even without them. We do not went tores this Bib wMfo they are tossing l the waves of which temptation of them and away m God. From could , consent to ha eternally repented? ouM it be the sou? Would it he the Mbteii' Would h be the eldest? Would ithe youngest? Would It be the to veil and stout or tbs one that Is Oh, I hear acme parent saying bring to : “I have tried my beet to my n to Christ. I have laid hold of the and I have the heat, spalled lor the of the text and cry God. We for ehfldrm, he had tried US six to d^utire. Thre beret Sstsw? i pnren tad ftftl<! r “O God, tsso Load startHngly id in a few weeks I O*. There are parents who are almost discour¬ aged about their children.- Where is your son to-night? He has wondered off perhaps to the ends of the earth. It seems as if he . cannot get far enough away from your Christian counsel. What does he care about the furrows that come to yoar brow, about the quick whitening of the hair, about the fact that your back begins to stoop with the burdens? Why, he would not care much if he heard yon were dead! The black-edged letter that brought the tidings he would put in the same package with other letters tell¬ ing the story of his shame. What are you going to do? Both paddles broken at the middle of the blade, how can you pull him ashore? I throw you one oar now with which t believe you can bring him Into harbor. It Is the glorious promise, “I wili be a Sod to thee and to thy seed niter thee.” Ob, broken¬ hearted father and mother, you have tried everything else: now make an appeal for the help and omnipotence of the covenant keeping God. and perhaps at your next Day. family gathering—perhaps on Thanksgiving perhaps next Christmas Day—the prodigal may be home, and if von crowd on his plate more luxuries than ou any brothers other plate- will at the table jealous, I am sore the not be but they will wake up all the music in the house, “because the dead is alive again and because the lost is found.” Perhaps your prayers have been answered already. The vessel may this be coming homeward, and by the light of night’s stars that absent son may be pacing the deck of the ship, anxious for the time to oome when he can throw his arm around your neck and ask for forgiveness for that he has been wr inging your old heart so long. Glorious reunion, that will be too saered for outsiders to look upon, but I would just like to look through the window wnen you have all got together again and are seated at the banquet. Though parents may in covenant ba And have t'leir heaven W view, They are not ha^py till they aeo Tnls chil ren hapoy 100. Again. I remark that the unavailing effort of the Mediterranean oarsmen has a coun¬ terpart In the effort which we are making to bring this world back to God, His pardon and safety. If this world, couid have been saved by human effort, it would have been done long ago. John Howard took hold of one oar. and Carey Judson took hold of another oar. and Adoniram took hold of another oar, and Luther took hold of another oar, and John Knoxtook hold of another oar and they pulled until they fell back dead from the exhaustion. Some dropped in the ashes of martyrdom, some on tho scalping knives of savages and some into the plague struck room of the lazaretto, and still the chains are not broken, and still the despotisms are not demolished, and still the world Is unsaved. What then? Put down the oars and make no effort? I do not advise that. But I want you. Chris¬ tian brethren, to understand that the ehuroh, and the school and the only college, and the mis¬ sionary society this are the instrumentali¬ ail ties, and dolt, if and work He will is ever do done It In at God must answer to onr land, prayer. “They could rowed hard wherefore to bring they It to the but they not, cried unto the Lord.” Again, the unavailing effort of those Medi¬ terranean oarsmen has a counterpart in every man that Is trying to row his own soul Into safety. When the eternal spirit flashes upon us our condition, we try to save our¬ selves. We say, “Give me a stout oar for my right hand, give me a stout oar for my left h'and,andlwill pull and myseit dashes into safety.’’ No. A wave of sin comes you one way, and a wave of temptation comes and dashes you tn another way, and there are plenty of rocks on which to founder, but seemingly no harbor into which to sail. Sin must be thrown overboard, or we tried must perish. become There are men who have for years to Christians. They believe alt I sav in regard to a future world. They believe that re¬ ligion is the first, the last, the infinite ne¬ cessity. They do everything but trust in Christ. They make sixty strokes In a min¬ ute. They bend forward with all earnest¬ ness. and they lie back until tho muscles are distended, and vet they have not made one inch in ten years toward heaven. What is the reason? That is not the way to go to work. Ton might as well take a frail skiff and put It down at the foot of Ni¬ agara and then head it up toward the churning thunderbolt of waters and ex¬ pect to work your way up through the lightning of the foam into calm Lake Erie as for you ter try to pull yourself hope through pardon the surf of your sin into the and and placidity that of the Sin gospel. is You rough cannot and do It in way. a gondola sea, longboat, yawl, pinnace and go down unless the Lord deliver, but if you will cry to Christ and lay hold of divine mercy you are as safe from eternal con¬ demnation as though you had been twenty years in heaven. But glory be to God that Jesus Christ is able to take us up out of our shipwrecked shoul¬ and dying condition and put us on the der of His strength, and by the omnipotence all the of His gospel bear us on through through the journey of this life and at last opening gates of heaven 1 He is mighty to save. Though your sin be long and black and Inexcusable and outrageous, the very moment you believe I unconditional, will proclaim pardon —quick, promising. full, UilmUlble, grand, infinite. Oh, the uncom¬ grace of God! I am overwhelmed when I come to think of it. Give me a thousand ladders, lash¬ ed fast to each other, that I may scale the height. Let the 'line run out with the an¬ chor until all the cables of the earth are ex¬ hausted, that we may touch the depth. Let the archangel fir in circuit of eternal ages in trying to sweep around this theme. Ob, the graoe of God 1 It is so high. It is so broad. It is so deep. Glory be to my God. that where man’s oar gives out God’s arm begins! Why will re carry your sins and your sor¬ rows any longer when Christ offers to take them? Why will you wrestle down your fears when this moment you might give up and be eased ? Do you not know that every¬ thing la ready ?. the feast. Jesus . has the Plenty of room at ring of His love all ready to put upon your hand. Come now and sit down, ye hungry ones, at the banquet. Ye who are in rags of sin. take the robe of Christ. Ye who are swamped by the breakers aroun l you. cry to Corist to pilot you into smooth, still waters. On account of the peculiar phase of the snojeot I hare drawn my present ’illustrations, yon see, chiefly iron the water. I re mem tier that a vessel went to pieces on the Bermudas a great many boar! years ago. It had a vast treasure on But, the vessel being sunk, no effort was made to raise it. After many yaaw had a company or adventurers went but from England, and after a loag vessel voy age they said reached have the sunk. place They where got the into a was to Then ■ mull boat and hovered over the place. broke the divers went down, and they through what looked like a limestone cover lag, and the treasures rolled out—want was found afterward to be, in American money, worth $ 1 800 000 , and the* foundation of a , , the great fail finer nouse. At that time whole world rejoiced over what was called toe look of these adventurers. O, ye who hat* rowing toward the shore and have sot to rwdi it, I want to toil you to-aight that your boat hovers over infinite trees arc! All the riehas of mod ace m four feet—treasures dim. fall and drowns that never grow Who Who will £’ r and seek thorn? will dive of great price? Who wfil be i _ lor life, for death, foe o loag eternity? toward See two stretched out ail thy soul “Oome unto me, y» heavy laden, and l Will A* “Wen,” si moody philoao i’t anything but fleeting riunr, . §t Officially reported, r after elaborate com¬ ft petitive tests qjade under authority of r 1 Congress by the m Chief Chemist of the United States Agri¬ HIM cultural Department, Superior to ail o other Baking Pow¬ absolutely ders in Leaven¬ PURE. ing Strength. The most Careful Housev/ife will use no other. ROYAL BAKIN® POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. Made It Unanimous. A gentleman had been np in a bal¬ loon and had taken his little girl with him. „ “How did you feel,” asked a friend. “Why,” said he, “when we were np but a shOTt distance my little girl looked over the edge of the basket car and cried: ’Mamma!’and I felt that way, too.” Go out of doors errand. at least once a day oh some fixed The change broadens the mind—the fresh air in¬ vigorates the body. 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