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TAIMAGE'S SEKMON. HE FINDS MANY LESSONS IN THE LIFEBOAT. * Touch of Sarcasm on Theosophy—A flood Word for Morallsin, but It I* Not Sufficient—The Only Ark of Safety—Oct Aboard! At the Tabernacle. After Drenching on nearly 4,000 different sub ects and being closely followed by the printing press for about twenty-live yours Rev. Dr. Talmage still seems to find new subjects that have never been preached on. Sunday forenoon he chose for his subject “Unsafe Lifeboats,’’ the text being Acts xxli, 32, “Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and lot her fall off.” While yotir faces are yet somewhat bronzed by attendance on the international boat contest between the Vigilant and the Valkyrie, 1 address you. Good things when there is no betting or dissipation, those outdoor sports. We want more frosh air and breeziness in our temperaments and our religion. A stale and slow and lugubrious religion may have done for other times, yet will not do for these. But my text calls, our -attention to a boat of a different sort, and instead of the Atlantic it is the Mediterranean, and instead of not wind ono.ugh, as the crews of the Vigilant and Valkyrie the other day complained,there is too much wind and the swoop of. a Euroclydon. I am not calling your attention so much, to the famous ship on which Paul was the distinguished passenger, but to the lifeboat of that ship which no one seems to notice. For a fortnight the main vessel had bocti tossed and driven. For that two weeks, the account says, the passengers’had “continued fasting.” I suppose the salt water, dashing over, had spoiled the sea biscuit, and the passengers were seasick anyhow. Tho sailors said, “It is no use; this ship must go down,” and they proposed among themselves to lower the lifeboat and get into it and take the chances for reaching shore, although they pretended they were going to get over the Sides of the big ship and down into the lifeboat onlv to do sailors’ duty. That was not sailorlike, for the sailors that I have known were all intrepid fellows and would rather go down with the ship than do such a mean thing as those Jack Tars of my text attempted. When on the Mediterranean last June the Victoria sank under the ram of the Camperdown, the most majestic thing about that awful scene was that all the sailors staid at their posts doing their duty. As a class all over the world sailors are valorous, but these sailors of the text were exceptional and pretended to do duty while they were really preparing for flight in the lifeboat. But these “marines” on board—sea soldiers—had in especial charge a little missionary who was turning the world upside Sown, and when these marines saw the trick the sailors were about to play they lifted the cutlasses from the girdle and chop! chop! went those cutlasses into the ropes that held the lifeboat, and splash! it dropped into the sea. My text describes it—“ The soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.” As the empty lifeboat dropped -and was capsized on a sea where for two weeks winds and billows had been in battle, I think that many on board the main vessel felt their last hope of ever reaching home had vanished. In that tempestuous sea a small boat could not have lived five minutes. A Tribute to Sailors.

My subject is “Unsafe Lifeboats.” We cannot exaggerate the importance of the lifeboat. All honor to the memory of Lionel Lukin, the coach builder of Long Acre, London, who invented the first lifeboat, and I do not blame him for ordering put upon his tombstone in Kent the inscription that you may still read there: “This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a lifeboat, and was the original inventor of that principle of safety by which many lives and much property have been preserved from shipwreck, and he obtained for it the King’s patent in the year 1785.” All honor to the memory of Sir William Hillary, who, living in the Isle of Man, and .after assisting with his own hand in the rescue of 305 lives of the shipwrecked, stirred the English Parliament to quick action in the construction of lifeboats. Thanks to God for the sublime and pathetic and divine mission of the lifeboat. No one will doubt its important mission who has ever read of the wreck of the Amazon in the Bay of Biscay, of the Tweed running on the reefs of the Gulf of Mexico, or of the Ocean Monarch on the coast of Wales, or of the Birkenhead on the Capo of Good Hope, or of the Royal Charter on the coast of Anglesea, or of the Exmouth on the Scotch breakers, or of the Cambria on the Irish coast, or of the Lexington on Long Island Sound. To add still further to the importance of the lifeboat, remember there are at feast 3,ooo,o(X>men following thb sea, to say nothing of the uncounted millions at this moment ocean passengers. We “land lubbers,” as sailors call us, may not know the difference between a marlinespike and a ring bolt, or anything about heaving a log, or rigging out a flying jibboom, or furling a topsail, but we all realize to greater or less extent the importance of a lifeboat in every marine equipment. The Soul’. Lifeboat. But do we feel the importance of a lifeboat in the matter of the soul’s rescue? There are times when we all feel that we are out at sea, and as many disturbing and anxious questions strike us as waves struck that vessel against the sides of which the lifeboat of my text dangled. Questions about the church. Questions about the world. Questions about God. Questions about our eternal destiny. Every thinking man and woman has these questions, and in proportion as they are thinking people do these questions arise. There is no wrong in thinking. If God had not intended us to think and keep on thinking. He would not have built under this wheelhouse of the skull this thinking machine, for when we are in dreams we are thinking, although we do not think as well. All of us who are accustomed to thinking want to reach some solid shore of safety and satisfaction, and if anyone has a good lifeboat, that we may honorably take I wish he would unswing it from the davits and let us get into it and put for shore. But I give you fair notice I must first examine the lifeboat before I risk my soul in it or advise you to risk your soul in it. All the splendid Ramsgate lifeboats, and Margate lifeboats, and South Shields lifeboats, and American lifeboats were testec. before being put into practical use as to their buoyancy and speed and stowage and self righting capacity. And when you offer my soul a lifeboat I must first test it. There is a splendid new lifeboat called Theosophy. It has only a little while been launched, although some of the plank are really several thousand years old, and from a worm eaten ship, out they are painted over and look new. They are really fatalism and pantheism of olden time. But w» must

forget that and call thorn Theosophy. The Grace Darling of this lifeboat was an oarswoman by the name of Mme. Blavatsky, but the ourewoman now Is Annie Bosant. So many are getting aboard tho boat it is worthy of examination, both because of the safety of those who have entered It and because we ourselves are invited to get in. Its theory is that everything is God. Horse and star and tree und man are parts of God. We have three souls—an animal soul, a human soul, a spiritual soul. The animal soul becomes after awhile a wandering thing, trying to express itself through mediums. It enters beasts or enters a human being, and when you find an effeminate marl it is because a woman’s soul has got into tho man, and when you find a masculine woman it is because a man’s soul has taken possession of a woman'sbody. If you find a woman has become a platform speaker und likes politics, she is possessed by a dead politician, who forty years ago made tho platform quake. The soul keeps wandering on and on, and may have fifty or innumerable different forms, and finally is absorbed in God. It was God at tho start and will be God at the last. But who gives the authority for the truth of such a religion? Somo beings living in a cave in Central Asia. They are invisible to the naked eye, but they cross continents and seas in a flash. Instead of needing the revelation of a Bible, you can have these spirits from a cave in Central Asia to tell you all you ought to know, and after you leave this life you may become a prima donna, or a robin, or a gazelle, or a sot, or a prizefighter, or a Herod, or a Jazebel, and so bd .enabled to have a great variety of experience, rotating through the universe, now rising, now falling, now shot out in a straight line and now describing a parabola, and on and on, and up and up, and down and down, and round and round. Don't you see? Now, that theosophic lifeboat has been launched. It proposes to take you off the rough sea of doubt into everlasting quietude. How do you like that lifeboat? My opinion is you had better imitate the mariners of my text and cut off the ropes of that boat and let her fall off. The Moralist's Hope. Another lifeboat tempting us to enter is made of many planks of good works. It is really a beautiful boatalmsgiving, practical sympathies for human suffering, righteous words and righteous deeds. I must admit I like the looks of the prow, and of the rowlocks, and of the paddles, and of the steering gear, and of many who are thinking to trust themselves on her benches. But the trouble about that lifeboatls it leaks. I never knew a man yet good enough to earn Heaven by his virtues or generosities. If there be one person here present on this blessed Sabbath all of whose thoughts have been always right, all of whose actions have always been right, and all of whose words have always been right, let him stand up, or if already standing let him lift his hand, and I will know that he lies. The Hope of the Hypocrite. Another lifeboat is Christian Inconsistencies. The planks of tnis boat are composed of the split planks of shipwrecks. That prow is made out of hypocrisy from the life of a man who professed one thing and really was another. One oar of this lifeboat was the falsehood of a church member, and the other oar was the wickedness of a minister of the Gospel whose iniquities were not for a long while found out. Not one plank from the oak of God’s eternal truth in all that lifeboat. All the planks, by universal admission, are decayed and crumbling " and fallen apart and rotten and ready .o sink. “Well, well 1” you say. “No one will want to get into that lifeboat.” Oh, my friend, you are mistaken. That is the most popular lifeboat ever constructed. That is tfip most popular lifeboat ever launched. Millions of people want to get into it. They jostle each other to get the best seat in the boat. You could not keep them back though you stood on the gunwales with a club, as on our ship Greece in a hurricane, and the steerage passengers were determined to come up on deck, where thev would have been washed off, and the officers stood at the top of the stairs clubbing them back. Even by such violence as that you could not keep people from jumping into the most popular lifeboat, made up of church member inconsistencies. la times of revival when sinners flock into the inquiry room the most of them are kept from deciding aright because they know so many Christians who are bad. The inquiry room becomes a World’s Fair for exhibition of all the frailties of church members, so that if you believe all is there told you you would be afraid to enter a church lest you get your pockets picked or get knocked down. This is the way they talk: “1 was cheated out of SSOO by a leader of a Bible class.” “A Sunday-school teacher gossiped about me and did her best to destroy my good name.” “I had a partner in business who swamped our business concern by his trickery and then rolled up his eyes in Friday night prayer meeting, as though he were looking for Elijah’s chariot to make a second trip and take up another passenger.” But what a cracked and waterlogged and gaping seamed lifeboat the inconsistencies of others! Put me on a shingle mid-Atlantic and leave me there rather than in such a yawl of spiritual confidence. God forbid that I should get aboard it, and lest some of you make the mistake of getting into it Ido as the mariners did on that Mediterranean ship when the sailors were about to get into the unsafe lifeboat of the text and lose their lives in that way. “Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.” The Only Safe Lifeboat* “Well,” says some one, “this subject is very discouraging, for we must have a lifeboat if we are ever to get ashore, and you have already condemned three.” Ah, it is because I want to persuade you to take the only safe lifeboat. I will not allow you to be deceived and get on to the wild waves and then capsize or sink. Thank God, there is a lifeboat that will take you ashore in safety, as sure as God is God and Heaven is Heaven. The keel and ribs of this boat are made out of a tree that was set up on a bluff back of Jerusalem a good many years ago. Both of the oars are made out of the same tree. The rowlocks are made out of the same tree. The steering gear is made out of the same tree. The planks of it were hammered together by the hammers of executioners who thought they were only killing a Christ, but were really pounding together an escape for all Imperiled souls of all ages. Like those newly invented English lifeboats, it is insubmergible, self righting and self bailing. All along our rocky American coast things were left to chance for centuries, and the shipwrecked crawled up on the beach to die unless some one happened to walk along or some fisherman’s hut might be near. But after the ship Ayrshire was wrecked at Squan Beach, and the Rowhattan left her 3tf) dead strewn along our coast, and another vessel went on the rojks, 400 lives perishing, the United States Government woke up and made an appropriation of 5200.000 for life saving stations, and life

lines from faking box arc shot over the wild surf, and hawsers are stretched from wreck to shore, and what with Lyle’s gun and six-oared surfboat, with I cork at the sides to make it unsinkable, and patrolmen all night long walking the beach until they meet each other and exchange metal tickets, so us to show the entire beach has been traversed, and the Coston light flashes hope from shore to sufferer, and surfmen Incased in Merriman life saving dress and life car rolling on tho ropes, there are many probabilities of rescue for the unfortunate of tho sea. But tho government of the united heavens’ has made better provision for the rescue of our souls. So dose by that this moment wo can put our hands on its top and swing into it, is this gospel lifeboat. It will not take you more than a second to get into it. A Lifeboat for All. But while in my text we stand watching the marines with their cutlasses, preparing to sever tho ropes of tho lifeboat and let her fall off, notice the poor equipment. Only one lifeboat. Two hundred and seventy-six passengers, as Paul counted them, and only one lifeboat. My text uses the singular and not the plural. “Cut off the ropes of tho boat.” Ido not suppose it would have hold more than thirty people, though loaded to the water's edge. I think by marine law all our modern have enough lifeboats to hold all the crew and all the passengers in case of emergency, but the marines of my text were standing by tho only boat and that a small boat, and yet 276 passengers. But what thrills me through and through is t-he fact that though we Are wrecked by sin and trouble, and there is only one lifeboat, that boat is large enough to hold all who are willing to get into it. But I got into the gosjiel lifeboat, and I got ashore. No religious speculation for me. These higher criticism fellows do not bother mo a bit. You may ask me fifty questions about the sea, and about the land and about the lifeboat that I cannot answer, but one thing I know, lam ashore, and I am going to stay ashore, if the Lord by His grace will help me. I feel under me something so firm that I try it with my right foot, and try it wit hmy left foot, and then 1 try it with both feet, and it is so solid that I think it must be what the old folks used to call the Rock of Ages. Anri be my remaining days on earth many or few I am going to spend my time in recommending the lifeboat which fetched me here, a poor sinner saved by grace, and in swinging the cutlasses to sever the ropes of my unsafe lifeboat and let her fall off. My hearer, without asking any questions, get into the gospel lifeboat. Room! and yet there is room! The biggest boat.on earth is the gospel lifeboat. You’must remember the proportion of things, and that the shipwrecked craft is the whole earth, and the lifeboat must be in proportion. You talk about your Campanias, and your Lucanias, and your Majesties, and your City of New Yorks, but all of them put together are smaller than an Indian's canoe on Schroon Lake compared with this gospel lifeboat, that is large enough to take in all nations. Room for one and room for all. “Get in! “How? How?” you ask. Well, I know how you feel, for summer be'ore last, on the Sea of Finland, I had the same experience. The ship in which we sailed could not venture nearer than a mile from shore, where stood the Russian palace of Peterhof, and we had to get into a small boat and be rowed ashore. The water was rough, and as we wentdownthe ladder at the side of the ship we held firmly on to the railing, but in order to get into the boat we had at last to let go. How did I know that the boat was good and that the oarsmen were sufficient? How did I know that the Finland Sea would not swallow us with one opening of its crystal jaws? We had to trust, and we did trust, and our trust was well rewarded. In the same way get into this gospel lifeboat. Let go! As long as you hold on to any other hone you are imperiled, and you get no advantage from the lifeboat. Let go! Does some one here say, “I guess I will hold on a little to my good works, or to a pious parentage, or to something I can do in the way of achieving my own salvation. No, no, let go! Trust the Captain,who would not put you into a rickety or uncertain craft. a The Only Sure Resource. For the sake of your present and everlasting welfare, with all tho urgency of an immortal addressing immortals, I cry from the depths of my soul and at the top of my voice, “Let go I” Last summer the life saving crew at East Hampton invited me to come up to the life station and see the crew practice, for twice a week they are drilled in the important work assigned them by the United States Government, and they go through all the routine of saving the shipwrecked. But that would give little idea of what they would have to do if some midnight next winter, the wind driving beachward, a vessel should get in the grasp of a hurricane. See the lights flare from the ship in the breakers, and then responding lights flaring from the beach, and hear the rockets buzz as they rise, and the lifeboat rumbles out, and the gun booms, and tho lifeline rises and falls across the splintered decks, and the hawser tightens, and the life ear goes to and fro, carrying the exhausted mariners, and the ocean, as if angered by the snatching of the human prey from the white teeth of its surf and and the stroke of its billowing paw, rises with increased fury to assail the land. So now I am engaged in no light drill, practicing for wlpijt may come over some of your souls, It is with some of you wintry midnight, and your hopes for this world and the next are wrecked. But see! See! The lights kindled on the beach. I throw out the life line. Haul in, hand over hand! Ah, there is a lifeboat in the surf which all the wrath of earth and hell cannot swamp, and its Captain with scarred hand puts the trumpet to His lips as He cries, “Oh, Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help.” But what is the use of all this if you decline to get into it. You might as well have been a sailor on board that foundering ' ship of the Mediterranean when the mariners cut the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.

An Old Merchant's Advice. “Never credit on the strength of personal acquaintance alone. A man may have the hearty grip, winning smile and tender cons ience of a Young Men’s Christian Association Secretary, and yet never dream that your pay-roll comes around regularly on Saturday. He may an eye of tender blue and wear the finest clothes; you may see the corner of a half-used check-book sticking out of his inside pocket, an yet—never pay his bills. To summarize: When asked for credit, always investigate the man’s previous standing, and get your information from the people who trusted him before. Always bear tn mind: “The best eriteron as to how a man will pay his bills is ths way be has paid them.’’—American Grocer.

A Gum-Chewing Fish. It is not always safe to judge by appearances, for often, as the poet Longfellow says. "Things are not what they seein.” Some years ago the writer of this article was fishing from a I tout in Mlss'ssippl Sound opposite Biloxi, when growing tired of a niece of gum which she han been trying in vain to learn to like, she dropped it into the water. What was her astonishment when within tho next halfhour she caught a fish with this identical piece of gum in its mouth. This is a fish story, but it is absolutely true, and not so very remarkable either, when one remembers that there were a half-dozen lines hanging from the boat at the time, each holding a tempting bait, so that the fish who had snapped up the gum would be apt to linger near the luring snares and be eventually caught.—Harper’s Young People. Novel Fire Protection. One of the cheapest, simplest and most efficient devices for the protection of shingle roofs from fire is being introduced in some cities. It. consists of nothing more than a water pipe running along the ridge board of the roof and connected with the water service of the building. The roof pipe is perforated at short intervals so that at a moment’s notice the roof can be flooded and rendered impervious to sparks and blazing fragments blown from the burning buildings in the neighborhood. The device is at ence so simple and effective that one wonders why Its introduction was not coeval with that of water mains and ' hydrants.—Boston Real Estate Record. Severe Laws in a Small Republic. It is said- that San Marino, the diminutive Italian Republic, and the oldest government of its kindin existence, has the most severe criminal laws of any civilized country known. Thieves have the right hand chopped off, and murderers are hurled over a precipice into the deep gorge of Feri. As a result of this severity, no murder was chronicled for a long time, until some years ago, when a woman was convicted of having wantonly killed her young daughter. Notwithstanding her prayers for mercy, the sentence of the law was strictly adhered to. —Pittsburgh Dispatch. Dean Swift’s Unpronounceable Name. A writer in Notes and Queries, referring to the origin of ''houyhuhnm.’' says that this curious jumble of letters was devised by Swift to represent the whinnying of a horse. It is a dissyllable. I have heard it variously pronounced by educated persons. The prevailing.pronunciations may be phonetically rendered as follows: "Hoo-himz.” hoo-inmz,” “whin-imz,” and “hoo-in-imz.” The initial aspirate is always sounded. Pope uses it as a dissyllable: Nay, would kind Jove my organa so dispose To hymn harmonious Houyhnhnms through the nose. A Lamp Cane. A German inventor has produced an electric cane lamp. The handle of the cane contains an incandescent lamp, the two poles of which are connected with the nlates of a battery. Below this is a small chamber to carry the battery fluid. When it is desired to use the lamp the cap is taken off and the cane inclined so that the liquid it contains comes in contact with the-electrodes. A current is thus produced that will, it is asserted, keep the light going for an hour. THAT JOYFUL FEELING With the exhilersting sense of renewed health and strength and internal cleanliness, which follows the use of Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old time medicines and the" cheap substitutes sometimes offered but never accepted by the well informed, A Reader's Reflection. “I wish I was a heroine—in a story. It must be delightful to have a clever author to do all your talking for you, make up your miud for you, supply you with plenty of excitement, and make a noble creature out of you without your oing anything whatsoever.” —Harper’s Bazar. Far-seeing men—Lighthouse keep ers.

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