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seas i TTERED FAITH. Gather sticks bee *D. TALMAGE TO THOSE BUR- itting be DENED WITH DOUBT. begin to wet cloth gins to ":. as equent Sermon show aenges, h oeIhte0 o OQuetioning the round an l giat1on-$e ow omee Many ar mis as sed by the Skeptis. or pn. our anxi4 psrGose, Fla., Feb. 21.-Aft pieces of years of invitation Dr. Talmago that the today at this great Chautauqua. thethe Sparts of the south the people areday to al The sermon is mightily help- in on bi tloseCwho find it hard to believe ev- somethi Dr. Talmiage returns athis ek an inter on. The subject of this sermon in those Shattered Faith' and the text as I ex iyl 44,"And some on broken plees vmer r dt Goodwin msands o the Skre- not st Cape Hatterms was a ship in worse piece o than, in the Mediterranean is the fl war the grain shlp on which 76 more p ee driven on tohe easte ofrc far miles from the metropolis of than yP called Citta Veochis. After a Alnigh e tempest, when the ship was come a disabled and captain and crew smooth et completely demoralised, an tempir took command of the Tes- promie wsal, croolked backed and sore sage o ,ge lsing to taditioa. It wa Paul. mebe s uared man aboard. He war no the ea M of a uroclydon toesing tshe author sea, now up to the gates of But arnd now sinking it to the gates a pa ows afrald of a kitten playind pieces, i a He ordered them al dofn ad th their ration, first asking for them their mey mke th seaoketh Then he insured all their lives, br oker they wouald be raescued, and a blosing their heads, they would am Ao Smuch of their hair as you coula d pape one click of the b eaiors-naye "S e 'tresad of it, whether it were gra Oa or golden rwith oth, Tuag a air fall from the bead mot any owCster that they an never get to the asheor tpn they make the as an the Id night black with overtahrown t eol s that whan the ship strikes it will Bible as heasvily. At daybreak they In Jo roand in their g resolved or, ah Sit. And soerthey cut the cables, m the two paddles they had n theorn shalt and hoisted the mainsail sme that rtie aome with such force as tobe may high up on the beach by some afor. d iow. There she goes, mbling the the rocks, now prow foremost, now Chri now rolling over to the acce naw over toe the larboard; now 11 ;ases clear over the deck and it as with old mft baran s g sne r. ald Stolme s amln. Paul's arms they mast.hekries: "All Is well God Chr me al theoe that sail with e." are went the prow, with such faors cu roke of the mast Crash went ship til the seae rushed through but : ht sdle of the ess*L She pats lonn and Into a thosad fragments wid rO,andinto the wvss s76e tl elPrthe aSome oae thsen had ina ah p alen the sea a and had pi to swim with tbo r hins jusat a 's waves, and by the strokes of thi and propulsiomo both feet they I fr the beach and reach it. But ale these others! They bave never the swim, oTr her wore ounrr des d b 04 o the niast, or the norree. ea too great for thema. And ethers is weakaeed by long seadekn sr a will become of tbi? "Take de e a redder," sym Paul to ne. he of a spar," sa Pa ib p~ tht Imge t Catorat o "Take that plank from the to "" "Take anything and head fo rb "What a trraggieforifietathe ye Oh, the merlose wates, Loow w over the beads at men. women ha 1 Hold en theme! Almost D Sepup your courage. liememaim p told you. Ther the receding & - etthe beach leaves in the sand a e There rawls n pctOf the t1 ---emt lea. These another plank o. 'with a lie elinging fast to it '10 swsfhee pkxe of the sdateaed ra t 4 beig of an immortal a ¶e5f mint by this time all besarved i lE3 -I in las of all,for be had j ha wringsr the wentw tsa hi. 0ga ceitd and cries out, -'fhank God, ali are ar, thel hee!"siege gal Gather around a fire and call the rolL ask you Paul builds a fire, and when the bundle of that sticks begin to crackle and standing and or the p sitting around the blase the passengere Says a begin to recover from their chill, and the to relig wet clothes begin to dry, and warmth be- doctrine gins to come into all the shivering pas- that ml: sengers, let the purser of the vessel go to bothe round and see if any of the poor creatures ityabou are missing. Not one of the crowd that love Ch were plunged into the sea. How it relieves life, I aR our anxiety as we read: "Some on broken not lov - pieces of tbo ship. And so it came to pass be damn o that they escaped all safe to land." ries of L Having on previous occasions looked at differen the other passengers, I confine myself to- seof i day to an examination of those who cane as the I-n on broken pirces of the ship. There is night, Ssomething about them that excites in me board, k an interest. I am not so much interested sinner, ,n In those that could swim. They got ashore, been w it as I expected. A mile of water is not a the she es very great undertaking for a strong swim- Whil mer, or even two miles are not. But I can- about I Snot stop thinking about those on broken come ro pieoes of the ship. The great gospel ship there n Isthe finest of the universe and can carry Do all 76 more passengers than any craft ever con- lief at of struted, and you could no more wreck it go str of than you could wreck the throne of God ly and r a Almighty. I wish all the people would nation aa comeaboard of her. I could not promise a owner owt smooth voyagse, for ofttimes it will be They 1 an tempestuous or a chopped sea, but I could the b es- promise safe tarrival for all ho took pas- owner ore sage on that areat Eastern, so celled by Will t iii, me because its commander came out of waiti no the east, the star of the ast a badge of his Will 1 say ay be sethtg, tocomegoin the austhority righto of But a vast multitude do not take rcgu- wend ofd ar passagen Their theology is broken in of th ing pieces,and their life is broken in piees, maz ewn and their habits are broken in piece, and and m their worldly and piritual prof eth e t g fa e, ken in pesnd yet I belboieve in a are going to reach the shining shore, and I able L aa caeoraged by the experience of theo the I mid people who are spoken of in the text, tion i ay, "Sone on broken pieces of the ship." acoom S One bject in this sermon is to enaour- keep ese ae a those who cannet take the whole a system of religion as we believe it, but the who tally beleve something, to omeo gooni the ashore on that one plank. feer the I do not underrate the value of a great taon own theologial system, buat where in all the wlic ill Bible s re anything that says: Believe fore, they in John Calvin and thou shalt be msaved? a dyed or, believe in Arminius and thou shalt be frog bles, mraved? or,be for in synod of )ort ed thou eyes those shalt be saved? or,beliem in the Thirty-nub ent that aticles and thou shalt be saved? A mar you to be ay be orthodox and go to hell or hetero disfi r. dox and so to heaven. The man who ir the bling the deep afeotion of his heart accepts you ,i now Christ is aved, and the man who does not die o the accepthim is losta the now I believe in both the Heidelberg adt and it Westminster catechisms, and I wish you wh& oert. all did, but you may believe in nothing oo arms they contain except the one idea that God Christ pane to Pave sinners, and that you go me." are one of them, and you are instantly rd -odo force cued. If you can come In on the grand old jol weentl ship. I wuld rather haveyou get~aboard, net ghi habut If you can only find a piece of wood as I pars long as the humann body, or a pice as CO~ lngnti wide as the outspread human arms, and aft d moe- etthul of thenm is a piece of the crofs, come sia mbad hn on that piece. Tens of thousands of shi ad had pe.,.le ram today kept out of the kingdom iee a jUst of God because they cannot believe every- h kes of thing. at they I am talking with a man thoughtful ml L But about his soul who has lately traveled Lt , waer through New ngiamd and pased the ye led by night at Andover. He says to m'e: "1 a1 SV ea nobt believe that 1,this life the destiny aO I others is irrevceably fixed. Y think there will be a MOSS. another opportunity of repentance after h "tae dealh." I say to him: "Hy brotherlwat a ttoo o ba that to do with you? Don't you realise hI g5Paul that the man who waits for another chause ti Caoot after death when he has a good chance be ti ta o the fore death is a stark fool? Had not yoU ead for better take the plank that is thrown to a !ein the you now and head for shore rathe than a 5,hobw wait for a planrk that may byindtibhI s women hands be thrown toeyou afteryou are fwtl s Almost Do as you please, but as for myself, wit mamnbin pardon for all my sins offered me Snow, a emiag and- all the joys of time and eternity offer Ssand a ad e now, I Instantly take them rather 1 at of tle than run the risk of such other chance as f 'm plank wise men think they can been off or twist 1 m_ to it .Ot oacriptunre passage that has for all I ~ied wr- the Christian centurieS been interprletoll Immoral another w~ay." You say, "I do not like be sved. Princeton theology, or Necw Havecn theclo or e hd gy,or Andover t~bolagy." I do not ask Im~ Ion~ a'ou o bard either of thee gret mnen-of war, their portholes filled with the great Oh, my 1 siege guns of occlosiastical battle, but Ido ten of ask you to take the one plank of the goe. you cony pelthat you do believe in and strike out on broke for the pearl strung beach of heaven. You 1 Says some other man, "I would attend as Garib to religion if I was quite sure about the gardensd doctrine of election and free agency, but tria and that mixes me all up." Those things used at Capr to bother me, but I have no more perplex- island I ity about them, for I say to myself, "If I sword t' tlove Christ and live a good, honest, useful and ºir E life, I am elected to be saved, and if I do goree-nn Snot love Christ and live abad lie I awill Ciaribal 5 be damned, and all the theological semina- from Ca ries of the universe cannot make it any proache t different." Ifloundered along while in the by Vict º sea of sin and doubt, and it was as rough Edenizr e as the Mediterranean on the fourteenth the plc L night, when they threw the grain over e board, but I saw there was mercy for a i:lch of d sinner, and that plank 1 took, and I have whictureh a, been warming myself by the bright fire on will cuo a the shore over since. our Vi a- While I am talking to another man our Vi n- about his soul he tells me, "I do not be- tes hrouandg n come a Christian because I do not believe tfes an ip there is any hell at all." Ah, don't yo.' aLter a '7 D o all the people of all beliefs and no ho- hetrt fi n- lief at all, of good morals and bad morals, into a it go straight to a happy heaven? I)o the ho- joy the od ly and thedebauched have the same desti- astang] id nation? At midnight, in a hlway, the disc do a owner of a house and a bu, lar meet. Itdo be The both fire, and both are wounded,but tom w Id the burglar dies in five minutes, and the parento ae- owner of the house lives a week after. anday o by Will the burglar be at the gate of heaven, ray h of waiting, when the house owner comes in e ligiol his Will the debauchee and the libertine go hesed right in among the families of heavent I be o g- wonder it Bored is payiRn on the bank b rof in of the river of life with tho children h a tre Des, massacred. I wonder if Charles Guitean It hae and and John W ilkes Booth are up there shoot- have I are ing at a mark- I do not now controvert it, preser et although I must say that for such a miser- otd d I abole heaven I have no admiration. But br the Bible does not say, "Believe in perdi. are i s, tion andbe saved-" B cause all are saved, sig according to your theory, that ought not to rea Yur- keep you from loving and smerving Christ. hole Do not refuse to come ashore because all si1 but the others, according to your theory, are la oDne going to gt ashore. 'o may have a bo a- ou a erent theory about chemistry, abot as your Sot tronomy, about the atmosphere, fromthat will the wohic other adopt but you are an, gher- B dioV fore, hindered from action. he ,ved? Because your theory of light is different ly be It be from others do not refuse to openyour thou eyes. Because your theory of air is differ- stear wi ent you do not refuse to breathe Because li ar your theory about the stellar system is New tero diffeorent you do not refuse to acknowledoge t hoi thenorth star. iWhy should the sfactthat D.C epts your theological theories are different bin- The a not der you from acting upon what you knlow! behi If you have not a whoae shi fastengedin four rad the theolog ical ydos to bringyou to y ou wharfag you have at least a dank. Mel thing "Somne on broken pieces of the ship-' that "But I don't believe in revivals-" Then But ,t you go to your room, and all alone, with your baie y rs- door locked, give your heart to God and aista Id old join some church where the thearmofliter iea. ,oard, never gets higher than 60 In the shade tin ,od as "But I do not believe in baptism-" wa ,e as Come in without it and settle that matter hex a, and Iterwart "Butthere are so many moon- it' aond aetentrar- C s" Then Come in and the cane sans- exampe how pro the nds of show theem mby a good example how p-hey igdom lessors should act. "But I don't believe in be every- the Old Testament." Thencome in m n the s@ ) ew- "But 1 don't like the book ot Bo- cia ghtful mans." Thou cone in on Matthew or rveled Luke. Ref using to come to Christ! whom 5i d the you admit to be the Saviour r the lost, o-h c: "6I cuse you W cannot admit other thinggs, you isetiny are like a man out there in that Mediterlm will be neon teempest and towed in the Melita ei a after ?makers, refusing to come ashore until he ON r, what can mead the p'le of the broken ship. C realist hear him aye " I won't go in on sahy of chauc thse planks until I know in what part o th nec be the ship theybelong. When I can get the not you windlass in the right place, and the sails 'g own to set, and that keel piece where It belong., ter than and that Boor timber right, and them ropes nvisibli untangled, I will go ashore. I am anod ol re deadl sailor and know all about ships forw 0 s1 ci, with years, and as soon as I can get tho e v l ' m now afoat in good shape I will come In." A II ty offer- man drifting by on a piece of wood ove- _ r athe hea's him and says: "You will drown He I banec ni fore you gethat ship recontUted.- Bet ortwist ter do as 1 am doing. I know=nothing -s for all about ships and never awxou _ds'e O berplretod came onboard this, and I canntk; swim a not like strokeo,but 1 an' going ashoer onthis shiv n theolo- crod timber" The man In teflg.A~·~ while~ Snot ask; trying to upsnd I 55h4iSOI down-m The L men-d VIARwho plaq Is paveLb1d / SOh, my lrotlrr, It tour Fiinlshol- up Sys 0 tens of theology go to the bottom while ." you conme in on a splintered spar. "some i on broken Iricers tf the ship." You umay gict nl your diflleulties settled d as Garibaldi, the miagnetic Italian, got his at gardens made. W hen the war between A us It tria and Sasrdinia broke out, he was living *d at Caprera, a very rough and uncultured x- island home. But he went forth with his I sword to achieve the liberation of Naples ul and sicily and gave 9,000,000 people free do government under Victor Emmanucl. ill Ciaribaldi, after being absent two years ta- from Caprera, returned, and when he ap anf proached it he found that his home had, he by Victor lEmmanuel, as a surprise, been gh Edenized. Trinmmed shrubbery had taken ith the place of thorny thickets, gardens the er - a i:lwce of barrenness, and the old rookery in trE which he once lived had given way to a on pictured mnansion. And I tell you if you will come and enlist under the banner of nour Victor Emmanuel and follow him be through thick and thin and light his bat ee tles and endure his sacrifices you will find oej after awhile that he has changed yuur oe. heart fronm a jungle of thorny skepticism als, into a garden all abloom with luxuriant ho- joy that you have never dreamed of-ftromn sti-a tangled Caprera of sadness into a pare the disc of God. et. I do not know how your theological sys but tent went to 1icces. It may be that your the parents started you with only one plank, ter. and you believe little or nothing. Or they ten, may have been too rigid and severe in re ein Hgious discipline and cracked you over the go head ath a pealmnbook. It may be that ?I some partner in business who was a mem iskI ber of an evangelical church played on you Sbe a trick that disgusted you with religion. iteau It may be that you have associates who boot- have talked against Christianity in your rt it, presence until you are "all at sea," and ile'- you dwell tore on things that you do tot But bevee than on things you do believe. You Verdi- a in one respect liktae bL Nelson, when red a signal was lifted that he wished to dis ta regard, and he put his sea glases to his hjst blind eye and said, "I really do not see the as all signal-" Oh, my hearer, put this field /, am glass the gospel no longer to your blind a dif e e and my I cannot see, but put it to Lt ms- your other eye, the eye of faith, and you athat will see Christ, and he is all you need to thee-see If you believe nothing else, you certain reent ly believe in vicarious suffering,foryou your see it almtost every day in some shape- The * ifer- steamship Knickerbocker of the Cromwell caus lie, running between New Orleans and e m New York, was in great storms, and the lodge captain and crew saw the schooner Mary ,t that D. Cr-anme of Philadelphia in distress Shin- The weather cold, the waves mountain ainow high, the first officer of the steamship and kod in four men put out in a lifeboat to save the on to erew of the schooner and reached the yes lan. saet and towed it out of danger, the wind Sshifting so that the schooner was saved. Then But the fivre men of the steamship comin hyour back, tbheir boat capsized, yet righto ad n again and came on, the sailors coated with aoeter e. The boat t capsized again, and three ad times upset and was rgtd, and ea a line t oPwast throwan the poor fellows, but their matter hands were frozen so they could not grasp oon- It, and a great wave rolled over them, and in and they went down, never to rime again tll ow pro. the sea gives up its dead. Appreciatetha here in heroism and self sacrifice of the bceov tel on the lows all who can, and can we not ppre of wi- elate the Christ who put out Into a ore hew or biting cold and into a move overwhelming whoi surge to bring us cut of infinite peril into ost, ie- everlasting safety? The wave of human As u hate rolled over hnim front oane side and the aterra- wave o hellish fury rolled over him on tile ,Melta ether side. Oh, the thickness of f then until he and the thunder of the tempest intowh ship- I Christ plunged for our rescauel a simy c Come in on one narrow beam of the t ci em's- L all elra go and cling to that. Put ptofcpt that under you, and with the earnest he sil iss of a swimmnier struggling for his lire belongsn tout for shore. There is a great warn Sropes fire of welcome already built, and already in an old many who were as far out as you are ar p fr 0standing in its genial and heavenlY glow. bo fssel The angels of God's rescue are wading out In-Pe' A into the surf to clutch your Band, and they od over- o Aknow bow exhaustd you are, and all the Irow be- wedesnied~~tt~~~tt~~~tt~ prodigals of hieaven are en the ad Bet- beaeh with new white robes to clothe all be&ot Het those who comei in on broken pieces of the r= _ ship wi a Y sympathies are for such all the more tt~hishi- because I was nturdll dlcpticnl, diwpo5d bag, whle· to question everybthng abiout this ifeo amd wn The the next and wasl In danger ofic\ing itr-i is Ced. thee out to sea than any of the 276in L the M~editerramiss breakesa and I wSas O~