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[00:00.27] As sinful men,it is a lesson to us all,because it is a story of the sin,hard heartedness,suddenly awakened fears,
[00:08.15] the swift punishment,repentance,prayers,and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.As with all sinners among men,
[00:16.34] the sin of this son of Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the command of God never mind now what that command was,
[00:25.08] or how conveyed which he found a hard command.But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do remember that and hence,
[00:35.24] he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade.And if we obey God,we must disobey ourselves;and it is in this disobeying ourselves,wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
[00:49.34] With this sin of disobedience in him,Jonah still further flouts at God,by seeking to flee from Him.
[00:56.25] He thinks that a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign,but only the Captains of this earth.
[01:04.48] He skulks about the wharves of Joppa,and seeks a ship that's bound for Tarshish.There lurks,perhaps,a hitherto unheeded meaning here.
[01:14.49] By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz.That's the opinion of learned men.And where is Cadiz,shipmates?
[01:24.16] Cadiz is in Spain;as far by water,from Joppa,as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days,when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea.
[01:35.12] Because Joppa,the modern Jaffa,shipmates,is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean,the Syrian;and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward from that,
[01:47.47] just outside the Straits of Gibraltar.See ye not then,shipmates,that Jonah sought to flee world wide from God?Miserable man!Oh!
[01:58.43] most contemptible and worthy of all scorn;with slouched hat and guilty eye,skulking from his God;prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.
[02:12.30] So disordered,self condemning is his look,that had there been policemen in those days,Jonah,on the mere suspicion of something wrong,had been arrested ere he touched a deck.
[02:23.12] How plainly he's a fugitive!no baggage,not a hat box,valise,or carpet bag,no friends accompany him to the wharf with their adieux.At last,after much dodging search,
[02:36.14] he finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo;and as he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin,
[02:44.48] all the sailors for the moment desist from hoisting in the goods,to mark the stranger's evil eye.Jonah sees this;
[02:53.04] but in vain he tries to look all ease and confidence;in vain essays his wretched smile.