Mobile Dick

I have been reading Moby Dick on my iPhone here at the Shore. Digital Moby Dick: It is an interesting concatenation between a classic novel decidedly set in the mid 1800's and yet timeless and 21st technology. I only have about 100 Chapters to go.

The real issue is the content...not how it is delivered. I am not even sure that authors today are capable of writing like this any more. Not enough quality, knowledge, and the courageous integrity to present the biblical narrative without dilution. At least present Scripture straight.

This is from Chapter 9 and is a sermon from the wayfaring preacher.

"This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it. Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!"

Pretty salty, pretty savory.

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.


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