The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-01

Try lor Jne payment OF MS ChurCn ueD
had been widely responded to, but
would take a much more general re
sponse to clear che debt. The followin
is verbatim report of DR.. Talmage'
sermon:
sUBJECT-RoUGH WEATHER,
Text-St. Mark 4.36 39-There were
also with Him other little ships. AnC
there arose great storm of wind, anC
the waves beat into the ship, 80 that i
was now full. And he was in the hin
der part of the ship, asleep on pillow
and they awake Him and say unto Him
"Master, carest thou not that we per
ish2" And He arose and rebuked tht
wind and said unto the sea peace, bt
STILL"
Tiberius, Galilee and Gennesaret were
three names for the same lake. 1t lay
in scene of great luxuriance. The
surrounding hills-high, terraced, slop
ing gorged-were so mary hanging gar
dens Of beauty. The streams rumbled
down through rocks of gray and red
limestone, and flashing from the hillside
bounded to the sea. In the time of our
Lord the valleys, headlands and ridges
were covered thickly with vegetation,
and SO varied was the climate that the
palmtree of the torrid and the walnut
tree of the rigorous climate were only a
little way apart. Men in vineyards and
olive gardens were gathering up the
riches for the oil press. The hills and
valleys were Starred and Crimsoned with
flowers from which Christ took his text
and the disciples learned lessons of pa.
tience and trust. 1t seemed as if God
had lashed wave of beauty on all the
scene, until it hung dripping from the
rocks, the hills, the orleanders. On the
back Of the Lebanon range the glory of
the earthly scene was carried up as if to
set it in range with the hills of heaven.
No other gem ever had so exquisite set
ting as beautiful Gennesaret. The wa.
ters were clear, and sweet and thickly
inhabited, tempting innumerable nets
and afording livelihood for great pop
ulations. Bethsaida, Chorazin and Ca
pernaum stood on the bank, roaring with
wheels of traffic, and flashing with fine
equipages, and shooting their vessels
across the lake, bringing merchandise
for Damascus, and passing great cargoes
of wealthy product. Pleasure boats of
Roman gentlemen, and fishing smacks
of the country people, who had ceme
down to cast net there, passed each
other with nod and shout and welcome,
or side by side idly swung at the moor.
ing. Palace and luxuriant bath, and |
vineyard, tower and shadowy arbor,
looked off upon the calm, sweet scene
rs the evening shadows began to drop,
and Hermon, with its head covered with
perpetual snow in the glow of the setting
sun, looked like white bearded proph.
ct ready to ascend in chariot of fire. l
think we shall haYe quiet night. Not
a leaf winks in the air, or a ripple dis.
turbs the surface of Gennesaret. The
shadows of the great headlands stalk
clear across the water. The voices of
eveningtide, how drowsily they strike
the ear The splash of the boatman's
BAR, and the humping of the captured
fish on the boats bottom, and those in.
desCribable sounds which fill the air at
nightfalll You hasten up tie beach of
he lake little way, and there you fud
IN excitement as if an embarkation. A
totilla is pushing out from the western
lhore Of the lake-not a squadron of
ieadIy armament; not clipper to ply
With valuable merchandise; not pirate
,essels with graphing hook to hug to {
leath whatever they could seize, but
iotilla laden with messengers of light {
md mercy and peace Jesus is in the {
ront ship; his friends and admirers are
n the small boats following after. Christ
" the rocking of the boat and the fa- Q
igues of the preaching exercises of the |
ay, is induced to slumber; and | see him t
n the stern of the boat, with a pillow. t
'erhaps extemporized out of a fisher. G
lans coat, sound asleep. The breezes 8
f the lake run their fingers through the i
oCks of the wornout sleeper, and on its
urface there riseth and falleth the light L
hip, like child on the bosom of it's a
leeping mother! Calm, starry, beauti- C
ii night. Keep up all the sails, ply all o
he oars, and let the boats-the big boats t
nd the small boats-go gliding over Ii
emile Gennesaret a
The sailors prophesy change in the q
feather. Clouds begin to travel up the Il
Ky, and Congregate after awhile; even 8
he passengers hear the moan of the Il
torm which comes on with rapid force, b
nd with all the terrors of hurricane and
arkness. The boat, caught in the sud. a
en- fury, trembles like a deer at bay Il
mid the wild Clangor of the hounds. o
reat patches of feam are flung through q
le air. The loosened sails, Tapping in g.
le air, crack like pistols. The small G.
pats, poised on the white cliff of the
riven sea, tremble like ocean petrals, il
nd then plunge into the trough with d
'rrifc swoop, until wave strikes them Il
ith a thunder crack, and seaward 90 a
le cordage, the tsCkling and the masts, Il
nd the drenched disciples rush into the ia
ern OF the boat, and shout amid the n
urricane, master, carest thou not that b
Q perish2" That great parsonage lifted
ls head from the fisherman's coat, and q,
aiked out to the PROV of the vessel and 81
oked upon the storm. On all sides the I
nall boats were tossing in helplessness, a,
i'd from them came the cries Of drown. o,
8 men. By the fash of lightning 81
Q the Calmness of the uncovered brow ne
Jesus, and the spray of the sea drip. <
ng from his beard. He has two words n
commsnd--one for the wind, and one n
r the sea. He looks up into the tenn. ~
'stuous heaYens, and he cries, "Peacelo W
nd then he looks down into the infnri- "a
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