Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-12-20
THE STORMY PASSAGE.
THE REV. DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES
AT CAPERNAUM.
lessons Deduced from tho Voyage of
Christ and His Disciples that Stormy
n light on Gennesaret-Never Fear
While Christ is In the Ship.

rebukcd the wind and the sea-" He said:
Here in this seashore village was the tenn
rorarv home of that Christ who for the most
of his life was homeless. On the site of this
village, now in ruins, and all around this
lake, what scenes of kindness and power, and
glory and pathos when our Lord lived herel
II has been the wish of my life--I cannot say
the hope, for l never expected the privilege
to stand on the banks of Galiee. What a
solennity and what a rapture to be herel /
can now understand the feeling of the ini-
mortal Scotchman, Robert McCheyne, when
sitting on the banks of this lake he wrote:
1t is not that the wild gazee
Comes down to drink thy tide,
But he that was pierced to save from he'll
oft wandered by thy side.
Graceful around thee the mountains meet
Thou calm reposng sea-
rut ah, far more, the beautiful feet
OF Jesus walked DER thee.
can now easily understand from the con
tour of the country that bounds this lake
that storms were easily tempted to make
these waters their playground. From the
gentle way this lake treated our boat when
we sailed on it yesterday, one would have
thought it incapable of paroxysm Of rage,
but it quite different on both the occa-
Sons spoken of in my two texts. ! close my
eyes and the shore of Lake Gailee, as it now
Is with but little signs of human life, dis
appears, and there comes back to my vision
the lake as it was in Christ's time. 1t lay in
Il scene of great luXuriance; the surrounding
hills, terraced, sloped. grooved, so many
hanging gardens of beauty. On the shore
were castles, armed towers Roman baths,
everything attractive and beautiful; all
styles of vegetation in shorter space than in
almost any other space in all the world from
the nal1,l free of the forest to the trees of
rigorous climate
1t seemed as if the Lord had launched one
wave of beauty on all the scene. and it hung
and swung from rock and hill an oleander
Roman gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing
this lake and corutrvInen in fish stnacilS
coming down to drop their nets pass each
other with nod and shont and laughter. or
swinging idly at their moorinCs. O, what a
beautiful scene,
1t seems as if we shall have a quiet night
Not a leaf winked in the air: not a ripple dis
t,1rhed the face of Iennesaret. bnt there
seems to be a little excitement I'M the beach
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head from the pillow of the 1,hermen's coat