The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-19
TIE STORMY PASSAGE.
Or. TALMAoE BREACHES IN THE AN
GENT VILLAGE or cAPERNAuM.

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turtles Ago.
CAPEREAUM, Dec. 15.--Thc Rev. r.
De Witt Talmage, d. d., preached
here today to group OF friends on
''The Stormy Passage taking FOR his
texts the verses of the gospel following:
John vi, IL: Entered into ship. and
went over the sea toward Capernaum; -
and Mark iv, 80: ''And he arose and
rebuked the wind and the sea-" He
said:
Here in this seashore village was
the temporary 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 1t has been the wish of
my life-I cannot say the hope, for
never expected the privilege-to stand
on the banks of Galilee. What a So
lemnity and what a rapture to be here i
| can now understand the feeling of
the immortal Scotchman, Robert Nc
Cheyne, when, sitting on the banks of
this lake, he wrote:
It is not that the wild gazeile
Comes down to drink thy tide,
But he that pierced TO save from hell
Oft wandered by thy side.
Graceful around thee the mountains meet
Thou calm reposlng sea;
But ahi far more, the beautiful feet
OF Jesus walked DER thee.
/ can now easily understand from
the contour of the country that bounds
this lake that storms were easily tempt
ed 10 make these waters their play
ground. 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 1t was quite different on
both the occasions spoken of in my
two texts. i close my eyes, and the
shore of Lake Galilee 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 q
time. 1t lay in a scene of great lux
uriance; the surrounding hills, ter
raced, sloped, grooved, so many hang
ing gardens of beauty On the shore
were castles, armed towers, Roman
baths, everything attractive and beau
tiful-all styles of vegetation in short
er space than in almost any other
space in all the world, from the
palm tree of the forest to- the trees of
rigorous climate.
ONE WAVE OF BEAUTY.
II seemed as if the Lord had launch
cd one wave of beauty on all the
scene, and it hung and swung from
rock and hill an oleander. Roman
gentlemen i'll pleasure boats sailing
this lake, and countrymen in fish
smacks coming down to drop their
nets, pass each other with nod and
shout and laughter, or swinging idly
at their moorings. o, what a beauti-
full scenei
1t seems as if we shall have quiet
night. Not leaf winked in the air
not ripple disturbed the face of Gen
nesaret; but there seems to be little
excitement up the beach, and we has
ten TO see what 1t is, and we find 1t an
embarkation.
From the western shore a flotilla
pushing out; not squadron, or
deadly armament, nor clipper with
valuable merchandise, nor piratic ves-
sells ready to destroy everything they
could seize, but flotilla, bearing mes
sengers of light and life and peace.
Christ is in the front Of the boat His
disciples are in smaller boat. Jesus,
weary with mich speaking to large
multitudes. Is put into somnolence by
the rocking of the waves. If there
was any motion at all, the ship was
easily righted; If the wind passed from
starboard to larboard, or from lar.
board TO starboard, the boat would
rock, and by tho gentleness of the mo
ton putting the Master asleep. And
they extemporized pillow made out
of a fisherman's coat. i think nc
sooner is Christ PROSTATE, and his
head touched the pillow, than he is
sound asleep. The breezes of the lake
run their fingers through the locks OF
the worn sleeper, and the boat riset
and falls like sleeping child on The
bosom of a sleeping mother.
Calm night, starry night, beautiful
night, Run up all the sails, ply al
the oars, and let The large boat and tht
small boat glide over gentle Gennes
arct. But the sailors say there is 60
ing to be change of weather. Ant
even the passengers can hear tht
moaning of the storm, as it comes OIL
with great stride, and all the terror
of hurricane and darkness The larg,
boat trembles like deerat bay among
the elangor of the hounds; grea
patches of foam are flung into the air
the sails of the vessel loosen, and tn
sharp winds crack like pistols; tn
smaller boats like petrels poise ON tn
cliffs of the waves and then plunge.
THE STORM.
Overheard go cargo, taclling an,
masts, and the drenched disciples rnsl
into the back part of the boat, and la,
hold of Christ, and say unto him
Master, carest thou not that W
perishl" That great parsonage lift
his head from the pillow of the fisher
mans coat, walks to the front of tn
vessel, and looks out into the storm
AL around him are the smaller boats
driven in the tempest, and through
comes the cry of drowning men. b
the flash of the lightning / see tn
calm brow of Christ as tho spra
dropped from his beard. He has on
word for the Sly and another for tn
waves Looking upward he cries
A'Peaee" Looking downward he says
BE still y
The waves fall fiat on their faces
the foam melts, the extinguished staI
relight their torches. The tempest fall
dead and Christ stands with his fee
on the neck of the storm. And Will
the sailors are bailing out the boat
and while they are trying to untangl
the eordage, the disciples stand i
amarement, now looking into th
calm sea, than into the calm sky, the
into the calm Saviour's countenanc'
and they cry out What manner
man is this. that.even the winds an
the sell obey hima'
ALwllys HAVE CHRIST IN THE SHIP
The. subject in the first place In
presses me with the fact that II IS vei
important to have Christ in the shi'
for all those boats would have gone
the bottom of Gennesaret If Chri
had not been present. Oh, what
lesson for you and for me TO lear
We must always have Christ in 9
ship. Whatever voyage we undo
take, into whatever enterprise
start, let US always have Christ in t
ship. AL you can do with utmC
tension. of body; mind, and soul, y
are bound TO do; but ohi have Chr
in every enterprise. Christ in eve
'yoyage! 81
There are men who ask Gods he
at the beginning OF great enterpris
He has been with them in the pa
no trouble can overthrow. thenli. !
,storrng might come down FROM 4
top OF Monnt Hermon, and fasif q.
nesarel into foam and into agony,
it could not hurt them. .kpt hero