Milford chronicle., 1889-12-20
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dreams he must have! Look at his counten.
anee; he must be thinking OF the cross 10
come. Look at him, he is a man-bone OF
our bone, flesh Of our flesh Tired. he falls
asleep; he is a man. But then / find Christ
at the prov Of tho boat; hear him sav;
Peace, be still;' and see tho storm kneel-
ing at his feet, and the tempests folding Their.
wings IN his presence; he is a God
II l have sorrow and trouble and want
sympathy go aud kneel down at the hack
part OF the boat and say; "Oh, Christi weary
one OF Gennesarct, sympathize with all my
sorrows, man Of Nazareth, man Of the cross y
man, a man. But II want to conquer my
spiritual foes, If | want to get the victory
over SIN, death and hell, l come to the front
OF the boat, and / kneel down, and I say.
"Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, thou who dost bush
the tempest, hush all my grief, hush eli NV
temptation, hush all my sinl" A man, a man;
a God, God.
learn once more from this SUBJECT that
Christ can hush tempest.
Itdid seem asif everything must 20 to ruin.
The disciples bad given up the idea Of manag-
ing the ship; the crew were entirely demorai-
izedi yet Christ rises, and he puts his foot on
the storm, and It crouches at his feet. Oh, yesl
Christ can hush the tempest You have had
trouble. Perhaps it was the little child taken
away from yOu-the sweetest child Of the
household, the one who asked the most Curious
questions, and stood around you with the
greatest fondness, and the spade cut down
through your bleeding heart Perhaps it was
an only son, and your heart has ever since
been like a desolated CASTLE the owls of the
night hooting among the fallen arches and
the crumbling stairways. Perhaps it was an
aged mother. You always went to her
with your troubles She was in vour
home to welcome your children into /
life, and when they died she was |
there to pity you; that old hand will |
do you no more kindness; that white lock Of /
hair you put away in the casket or in the
locket didn't look as it usually did when she
brushed it away from her wrinkled brow in
the home circle or in the country church.
Or your property gone, you said: II have 50
much bank stock, l have 50 many govern
ment securities, / have 80 many houses. l
have 50 many farms-all gone, all gone. u
Why, sir, all the storms that ever trampled
with their thunders, all the shipwreczs. have
not been worse than this to you. Yet YOU
have not been completely overthrown. Whvl
Christ says; II have that little one in nv
keeping. / can care for him as well as Won
can, better than you can, o bereaved moth
er" flushing the tempest When YOUR
property went away, God said: "There are
treasures in heaven, in banks that never
break" Jesus hushing the tempest
There is one storm into which we
VII all have to run. The moment I
when we let go OF this world and try TO :
AXE hold Of the next, we will want all the
srace possible. Yonder / SEQ a Christian
oul rocking on the surges Of death; all the
'owers Of darkness seem let out against that
swirling wave, the thunder Of the
ky, the shrek Of the wind, all seem to unite
ogether; but that soul is not troubled, there
5 no signing, there are no tears; plenty of Il
ears in the room at the departure, but he 7
Veeps no tears; calm, satisfied and peaceful:
II is well. By the fash OF the storm YOU sec
he harbor just ahead and you are making J
or that harbOr. ALI shall be well, Jesus be-
lg our guide,
Into the harbor OF heaven now we glide;
We're home at last, home at last r
Softly We drift on the bright, silv'ry tide. Z
We're homo at last
Glory to God all dangers are DER, .
We stand secure on the glorihed shore; o
Glory to Godl we will shout evermore b
We're home at last. n