Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-27
STORMY PASSAGE
.,1MAGE breaches Nrur.~
Eryr VILLAGE OF CApERNAuM.
,mon Appropriate to the Place DE-.
.,d OH the Banks Of the Lake wher.
.t stilled the Tempest So MANY 20,
des Ago

h Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preacbed
,nernaum, Sunday, Dec. is. to -
.npof friends on THE iStormy Pas
= taking for his text the verses of
gospel following: John vi, II: aEn-
iinto the ship, and went over tho
award Capernaum;" and Mark VI
and he rose and rebuked the win5
I.be sea-" He said: 'iAo
IVA in this seashore village was tbo
n slu home of that Christ who fop
most of His life was homeless. On
site of this village, now in ruins
all around this lake, what scenes Of
mess and power, and glory and
nos when our Lord lived here! It
becn the wish of my life-I cannot
the hope, for l never expected the
Tileee-to stand on the banks Of
Eee. What solemnity and what q
mre to be here! I can now under
ID the feeling of the immortal
rrbman, Robert McCheyne, when.
inc on the banks of this lake. he
BITE:
his not that the wild gazelle
Games down to drink thy tide,
pnt he that was pierced to save from he'll
Tft wandered by thy side.
graceful around thee the mountains meet.
Thou calm reposing sea;
aut nh fur more, the beautiful feet y,
N Jesus walked DER thee.
can now easily understand from the
tour of the country that bounds this
that storms were easily tempted to
se these waters their playground.
M the gentle way this lake treated
boat when we smiled on it yesterday,
would have thought it incapable of
a.oxysm of rage, but it was quite
trent on both the occasions spoken
In my two texts. close my eyes, and
shore of Lake Galilee as it now is,
but little signs of human life, dis
ears, and there comes back to my
ion the lake as it was in Christ's
9. 1t lay in q scene of great luxuri-
Ee; the surrounding hills, terraced,
ped, grooved, SO many hanging gar
is Of beauty. On the shore were cas-
armed towers, Roman baths, every
Big attractive and beautiful-all
lies of vegetation in shorter space
ID in almost any other space in all
world. from the palm tree of the
list to the trees of rigorous climate.
seemed as if the Lord had launched
wave of beauty on all the scene, and
Jung and swung from rock and hill
oleander. Roman gentlemen in
asure boats sailing this lake, and
|ntrymen in fish smacks coming down
rop their nets, pass each other with
and shout and laughter, or swing
idly at their mornings. Oh, what o
|utiful scene!
seems us if we shall have quiet
bit. Not leaf winked in the air;
IA ripple disturbed the face of Cen
aret; but there seemed to be little
Element up the beach, and we hasten
lee what it is, and we find it an. en-
EATON.
rom the western shore q fotilla
thing out; not squadron, or deadly
lament, nor clipper with valuable
,chandise, nor pirate vessel ready to
troy everything they could seize, but
otilla. bearing messengers of light
life and peace. Christ is in front
he boat. His disciples are in a SINH
boat. Jesus, weary with much speak
to large multitudes, is put into
Violence by the rocking of the waves.
here was any motion at all, the ship
easily righted; if the wind passed
N starboard to larboard, or from lar
nd to starboard, the boat would rock,
ting the Master asleep. And they
smporized pillow made out of a
erman's coat. I think no sooner is
Fist PROSTATE, and His head touches
pillow, than He is sound asleep.
breezes of the lake run their fin
through the locks of the worn
Eper, and the boat rises and falls like
eeping child on the bosom of sleep
mother.
aim night, starry night, beautiful
ht Run up oil the sails, ply all the
and let the large boat and the
III boat glide over gentle Genncsaret.
the sailors say there is going to be
hange Of weather. And even the pas
gers can hear the moaning of the
ln, as it comes on with great stride,
all the terrors of hurricane and
kness. The large boat trembIes like
ssr at bay among the clangor of the
tnds; great patches of foam are flung
the air; the sails of the vessel
sen, and the sharp winds crack like
Eols; the smaller boats like petrels
Re on the cliffs ofthe waves and then
nge.
yerboard go cargo, tackling and masts,
the drenched disciples rush into
back part of the boat, and lay hold
!hrist, and say unto him: Master,
Est thou not that we perish?" That
parsonage lifts his head from the
9T of the fisherman's coat, walks to
tsont of the vessel, and looks out
the storm. All around Him are the
aler boats, driven in the tempest,
through it comes the cry of drown
men. By the fash of the lightning
stle calm brow of Christ as the
dropped from His beard. He has
word for the sky and another for
'ayes. Looking upward He cries:
NC. Looking downward He says:
aill!"
waves fell fat on their faces, the
me Its, the extinguished stars re-
their torches. The tempest falls
land Christ stands with His feet on
ssck of the storm. And while the
;ss are bailing out the boats, and
sthey are trying to untangle the
agc, the disciples stand in amaze
now looking into the calm sea,
INTO the calm sky, then into the
eaviours countenance, and they
sat; What manner of man is this,
even the winds and the sea obey
MAYS HAVE CHRIST IN THE SHIP.
.e subject in the first place inn
yes me with the fact that it is very
.ytant to have Christ in the ship;
" those boats would have gone to
sottom of Gennesaret if Christ had
ven present. Oh, what lesson
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