The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-23
STORM ON LAKE GENNESARET.
CHRIST AROUSED FROM SLEEP BY
HIS FRIGHTENED DISCIPLES.

the Subject. Trough SafIing"-NOu
Have no Right 10 Be StOker on
steamer IL God Commands You 40
Command n Navy; no Right TO En-
Efneer n Ferry Boat From Bank 20
Bank IL He Wants You to Run n
Cunarder From New York to Liv-
erpOOI.
New York, Sept 22-In his sermon for
to-day. Rev. DR.. Talmage, discourses on
dramatic incident during the Savior's life
among the Galilean fisherman, and draws
from it a striking lesson for the men AMI
women Of the present day. The subject
was Rough Sailing and the text Mark
4:s6-S7: And there were also with him
other little ships, and there arose a great
storm of wind"
liberals, Galilee and Genpesaret We're
three names for the same lake. 1t lay IN
g scene of great luxuriance. The sur
rounding hills high. terraced, sloping.
gorged, were so many hanging gardens
of beauty. The streams rumbled down
through rocks of grey and red limestone
and flashing from the hillside. bounded
to the sea. In the time of our Lord the
valleys, headlands. and ridges were COW
cred thickly with vegetation, and. so great
was the variety of climate, that the palm
tree of the torrid and the walnut tree or
rigorous climate were only a little way
apart. Men in vineyards and olive gar
dens We're gathering up the riches for the
oil-press. The hills and valleys were star
red and crimsoned with flowers, from
which Christ took his text, and the dis
ciples learned lessons of patience and
trust. 1t seemed as if God had dashed
a wave of beauty on all the scene until IL
hung dripping from the rocks, the hills,
the oleanders. on the back of the Lee
banon range the glory of the earthly scene
was carried up as II to set IL in range
with the hills of heaven.
No other gem ever had so exquisite
setting as beautiful Gennesaret. The wa
tiers were clear and sweet, and thtckly in
habited, tempting innumeTable nets ana
affordng a livelihood for great popula-
tons Bethsaida, ChoraZin and Caper-
naum stood on the bank, roaring with
wheels of traffic and flashing with splen-
did equipages, and shooting their vessels
across the lake, bringing merchandise Tor
Damascus and passing great cargoes or
wealthy product. Pleasure boats of Ro-
man gentlemen, and fishing smacks of the
country people who had come down TO
cast a net there, passed each other with
nod and shout and welcome, or side by
side swung idly at the mooring. Palace
and luXuriant bath and vineyard tower
and shadowy arbor, looked off upon the
calm sweet scene as the evenings shaG-
ows began to drop, and Hermon, with its
head covered with perpetual snow, in the
glow of the setting sun looked like a white
bearded prophet ready to ascend in a cha
riot of fire. / think we shall have a
quiet night Not a leaf winks in the air.
or a ripple disturbs the surface of Cen
nesaret. The shadows Of the great head
lands stalk clear across the water. The
voices of evening-tide, how drowsily they
strike the ear the splash of
the boatmans oar, and the
humping of the captured fish
on the boats bottom, and those indis
crlbable sounds which I'LL the air at night
fall. You hasten UP the beach of the lake
a little way. and there you find an excite
ment as of an embarkation. A fiotilla is
pushing out from the western shore of
the lake-not squadron with deadly arm
ament; not a clipper to ply with valuable
merchandise, not pirate vessels with Crap
they could seize, but fiotilla laden with
messengers of light, and mercy, and peace.
Jesus is in the front snip; his friends and
admirers are in the small boats following
after. Christ, by the rocking of the boat
and the fatigueS of the preaching exer-
eises Of the day, is induced to slumber
and / see him in the stern of the boat
with pillow perhaps eXtemporized out
OF fishermans coat, sound asleep. The
breezes Of the lake run their ringers
through the locks of the WORKOUT sleeper
and on its surface there riseth and fall
eth the light ship, like a child on the
bosom of its sleeping motheri Calm night.
starry night. Beautiful night Run up all
the sails and ply all the oars, and let the
boats-the big boat and the small boats
go gliding over gentle Gennesaret
The sailors prophesy a change in the
weather. Clouds begin TO travel up the
SKY and consfegate. After a while, even
ne pa passengers hear the moan
with rapid strides ana with
all the terrors of hurricane and darkness
The boat. caught In the sudden fury, trem-
bles like deer at bay, amid the wild
elangor of the hounds. Great patches Of
foam are nung through the air The
ioosened sails mapping in the wind. crack
IKE pistols The small boats, poised on the
White cliff Of the driven sea trembIe like
ocean petrels. and then plunge into the
tIougn with terrific swoop until a wave
strikes them with thunder-crack, and
overheard go the cordage, the tackling
ana the masts, and the drenched diseinies
rush INTO the stern Of the boat, and shout
amid the hurricane, Master carest thol,
not that we perish?" That great Person
age lifted his head from the fisherman's
Soat, ana walked out to the prov of the
vessel ana looked upon the storm ON
al sizes We're the small boats tossing
~ heIplessness. and from them came
a the cries OF drowning men. BY the
OF the uncovered brow of Jesus and the
spray of the sea- dripping from his beard.
thte mas tWo words OF command-one for
she VINO, the other for the sea. He looks
INTO the tempestuous heavens and he
cries Peace! and then he looks down
INTO the infuriate waters and he saws
BE stilli' The thunders beat a retreat
Inc waves fall fiat on their faces The
sXunguished stars rekindle their torches
a
while the crew are untangling the cord
age and the cables, and baling out the
water from the hold of the ship, the dis
clples stand wonder-struck now gazing
INTO the calm sky, now gazing into the
eaim sea, now gazing into the calm face
p Jesus and whispering one to another.
What manner Of man is this, that even
the winds and the sea obey him?"
l learn, first from this subject that
When you are going to take a voyage of
any kind you ought to have Christ in the
ship. The fact is. that those boats would
all have gone to the bottom if Christ had
not been there. Now, you are about to
voyage out into some new enterprise-
INTO some new business relation: YOU are
gong to plan some great matter Of profit
hope II is So If you are content to 90
along in the treadmill course and pl9n
nothing new, you are not fulfilling YOUR
mission. What you can do by the utmost
tension Of body, mind, and soul that You
are bound TO do. You have no right TO he
colonel Of regiment If God calls Won to
command an army. sYou have no right
TO be stoker in a steamer If God com
mands you to be admiral of the navv
You have no right to engineer. a ferry
boat from river bank to river bank if
God commands you to engineer a Cunar-
der from New, York to Liver
pool But whatever enterprise
you undertake, and upon whatever