The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-09-27
If CHRISTIE ABOARD
THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR IN MAX
Inc LIES STORMY VOYAGE.


Hev, Dr. Talrnage Presents striking Les
son For the Men and Women of the
Present Day-Christ sitting the Tnm'
pest--A brilliant Picture.
New York, Sept. 2e.--m his SERMON
for today Rev, DIR, Talmage discourses
ON dramatic incident during the Saw
iour's life among the Galilean fisher
mon and draws from it striking les
son for the men and women of the pres
ent day, The subject was Rough Sail
ing" and the text, Mark ", 30, W,
"And there were also with him other
little ships, and there, arose a great
storm of wind
Liberals, Galilee and Gemesaret We're
three hames for The same lake. 1t lay
in scene of great luxuriance. The sur
rounding hills, high, terraced, sloping,
gorged, were so many hanging gardens
of beauty. The streams tumbled down
through rocks of gray and red lime
stone, and flashing from the hillside
bounded to the sea. In the time of our
Lord the valleys, headlands and ridges
were covered thieSly with vegetation,
and so great was the variety Of climate
that the palm tree of the torrid and the
walnut tree of rigorous climate were
only a little way apart. Men i'll vine
yards and olive gardens We're gathering
| up the riches for the oil press. The hlll'
and valleys were starred and crimsonec
with flowers, from which Christ tool
his text, and the disciples learned les
sons of patience and trust. 1t seemed a
| if God had dashed wave of beauty OF
all the scene until it hung dripping
from the rocks, the hills, the oleanders
On the back of the Lebanon range thu
| glory of the earthly scene was Calrie'
mp as if to set it in range with the hill
of heaven.
A Beautiful Sea.
No other gem ever had so exquisite
setting as beautiful Gennesaret. TIL
waters were clear and sweet and thick
ly inhabited, tempting innumerable net
and atfording livelihood for great pop
hlations BcthsaiGa, Chorazin and Ca
Dernaunl stood on the bank roaring wit
wheels of traffic and flashing wit
splendid equipages, and shooting thei
3essels across the lake, bringing mel
chantlise for Damascus and passin
great calgoes of wealthy product. Pleas
ure boats of Roman gentlemen and fist
ing smacks of the country people, VIII
had come down TO cast a net there, pas
ed each other with nod and shout an
welcome, or side by side swung idly ;
the mooring. Palace and luxuriant bat
and vineyard, tower and shadowy arbo
looking off upon the calm sweet seer
as the evening shadows began to drol
and Hermon, with its head covered wit
perpetual snow, i'll the glow of the Sc
ting sun locked like white bearde
prophet ready to ascend in chariot I
fire. think we shall have quiet nigh
Not leaf winks in the air or ripp
(iisturbs the surface Of Gennesaret. III
| SDduOWS VI lI6 SItlt uSuuiailuo ot"
: clear across the water. The voices
; eveningtidc, how drowsily they stri'
the ear--the splash of the boatman
f 6ar, and the humping of the capture
fish on the boats bottom, and those il
describable sounds which fill the air
hightfalI You hasten up the beach
the lake little way, and there You fiji
an excitement az of an embarkation.
: flotilla is pushing out from the weste
e Shore Of the lake--not squadron WI
deadly armament, not clipper to
. with valuable merchandise, not pirat
vessels with graphing hook to hug
death whatever they could seize, but
fiotilla laden with messengers of Zig
e and mercy and peace. Jesus is III t
front ship. His friends and admirers 9
Christ, by the rocking of the boat a
the fatigues Of the preaching exerciS
= of the day, is induced to slumber, ant
see him in the stern of the boat, witt
pillow perhaps extemporized out OF
I fisherman coat, sound asleep I
| breezes of the lake run their ting
! through the locks of the wornout sle'
| er, and on its surface there riseth a
" falleth the light ship, like "a child on
bosom of its sleeping motherl Ca
night. Starry night. Beautiful mig
Run up all the sails, and ply all
cars, and let the boats-the big boat 9
. the small boats-go gliding over gen
L. Gennesaret.