Milford chronicle., 1895-09-27

The sailors prophesy a change in the
weather. Clouds begin to travel up the
sky and congregate. After awhile, even
the passengers hear the moan of the storm,
which comes on with rapid strides and
with all tho terrors of hurricane and dark
ness. Tho boat, caught in the sudden
fury, trembles like deer at bay, amid the
I wild clangor of the hounds. Great patches
of foam are flung through the air. The
| ldosened sails, Tapping in the wind, crack
! like pistols. The small boats poised on
the white cliff Of the driven sea tremble
like ocean petrels, and then plunge into
the trough with terrific swoop until a
/ wave strikes them with thunder crack,
| and overheard go the cOrdage the tackling,
| and the masts, and the drenohed disciples
| rush into the stern Of the boat and shout
amid the hurricane, "Master, carest thou
not that we perish?" That great Person
age lifted his head from the fsherman's
coat and walked but to the prov Of the
vessel and looked upon the storm. On all
sides were the small boats tossing in help
lessness and from them came the cries Of
drowning men. By tho flash of lightning
1 see the calmnoss Of the uncovered brow
Of Jesus and the spray of the sea dripping
from his beard. Ho has two words of com
mand-one for the wind, the other for the
sea- He looks into the tempestuous heav-
ems and he cries, "Peace" and then he
looks down into the infuriate waters and
he says, "Be stillln The thunders beat a
retreat. The waves fall fat on their faces.
The extingushed stars rekindle their
torches The foam molts. The storm is
dead. And while the crow are untangling
the cordage and the cables and bailing out
the water from the hold OF the ship, the
disciples stand wonder struck, now gazing
into the calm sky, now gazing into the
calm sea, now gazing into the calm face Of
Jesus and whispering one to another,
''What manner of man is this that even
the winds and the sea obey himY"
Christ on the Ship.
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
pew business relation. You are going to
plan some great matter Of profit. hope
it is so. II you are content to 60 along IN
the treadmill course and plan 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 be colonel Of
o regiment If God calls you to command
an army. You have no right to be stoker
In a steamer If God commands You to be
admiral Of the navy. You have no right
to engineer ferryboat from river bank to
river bank if God commands You to engi-
noer a Cunarder from New York to Liver
pool. But whatever enterprise you under
take, and upon whatever voyage you start,
be sure to take Christ in the ship. Here
are men largely prosperi,d. The seed Of a
small enterprise grew into an accumulated
and oyershadowing Success Their cup Of
prosperity is running over. Every day sees
commercial or a mechanical triumph.
Yet they are not pufird up. They ac-
knowledge the God who grows the harvests
and gives them all their prosperity When
disaster comes that destroys others, they
are only helped into higher experiences.
The coolest winds that ever blew down