Connecticut western news., 1897-09-02
A ROUGH SEA VOYAGE
DR. TALMAGE SAYS CHRlST'S FOL
 LOWERS MUST EXPECT IT.

LOWERS MUST EXPECT IT. He Preaches Sermon of Soiace to People
 Who Are In Trouble-The Storm and
 the Calm on tho Sea of Gennesaret-The
 HArbor.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-This sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage will be of great solace to people who are finding their life rough voyage. Text. Mark iv, S6: "And there were also with him other little ships, and there arose great storm of wind. And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. {"
 Tiberias, Galilee, Gennesaret-three names for the same lake. No other gem ever had so beautiful setting. It lay in scene of great luxuriance-the sur rounding hills high, terraced, sloped, groved, so many hanging gardens of beauty; the waters rumbling down be- tween rocks of gray and red limestone, flashing from the hills and bounding into the sea. On the shore were castles, armed towers, Roman baths, everything attractive and beautiful, all styles of vegetation in shorter space than in al most any other space in all the world, from the palm tree of the forest to the trees of . rigorous climate.
 Smooth Sailing.
 It seemed as if the Lord had launched one wave of beAuty on all the scene, and it hung and swung from rock and hill and oleander. Roman gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing the lake and countrymen in fish smacks, coming down to drop their nets, pass each other with nod and shout and laughter or singing idly at their moorings. Oh, what . wonderful, what a beautiful lakei
 It seems as if we shall have quiet night. Not a leaf winked in the air, not . ripple disturbed the face of Gen. nesaret, but there seems to be little excitement up the beach, and we hasten to see what it is, and we find it an em- barkation.
 From the western shore hotilla pushing out, not squadron or deadly armament nor clipper with valuable merchandise, nor piratio vessels ready to destroy every thing they could seize, but fotilla, bearing messengers of life and light and peace. Christ is in the front of the boat. His disciples are in . mailer boat. Jesus, weary with much speaking to large multitudes, is put in to somnolenoe by the rocking of the waves. If there was any motion at all, the ship was easily righted; if the wind passed from one side, from the star board to the larboard or from the lar board to the starboard. the boat would rock. and by the gentleness of the mo- tion putting the master asleep. And they extemporized a pillow made out of . 1aherman's coat. think no sooner Is Christ prostrate and his head touching the pillow than he is sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their fingers through the locks of the worn sleeper, and the boat rises and falls like sleep ing child on the bosom of sleeping mother.
 4 Change of Weather.
 Calm night, starry night, beautiful night. Run up all the sails, ply all the oars. and let the large boat and the small boat glide over gentle Gennesaret. But thessailors say there is going to be . change of weather. And even the passengers can hear the moaning of the storm as it comes on with long stride, with all the terrors of hurricane and darkness. The large boat trembles like a deer at bay trembling among the clangor of the hounds; great patches of foam are flung into the air; the sails of tho vessels loosen, and the sharp winds crack like pistols; the smaller boats like petrels boise on the cliff of the waves and then plunge. Overheard go cargo. taokling and masts, and the drenched disciples rush into the back part of the boat and lay hold of Christ and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?" That great per sonage lifts his head from the pillow of tho fisherman's coat, walks to the front of the vessel and looks out into the storm. All around him are the smaller boats, driven in the tempest, and through it comes the cry of drowning men. By the flash of the lightning I see the calm brow of Christ as the spray dropped from his beard. He has one word for the sky and another word for the waves. Looking upward, he cries, "Peacep Looking downward, he says, "Be stillp'
 The waves fall flat on their faces, the foam melts, the extinguished stars re- light their torches, the tempest falls dead, and Christ stands with his foot on the neck of the storm. And while the sailors are bailing out the boats and while they are trying to untangle the cordage the disciples stand in amaze ment, now looking into the calm sea, then into the calm sky, then into the calm of the Saviour's countenance, and they cry out, "What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?''
 The subject in the first place impress es me with the fact that it is very inn portant to have Christ in the ship. for all those boats would have gone to the bottom of Gennesaret if Christ had not been present. Oh, what lesson for you and for me to learni Whatever voyage we undertake, into whatever enterprise we start, let us always have Christ in the ship. Many of you in these days of revived commerce are starting out in new financial enterprises. I bid you good cheer. Do all you can do. Do it on as high plane as possible. You have no right to be stoker in the ship if you can be an admiral of the navy. You have no right to be colonel of a regiment if you can command brigade, you have no right to be engineer of a boat on river banks CT near the coast if you can take the ocean steamer from New York to Liverpool. All you can dc with utmost tension of body, mind and soul, you are bound to do; but, oh, have Christ in every enterprise, Christ in every voyage, Christ in every shipl
 There are men who ask God to help them at the start of great enterprises. He has been with them in the past. No tyou h1a can overthrow them The storms