The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-06-15
THE ROUGH PLACES.
DR.. Talmage Indicates the Best Way
of Getting Over Them.
aesson from a Memorable Incfden I
I'm the SavfOur's Life-FO1lOwinS
Christ Not Always smooth
Sailing.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.1
Washington, June 10.

which he describes the rough places OF
life and indicates the best means OF
getting over them and shows how many
people fail to understand their best
blessings; text, Mark iv, 80, And he
arose and rebuked the wind and said
unto the sea, Peace, be still
Here in Capernaum, the seashore VII
lage. was the temporary home of that
Christ who for the most of his life was
homeless. On the site of this village.
now in ruins, and all"arOund this lake
what scenes of kindness and power anu
glory and pathos when our Lord lived
here. l can understand the feeling OF
the immortal Scotchman, Robert Nc
Cheyne,. when, sitting on the banks OF
this lake, he wrote:
1t is not that the wild gazelle
Comes down to drink. thy tide,
But He that was pierced to save from
hell
Oft wandered by thy side.
Graceful around thee the mountains meet,
Thou calm reposing sea.
But, all, far more the beautiful feet
OF Jesus walked DER thee.
lean easily understand from the con-
tour of the country that bounds this
lake that storms were easily tempted
to make these waters their playground.
This lake, in Christ's time, lay in
scene of great luXuriance; the sur
rounding hills, terraced, sloped,
groved; so many hanging gardens OF
beauty. On the shore were castles,
armed towers, Roman baths, every
thing attractive and. beautiful-all
STYLES of vegetation in smaller space
than in almost any other space in the
world, from the palm tree of the forest
to the trees of rigorous climate. 1t
seemed as if the Lord had launched one
wave of beatty on all the scene and 1t
hung and swung from rock and hill and
oleander. Roman gentlemen in pleas
ure boats sailing this lake and country
men in fishing smacks coming down to
drop their nets pass each other with
. nod and shout and laughter or swing
ing idly at their moorings. Oh, what a
beautiful scene!
1T seems as if we shall have quiet
night. Not leaf quivered in the air,
not ripple disturbed the face of Gen
nesaret But there seems to be a lit
tie excitement up the beach, and we
hasten to see what it is, and we find
it an en1barkation. From the western
shore. a fotilla pushing. out; not a
squadron of deadly armament. nor clip
per with valuable merchandise, nor
- piratic vessels ready to destroy every
thing they could seize, but a fotilla
Bearing messengers of light and life
and peace. Christ is in the stern OF
the boat. His disciples are in the bow
and amidships. Jesus, weary with
much speaking to large multitudes, is
put into somnolence by the rocking OF
the waves. If there was any motion al
all, the ship was easily righted; if the
wind passed from starboard to lar
board, or from larboard to starboard
the boat would rock and, by the gentle
ness of the motion, putting the Master
asleep. And they extemporized pill
low made out of fisherman's coat.
His head touched 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 a sleeping child on the
bosom of sleeping mother.
That great parsonage lifts His heat
from the pillow of the fisherman:
coat, walks to. the front of the vesse
and looks out into the storm. Al
around Him are the smaller boats
driven in the tempest. and through il
comes the cry of drowning men. BY
the flash of the lightning L see the
calm brow of Christ as the spray
dropped from His beard. He has one
word for the sky and another for the
waves. Looking upward, He cries
'"Peace!" Looking downward, He
e says: BE still" The waves fall fla
on their faces, the foam melts. the eX
tinguished stars relight their torches
The tempest falls dead. and Christ
stands with His foot on the neck O,
the storm. And while the sailors are
baling out the boats and while they
are trying to untangle the cordags
the disciples stand in amazement, now
looking into the calm sea, then into
the calm sky, then into the calm
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, i'm
presses me with the fact that it i:
very important to have Christ in tn,
ship; for all those boats would have
gone to the bottom of Gennesaret i
Christ had not been present. Oh