The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-07-19
THE ROUGH PLACES.
Dr. Talmage Indicates the Best Way
of Getting Over Them.
Lesson from q Memorable Incident
In the SaviouF's Life-FOllOwing
Christ Not Always Smooth
Sailing.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
WASHINGTON,

DR.. Talmage, who is now In europe
preaching to immense congregations in
the great cities, sends this sermon, in
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 viii
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 and
| glory and pathos when our Lord lived
here! I 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, ali, 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 a
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-al
styles of vegetation in smaller space
than in almost any other space In the
, world, from the palm tree o. the forest
to the trees of rigorous climate. II
, seemed as if the Lord had launched one
| wave of beauty on all the scene and il
hung and swung from rock and hill ane
! oleander. Roman gentlemen in pleas
q ure boats sailing this lake and country
men in fishing smacks coming down t
+ drop their nets pass each other will
q nod and shout and laughter or swing
. ing idly at their moorings. Oh, what
n beautiful scene!
+ it seems as if we shall have quie
. night. Not leaf quivered in the all
not ripple disturbed the face of Gen
4 nesaret. But there seems to be LIT
a tie excitement up the beach, and W
!. hasten to see what it is, and we fin
a It an embarkation. From the wester,
a shore a fotilla pushing out; not
n squadron of deadly armament. nor cliT
!. per with valuable merchandise, no
4 piratic vessels ready to destroy every
; thing they could seize, but flotills
n bearing messengers of light and lit
. and peace. Christ is in the stern q
: the boat. His disciples are in the boz
4 and amidships. Jesus, weary wit
/. much speaking to large multitudes,
= put into somnolence by the rocking {
= the waves. If there was any motion
= all, the ship was easily righted; if tn
:. wind passed from starboard to lal
\ board, or from larboard to starboar'
"A the boat would rock and, by the gentl
4 ness of the motion, putting the Maste
At asleep. And they extemporized pi
:. low made out of a fisherman's coat.
think no sooner is Christ PROSTATE an
His head touched the pillow than He
sound asleep. The breezes Of tie lal
Of run their fingers through the locks
10 the worn sleeper, and the boat ris'
IN and falls like sleeping child on Il
a. bosom of a sleeping mother.
de- That great parsonage lifts His he'
h. from the pillow Of the fisherman
he coat, walks to the front of the vess
er and looks out into the storm. A
ad around Him are the smaller boat
II. driven in the tempest, and through
to comes the cry Of drowning men.
he the flash Of the lightning I see Il
as. calm brow of Christ as the spr,
sr dropped from His beard. He has o
ma word for the sky and another for t
ng waves. Looking upward, He erie
,c. "Peace!" Looking downward,
ba SAYS: sBe still" The waves fall a
=. on their faces, the foam melts, the c
n. tinguished stars relight their torch
:" The tempest falls dead, and Chr
\. stands with His foot on the neck
the storm. And while the sailors q
III baling out the boats and while th
are trying to untangle the corda
the disciples stand in amazement, nj
looking into the calm sea, then IN
Iay the calm sky, then into the ca
sc. Sayiour's countenance, and they {
out: "What manner of man IL tt
sc. that even the winds and the sea OF
ith Him?'
ON The subject, in the first place,
presses me with the fact that it
very important to have Christ in
OF ship; for all those boats would hi
rome to the bottom Of Gennesaret
Christ had not been present.
=. what lesson for you and for me
learn! Whatever voyage we und
take, into whatever enterprise
~ start, let us always have Christ in
W. ship. AL you can do with utm
ls tension Of body. mind and soul ,
are bound to do; but, Oh. have CHI
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