IF CHRIST BE ABOARD THERE 1S NOTHING TO FEAR IN MAK- ING LIFE'S STORMY VOYAGE. Rev, Dr. Talinage Presents n Striking Les- son Men of the Present Day--Ohrist Stilling the Tem- pest—A Rrilliant Picture. For the and Women Sept. 22, In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage discourses on a dramatic incident during the Sav- jour’s life among the Galilean fisher- men and draws from it a striking les- son for the men and women of the pres ent day. The subject was *‘ Rough Sail- Ing,'' and the text, Mark iv, 86, 87, “And there were also with him other little ships, and there storm of wind." Tiberias, Galilee and Gennesaret were lake. It lay it luxuriance. The sur- sloping, NEw YORK, arose a great three names for the same in a scene of res ropnding hills, high, gorged, were so many hanging gardens of beauty. The streams tumbled down rocks of gray and red lime- stone, and flashing fr the hillside bounded to the sea. In the time of oor Lord the valleys, headlands and ridges thickly with 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 in vine- yards and olive gardens were gathering up the Fiches for the oil press. The hills and valleys were starred and crimsoned with Hors, from which Christ took his text, and the disciples learned les- sons of patience and trust. It seemed as if God bad dashed a wave of beauty on all the scene until it hung dripping from the rocks, the hills, the oleanders. On the back of the Lebanon range the glory of the earthly scene was carried op as if to set it in range with the hills of heaven terraced, through m were covered vegetation, A Beautiful Sea. setting as beantiful Genunesaret. waters were clear and swee$ and thick- ly inhabited, tempting innumerable nets snd affordin- livelibood “or great pop- ulations, be. .saida, Chorazin and Ca- pernanm «lon the bank roaring with wheels trafic and flashing with splendid equipages, and shooting their vessels across the lake, bringing mer- chandise for Damascus and passing great cargoes of wealthy product. Pleas- ure boats of Roman gentlemen and fish- ing smacks of the country people, who had come down tocast a net there, pass- ed each other with nod and shout and welcome, ar side by side swung idly at the mooring. Palace and luxuriant bath | ship. and vineyard, tower and shadowy arbor, looking off upon the calm sweet scene a8 the evening shadows began to drop, and Hermon, with its head covered with perpetual snow, in the glow of the set- ting sun looked like a white bearded prophet ready to ascend in a chariot of fire. Ithink we shall have a quiet night! Not a leaf winks in the air or a ripple disturbs the surface of Gennesaret. The shadows of the great headlands stalk clear across the water. The voices of evendpgtide, how drowsily they strike —— “of "de bomtman's oar, and the thumping of the captured fish on the boat's bottom, and those in- describable sounds which fill the air at nightfall. Youn hasten up the beach of the lake a little way, and there you find an excitement as of an embarkation, A flotilla is pushin from the western shore of the lake—not n with deadly armament, not a clipj to ply with valuable merchandise, not piratio vessels with grappling hook to hug to death whatever they could but a flotilla laden with messengers of light and mercy and peace. in the front ship. His friends and admirers are in the small boats following after, Christ, by the rocking of the boat and the fatigues of the preaching exercises of the day, is induced to slumber, and I see him in the stern of the boat, with a pillow perhaps extemporized out of a fisherman's coat, sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their fingers through the locks of the wornout sleep- er, and on its surface there riseth and falleth the light ship, like a child on the bosom of its sleeping mother! Calm night. Starry night. Beautiful night. Run up all the sails, and ply all the oars, and let the boats—the big boat and the small boats—go gliding over gentle Gennesaret. A Storm Arises, The sailors prophesy a change in the weather. Clouds begin to travel ap the gky and congregate. After awhile, even the passengers hear the moan of the storm, which comes on with rapid strides and with all the terrors of hur- ricane and darkness. The boat, canght in the sudden fury, trembles like a deer at bay amid the wild gor of the hounds. Great patches of foam are flung through the air. The loosened sails, flapping in the wind, crack like pistols, The small boats poised on the white cliff of the driven sea tremble like ceean petrels, and then plunge into the trough with terrific swoop until a wave strikes them with thunder crack, and over. board go tho o y, the tackling and the masts, and the drenched disciples rash into the stern of the boat and shout amid burricane, *‘‘Master, carest thou not that we pe That great personage lifted his head from the fish- erman’s coat and walked out to the prow of the vessel and storm. On all sides were the small boats tossing in helplessness, and from them came the cries of drowning men. By the flash of lightning I see the calmness of the uncovered brow of Jesus and the spray of the sea dripping from his beard. He has two words of command ~-one for the wind, the other for the sea. He looks into the tempestuous heav- ens and he cries, ‘Peace !"' and then he g out a squadr er seize, Jesus IE clan rdag th the risen’ and he says, “Bs still!’ The thunders beat a retreat. The waves fall flat on their faces. The extinguished stars re- kindle their torches. The foam melts. | edge the God who | periences. | winds b y ‘ot | Let No other gem ever had so exquisite a | i The | {| men, | they | world | orew. The sea rises | in life will be n ming of | tropical tornado | long | skies clear, { exhilarant. | merri | Over | Jartune, with | wheel, | have found ont. { who you wonld think onght to have had | through the streets; |er's club; | through with a spear. Ji | Beoteh ©: | pretty Christian | Ni looked upon the | | and sistors opposed | pkv cad. And while the crew } ingling the cordage and the on- bl nd baling out the water from the hold of the ship the disciples stand won- der struck, now gazing into the calm now gazing into the calm sen, now I into the ealm face of Jesus, and whispering one to another, ** What man- ner of man is this, that even the winds aud the sea obey him?" 1f Christ Be Aboard, I learn, first, from this subject that when you are going to take i voyage of any kind you ought to have Christ in the ship. The fact that those boats would all havo gone to the bottom if Christ had vot been there. Now, you are about to voyage out intos en- torprise-—into new bo 8 rela- tion. You are going te me great matter of profit. I hop If you are content to go al treadmill plan nothing new, you are not fulfilling your mission. What you can do by the utmost body, mind and soul that you are bound to do. You have no right to be nel of a regiment if God calls you to command an army. You have no right to be st in a steamer if u to be admiral of the navy. Yon have no right to engineer a ferryboat from river bank to river k if God commands you to engineer a Cuonarder from New York to Liverpool. But whatever enter- you and on whatever voyage youn start, be sure to take Christ in the ship. Here are men largely pros- pered. The seed of enterprise grew into an and overshad- owing success. Their cup of prosperity is running over. Every day sees ‘ com- mercial or a mechanical triumph. Yet they are not puffed vp. They acknowl- the harvests and gives them their prosperity. When disaster comes that destroys oth- ers, they are only helped into higher ex. The coldest winds that ever from snow capped Hermon Gennesaret into foam and not hurt them. Let the low until they crack their cheeks, the breakers boom——all is well, Christ is in the Here are other the prey of uncertainties. When succeed, they strut through the in great vanity and wipe their feet on the sensitiveness of « Dis- aster comes, utterly down. They are g day, when the sky sea is gmooth, but they cann y 4 8te After awhile the packet is tossed abeam’s it if must go down with all th go. Posh out from the shore with lifeboat, long boat, shal- lop and pinnace. You cannot save the The st twists off the masta take down the No Christ in that mh i8 me new ines plan se } 1t 18 80 th some ng in course and tension of 1 . JR OY God commands ye ban prise undertake, a small accumu lated gre : ail Wl blew down and tossed agony conld ship thers. and they are ood sail on a fair ar and the t outrids ig cle ro. SOOIS ns / 3 h end, and she 8 Cal rm up to Down she goes! Vos sel I speak to youn sunshine blast and of VO many & The HO Crew and of darkness, v ght bri day the The 1 ly over the the ca H But suppose tha cup to your shadows your Pe hurls that the athwi Ww iy wrt ships, and halyvards ana gangw row the shit When Storms ( I learn, in the next plac yO me, that j ple t always ex 41 wl n ples got into the sma “What a delightful would not be a follows he can after the ship in which ing?’ But when the these disciples found Jesus did not always ing 11 boat +) y thi ride in one of these small boats Jesus is sail storm came down out that following make smooth sail- So you have found ont, and so I If there are any people a good time in getting ont of this world, the apostles of Jesus Christ ought to have been the men. Have you ever no- ticed how they got out of the world? James lost his head ; 8t. Philip was hung to death against a pillar; St Matthew was struck to death by a hal- berd; Bt Mark was dragged to death St. James the Less had his brains dashed out with a full Bt. Matthins w Bt. The ma stoned struck hn Hz 123 in the Waldenses, the venanters—did always find smooth sailing? WI far? There isa young m ro in Ww to death; was fire, the Albigenses, the | New York who has a hard time to main- All the oyers in ho ‘You are } ya it fc Tr that young man to folloy rist. If the Lord d aid not he Ip him he would fail. Th men today who ¥ tify that in followi not always find is a Christian girl not iike Christ get a silent pla 0 | to say her prayers Father o wposed to religion; mother opposed to religion; brothers to religion. The Christian girl not always find it smooth wl, when she tries to follow Jesus. But be of good heart. As seafar- ers, when winds are dead ahead, by sot- ting the ship on starboard tack and brae- ing the yards make the winds that op. character the tain his Christian clerks laugh at him, that stare laugh at him, and when loses his patience 1" Not L mi 1 they ray, ling to tes ne d EE] There 0 they do tk to n which does | pose the course propel the ship forward, #0 opposing troubles, through Christ, . . . | veering around the bowsprit of faith, looks down into the infariate waters will waft you to heaven, when, if the winds had been abaft, they might have rocked and sung you to sleep, and while dreaming of the destined port of heaven | You eld not have heard the cry of warning and would have gone crashing fnto the breakers. | good people No Need of Year, Again, my subject teaches me that sometimes pet very much frightened. From the tone and manner of these disciples as they rushed into tho stern of the vessel and woke Christ up, you know that ‘ey are fearfully scared, And so it i w that you often find good people wildly agitated. *‘Oh!” Bays Christian man, “the infidel magazines, the bad newspapers, the gpiritualistic rocieties, the importation of 80 many foreign errors, the church of God is going to be lost, the ship is going to founder! The ship ing down!" What u frightened about? An old lion goes into his cavern to take a sleep, and he lies down until his ghagpy mane covers his paws. Meanwhile the spiders ide begin to spin webs over the mouth of bis cavern and say, ‘That lion cannot bre out through this web," and they keep on spinning the gossamer threads until they get the mouth of the cavern covered over. Now," they say, “the lion's done, the lion's done.’ Aft- lion awakes and shakes himself, and he walks out from the cavern, never knowing there wero any webs, and with his voice he shakes the monntain, Let the infidels and the skeptics of this d iY gO on spin- ping their webs, spinning their infidel gossamer spinning all over the place where Christ seems to be sleeping. They say: ‘Christ can never again come out. The work is done. He can never get through this Lk al web wo have been gpinni hg. "" The day will come when the Lion of Judah's tribe will rouse himself iy como forth and shake mightily the nations. What then all your gossamer threads? What is a spider's web to an aroused lion? Do not frot, then, about the world's going back- ward. It is going forward You stand the banks of the sea when the tide is rising. The almanac BAYH tide is rising, but the wave comes up to a certain point and then it recedes. ‘'Why," you say, ‘‘the tide is going back.'' No, itis not. The next wave comes up a little higher, and it goes back. Again yousay the tide is go- ing out. And the next time the wave comes to a higher point, afd then to a higher point. Notwithstanding all these recessions Jast all the ing of the world knows high tide. So it is with the cause of Christ in the world. One year it point, and we are greatly Then it seems to go back next year. Wesay the tide is going out. Next year it ¢ a higher point and falls back, and next gher point and advanoc- “*and the ledge EOMO 18 § aro yi ont 1» aK er awhile the gpiders’ theories, them on th tao sip] it 18 comes up to one encouraged mes to year it comes toa still bh falls back, but all the tin until it shall be full ba full { { waters fill the sea “Ecce Deus™ Again, I learn from thi Christ is God and man in the I go into the back part of that boat, and I look on Christ’ ping face and gee in that face the story of + y and ing, eart} all God as the h shi the kuov of s subject that RAG per- sO 8 RIEw Hada NGS uk he must be i thnk tO come. k part of the boat vy: "Hols aman! i #oo him boat, and the and the mmand, ! The sof the ®n in ra of beat de int faith f gms one to when Iw wn my the great then I come to of the I see Christ standing the re in and I say, “'O couldst hush the storm can hush all my sorrows, all my tomptations, all my fears!’ ‘‘Eoce De- I" Behold the God! The Hushed Tem pest, I learn aleo from this subject that Christ can hush the tempest. Some of you, my hearers, have a heavy load of troubles. y HU Call Woe Pp no took the house, the one that asked the most cu- rions questions, the ome that hung around you with greatest fondness. The gravedigger's spade ent down through your bleeding heart. Or perhaps it was the only one that yon had, and your soul has ever castle, where the birds of the night hoot amid the falling towers and along the crumbling stairway was an agod mother the front future, 1 boat and all his « Christ, thon mnipotence, who us more child Perhaps God sweetest nt of your that was called You need to send for her when you had any kind of trouble. She was in your home to welcome your children into life, when they died she was there to pity yon You know that the old ford will never do any more kindness of white hair that keep so well in the casket of the kot does not look #0 well ag it did on moved it back from f rchead under the old bonnet in the church in the I perha your property has ‘There, I have go much so much I bave in houses, in lands, so much I ' Suddenly it is all gone. Alas! for the man who once had plenty of money, but who has hardly enough now for the morning marketing. away u, and the lock when wrinkled 0 day shoe for h A n 1 tl thao a said k stood x. I bh uritios Ive liko that which has gone trampling its thunders over your quaking sonl. Bat you awoke Christ in the back purt of tho ship, crying, ‘Master, caresi thon not that I perish?’ and Christ rose op and quioted youn, Jesus hashing the tempest, There is mast all run. When a man lots go this life to take hold of the next, I do not care how moch grace he has, he will want ft all. What is that out yonder? | That is u dying Christian rocked on the | surges of death. Winds that have Some of you have wept until | gince been like a desolated | Or perhaps it | ent flotillas of pomp r come down on that " sits of dar) * it i8 their kindred of d and to deep, no m the 8 out, ‘aters h of that rom ome come 1 the an I to rest iid tears } id the THE UNSEEN WORLD, Hades un It Is Plietured In the the Apocrypha. Danis 1, is perhaps Books of The Maccal book « dating from the the earliest loop in TI iy of them that arth shall | t of the « fl lasting overlastin ’ gh An And they tho bright and they that tho stars nent, FURNCES As To find a me t turn ire de i We mu Apocrypha, vded by ides t Hellenistic hr of Enoch, in eschats and universe, speaks in ¢ future of righteous book yl which deal the largely gy secret thi ome detal dness and JUN aud ir them and ace the spirits of those ighteousne and ¥ given to you in rec your labors, and your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the And in cor itrast: ‘Know ye souls (the sinners) will be into sheol, and they , and great will n, and into darkness burning fire, where m, will will genera nnpense living lesocend ( ribulati a net and and there mdemnatic your spirits enter, and there n for the be grievous condemnatic tions of the world In the fourth said of the book of Esdras it is God that "they shall decay mfosion, ba con sumed with shame, and wither in fear when they seo glory of the Most High, whose might they sin while they are alive Much in on laser Jewish thought was exercised Fa knowy DAassage the Isaiah: “They ] and lock upon the caroascs of that have trans grossed against no for their worm neither shall their fire be and they shall be an abhor flesh. 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