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Will leave Eizabeth City for Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdays f 1 n rt . riimbeth City for Nor- ! lolk Tltursdays and Mondays a n. m. A ROUGH SEA VOYAGE DR. TALMAGE SAYS CHRIST'S FOL 1 LOWERS MUST EXPECT IT. . lie Preachc Scraoa of SoIam to People MTio Arm la Troubl Tb Storm aad th CaIxh on tbo Bern of Oeno ft Tbo U arbor. WABiuxaTOJc, Aog. 29. This sermon by Rer. Dr. Talmage Trill be of great solace to people who are finding their life a rough voyage. Text, Markiv, 86: 'And there were also with him other little chips, and there arose a 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 a setting. It lay in a scene of great luxuriance the sur rounding hills high, terraced, sloped, graved, 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 a rigorous climate. Smooth Salllnc. 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 a wonderful, what a beautiful lakef It seems as if we shall have a quiet night Not a leaf winked in the air, not a ripple disturbed the face of Gen nesaret, but there seems to be a little excitement up the beach, and we hasten to see what it is, and we find it an em barkation. From the western shore a flotilla pushing out, not a squadron or deadly armament, nor clipper with valuable merchandise, nor piratio vessels ready to destroy everything they could seize, but a flotilla, bearing messengers of life and light and peace. Christ is in the front of the boat. . His disciples are in a smaller boat. Jesus, weary with much speaking to large multitudes, is put in to somnolence by the rocking of the waves. ' If there was any motion at allf 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 a fisherman's coat I think no sooner is Christ prostrate and his bead touching the pillow than ho 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 sleep ing child on the bosom of a sleeping mother. . A 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 the sailors say there is going to be a 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 clanger of the hounds; great patches of foam are flung into the air; the sails of the vessels loosen, and the sharp winds crack like pistols; the smaller boats like petrels poise on the cliff of the waves and then plunge. Overboard go cargo, tackling and masts, and the drenched disciples rush into the back pirt 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 the fisherman's coat, walks to the front of the vessel and looks out into the storm. All around bini 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, ho cries. "Peace!" Looking downward, be says. "Be still I" 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 cf .the storm. And while the sailors are bailing cut the boats and whilo they are trying to untangle the cordage the disciples stand iu 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?" i ; - The subject in the first place impress es me with the fact that it is very im portant to have Christ in the ship, for ii thnsn boats would have cone to-the bottom of Gennesaret if Christ had notl been present Oh, what a lesson lor you and for me to learn I 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 da Do it m as high a plane as possible. You have no right to be a stoker in the ship if you can be an admiral of the navy. You have no right to be a colonel of a regiment if you can command a brigade, you have no right to be engineer of a boat on river banks or near the coast if you can take the ocean steamer from New York to Liverpool. All you can do with utmost tension of body, mind and soul, you are bound to do; but oh, have Christ la every enterprise, Christ in Christ in every shin I - There are men who ask God to help ! them at the start of great enterprises. He has been with them in the past Na trocble can overthrow them.. The storms might come down from the lop of Mount II?rmcn and lash Gennesaret Into foam and into cgeny, but it could not hurt them. Bat here is another man who starts cut in worldly enterprise, and he depends upon the uncertainties of this life. He ha3 no God to help him. After awhile the storm comes and tosses off the masts of the ship. He puts out his lifeboat The sheriff and the auctioneer try to help him off. They can't help him off. He must go down no Christ in the ship. Here are "young men just starting out in life. Your life will be made up of sunshine and shadow. There may be in it arctic blasts or tropical tornadoes. I know not what is before you, but I know if you have Christ with you all shall be well. You may seem to get alog without the religion cf Christ while every thing goes smoothly, but after awhile, when sorrow hovers over the souL when the waves of trial dash clear over the hurricane deck and the bowsprit is shiv ered and the halyards are swept into the sea and the gangway is crowded with piratical disasters oh, what would you then do without Christ in the ship? Young man, take God for your portion, God for your guide, God for your help, then all is well all is well for time, all shall be well forever. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord his trust. He shall never be con founded. There Blast Co Rough Weather. But my subject also impresses me with the fact that when .people Btart to follow Christ they must not expect smooth sailing. These disciples got into the small boats, and I have no doubt they said: "What a beautiful day this is! What a smooth seal What a bright sky this is! How delightful is sailing in this boat I And as for the waves un der the keel of the boat, why, they only make the motion of our' little boat the more delightful. " But when the winds swept down and the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found that following Christ was not smooth sailing. So you have found it; so I have found it Did you ever notice the end of the life of the apostles of Jesus Christ? You would say that if ever men ought to have had a smooth life, a smooth departure, then those men, the disciples of Jesus Christ ought to have had such a departure and such a life. St. James lost his head. St. Philip was hung to death on a pillar. St Mat thew had bis life dashed out with a halberd. St Mark was dragged to death through the streets. St James the Less was beaten to death with a fuller's club. St Thomas was struck through with a spear. They did not find follow ing Christ smooth sailing. Oh, - how they were all tossed in the tempestl John Huss in the fire, Hugh McKail in the hour of martyrdom, the Albigenses, the Waldenses, the Scotch Covenanters did they find it smooth sailing? But why go to history when I can find all around me a score of illustra tions of the truth of this subject that young man in the store trying to serve God while his employer scoffs at Chris tianity, the-young men in the same store antagonistic to the Christian re ligion, teasing him, tormenting him about his religion, trying to get him mad? They succeed in getting him mad, saying, " You're a pretty Chris tian!", Does this young man find it smooth sailing when he tries to follow Christ? Here is a Christian girL Her father despises the Christian religion; her mqther despises the Christian re ligion; her brothers and sisters scoff at the Christian religion; she can hardly find a quiet place in which to say her prayers. . Did she find it smooth sailing when she tried to follow Jesus Christ? Oh, no; all who would live the life of the Christian religion must suffer per secution. If you do not find it in one way, you will get it in another way. The question was asked, "Who are those nearest the tfcrone?" and the an swer came back, "These are they who came op out of great tribulation" "great flailing," as the original has it; great flailing, great pounding "and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Oh, do not be disheartened! O &ild of God, take courage 1 You are in glorious compan ionship. God will see you through all these trials, and he will deliver you. My subject also impresses me with the fact that good people sometimes get very much frightened. In the tones of these disciples as they rushed into the back part of the boat I find they are frightened almost to death. They say, "Master, carest thou not that we per ish?"' They had no reason to be fright ened, for Christ was in the boat I sup pose if we had been there we would have been just, as jnuch affrighted. ' Per haps more. I No Need of Worry. In all ages very good people "get very much affrighted It Is often so in our day, and men say: "Why, look at the bad lectures; look at the spiritualistic societies; look at the various errors go ing over the church of God. We are go ing to founder; the church is going to perish; she is going down." Oh, how many good people are affrighted by tri umphant iniquity in our day and think the church of ; Jesus ? Christ and the cause of righteousness are going to be overthrown and are I just as much affrighted as the disciples of my text were affrighted. Don't worry, don't fret, as though Iniquity were going to triumph over righteousnesa : A lion goes into a cavern to sleep. He lies down, with his shaggy mane cover ing the paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a web across the mouth of the cav ern and say, "We have captured him." Gossamer thread after gossamer thread is spun until the whole front of the cavern is covered with the spiders' web and the spiders say, "The lion is done; the lion is fast" After awhile the lion fca3 got through sleeping. He rouses him self, he shakes his mane, he walks out into the . sunlight he does not even know the spiders' web Is spun, and with his voice he shakes the mountain. "... - " So men come, spinning their sophis tries and skepticism about Jesus Christ He seems to be sleeping. They 'lay: "We have captured the Lord. He will never come forth again upon the nation. Christ is captured, and captured ! for ever. His religion will never make; any conquest among men. But after awhile the "lion of the tribe of JudaV; will rouse himself and come forth to shake mightily the national What is a spider's web to the aroused lion? Give truth and error a fair grapple, and truth will dome off victor. Jf- . ' I But there are a great many good; peo ple who get affrighted in other respects. They are affrighted in our day about re vivals. They say: "Oh, this is a strong religious galel We are afraid the church of God is going to upset and there are going to be a great many people brought into the church that are going to be of no use to it " And they are affrighted whenever they see a revival taking hold of the churches. ' ' '' .' p i Chair and WheaC , , . ' As though a ship captain with '.6,000 bushels of wheat for a cargo should say some day, coming upon deck, "Throw overboard aU the cargo, " and the sailors should say: "Why, captain, what do you mean? Throw over all the cargo?" "Ob," says the j captain, "we have a peck of chaff that has got into this 5,000 bushels of wheat, and the only way to get rid of the chaff : is to throw all the wheat overboard. ' Now, that is a great deal wiser than the talk of a great many Christians who want to throw overboard all the thousands and tens of thousands of souls! who have) been brought in through great awakenings. Thrown all" overboard . because there ! is a pehk of chaff, a quart of chaff, a pint of chaff! I say, let them stay until the last 'day. The Lord will divide the chaff from the wheat -x k I 1 ;j Oh, that these gales from heaven might sweep through all our churches! Oh, for such days as Richard Baxter saw in England and Robert McCheyne Baw in Dundee! Oht for such days as Jonathan Edwards 8w,, in Northamp ton! I have often hejard my father tell of the fact that in th' early part of this century a revival broke out in Somer ville, N. J., and sme jpeople were very much agitated about! it They said, "Oh, you are going to bring too many people into the .church at once!" and they sent down to New- Brunswick to get John Livingston to stop the revival. Well, there was no better, soul in all the worid than John Livingston. He went up; he looked at the revival- They wanted him to stop itj . He stood in the pulpit on the Sabbath and looked over the solemn auditory, and he .'said: "Thisj brethren, is in) reality the work of "God: Beware how you try tq stop it" And he was an old man, leaning heavily on his staff- a very old man. And he lifted that staff and; took jhold of the sm all end of the staff and began to let it fall very slowly through be tween the finger and the thumb, and he said, "Oh, -thou impenitent, thou art falling now falling ; a way from rlife, falling away from peace and heaven, falling as certainly as that ' cane is-f all lug through iny hand falling certain ly, though perhaps falling very slowly !" And the cane kept enj falling through John Livingston's hand. The religious, emotion in the audience ws overpow ering and men saw ja type of their doom as the cane kept falling and fall ing until the knob of the cane struck' Mr. Livingston's hand, arid he clasped it stoutly and said, "But the grace of God can stop you, as I stopped that cane, "and then there was gladness all: through the house at the fact of pardon and peace and salvation. "Well," said the people after the service, "I guess you had bet ter send Livingston home. He is mak ing the . revival worse. " Oh, for the gales from! heaven, and Christ on "hoard the-shipl The danger of the church of God is not; in revivals. j - Again, my subject impresses me jwlth the fact that Jesus Was God and man in the same being. Here he is in the back part of the boat Oh, how tired he looks, what sad dreams he must have! Look at his countenance. He must be thinking of the cross to come. Look at him. He is a man bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. Tired, befalls asleep; he is a man. But then I find Christ at the prow of the boat I hear him say, "Peace, be stilll" And I see the storm kneeling at his feet and the tempests folding their wings in his presence. He is a God. : ' : - 'j-. . . . If I have sorrow and trouble and want sympathy, I go and kneel down at the back part of the boat and say, "O Christ; weary one of Gennesaret, sym-. pathize with all my sorrows, man of Nazareth, man of the cross. " A man, a man. But if I want to conquer my spir itual foes, if I want to get the victory over sin, death and hell, I come to the front of the boat and I kneel down, and I say, "O Lord Jesus Christ thou who dost hush the tempest, hush all my grief, hush all iny temptation, hush all my sin. "f A man, a man, a God, a God. The Tempest Hushed. I learn once more from this subject that Christ oan hush a tempest It did seem as If everything must go to ruin. The, disci pies had given up the idea of managing the'ship. The crew were en tifely demoralized, yet, Christ rises, and he puts his foot on' the storm, and It crouches at his feet Oh. yes, Christ can hush the tempest! ."". You have had troflbla Perhaps it was the little child taken away from you the sweetest child of the "house hold, the one who asked the most curi ous questions and stoo4 around you with the greatest fondness, hid the spade cut down through your bleeding heart " Per haps it was an only son, and your heart has ever since been like a desolated cas tle, the owls cf the night hooting among the falling rafters and the crumbling stairways. ; ' j " Perhaps it was an agjed mother. You always went to her with your; troubles. She was in your .home Jto welcome your children into life, and when they died ahe was there to pity? you. That old band will do you no more kindness. That white lock of hair you put away in the casket or in the locket did not KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGULATOR is; not on n package :.: Ys nothing else is the same. been put up by any one except !). IK!. ZEDLOH & (SID). And it can be easily told THE RED 2. For a He toy Ort W. W. GRIGGS fc OM. look as well as it usually did when she brushed it away from her wrinkled brow In the home circle or in the conn try church. Or, your property gone, you said, "I have so much bank stock, I have so many government securities, I have so many houses, I have so many farms"-5rall gone, all gone. Why, all the storms that ever tram pled with their thunders, all the ship wrecks, have not been worse than this to 'you. Yet you have not been com toletelv overthrown. Why? Christ hushed the tempest Your little one was taken away. Christ says: "I have that little one., I can take care of him as well as you can, better than . you oan, oh, be reaved mother!" Hushing the tempestl When your property went away, God said, "There are' treasures in heaven, in banks that never break. There is one storm' into which we will all have to run the moment when we let go of this life and try to take hold of the next, -when we' will want all the grace we can have -we will want it all Yonder I see a Christian soul rocking on the surges of death. All the powers of darkness seem let out against that soul the swirling wave, the thunder of the sky, the screaming wind, all seem to unite together but that soul is not troubled, there Is no sighing, there are no tears; plenty ;of tears in the room at the. departure but he weeps no tears; calm, satisfied, peaceful, all is " well Jesus hushing the tempestl By the flash of the storm you see the harbor just ahead, and you are making for that harbor- Strike eight bells. All is well Into the harbor of heaven now we glide. We're home at last, home at last Softly we drift on Its bright; auVry tide. We're home at last, home at last. , ' Glory to God, all oar dangers are o'er. ; , We stand secure oh the glorified shore. Glory to God, we will shout evermore.' We're home at last, home at last -.' A Pair of 'Em. - "I'll get e.ven with that Slims !" shouted Blims. "Ho called me a colossal liar." j : "He must he something of a pre varicator himself, "j replied; Plims. "I defn't believe you weigh over 145. ' 'Detroit Freo Pross. Changed Opinions. You think it a want of judgment that one changes his opinion. Is it a proOf that your scales are bad be cause they vibrate with e.very addi tional weight that is added to either side! Miss Edgewoith. Spoiled the Scene. There is a good etory of Charles Warner, who was depicting on Ahe' boards a powerfully pathetic part. He was made up marvelously to look j starved to skin and bone, tottering on the verge of "death from starva tion, gasping for breath and weak, from emaciationv Still he had on his finger a flashing diamond ring, and the sarcastic gallery reproved him for it one night. At the crucial moment the hero faltered out in agony to the gallery : "Good heavens, if this fails, what shall J do?" ' . The answer . floated down unex pectedly from the top seats: "Pawn yer ring, Chawlie!" It spoiled the scene. Pearson's Weekly. h . ' ' -r:- ; Oer 'Simple Little Sister, Little 5-year-old Jennie's mother had gone to church, leaving her and. her baby sister with their grand mother. After awhile grandma got weary and put the baby to bed. Then she suggested, ttiatitwould be nice if Jennie also would, retire. "I don't want to yet, grandma," said the little girl. - Y "But see how i ely little sister hae gone to sleer, grandma urged. "Oh, well," re ; !i d Miss Jennie, "she ain't old eut i . h yet to realize that it's not tik!" Cleveland Leader. j ' . -: ' Potties Off. How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do and the roost beautiful things it can enjoy with out thinking that ehrery day may be the last one and that lost time Is lost eternally 1 New York Ledger. Bather Discouraging-. ; Mr. Slim (hunting for a new boarding house) Is the lady of the house in! Servant No ; she's gone for a po liceman. '!' "What are the terms for board here!" ' . :.r.: ' -" VCash." . . i "I mean how much a week!' "Ten and 15 a week, 'cording to room. ?.. ; "I presume she makes a reduction for people who etay a month or two!" .!-.. ' . VI don't know. No one ever stays that-loT! New York Weeklv. EYES OPEN! not ':". V' ' It cannot be and never has : by their Trade Mark JENNIE KNEW RUTH'S, HAT. Saw Xt rnexpectedly In a Swfas last aa4 :." Itecogatsod It. Had they been j.mcn they would not have met, but as they were girl they did meet and hjul a Just too lovely time, hugging, kissing and .! telling each other what they; had ! seen since they parted, tearfully yet j joy fully, Jin America. jj ! Ruth sailed from New York for Antwerp on tho Wcstorriland, and Jennie went otlt for Liverpool on a Cunarder. Ituth went with a party ... whose itinerary wan fixed, and Jen nie with relatives who had n defi nite plans. So.it was doubtful (whcn and where they ' would encounter ' each other in Europe, or, whether they would meet theio at all. j Ruth and Jennie had formed a friendship whilo at -'school in Northrtnjpton, j which seemed to grow stronger as j time pneecd and which, it is pleasant to relate, never was firmer jthan it is today. As Ruth was not jebming ; houio that year, and, as' fear jwhls pered to her. mother's sad heart, might come homo never, the girlu j vowed that they just would meet j somewhere -on tho other fcido. Some months passed, and Ruth's i party had "Hone tho Rhine, Ber lin,. Vienna, Romo and intermediate ' points of interest and was going to , Paris and Ixmdon 1y way of Switzer- land. It was lato at night wh?n the ; party reached a lit tie-inn. in v jew of the Matterhorn, the objective point of their next day's efforts. Itsmem- ! bers were tired, but they wero even j more hungry than weary. So they j ordered supper, and Ruth, removing I her hat upon entering tho !dining p room, placed it upon a receptacle near the door and gave her atton- ; tion to what the bustling Swiss land- j lady had hastily piovided upon the j table. Little dreamed she what j that simple act of removing her hat was soon to mean ! v j The wearied travelers, prosaically ! discussing their meal, wero startled j. by a shriek of incredulous delight I from the hallway, and into the din- f ing room door rushed the appari tion of Jennie, her face ablaze with ! the wonder and-dolight; of it alL j Ruth's .answering cry of Joy was instantly smothered. in kisses. The j two girls for tho nonce forgot place, f circumstance and conventionality, j It is doubtful if ever sinco this world I began were there poured forth in so; snort a umo so many "Did you I neversl" when evers!" and "2s o, one considers the number of ; inter ruptions for the indiepensablo hugs and kisses. When reason had resumed her calm sway and tho girls and their mothers were together in the pri vacy of their rooms, Jennie told how she, becoming thirsty, had taken a pitcher and sallied forth in earch of water. From the hallway sho bad seen Ruth's hat and instantly recognized it, fprphe was with Ruth in New Yrk when it was chotK ii, and the two had taken counsel to gether as to its trimming, and then the fact camo out that it had been the intention of Jennie and her j friends to leavo tho inn early tho; next morning, long before Ruth and her party would have arisen. But ; for that blessed hat the girls would ! have Fpent the night under the ; same roof, unconscious of their ; proximity, and each with her heart i longing for the other's presence. , Had they Lecn men, you see; they would not have met, for-what man under like circumstances would have A HOUSEHOLD REMEDY. x ft n...r fotii tn riir Itehuma tism. Catarrh, Pimplea, Blotches, and. all dieae8 arising from Impure blood, l Botvnic Blood Balm (B.B. B.) Thousands endorse it as the beat remedy ever offered to mankind. The thousands oi cures? periormeu uj remedy are almost miraculous. Try it. only $ 1.00 per large bottle- ! j A PHVBICIAM. EVIDKSCK-A ilOXIWT "' PoctOB, j Although a practioner of twtntv yean, my mother influenced, me to procure Batanic Blood Balm, B. B. B.. for her. She had been confined to her bed several months with lieumatism, which had atubornly resisted all "the usual remedies. Within twenty-four hours after commencidg B. B. B-t I Observed marked relief. She baa just commenced her third bottle, and is nearly active as ever and, lias been in the front yard with 'rake in hand, . cleaning np. Her Improvement W truly wonderful and immensely grati- 'ylDg' C, H. Montgomery, U. V. . Jacksonville, Ala. ga.l by al 1 Pro gg at,' j i ; : .;
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Sept. 3, 1897, edition 1
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