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% f THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. €., SEPTEMBER 2, 1807. A ROUGH SEA VOYAGE DR. V'^LMAGE SAYS CHRIST’S FOL LOWERS MUST EXPECT IT. ] n< i •roavho, u Sermon «if Solaro to iVople %l*lio Are In Trouble The Storm and the Calm on Ilia Sen of Oeunesaret—Thu Harbor. Wasiiimitox, Au^. 29.—This sermon by liev. Dr. Talmu^o will bo of grout solace to people who tire iimliug their life u rough voyage. Test, Mark iv, o(»: “Anti there were also with him other little ships, ami there arose a great storm of wind. And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.” Tiberias, Galilee, Geimesaret—three names for the same lake. No other grm ever had so beautiful a setting. It lay in a scene of great luxuriant e—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, flushing from the hills and bounding into the sea. On the shore were castles, armed towers, Homan baths, everything attractive and beautiful, all styles of vegetation in shorter spaco 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 Niiiling. 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. Homan gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing the lake and countrymen in fish smacks, coining down to drop their nets, pass each other with nod and shout and laughter or singiug idly at their moorings. Oh, what a wonderful, what a beautiful lake! It seems as if we shall have a quiet night. Not a leaf winked in the air, not a ripple disturbed the face of Geu- uesurot, hut there .seems to be a little excitement up the beach, ami we hasten to see what it is, and wu liud it an em barkation. From the western shore a flotilla pushing out, not a squadron or deadly armament, nor clipper with valuable merchandise, nor piratic vessels ready to destroy everything they could seme, but n flotilla, b uring 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 largo multitudes, is put in to somnolence 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 a fisherman's coat. 1 think no sooner is Christ prostrate and his head touching the pillow than he is sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their lingers tfumigh the locks ed the worn sleeper, luj'l the boat rises and falls like a sleep- rag child on the bosom of a sleeping mother. A Ch&nge of Weather. Calm night, starry night, beautiful night. Ilan up all tho sails, ply all the oars, and let tho large boat and the small boat glide over gentle Gonnesaret. Hut tho sailors say them is going to be a change of weather. And even the passengers can hear the moaning of the storm as it conies on with long stride, with all the terrors of hurricane and darkncs-i. The large boat trembles like a deer at bay trembling among the clangor of the hounds; great patches of foam are flung into tho air; the sails of the \t .•>. Is loose n, and the sharp winds crack like pistols; the smalier boats like petrels poise on the olifl' of the waves and then plunge. Ovt rboard go cargo, tackling and masts, and the drenched disciples rush into tho hack part of the boat and lay hold of Christ and say unto him, “Master, earest them not that we polish?” That great por- 60iK$ie lifts his head from the pillow of tho fisherman's coat, walks to the front of the ve-SM 1 and looks out into tho storm. All ar uti l him am tho small* r boats, driven in the tempest, and through it com s the cry ot drowniug men. By the flash of the lightning I see tho calm brow of Christ as the iprny dropped from his beard. He has cue word for tho sky and another word for the wave s. Looking upward, ho cries, “Peace!” Looking downward, he says, “Bo still!” Tho waves fall flat on their faces, the foam melts, the extinguished stars re light their torches, tho tempest falls dead, and Christ stands with his foot on tho neck of the storm. And while tho sailors are bailing out tho 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 oven the winds and the sea obey him?” The subject in the first place impress es mo with tho fact that it is very im portant to have Christ in the ship, for all those boats would have gone to tho bottom of Gonnesaret if Christ had not been present. Oh, what a lesson for you and for mo tn learn! Whatever voyage We undertake, into whatever enterprise we start, let mb always have Christ in the ship Many of yon 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 a plane as possible. You have no right to be a stoker in the ship if you cun 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 tho 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 in every enterprise, Christ in every voyage, Christ in every ship! ^.cru are men who ask God to help them at the start of great enterprises. He has been with them in the past. No trouble can overthrow them. The storms mightcome down from the top of Mount i Hmnou and lash Geunesaiefc into foam and into agony, hut it could not hurt ! them. But hero is another man who f starts out in worldly enterprise, and he ; depends upon tho uncertainties of this | life. Ho has no God to help him. After rwhile the storm comes and tosses olf the masts of the ship. He puts out his lifeboat. The sherilf and the auction*'* r try to help him of'. They can’t help him off. Lie must go down—no Christ in the ship. II* re are young men just starting out in life. Your life will bo 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 yon have Christ with you all shall ho well. You may seem to get along without the religion of Christ while every thing goes smoothly, but after awhile, w h. u sorrow hovers over thu soul, when the waves of trial dash clear over tho hurricane deck anil the bowsprit is shiv ered and tho halyards are swept into tho sea tuui the gangway is crowded with piratical disasters — oh, what would you then do without Christ in the ship? Youug muu, take God for your portion, God for your guide, God for your help, then all is well—all is well for time, all shall bo well forever. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord his trust. Ho shall never bo cou- foundod. Thcrw Must Ito Hongli Weather. But my subject also impresses me with the fact that when people start to follow Christ they musk not expect smooth sailing. Those disciples got into I the small boats, and 1 have no doubt I they said: “What a beautiful day this is! What a smooth sea! What a bright sky this in! How delightful is sailing in this boat! And as for the waves un der the keel of the beat, why, they only make the motion of our little boat the more delightful.” But when the winds swept down ami the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found that following I Bo men comn, spinning their sophis tries and skepticism about Jesus Christ. .He seems to be sleeping. They say: “We have captured the Lord. 14c 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 Judah” will rouse himself and come forth to shake mightily the nations. What is a spider's web to the aroused lion? Give truth and error a fair grapple, and truth will come off victor. 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 gale! Weareafraid the church of God is goiug 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. ClialV Hint Wheat. As though a ship captain with 5,000 bushels of wheat for a cargo should say some day, coming upou deck, “Throw overboard all the cargo, ” and the sailors should say: “Why, captain, what do you mean? Throw over all the cargo?” “Oh,” says the 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 ti e wheat overboard." Now, that is a great deal wiser than the talk of a great lur.ny Christians who want to throw overboard all the thousands and tens of thousands of souls who have been brought m through great awakenings. Throw all overboard because there is a peck of chaff, a quart of chuff, a pint of chaff! 1 say, let them stey until the last day. The Lord will divide tho chaff from the wheat. Oh, that these gales from heaven nrght sweep through all our churches! Oh, for such days as Hichard Baxter saw in England and Robert McCheyue saw in Dundee! Oh, for such days as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northamp ton 1 1 have often heard my father tell look as w 11 us it usually did when she brushed it away from her wrinkled brow m the homo circle or in the coun try church. Or, your property gone, you. said, “I have so much batik stock, I have so many gov* rnment securities, I have so many houses, I have so many farms”—all gone, all gono. Why, all the storms that ever tram pled with their thumb-rs, all the ship wrecks, have not been worse than this to you. Yei you have not been com pletely overthrown. Why? Christ hushed tho 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 can, oh, be reaved mother!” Hushing the tempest! When your property went away, God said, “The*re are treasures in heaven, in banks that never break.” There is one storm into which we will all have to run the moment when wo let go of this life and try to take hold of the next, when wo will want all the grace wo can have—wo will want it all. Yonder I see a Christian soul rocking on the surges of death. All tho 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—hut that soul is not troubled, there is no sighing, there are no tears; plenty of tears in the room at the departure, hut he weeps no tears; calm, satisfied, peaceful, all is well. Jesus husking the tempest! By the flash of the storm you see tin* harbor just ahead, and you are making for that harbor. Strike eight belle All is well. into the hnvl.or of heaven now wo yllde. We're home at last, home at last. Softly we drift on Its bright, si.'v'ry tide. We're heme at last. Lome at Ir.ot. Glory to God, nil our dangers are o'er. We stand secure on the Klonlled shore. Glory to Go:l, v.'o will shout evermore. We’re home at lust, home at last. CLEANSES THE LIVER AND BOWELS ATD FORTIFIES THE STSTEJf TO RESIST PREVAILIHG DISEASES. PRICE *1.00 PER BOTTLE. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. ‘Chorokee Drug Co. Special Agents. 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You would say that if ever men ought to have had u smooth life, a smooth departure, thou those men, the disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have hud such a departure aud such a life. tit. James lost his head. St. Philip was hung to death on a pillar. St. Mat thew had his 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 tho tempest! John Huss in the fire, Hugh McKail in the hour of martyrdom, the Albigenses, tho Waldeuses, the Scotch Covenanters —did they liud it smooth sailing? But why go to history when I can find all around mo a score of illustra tions of the truth of this subject—that young muu in tho store trying to serve God while his employer scoffs at Chris tianity, tho young men in the same store antagonistic to the Christian re ligion, teasing him, tormenting him about his religiou, trying to get him mad? They succeed in getting him mad, saying, “You’ro a pretty Chris tian!” Does this young man find it -mouth sailing when he tries to follow Christ? Hue is a Christian girl. Her father despises the Christian religion; her mother despises the Christian re ligion; h* r brothers and sisters scoff ut the Christian religion; she can hardly find n quiet place in which to say her prayers. Did she find it smooth sailing when she tried to follow Jesus Christ? Uh, no; all who w* uld live the life of the Christian religion must suffer per se* utinn. 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 tbrant?” and the an swer cumo hack, “These are they who came up out of great tribulation”— “great flailing,” as tho original has it; great flailing, great pounding—“and had their robes washed and made white in thi blood of the Lamb.” Oh, do not be disheartened! O child of God, take courage! You arc in glorious compan ionship. God will si o you through all these trials, and lie will deliver you. My subject also impresses mo with the fact that good jieoplc sometimes get very much frightened. In tho tones of these disciples as they rushed into the hack part of thu boat 1 find tiny aro frightened almost to death. They say, “Masted, earest thou not that we per ish?” They had no reason to ho fright ened, for Christ was in tho boat. I sup pose if we hud been there wo would have been just as much affrighted. Per haps more. No Need of Worry. lu all ages very good people get very much affrighted. It is often so in our day, aud men say: “Why, look at the ba*l lectures; look at the spiritualistic societies; look at tho various errors go ing over the church of God. Wo are go ing to founder; the church is going to perish; she is goiug down." Oh, how many good people are affrighted by tn- •miphant iniquity in our day and think tho church of Jesus Christ and the cause of righteousness are goiug to ho overthrown and urn just us much affright* d as thu disciples of my text were uffriyhted. Don’t worry, don’t fret, as though iniquity were going to triumph over righteousness. A Imn go* h into a cavern to sleep. He lies down, with his shaggy inane cover ing tho paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a web across the mouth of the cav era and say, "We have captured him. ” Gossamer thread utter gossamer thread is spun until tho whole front of the cavern is covered with the spiders’ web and the spiders say, “Tho lion is done; the lieu is fast.” After awhile tho lion has got through sleeping. He rouses him self, he shakes his mane, ho walks out into the sunlight, he does not even know the spiders’web is spun, and with his voice he shakes the mountain century a revival broke out in Somer ville, N. J., aud some people were very much agitated about it. They said, “Ob, you are going to bring too many people into the church at once!” aud they sent down to New Brunswick to get John Livingston to stop tho revival. Well, there was no better soul in all the world than John Livingston. Hu went up; ho looked at the revival. They wanted him to stop it He stood in the pulpit on the Sabbath und looked over the solemn auditory, and ho said: “This, brethren, is in reality tho work of God. Beware how you try to stop it.” And he was an old man, leaning heavily on his staff—a very old man. And ho lifted that stuff and took hold of tho small 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—f illing away from life, falling away from peace and heaven, falling as certainly as that cane is fall ing through my hand—falling certain ly, though perhaps falling very slowly!” And the cane kept off falling thiough John Livingston’s hand. Tho religious emotion in tho audience was overpow ering, and men saw u type of their doom as the cane kept falling and fall ing until tho knob of the cane i truek Mr Livingston’s hand, and he clasped it stoutly and said, “But the grace of God cun stop you,as I stopped that cane, ” aud then there was gladness all through the house ut the fact 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 tho revival worse." Uh, for the gales from heaven, and Christ on board the ship! The danger of the church of God is not in revivals. Again, my subject impresses me with the fact that Jesus was God and man in the same being. Here he is in the back part of the boat. Uh, how tired he looks, what sad dreams ho must have! Look at his countenance. Ho must be thinking of the eras.- 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 And Christ at the prow of the boat I hear him say, “Peace, Is* still!” And I see the storm kneeling at his feet and tho tempests folding their wings in his presence. He is a God. If I have sorrow and trouble and want sympathy, I go and kneel down at the back part of tho boat and say, “O Christ, weary one of Gonnesaret, 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 tho front of tho boat and I kneel down, ami I say, “O Lord Jesus Christ, thou who dost hush thu tempest, hush all my grief, hush all my temptation, hush all my sin. ” A man, a man, a God, a God. Thu TemprKl Huitlu-d. I learn once more from this subject that Christ can hush a tempest. It did si eui as if everything must go to ruin. The disciples had given up the idea, cf managing the ship. The crew with en tirely demoralized, yet Christ rises, ami he puts his foot on the storm, and it crouches at his feet. Uh, yes, Christ can hush the tempest! You have hud trouble. 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 stood around you with the greatest fondness, and the spade cut down throughyour bleeding heart. Per haps it was an only sou, and your heart has ever since been like a desolated cas tle, the owls of tho night hooting among the falling rafters aud tho crumbling stairways. Perhaps it was an aged mother. You always went to her with yoar troubles. She was in your homo to welcome your children into life, and when they died ■ho was there to pity yon. That old hand will do you no more kindness. That white 1 jok of hair you put away in the casket or in tho locket did not Wonders of the IniinitesiiiMl. There are so very many things other wise unknowable which the little in strument helps us to know well, which would forever be in the realm of “tho iulinite” were it not for that tiny bit of convex glass, that nothing should sur prise us in its revelations. Take, for example, the red corpuscles of the human blood. Uno thirty-two- hr.iidmlth of an inch is its diame ter. One hundred-aiid-twenty-one-thou- saudths of tho entire blood quantity is red corpuscles. They are individually ho minute that it requires a microscope of considerable power to see them at all, and yet their number is such in one man that if a chain were made of them, each corpuscle just touching its neigb- bor, it would be over 2,000 miles long. Three gallons of blood in a man of 11*0 pounds weight is a fair average, and 0.o81 of a gallon of the above is red globules. Une cubic inch of these corpuscles made into a chain of n single corpuscle’s breadth would be J, 200 times 3,200 inches long, or 1,100,000 inches. As there are 231 cubic inches in a gal lon 0.3151 of 231 would give the cubic measure of red globules in tho abovb man. Thus 1,600.000 times ss gives 140,800,000 inches. Reduced to miles this equals,counting 03.300 inches to the mile, 2,a22 miles. The little invisible red corpuscles or oxygen carriers of our blood would then, if “hitched” together into a chain, reach two-thirds across tho American continent. A single hair from one’s head would make in caliber very many fibers as large. And yet, small as these corpuscles are, they are giants when compared with many well known individuals of the bacterial world. Think of a body which has to he magnified 800 diame ters to be visible at all. You have here some of the monucocci. Yes, and these inconceivably small bodies are endowed with life, organization aud moans of propagation. —M ieroscope. , Co. os„ Mer- .1 A. CARROLL. President CheroUet M fji. Co. II. I*. WHEAT. Treasurer Gaffney Mf It. M. WI LK I NS. Late of Wilkins Hr cliants. W. C. CARPENTER, of Carroll & Carpenter, Merchants. J. G. WARDLAW. See’ry, Gaffney Manf. Co. Gaffney. and Fanner, rater. Home. S. o. * 'hant and Eatm- l alls I .1. I. SAPRATT. M. n l.ant lion. WM. .Ill I'El: I Is. !\ lion. C. W. Will SNA NT ■ it. Wiikinsville. S. C. HENRY M. Me A PEN. Cap vllle. N.C. O. E. WILKINS, ofO. E. \Y. kins A Pro.. Gaff ney. S. C. E. G. S i At Y. Carrol I ft m a -y. Ga fl uey. 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Ho called it a guide rope, und he carried one with him in a trip across the English channel, hut he never used it. Away back in 1857 I was making ‘captive ascensions’ ut New Haven, ami, having finished that business, decided to take a short voyage to test the value of the trailing rope. I had 150 pounds of rope on my windlass, and on a certain day I ar ranged with my assistant to cut the rope at the windlass after I had got my balloon in thu air aud let me sail off. I ballasted my balloon so that only half the weight of the rope, nr 75 pounds, should trail. I got off all right, with my rope twisting along under mo like a snake. A score of misguided laborers in a field, imagining that tho balloon hud broken loose by accident, grabbed the lope and held mu. It took me some time to convince them that 1 didn’t want to he stopped. I sailed along for some time aud found that tho drag rope gave greater stability to the hulloon, but the action of tho sun upon the gas worked against me. 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