"Peace, Be Still”

BY ANTON DIETRICH, A GERMAN ARTIST, DIED 1904. RE

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"And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.”—Mark, 4, 39.

HETHER because of a maternal warning or

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no, Jesus now took ship and sailed away from the regions around Capernaum, heading for the land of the Gaderenes or Gergesenes on the opposite shore of the lake of Galilee. This, the first voyage of several which He was to make upon the lake, gave opportunity for a miracle of a new order. He had shown His power over the bodies and minds of men; now He displayed His control of lifeless matter, of the wind and

waves.

arose.

Exhausted doubtless with His long day's teaching, Jesus was sleeping in the boat. A sudden terrible storm The waves swept over the frail bark, filling it with water; yet Christ slept on. The apostles awoke Him in terror and reproach, "Master, carest thou not that we perish ?"

Rising, Jesus rebuked them for their feebleness of faith that they could feel fear in His company. Then in pity for their human weakness, He spake to the winds and waves. Immediately the tumult hushed; "and there was a great calm."

LUKE XIV OF THE SABBATH DAY

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them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Chapter 14

2 Christ healeth the dropsy on the sabbath: 7 teacheth humility: 12 to feast the poor: 15 under the parable of the great supper, sheweth how worldly-minded men, who contemn the word of God, shall be shut out of heaven. 25 Those who will be his disciples, to bear their cross must make their accounts aforehand, lest with shume they revolt from him afterward, 34 and become altogether unprofitable, like salt that hath lost his savour.

ND it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.

3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;

5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

6 And they could not answer him again to these things.

7 ¶ And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,

8 When thou are bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;

9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.

10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

12¶Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makesť a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

15¶And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these