CHRIST IN THE STORM.
There are a great many troubles in this life. Ask your father and your mother whether this is true. Your father will say, "I have had a great many troubles; I have found it hard to get bread for my children." Your mother will say, "I have had a great deal of sorrow in bringing up my little family."
My dear child, have you had any troubles? I am sure you have had some. Have you ever felt great pain? have you lost a little baby brother or sister? have you got into disgrace? have you been punished for your faults?
There is one friend to whom every one may go in every trouble. It is Jesus, the Son of God. When we are unhappy, if we cry unto him, he will hear us and help us. Once he lived down upon this earth, and was a man. Now he is in heaven, and he is a man still as well as God.
I will tell you how he helped some of his friends out of trouble when he lived in this world. His friends were called disciples. One evening they went into a ship. Jesus did not go with them; he stayed where he was, and spent the night all alone on the top of a mountain, praying to his Father. God was his Father. The disciples were in their little ship on the water when the wind began to blow very hard indeed. The waves rose high, and the ship was tossed about. Every moment the poor men were afraid that the water would fill their ship, and that they should sink to the bottom of the sea.