To open the old deep wounds
Time had touched with his healing wings.
MAMMA’S SUNDAY TALK.
MIRACLES OF OUR SAVIOUR:
CHRIST WALKING ON THE SEA.
The miracle I have to tell you of to-day, my children, is called—Christ walking on the waters. It followed closely upon that I described in our last Sunday talk; I mean, that of our Saviour feeding a multitude of people with five barley loaves and three small fishes.
As evening came on, the multitude that had been fed, dispersed; and Christ desired His disciples to enter into their boat, and go before Him to the town of Bethsaida, where they might pass the night, while He went up into a mountain alone, intending seemingly to spend the night in prayer.
The disciples had not gone far upon their voyage, when the light breeze which was bearing them on their way, changed into a strong adverse wind. It had become dark, “and the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew, and the ship was tossed with the waves.” They were overtaken in fact by one of those sudden squalls to which the lake, or sea of Galilee is liable. In vain they rowed with all their strength; the contrary wind drove them out of their course into the middle of the lake.
In such an hour of danger they must have thought of the time, not long before, when they were caught in another storm on the same sea. But then their Master was with them in the boat; at His command the sea became calm, and the wind ceased. How they must have wished that He were with them now, or that they could call Him to them, that His voice might once more hush the tempest into peace, and control the winds and waves! They had entered the fourth watch of the night, which, as the night was divided into only four watches, means that the morning was approaching, and the storm was still raging fiercely, when they beheld a human figure approaching, walking on the surface of the water as if upon firm ground.