"So have I seen a fearful storm O'er wakened sinner roll, Till Jesus' voice and Jesus' form Said, 'Peace, thou weary soul' "And now He bends His gentle eye His wondering followers o'er; 'Why raise this unbelieving cry? I said, To yonder shore.' "When first the Saviour wakened me, And showed me why He died, He pointed o'er life's narrow sea, And said, 'To yonder side.' "'I am the ark where Noah dwelt, And heard the deluge roar-- No soul can perish that has left My res--To yonder shore.' "Peaceful and calm the tide of life When first I sailed with Thee; My sins forgiven, no inward strife, My breast a glassy sea. "But soon the storm of passion raves; My soul is tempest tossed; Corruptions rise, like angry waves-- 'Help, Master, I am lost!' "'Peace, peace, be still, thou raging breast: My fulness is for thee'-- The Saviour speaks, and all is rest, Like the waves of Galilee. "And now I feel His holy eye Upbraids my heart of pride-- 'Why raise this unbelieving cry? I said, To yonder side.'" McCHEYNE. THE THIRD DAY. THE EARTH BENEATH. "_He hangeth the earth upon nothing._"--JOB xxvi. 7. "_The pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them._"--1 SAM. ii. 8. "_As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. The stones of it are the place of sapphires; and it hath dust of gold._"--JOB xxviii. 5, 6. Have you ever noticed that some words have two meanings, both their own, but giving us very different thoughts about the things of which they speak, according to the way in which we use them? It is so with our earth. We may speak of it as the firm ground upon which we stand, and may think of the wonderful time of which we are going to read in our chapter in Genesis, when God caused it to bring forth and bud, and clothed all its waste places, so that it has been ever since the green earth which is so fair to look upon. This is the way in which we generally speak of the earth, is it not?--but we may also think of it, not as it appears to us, but as a great globe hung up in the heavens by the mighty hand of God, who "hangeth the earth upon nothing"; for "the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and He hath set the world upon them." If you could look at a star through a telescope, I think the first thing that would strike you is that there is nothing by which it is upheld and kept in its place. You might say, as you saw it, as it were, hanging in the depths of the sky, "Why, it is hung upon _nothing_!" It is just so with our earth: there is nothing that we can see by which it is supported, no "pillars" for it to rest upon--but yet it is kept in its place. God set it there, and God keeps it there.