They would have done just as people do now-a-days: they think that the
help comes of itself, instead of by the will of him who determined from the
first that men should be helped. So the Master went down the hill. When he
reached the border of the lake, the wind being from the other side, he must
have found the waves breaking furiously upon the rocks. But that made no
difference to him. He looked out as he stood alone on the edge amidst the
rushing wind and the noise of the water, out over the waves under the
clear, starry sky, saw where the tiny boat was tossed about like a
nutshell, and set out."
The mariners had been staring at me up to this point, leaning forward on
their benches, for sailors are nearly as fond of a good yarn as they are of
tobacco; and I heard afterwards that they had voted parson's yarn a good
one. Now, however, I saw one of them, probably more ignorant than the
others, cast a questioning glance at his neighbour. It was not returned,
and he fell again into a listening attitude. He had no idea of what was
coming. He probably thought parson had forgotten to say how Jesus had come
by a boat.
"The companions of our Lord had not been willing to go away and leave him
behind.
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