QUIETNESS —Preachers Cabinet

"They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven." 

Psalms 107:27-30

Bishop Burnet says that a terrific storm occurred in 1666, at a period when the end of the world was expected. Sir Matthew Hale sat on the bench. The light- nings dazzled the eye and the thunders crashed with appalling power. The assembly was panic-stricken, and cried out that the day of judgment had begun. 

Some men b took themselves to prayers and all were filled with horror. The judge was quiet and unmoved. He calmly ordered that the business of the court proceed in the ordinary manner. Even if the end of all things were at hand, of which there was no evidence, he wished to be found diligently attending to his daily business.

The child of God, says Bowman, should live above the world, while moving through it, as some quiet star that sails through the tranquil sky, clear and serene, undisturbed in its heavenly heights.