Mark 5:15, “And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.”

In the first text a stormy sea is made calm, in the second it is a troubled life that is given peace. Galilee is made to sit still and so is the poor distraught soul of Gadara. The storms on the ocean picture trials in the life of a man. There are storms on the sea and there are storms in the human heart. Both of these Jesus can deal with. The Lord just has to say, “peace, be still.”

Thomas Mann was a Christian who worked a boat on the River Thames. Once he was employed by a group for a day of leisure on the river. A young lady among the group proposed singing 'Rule Britannia.’ Mann who had often heard Rev. John Newton preach quoted a saying of his to her, “Madam, God rules the waves, not Britannia.”

Mr. Newton himself was a living testimony of what the Saviour can do in the life. There were men who came to see ‘the old slave trader,’ just as they came to see ‘Legion.’ He was in the habit of receiving friends at breakfast for fellowship. On one such occasion a friend introduced to him a young man who travelled a distance to see Newton. “Ah!" said Mr. Newton, “I was a wild beast once, on the coast of Africa, and the Lord tamed me, and there are many people now who have a curiosity to see me!”