The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-01


into some new business relation; you ar
going to plan some great matter of prof
: l hope it is so. II you are content to g
along in the tread-mill course, and pa
nothing new, you are not fulfilling you
mission. What you can do by the great
est effort OF body, mind and soul, tina
you are bound to do. You have no righ
to be Colonel Of regim-nt if God call
you to command battalion, You hav
no right to be stoker in steamer,
God commands you to be an Admiral o
the navy. But whatever enterprise yOl
undertake, and upon whatever voyag
you start, be sure to take Christ into tn,
ship. Here are men largely prospered
The seed of a small enterprise grew int
an accumulated and overshadowing sue
cess. Their cup of prosperity is running
oyer. Every day sees commercial or (
mechanical triumph, Yet they are no
puffed up. They sCknowl, dge the Goo
who grows the harvests, an gives then
all their prosperity. When disaster
comes that destroys others they are
only helped into higher experiences
The coldest wind that ever blew down
from snow.capped Hermon, and tossed
Gennesaret into foam and agony, could
not hurt them. Let the wind blow unit
it cracks its cheeks; let the breakers
boom-all is we'll, Christ is in the ship
Here are other men, the prey of unCer-
tainties. When they succeed, they
strut through the world in grea vanity,
and wipe their feet on the sensitiveness
of others. Disaster MES, and they are
utterly down. They are good sailors on
a fair day, when the sea is smooth and
the sky clear, but but they cannot out.
ride the storm. After awhile the vessel
is turned abeam end, and it seems as if
she must 60 down with all her cargo.
Push out from the shore with life boat,
and long boat, shallop and pinnaCe. You
cannot save the crew The storm twists
off the masts. The sea rises up to take
down the vessel, and down she goes. No
Christ in that ship. stand before young
people whose voyage in life will be min.
gled sunshine and darkness, arctic b,ast
and tropical tornado. You will have
many long, bright day of prosperity;
the sky is clear, the sea smooth, and the
crew jubilant The boat, staunch. will
bound merrily over the pillows. Crowd
on all the canvass. High, hol Land
aheadl But suppose sickness: puts its
bitter cup to your lips; suppose death
overshadows your heart; suppose mis-.
fortune overtakes you; and the sky
above you, and the darkness around are
filled with the clamor of the voices of
destructionl Oh! then you will want
Christ in the ship.
l learn in the next place that people
who follow Christ must not always ex
pect smooth sailing. When these disci-
pies got into the small boats they said:
What a delightful thing this isl Who
would not be follower of Christ when
he can ride in one of the small boats af.
ter the ship in which Jesus is sailing?"
But when the storm came down these
disciples found out that following
Jesus did not always make smooth sail
ing. So you have found out, and 80 l
have found out If there are any peo.
pie who you think ought to have good |
time getting out of this world, the Apos-
ties of Jesus Christ ought to have been
the men. Have you ever noticed how |
they got out of the worldP St. James
lost his head ST. Philip was hung to
death against pillar; Matthew was hit
by halberd; Mark was dragged to death
through the streets; st. James the Less
was Drained with fuller's club; st. Mat.
,hias was stoned to death. The Wal.
lenses, the Scotch Covenanters, uid they
Ill find smooth sailing2 Why go 80 far2
There is young man in store in New
York who has hard ime to maintain
lis Christian character. All the clerks
md employers laugh at him, and when
le loses his patience they say, "You are
pretty Christian" Not 80 easy for that
'oung man to follow Christ. If the Lord
lid not help him hour by hour he would
all. There are scores of young men in
his house to-day who would be willing
o testify that in following Christ one
oes not always find sm)oth sailing
}ut be of good heart as seafarers, when
ViDds are dead ahead, by setting the ship
n the stsrboard tack, ard bracing the
ards, make the winds that oppose the
curse propel the shi) forward, 80 oppo-
ing troubles, through Christ, veering
round The bowsprit of faith, will wait
GU to heaven; when, if the winds hal
cen abaft, they might have rocked and
ing you to sleep, and while dreaming
t the destined port of heaven you could
OF have heard the cry of warning, and :
ould have gone crashing into the brea.
ers. :
Again, my subject teaches me that {
bod people sometimes get very much t
ightened. From the tone and manner {
these disCioles, as they rushed into
le stern of the vessel, and woke I'D
hrist, you know they are badly scared. q
nd so it is now, that you often find
,od people wildly agitated. 20, the
6del magazines and bad newspapers, a
le Spiritualistic societies, the i'm mporta q
on of 50 many foreign errors-the
lurcL of God is going to be lost, the +
lip is going to founderl The ship is 60 =
& down" So says some good people,
hat are you frightened about2 An old i
IN goes into his cavern to take sleep, '
ID he lies down until his shaggy name 8
vers his paws. Meanwhile the spiders a
Itside begin weaving their webs over
g mouth Of his cavern, and say: "That L
N cannot break out through this web" t
ID they keep on spinning their gossa. p
er threads until they get the mouth of t
9 cavern covered over. "Now," they b
y, "the lions done." After a while Il
9 lion awakes and shakes himself, and il
} walks out from the cavern, never d
lowing there were any spiders webs, "
ID wi h his voice he shakes the noun. a
in. Let the infdels and skeptics 90 G
! weaving the webs, spinning their COS. II
mer theories all over where Christ S
ems to be sleeping. They say, "Christ
n never again come out; the work is
me; he can never get through this log.
Il web we have been spinning" The
y will come when the lion of Judah's
be will rouse himself, and come forth
d shake nightly the nations. What
en- all your gossamer threads2 What
a spiders web to an aroused lion2 Do G