Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-04-05
CHRISTIAN ENpEAvoR.
Topic For the Week Beginning April o.
Comment by Rev. S. III. Doyle.

! Topic For the Week Beginning April y.
Comment by Rev. S. III. Doyle.
ToP1c.-Our Deliverer in time of trouble. Job
v, 1922; ii Cor. xii. 9, 10.
Perhaps no passages in all the Bible
have brought more comfort and strength
to Christian people than those before us.
The n includes Jobs friends famous
words, He shall deliver thee in six
troubles; yea, in seven there shall no
evil touch thee" The other is Paul's
triumphant reclamation in the face of
all troubles and discouragements: HE
said unto me, My grace is sufficient for
thee. Therefore / take pleas
ure in infirmities, in r~eproaches, in neces-
sites, in prosecutions, in distresses for
Christ's sake, for when / am weak then
am | strong" Wonderful presentations
of God in the person of Father and Son
as Deliverer in time of trouble.
/. God delivers individuals from trou-
BILE Job V, 1922; II Cor. XII, 8, 10). In
each case before us it is an individual
that is spoken of. Thee is the pril-
cipal word of each. God will deliver
Job is his friends statement, and to
Idul OlIlbt bd1c, 401 Bi4NC 40 ooA
icient for thee" God has many chill
dren in the world. All of them have
their troubles. But this does not make
Him insensible TO the trials of each one.
For each particular case lie has an indi-
vidual remedy. This idea of individual
deliverance is strikingly illustrated in
the twenty-third psalm-r-e-eminently
the psalm of comfort. David says: 1.-THE
Lord is my shepherd; | shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pas
lures. He lealeth me beside the still wa
tiers. He restoreth my soul" And thus
it is throughout, child of God. He knows
your trouble, and He will deliver you.
Thou art as much His care
As IL beside nor man nor angel
Lived IN earth or heaven.
2. God delivers repeatedly from trou-
Bile. Job v, 10, He shall deliver thee
in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall
evil touch thee" This is a most en-
couraging fact to all Gods people. Tror-
bles lie all along the pathway of life. No
one is exempted from them this side the
grave. Hence if God would only deliver
us once or twice we would soon be with
out a deliverer. But this is not His
method. As often as trouble comes He
stands ready to deliver. If a father de-
livers a child, or a friend a friend from
trouble, ono or twice or at furthest
times, they think they have done
all they should do and leave them 10
extricate themselves, but with God for
mer deliverances are not excuses from
deliverances, but proofs of them.
8. God delivers from all troubles. This
is set forth in both S%criptural references.
Jobs friend mentions famine and war
and scourge of the tongue and destruc-
tion. Paul speaks of infirmities, re-
proaches. necessities, prosecutions and
iistresses. All these and many others
us trouble, but God can deliver
rom them all. "God is our refuge and
strength. a very present help in trouble.
Let us accept these Bible truths as facts.
Let us act upon them. When trouble
comes TO us, let us hear the voice of the
Saviour saying, My grace is sufficient
'or thee"
Bible References-Job v, 9, q; xiii. 10;
Ixxvi, Is; Ps. liv, z; lxxxi, z; cvi, 40;
vii, l-s: lisa. cxliii, 2; ixl, 10; Prov.
III, -; Math. xi. 2s-30; John xiv. IS;
Rom. XIV, 5; II Cor. i. 9;,H Thess. j, A;
i Tim. Nv, II; Heb. vi, IS; Rev. iii. 10.