Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-08-01
For Sunday Reading.


tidn Alliance:
Satan is always trying to weaken
your faith by fear. He is a great meta
physician and he knows the paralyZing
effect of fear, and that it is the great
enemy of faith, and faith is the great
secret of help. If he can get us fearing
| he will stop us trusting and hinder the
very blessing we need. Job found the
peril of fear and gives us the sorrowful,
testimony, II feared fear and it came
upon me-"
| David tells us in the thirty fourth
Psalm of the man whom the Lord de-
livered from all his fears. and then he
cried and the Lord heard him and saved
| him from all his troubles. This is the
true order. We must get rid of the
fear if we would get rid of trouble.
There is no sweeter promise in the Bible
than the one contained in the first
chapter of Proverbs, Whose heark
eneth unto Me shall dwell safely, and
shall be quiet from fear of evil"
| Truly as the Apostle John said, fear
| hath torment" and it really makes
shadow as black as the substance and
has power to create evil before it comes,
and, in fact, to make it out of nothing.
Deliverance from fear is really deliver
ance from the chief ills of life, because
very small portion of the things we
dread come to us.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would
only take time to think moment we
| would see that everything Satan says
| is founded upon falsehood. He is the
| father of lies. Even his fears are false
| hoods, and his fears ought rather to be
| to us encouragements. There is very
much comfort in the profound words
of st. Paul, in PHILIPPIANS 1: %: I'm
nothing be terrified by youradversaries:
which is to them an evident token of
perdition, but to you of salvation, and
| that of God" The very fears and foes
are token of your salvation and their
discontinue. When Satan tells you,
| therefore, that some i'll is going to come,
| you may quietly look him in the face
| and tell him he is a liar, and instead of
i ill, goodness and mercy shall follow you
all the days of your life, and turn to
your blessed Lord and say, What time
am afraid, l will trust in Thee" Ev
cry fear is distrust, and trust is the
remedy for fear.
How tenderly God is always comfort
ing our fears; how sweetly he says in
| Isaiah xii: 10, Fear not, for [ am with
thee, be not dismayed for am thy God:
| will strengthen thee; yea, L will help
thee; yea, l will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteousness" And
yet again with still tenderer thought
fulness 81, the Lord thy God, will hold
| thy right hand, saying unto thee, fear
not, | will help thee" Not only does
he say it once, but he keeps holding
| our right hand and repeating such
promises and then, when the thought
of our unworthiness sweeps over us,
He adds, Fear not thou worm, Jacob,
and we feeble men of Israel, l will help
thee, saith the Lord. and thy Redeem
er, the Holy One of Israel"
The blessed Lord has condensed it
all into one sweet monogram of eternal
comfort in His message to the disciples
ON the sea of dalilee, sit is I, be not
afraid" He does not say, ut is over"
or 1T is morning, or ut is fine wealth
err" or cit is smooth water" but He
says, at is |, be not afraid" He is the
antidote to fear; He is the remedy for
trouble; He is the substance and the
sum of deliverance. Therefore, we
should rise above fear. Let us keep our
| eyes fastened upon Him; let us abide
continually in Him. let US be content
with Him; let us cling closely to Hin
| and breathe out evermOre the simple
prayer
when other helpers fail and comforts fee,
| Help Of the helpless, Lord, abide with me-
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Dissolving with a feversh glow of Highland on
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