The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-27
ing and would have gone crashing int

the breakers.
Again, my subject teaches me that
good people sometimes get very much
frightened. From the tone and man
ner of these disciples as they rushed
into the stern Of the vessel and woke
Christ up, you know that they are fear
fully scared. And so 1t IL now that
you often find good people wildly agl-
tated. OH says some Christian man.
the infidel magazines. the bad news
papers, the spiritualistic societies. tho
importation OF many foreign errors,
the church OF God is going to be lost,
the ship Is going to founder! The ship
is going down. What are you fright
ened about? An old lion goes into his
cavern to take sleep, and he lies down
until his shaggy name covers his paws
Meanwhile. the spiders outside begin 10
spin webs over the mouth o.. his cav
ern, and say: THAT lion cannot break
out through this web" and they keep
on spinning the gossamer threads until
they get the mouth OF the cavern COW
cred over. Now" they say, "the lions
done, the lions done" After awhile
the lion awakes and shakes himseLr,
and he walks out from the cavern,
never knowing thore were any spiders
webs, and with his voice he shakes the
mountain. Let the infidels and the skep-
ties of this day so on spinning theories,
spinning them all over the place where
Christ seems TO be sleeping. They say:
Christ can never again come out; the
work is done; he can never get through
this logical web we have been spin
ming" The day will come when the
Lion OF Judah's tribe will arouse him
self and come forth and shake might
ly the nations. What then all your COS
samer threads? What is a spiders web
to an aroused loin? DO not fires, then.
about the worlds going backward. Il
is going forward.
You stand on the banks OF the sea
when the tide is rising. TIE almanac
says the tide Is risirg, Dut the wave
comes up to a certain point. and then
II recedes. Why" you say. 1.-The tide
is going back" No, IL is not. The next
wave comes up a little higher, and Il
goes back. Again you say the tide Is
going out. And the next time the wave
comes up 4 little higher. and then TO
a higher point. Notwithstanding ali
these recessions, at last all the shipping
of the world knows 1t Is nigh tide.
so 1t Is with the cause OF Christ Ia the
world. One year it comes up to one
point, and We are greatly encouraged.
Then It seems TO so back next year.
We say the tide is going out. Next year
X comes up TO higher point and fails
back. and next year it comes to a still
higher point and falls bach; but all The
time it is advancing, until /. shall be
full tide, land the earth shall be ful.
of the knowledge of God as the waters
ill the sea"
Again, learn from this subject tina,
Christ Is God and man In the same per-
son. / go into the back part OF tina.
boat and / look on Chrlst's sleeping
face, and see in that face the story o.
sorry and WEAKNESS, and . deer shad-
ow comes over his face, ard think he
must be dreaming OF tn cross that is to
come. AS l stand on the back part OF
the boat looking on his face, | say:
He is a man! He is a man" But
when l see him come to the Prov n,
tho boat, and the sea knaels at his pres
ence, and the winds toi4 g. 70. ings
at his command. ] say: a., is God,
lie is Godv The hand that set up the
starry pillars Of IT,. universe wiping
away the tears of an orphani WI
want pity and sympathy, look al hiu.
and l say: 20 Lord Jesus. thou weary
One, thou suffering OsA have mercy
on me-" "Ecce homow Behold the
man! But when I want courage for the
conflict of life. when l want some one
to beot down ms enemies. when l want
faith Tor IL great future, then come
to the front Of tie boat. and see Christ
standing there in all his omnipotenee.
and / say, 20 Christ. thou who couldsi
hush the storm, ca2 hush all my sor-
rows, all my temptations, all my fears"
"Ecce De2s." Behold the God!
There is one storm into which we
must all run. When man lets go
this life to take hold OF the next. do
uOl INV bithOI ilh hf''t
will want 1t all. What is that ont VOW
der? That is dying Christian rocked
on the surges OF death. Wilds thai
have wrecked magnificent Got.llas OF
pomp and worldly power come down
on that Christian soul. All the spirits
of darkness seem to be let loose, 10.
1t is their last chance. The wailing OK
kindred seems to mingle with the swi III
Of the waters. and the scream OF the
wind, and the thunder of the sky Deep
to deep, billow to billow; yet no tremor
no gloom, no terror. no signing for the
dying Christian. The fact Is that from
the back part of the boat voice sings
out: when thou passest through the
waters, will be with thee" BY tho
flash of the storm the dying Christian
sees that the harbor Is o,ey just ahead.
From heavenly castles voices of vel
come come over the waters. Peace
drops on the angry wave as the storm
sobs itself to rest like a child falling