Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-10-04

] @Nf't ~liN'ItAs an NtlNarl~ swept lutl tA3
seq, AMI gang gTayrrbW o. with pirfti,al dis
asirrs. AMI the wave benz tta. an the SKY
aa0ye, and the darkness arluul ars alsI
with the clamDr of voices 0i .iD,frl"tipu
0 on, then ypu will want Christ iu the ship,
. learn, IN the next place. tl9- people waO
/ follow Christ must not qllyav- s,.., smooth
sailing. When thes lis .fuie. .J. into the
small boats. they sa,': "Wlat q delightful
thin, this - Who woul not br follower
ot Christ when he rau ride IN one Of these
3 small boats after the snip in which Jesus is
~aihng?' But when the storm cam. down
lese disciples found ont that following
Jesus did not always make smooth sailing.
SO YOU have iOuni out, and so have found
ont. II there are any people VIII YOU would
think ought 10 have had good time in get
ting out OF this world. the apostles OF Jesus
Christ Ough 10 have been the men. Have
Won ever noticed how they got ont Of the
w3rld2 st. James lost his heal: 81. Philip
was hung to death against pillar: St.
Matthew was struck 70 death by II halbari;
st. Mark was dragged to death through tia
streets; st. James the Less ha hi, brains
dashed out with fuller'- club; ST. Matthias
was stoned to death: ST. TlDml, was struck
through with spear. John Huss in the
fire, the hlbig-nsps, the Waldenscs, the
Scotch Covenanters--liI they always lnl
smooth saiinI? Why 60 80 far?
Again my subject teaches ma that good
people sometimes yet very much fr2htena |.
From the tone 3ul manner pi these disciples
as they rGshc into the stern OF the vessel
an woEe Christ uu YOU know that they are
fraruIlv scared. Aul so it is now that yOu
often find good people wildly agitated.
"Oh. says some Christian man. "the infiiel
MAGAZINES the bad newspapers, the spirit
ualiStic societies, the importation Of so many
foreign errors, the church Ot God is going to
L4 Lost tha Gbipt. is 4a F.nplari
ship is going down What are You fright
rnei a5out1 An Old lion goes into his cav
"rn 20 take sleep, au NJ lies down until
his shaggy maze covers his paws. Mean
while the spiders outside begin 10 spin webs
overthe mouth OF his cavern aui say. That
lion cannot break out through this web"
and they keep on spinning the gossamer
threa Is until they get the mouth OF the
cavern covered over Now they say,
"the lions done. the lion done After
awhile the lion awakes and shakes himself,
aud he walks ont from the cavern. never
knowing there We're any spiders webs, and
with his voice ne shakes the mountain. Let
the inhiel- and the skeptios Of this day 60
on spinning their web-, spinning their inf
del gOssamer theories, spinning them all
over the place where Christ seems to be-
sleeping. They say Christ can never
again come ont. The work is done Ha
can never get through this logical web We
.t,,,, H., ..n WI 80,
himself and come forth auI shake mightiy
the Nations What then all your gossamer
tbraads2 What is a sni5ar's wen to an
aroused lion? Do not fret. then. about the
worlds going backward. 1t is going for
ward,
w., ,.o,4 -, ,,,,, i,,,,l-, ,f tt, coo ,,hor
w., ga ~ risinr. Tha oIn,,na, 60 ~
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"u In,. ,,. And ~ nayt tn,s N, ,ro,.l,
',o.,',s ., =, hi,har no;nt and tban to hie,be.
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