The Penn's Grove record., 1895-09-27

thing this Isl Who would not DO n follower
Of Christ when he can ride in one of thes.
small boats after the ship in which Jesus is
s~aillng?" But when the storm came down
these disciples found out thai following
Jesus dill not always make smooth sailing.
SO you have found out, and so | have 0und
out. If there are any people who yOu would
think ought to have hal a good time in get
ting out Of this world. the apostles ofJesus
Christ ought to have been the men. Have
Won ever noticed how they got ont OF the
w0rld2 st. James lost his head: st. Philip
was hung to death against a pillar; st.
Matthew was struck to death by n halbari;
st. Mark was dragged to death through thu
streets: st. James the Less hal his brains
dashed out with a fuller's club; st. Matthias
was stoned to death: st. Thomas was struck
through with a spear. John Huss in the
Ire, the Albigenses. the Waldenses, the
scotch Covenanters-lid they always lnd
smooth sailing2 Why go so far2
There is a young man in a store In New
York who has n hard time to maintain his
Christian character. All the clerks laugh
at him, the employers in that store laugh at
him, and when he loses his patience they
say, You are pretty Christian" Not so
easy Is it for that Young man to follow
Christ. II the Lord did not help him hour
bv hour, he would fail. There are scores OF
Young men To-day who would be willing to
testify that in following Christ one does not
| always find smooth sailing. There is n
Christian girl. In her home they do not
like Christ. She has hard work to get a silent
place in which to say ner prayers. Father
| opposed to religion; mother opposed to re-
ligion; brothers and sisters opposed to relig.
ion. The Christian girl does not always find
1t smooth sailing when she tries to follow
Tesus. But be Of good heart. As seafarers.
when winds are dead ahead. by setting the
ship on starboard tack and bracing the yards
make the winds that oppose the course pro-
pei the ship forward. so opposing troubles,
through Christ, veering around the bowsprit
OF faith, will watt you to heaven when, ifthe
winds had been abaft, they might have
rocked and sung you to sleep. and while
dreaming Of the destined port Of heaven you
could not have heard the cry of warning and
would have gone crashing into the breakers.
Again. my subject teaches me that good
people sometimes get very much frightened.
From the tone and manner of these disciples
as they rushed into the stern Of the vessel
and woke Christ up, you know that they are
f~narfully scared. And so it is now that you
often find good people wildly agitated.
"Ohi" savssome Christian man. "the infdel
magazines. the bad newspapers, the spirit
ualistic societies. the importation Of so many
'oreign errors, the church of God is going to
be lost, the ship is going to founder! The
sun 10 StlhN ubNhs W udl Il Npu irhN-
ened about? An old lion goes into his cav
arn to take Il sleep. ami he lies down until
his shaggy name covers his paws. Mean
while the spiders outside begin to spin webs
overthe mouth Of his cavern and say. ''That
lion cannot break ont through this web"
and they keep on spinning the gOssamer
| threads until they get the mouth of the
cavern covered over. "Now." they say,
''the lions done, the lions done" After
awhile the lion awakes and shakes himself.
and he walks out from the cavern, never
knowing there were any spiders webs, and
with his voice he shakes the mountain. Let
the intdels and the skeptics of this day 90
on spinning their webs, spinning their init
del gossamer theories, spinning them all
over the place where Christ seems to be
sleeping. T1ey say "Christ can never
again come out. The work is done. He
can never get through this logical web we
have been spinning" The day will some
| when the Lion of Judah's tribe will rouse
himself and come forth and shake mighty
the Nations. What then all your gossamer
threads? What is q spiders wei to an
aroused lion? Do not fret, than, about the
worlds going backward. 1t is going for
ward.
You stand on the banks of the sea when
the tide is rising. The almanac says the
tide Is rising. but the wave comes up to n
certain point and then 1t recedes. ''Why,"
you say, the tide Is going back: No. ltls
not. next wave comes P llttie highef,
ana II goes Dack' again YOU say inc uuclS
going out. And the next time the wave
comes to a higher point, and then to a higher
point. Notwithstanding all these recessions
at last all the shipping Of the world knows it
is high tide. SO it is with the cause of Christ
IN the Woriu' ohe year II COMES up 10 ono
point ana we are greatly encouraged. Iheh
tide is going out. Next wear it comes to a
higher point and fails back, and next year it
comes TO a still higher point and falls back,
hut ali the time IT is advancing, until it shall
( he full tide. land the earth shall be full of
the knowledge of God rs the waters fiji the
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sreat iuSI'o, y Chris. stan5ins tbera IN al
ooa' wv II "'"e "'
lis Tmnipotenee. ~ I say, no Christ, Tho,
who couldst hush the storm can hush all M!
sorrows, all my temptations, all my fears
"Ecee Deusl' Behold the God
1 learn also from this subject that Chris
can hlsh tne tempest. sons 81 you my
hearers, nav a neasy Ioa' VI IIouoles
some OF you haNo weg' uhtll you eau WEI
M nhii nor or LothapS 20 tb s ona , u osteS
tha rno St " oy 80" nmsI,inos The ono tbot
hung around Won with greatest fondness
Tha ora vediggsr's shade emf down through
vour bleeding heart, Or perhaps II was the
univ ono that Won had. and YOUR soul has
eyer since heen ike n desolafei castle, where
| The birds Of the nil hi hoot amid the falling
tnWers and along the gambling stairway
or nerbans II was an aged mother hat WIS
| cnIIad away Won used TO send for her when
von had anv Kind Of trouble. She was
N vonr home n welcome vour children
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