The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-09-27

bank 10 river bank if God commands
You to engineer u Cunarder from New
York TO Liverpool, But whatever enter
prise sdu undertake. and on whatever
voyage you start, be sure ID take Christ
in the ship. Hele are men largely pros
pered. The seed of small enterprise
grew into an accumulated and overshad
owing success. Their cup of prosperity
is running over, Every day sees com
mercial or n mechanical triumph. Yet
they are not pulled up. They acknowl-
edge the God who grows the harvests
and gives them all their prosperity
When disaster comes that destroys 9TH
hrs, they are only helped into higher ex
perientts. The coolest winds that ever
blew down from snow capped Hermon
and tossed Gennesaret into foam and
agony could not hurt them. Let the
winds blow until they crack their cheeks.
Let the breakers boom-all is well,
Christ Is in the ship, Here are other
inen, the prey Of uncertainties. When
they succeed, they strut through the
world in great vanity and wipe their
feet ON the sensitiveness of others. Dis
aster comes, and they are utterly down.
| They are good sailors ON a fair day,
when the sky is clear and the sea is
| smooth, but they cannot outride storm.
| After awhile the packet is tossed abeam's
end, and 1t seems rs if she must go
down with all the cargo. Push out from
the shore with lifeboat, long boat, shall
lop and pihnace. You cannot save the
Grew. The storm twists off the masts.
The sea rises up to take down the YES
| sci. Down she goes No Christ in that
ship.
l speak to young people whose Soyase
In life will be a mingling Of sunshine
sha Of darkness, of arctic blast and OF
tropical tornado you will have many
long, bright day Of prosperity. The
skies clear, the sea smooth. The crew
exhilarant. The boat stanch will bound
merrily over the pillows Crowd on all
the canvas, Heigh, no! Land ahead !!
But suppose that sickness puts its bitter
cup to your lips; subposa that death
overshadows your heart; suppose mis-
fortune, with some quick turn of the
wheel, hurls you backward; suppose
that the wave of trial strikes you
athwart ships, and bowsprit shivered,
and halyards swept into the sea, and
gangway crowded with piratical disas-
{ers, and the wave beneath, and the sky
ab6fe, md the darkness around are fiji
ed with the clamo, Of voices Of destruc-
ton Oh, then you will Want Christ in
the ship! :.
When Storms Come.
/ learn, Ill The next place, that people
who follow Christ must not always ex-
pect smooth sailing. When these disci-
pies got into the small boats, they said
"What delightful thing this is Who
would not be follower Of Christ when
he can ride in one,of these small boats
after the ship in which Jesus is sail
ing?" But when the storm came down
these disciples found ont that following
Jesus did not always make smooth sail
: ing. So you have found out, and SO
, have found out. If there are any people
who you would think ought to have had
, a good time i'll getting out Of this world,
, the apostles of Jesus Christ ought tt
T have been the men. Have you ever no
, ticed how they got out of the world
c st. James lost his head St Philip wa'
| hung to death against a pillar; st
Matthew was struck to death by Il hal
+ berd st. Mark was dragged to dealt
{ through tho streets; St James the Les
! had his brains dashed ont with a full
!, er's club; St. Matthias was stonet
, to death; ST. Thomas was strucl
h through with spear. John Huss in tn
y fire, the Albigenses, the Waldenses, tb
y Scotch Covenanters-did they alway
q find smooth sailing? Why go Sc far?
a There is young man III store i
4 New York who has hard time to main
q tain his Christian character. All tn
q clerks laugh at him, the employers il
that store laugh at him, and when h
4 loses his patience they say, "You III
,S pretty Christian ~ Not so easy is it fo
that young man to follow Christ If tn
q Lord did not help him hour by houl
a he would fail. There are scores of youn
"a men today who would be willing to te:
&c fify that i'll following Christ one doG
: not always find smooth sailing. Their
"A Is a Christian girl In her home they d
70 not like Christ She has hard work
M get silent place in which to say ht
+ prayers Father opposed to religion
10 mother opposed to religion; brothel
"a and sisters opposed to religion IL
10 Christian girl does not always find
smooth sailing when she tries to folio
Jesus. But be Of good heart. AS scala
no ers, when winds are dead ahead, by sc
40 ting the ship on starboard tack and bra
an ing the yards make the winds that o
no pose the course propel the ship forwar
ia so opposing troubles, through Chris
~ veering around the bowsprit OF fat
bt will watt you to heaven, when, If Il
or winds had been abaft, they might ha
he rocked and sung you to sleep, and VIII
no dreaming of the destined port OF heav'
Is ylu could not have heard the cry
Is. warning and would have gone crashlI
tie into the breakers
an No Need of Fear.
oh Again, my subject teaches me tt
res good people sometimes get very mu
err frightened. From the tone and mann
nd of these disciples as they rushed IL
les the stern Of the vessel and woke Gin
nut up, you know that they are fearful
est scared And so it is now that you OFT
eat find good people wildly agitated. "Oh
sh says some Christian man, "the init
The magazines, the bad newspapers,
5he spiritualistic societies, the importatl
ats of so many foreign errors, the church
en- God is going to be lost, the shipi goi
BY to founder The ship is going down
ess What are you frightened about? An
the lion goes into his cavern to take sic
his and he lies down until his shaggy N;
md covers his paws. Meanwhile the spid
the outside begin to spin webs over
~ mouth of his cavern and say, "That !
he cannot break out through this wei
ers and they keep on spinning the gossai
ers threads until they get the mouth of
on cavern covered over. "Now," they S
rc- ''the lion S done, the lions done" 4