Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-10-10
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you are about 10 voyage ont into some
new enterpriSc-into soIne new bust
ness relation. you are going 10 pkin
some great matter Of profit. | hope ii
is So. If you are content To go along
In the treadmill course and plan moth
ing new, you are o fulfilling your
mission. What you can do bv the ut
o tension OF body, mind and soul.
that you are bound to do. You have
no right 10 be colonel OF "a regiment il
God calls you 10 command an army.
You have no right TO he a stoker in "A
steamer If God commands you 10 he
admiral Of "A navy. You have no right
10 engineer q ferryb0at from river
bank to river bank if God commands
you TO engineer a Cunarder from New
York to Liverpool. But whatever en-
terprise you undertake and upon
whatever voyage You start, be SURE 10
take Christ in the ship. Here are
mel largely prospered. The seed of a
small enterprise grew into an accu-
lated and overshadowlng success.
Their cup of prosperity is running
over. Every day sees a commercial or
a mechanical triumph. Yet they are
pulled up. They acknowledge the
God who grows the harveSts and gives
them all their prosperity. When dis
aster m that destroys others they
are only helped into higher expert
ences. 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 men, the prey of uncertainties.
When they succeed they strut through
the world in great vanity, and wipe
their feet or the : ,Isitiveness of 9TH
erS. Disaster comes, and they are
utterly down. They are good sailors
on a fair day when the sky is clear
and the sea smooth; but they cannot
outride the storm. After awhile the
packet Is tossed abeam's end and it
seems as If she must go down with all
the cargo. Push out from the shore
with %lifebOat, longboat, shallOp and
pinnace. You cannot save the crew.
The storm twists off the maSts. The
G rises up to take down the vessel.
Down she goes! No Christ in that
ship.
| speak to young people whose voy-
age in life will be mingled with sun
shine and darkness, Of Arctic blast
ard Of tropical tornado. You will have
many a long, bright day Of prosperity.
The skies clear, the seas smooth. The
crew eXhilarant. The boat stanch will
bound merrily over the pillows.
Crowd on all the canvas. Heigh, hot
Land aheadi But suppose that sickness
puts its bitter cup to your lip; suppose
that death overshadows your heart;
suppose misfortune, with some quick
turf Of the wheel hurls you back ward:
suppose that the waves Of trial
strikes you athwart- ships, and bow
spirit shivered, and halliards swept
into the sea, and gangway crowded
with p%iratical disasters, and the wave
beneath and the sky above, and the
darkness around are filed with the
clamor of the voices of destruction.
Oh! then you will want Christ in the
ship.
/ learn, in the next place, that peo-
pie who follow Christ must not al
ways expect smooth sailing. When
these disciples got into the small
boats they said: What a delightful
thing this is! Who would not be q fol-
lower of Christ when he can ride In
one of these small boats after the ship
in which Jesus is sailing?" But when
the storm came down these disciples
found out that following Jesus did
not always make smooth sailing. So
you have found ont, and SO l have
found out. If there are any people
who you would think ought to have
a good time in getting out Of this
world, the Apostles of Jesus Christ
ought to have been the men. Have
you ever noticed how they got out %
the world? st. James lost his head.
st. Phillip was hung to death against
a pillar. st. Matthew was struck 10
death by a halberd. St. Mark was
dragged to death through the streets.
st. James the Less had his brains
dashed out with n fuller's club. st.
Matthews was stoned to death. st.
Thomas was struck with a spear.
John Huss In the fire. the Albigenses.
the WaldenseS, the Scotch COvenan-
ters-did they always find smooth sail
ing? Why go so far? There is a young
man in n store in New York who has
a 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 saw: "You are a pretty Chris
tian." Not 80 easy is It for that young
man to follow Christ. If the Lord did
not help him hour by hour he would
fail. There are scores OF young men
to-day who would be willing to testf-
fv 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 n silent Dlace in which to say
her PRAYERS. Father onnosea 20 re-
ligiOn. ProtherS ard sisters opposed
70 ral'oion. The Christian girl does
not always find It smooth sailing
when she tries TO follow Jesus. Rut
he of good heart. AS seafarers. when
winds IRE dead ahead, by setting the
ship on starboard tack and bracIng
the yards, make the winds that oppose
the course propel the ship forward,
so opposing troubles. through Christ,
veer1ng around the bowsprit of faith
will watt you to heaven, when, OF the
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, nv subject teaches me thar