The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23

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sermon on the mount he says:
Blessed are those servants whom the
| Lord when he cometh shall find watch
ing. He says to his disciples in the
garden of Gethsemane: Watch and
pray lest We enter into temptation"
/ And again he says: What l say unto
you 1 say unto ALL Watch" 1 rejoice
, that this great duty has been en-
bodied in sacred song. We ought to
sing oftener than we do:
| My soul, be on thy guard" etc.
Let us keep steadfast guard
With lighted hearts all night,
| That when Christ comes, we stand
prepared,
And meet him with delight"
Here is another duty that has in it
the heroic element-the soldier ele-
ment: Stand fast in the faith" This
is favorite expression with the
apostle. He speaks of the gospel he
has preached to the Corinthians:
to Phil to stand fast in one
spirit, with one mind striving
together for the faith of the Cos
pei" And again he writes: my
brethren, dearly beloved and longed
for, my JOY and crown, so stand fast
in the Lord, my dearly beloved" He
writes to the Thessalonians: Now
we live if we stand fast in the
Lord Therefore. brethren, stand
fast, and hold the traditions which
We have been taught, whether by
the Galatians. stand fast, there
fore, in the liberty wherewith Christ
has made us free" The faithful sol
der on guard, keeping watch, stands
fast with firm footing, every SineW
braced. The great need of the world
is now, and ever has been, an army
Of valiant disciples who know how to
stand. Not the least part of Chris
tian's requirements is to be skilful in
wrestling; and the great thing to do
In this contest is to Stand-no matter
how high you are thrown, come down
on your feet. Not to stand is to be
defeated. Keep your feet under you.
I'VE WreStle, not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities-
against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world against
spiritual wickedness in high places"
Jacobs skill in wrestling caused his
name to be changed from Jacob to
Israel and brought him the common
dation, LAS a prince hast thou power
with God and with men, and hast pre-
vailed" Yonder is a disciple who has
been tripped up by persecution; yon
der is one who has slipped on tempta-
ton, and has fallen; yonder is one
who is lying down to cry over his
wounds. Stand fast in the faith"
We do not obey this injunction if we
sit down and fold our hands and COM
plain Of harsh treatment. We make
mistake if we expected to be used we'll
in this world. To be roughly handled
is a part of our probationary disci-
pine. We are in the enemy's coun-
try. This is not the time. nor the place
for golden harpS and palm branches.
This is the time of hard fare and long
Marches and sleepless vigilance, and
parched lips, and empty canteens, and
bullets and bayonets, and wounds. If
we are not doing our duty in this day
of battle, if we haven't deserted, if
we are not following in the wake of
/ the camp fires, if we are in the front
ranks-we must expect to receive
wounds. And it is ours not TO reason
why; it is ours not to make reply. 1t
is ours but to do and die. To endure
hardness like good soldiers of the good
Jesus. STAND fast in the faith" that
is established. Have a principle with
in. Be not cursed. Be true to your
convictions. Stand up in the face of
opposition. Stand fast in the teeth of
brave, valiant, heroic. Well, now, the
third thing that we are to do is to
acquit ourselves like men; not like
children, but like men. A child is
weak immature, undeVelOped, weak in
experience, weak in judgment, weak in
motive, narrow range of vision, no
powers of endurance. What are some
of the leading characteristics of chill
dren? They would rather play than
work They think their mission to this
world is to be amused, to be enter
tanned. They are often irritable, fret
full, hard to please. They are easily
frightened, easily deceived, easily led
astray. They are eager for present
qualifications; tomorrow seems a long
way off. They know nothing of the
value of things; if given their choice of
an orange or a corner lot, they would
take the orange. Now, as men and
women, in our relation to spiritual
things, how much we are inclined to be
like children. We do not take naturally
to Christian work. How many of us
think that we are here to be enter
tanned. We are sometimes hard to
please We are easily frightened; we
are eager for present qualification, for
felt heaven for the glitter of earth, sell
our eternal birthright for a mess of
pottage. There are things that we
may do as children, that are eXcuSa bic,
in no way censurable; they belong to
the period of childhood, but they lily
become US as men. The apostle says:
when [ was child 1 spake as
child, I understood as a child,
thought as child; but when l became
a man l put away childish things
And this is the plea that he makes in
the text: Put away childish things.
Put away the weakness, the way
wardness, the trifies, the follies Of
childhood. No longer deal with toys,
but grapple with hard facts. Have the
strength of men, the endurance of
men. the wisdom of men, The CONVEX
sation of men, the thoughts of men,
the rnatured judgment, the under
standing of men, the dignity of men,
the nobility of men. What a trial it
was to the patience of Paul to find so
many overgrown boys among his
men, babes in experience and in
knowledge He writes to the Hebrews:
when for the time We ought to be
teachers. we have need that one teach
YOU again what is the first principles
of the words of God, and are become
such as have need Of milk. and not of
strong meat" Manliness IS a choice
virtue. a Christian is the brightest
type of man. The church and the
world need men, strong men, genuine
men: men of sterling worth, men Of
character, of fidelity, of integrity, OF
purity: men Of fixed principle, of I'M
swerving rectitute; men that cannot be
Bought, or sold, or bent, or biased, or
warped, or twisted; men that dare to
do right though the heavens fall. We
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