Milford chronicle., 1895-09-27

hurt them. Let the winds blow until the
crack their cheeks. Let the breakers boon
E all is well, Christ is in tho ship. Her
are other men, the prey of uncertainties
When they succeed, they strut through tn
world in great vanity and wipe their fee
, on the constituencies Of others Disaste
4 comes and they ara utterly down. Thel
arc good sailors on fair day, when tn
sky is clear and the sea is smooth, bu
they cannot outrido storm. After awhil,
p the packet is tossed abcam's end and II
seems as ii she must go down with all tn,
1 cargo Push out from the shore with life
! boat, longboat shallop and pinnace. You
cannot save the crew. The storm twist.
OFF the masts The sea rises up to take
down the vessel. Down sho goesl Nc
Christ in that ship.
l speak to young people whose voyage in
life will be a mingling Of sunshine and 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,
hol Land ahead But suppose that sick
ness puts its bitter cup to your lips; sup
pose that death overshadows your heart
suppose misfortune with some quick. turn
of the wheel hurts you backward; suppose
that the wave of trial strikes you athwart
ships, and bowsprit shivered, and hal
lizards swept into tho sea, and gangway
! crowded with piratical disasters, and the
wave beneath, and the sky above and tho
darkness around are filled with the clamor
Of the voices Of destruction. Oh, then you
win want Christ in the ship.
+ storms VIII Come.
I learn, in the next place that people
who follow Christ must not always expect
smooth sailing. When these disciples got
into the small boats they said: "What a
delightful thing this isl Who would not
DO follower of Christ whom he can ride
In one Of those 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 out
and so I 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 no
ticed how they got out of the world? St.
James lost his head. St. Philip was hung
to death against a pillar. St. Matthew
was struck to death by a halberd. St.
Mark was dragged to death through tho
streets. st. James the Less had his brains
dashed out with a fuller's club. st. Mat
thias was stoned to death. ST. Thomas
was struck through with a spear. John /
Huss in tho fire, tho Albigenses, the Wal /
denses the Scotch Covenanters-did they |
always find smooth sailing? Why go sc 4
far?
There is young man in a store in New
York who has a hard time to maintain his
Christian character. An the clerks laugh
at him, the employers in that store laugh
at him, and when he loses his patience
they say, "YOu are a pretty Christian. F."
Not so easy is it for that young man to fols
low Christ If tho Lord did not help him
hour by hour, he would fail. There are
scores of young men today who would be
willing to testify that in following Christ
one does not always find smooth sailing.
There is Christian girl. In her home
they do not like Christ. She has hard
work to get a silent place in which to say
her prayers. Father opposed to religion.
Mother opposed to religion. Brothers and
sisters opposed to religion. The Christian
girl does not always find it smooth sailing
when she tries to follow Jesus. But be Of
good heart. As seafarers, when winds are
dead ahead, by setting the ship on star
board tack and bracing the yards, make
the winds that oppose the course prOpe;
the ship forward, so opposing troubles,
through Christ veering around the bow
spirit Of faith, will watt you to heaven,
when, if tho winds had been abaft, they
might have rocked and sung you to sleep,
and while dreaming of the destined port
IF heaven you could not have heard the
Try Of warning and would have gone crash
ng into the breakers.
The World Moves.
Again, my subject teaches me that good
)eople sometimes get very much frighten- {
ID. From the tone and manner of these
disciples as they rushed into the stern of
he vessel and woke Christ up you know
hat they are fearfully scared. And so it l
S now that you often find good people :
wildly agitated "Ohr' says some Chris {
ian man, "the infldel magazines, the bad l
newspapers, the spiritualistio societies. the /
of so many foreign errors, the (
hurch of God is going to be lost, the ship S
S going to founder The ship is going 2
own" What are you frightened about [
IN old lion goes into his cavern to take a {
leep, and he lies down until his shaggy T
name covers his paws. Meanwhile the a
piders outside begin to spin webs over the e
Mouth of his cavern and say, Ethan lion C
y
hey keep on spinning the gossamer threads S
ntil they get the mouth Of the cavern O
overed over. "Now," they say "the L
on's done, the lion S done After awhile
he lion awakes and shakes himself, and u
e walks out from the cavern, never b
moving there were any spiders webs, a
nd with his voice he shakes the noun n
lin. Let the infidels and the skeptics Of D
lis day go on spinning their webs, spin
ing their infidel gossamer theories, spin
ing them all over the place where Christ
ems to be sleeping. They say "Christ a
IN never again come out; the work is 81
one. He can never get through this log +,
al web we have been spinning" The Ii
ly will come when the Lion of Judah's b
ibe will rouse himself and come forth p
nd shake nightly the nations What e
len all your gossamer threads? What is N
spiders web to an aroused lion? Do not n
ct, 'then, about the worlds going back tt
ard. 1t is going forward. el
You stand on the banks Of the sea when CT
e tide is rising, The almanac says the to
De is rising but the wave comes up to a
rtain point and then it recedes. why, I'll
N say, the tide iAgoing back" No, it ol
not. The next wave comes up little bJ
CHER, and 1t goes back. Again you say dc
e wave comes to a higher point, then to Is
higher point Notwithstanding all these Fl
oessions, at last all tho shipping Of the
orld knows it is high tide. So it is with tn
til
o cause Of Christ in the world One year mi
comes up to one point, and we are great
encouraged Then it seems TO go back IA
xt year We say this tide is going out, W,
,xt year it comes to a higher point and su
Is back, and next year 1t comes to a still wi
cher point and falls back, but all the Ia,
ne it is advancing, until It shall be full IN
le, "and the earth shall be full Of the
owledge of God as the waters fill the W,
l." II.
Christ Is God. ~
Again, learn from this subject that on
rist is God and man In the same person. M
70 into tho back part OF that boat, and
TX on Christ's sleeping face and see In tal