The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-16
DESIRE TO Be GREAT
1t Blinds the Eye and Leads to Un-
told Misery.
SUBJECT mo COMPROMISE 4"
Elder Rarnaby breaches a Praotl-
cal Sermon and Produces
Fund of Figures to Sup
port His Argument.

Elder Barnaby spoke upon the subject
mo Compromise" His elucidation of his
ideas was to the effect that Christians
must be loyal and answering in their re-
ligion. He favored the radicalism rather
than conservatism. His address was as
follows:
THE Bible declares that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God with power according
to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrec-
ton from the dead. Our foundation for
this evenings discourse is found in and
Is part of the account given by John
the apostle of the betrayal and condem-
nation of the Son of man. When the oin-
GERS and men from the chief priests and
Pharisees, with Judas as leader, came to
Gethsemane "a familiar resort OF Jesus
and his disciples), Jesus. knowing their
purpose advanced toward them and said:
Whom seek ye? They answered him,
Jesus of Nazareth Jesus said unto
them, 4 am He.' No spirit of compromise
here When you begin to compromise
with the devil he has about got you.
Satan delights to have men distrust
Gods word.
when God placed man in the Garden
of Eden He said. "Of every tree of the
garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil
thou shalt not eat of 1T; for in the day
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
de-" Or as reading the marginal render
His efforts upon the above occasion
proved fruitful. Satan said to the woman
Eve). Eye shalt not die The lust of the
eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of
budding knowledge, which afterward
proved to be knowledge of sorrow, as
well as good and evil led Eve to dis
trust God and place confidence in the dew
H. The first compromise of truth resulted
in disaster, viz: expulsion from Eden, and
heir to death.
This compromise opened the road TO
death, known in scripture as the broad
road Matthew vii:13. This way may
seem right unto men, but the end thereof
is death In contrast with this there is
a way which will help us to avoid COM
promise and that way is entered by pass
ing through the straight gate, of which
il is said by the Holy Spirit. few there be
that find it, Begin TO compromise with
sin and you will you find yourself upon
the broad road.
Consistency is a jewel in the casket of
character; how easy it is to lose that
jewel. When we try to make terms with
error the luster is gone and the jewel
worthless. How necessary then to be con-
sistent. The examples of the past should
be beacon light to warn us of the dan
gerous shoals and sunken rocks upon
which we may find ourselves hopelessly
wrecked IL we try to compromise word
of God We cannot compromise the word
of Israel, tried II and failed When Sam
uel, the prophet of God, selected Saul by
command of God God gave Saul a new
heart DIST Samuel, x:9). While king God
commanded him to smite Amalek and ut
terly destroy all and spare them not, but
STAY both man and woman, infant and
sucking, oxen and sheep. camel and
asses. But Saul disobeyed the command
of the Lord and began the journey on the
broad way by taking alive the king of
the Amalekites, Agog. and the very best
of the sheep and oxen and the failings
and the lambs and all that was good, and
would not utterly destroy them, but ev-
erything that was vile and refuse that
they destroyed utterly. When the prophet
of the Lord came to Saul he tried by
words to compromise by saying, The peo-
pie had spared the best of the sheep and
the oxen to sacrifice unto the Lord The
prophet informs him that God had re-
vealed to him (the propheO that because
of this compromise, he had been re-
spected. Sauls compromise lost him the
crown and kingdom of Israel. Samuel
teaches by his words to Saul that obedi-
ence is better than sacrifice. and to hear
better than the fat of rams God filed
the universe with light. when Jesus be-
came the light of the world by bringing
life and Immortality to light through
the gospel. Peter. James and John (disci-
pies of Christi, heard the voice of God
IL
hear him. Matthew 10. While we hear
and obey there can be no compromise
with error. Jesus has overcome the world
and tells us to be of good cheer
"Oh. how many are trifiing with the
word of God to-day. The leaders of re-
ligion In His day were mad against the
Savior because he showed up their err
rors. Daniel. the prophet of God. while a
captive in Babylon, would not eat the
kings meat. The lurid flames of the fiery
furnace could not dim the glory of his
perfect trust in the God of Israel nor the
lions den with the king of the forest as
his guardian therein. make him swerve
from his purpose. No compromise with
sin. Daniel was honored for his loyalty
to right. Obedience to principles is one of
the browning virtues of righteousness.
We should not make any compromise
with error. though the pathway of right
and obedience leads through affiic-
tons. fiery furnace or the lions den of
persecution. Our God is able and willing
to protect US from the fiery furnace of
this wicked and perverse generation, and
especially so when innocence like that
which was found in Daniel becomes our
passport.
IF Jesus had just said you are good,
moral men: you have done many good
things in the name of the Lord you are
all right how many more friends and
followers he might have had.
"A good young man came to Jesus one
day; he had kept the commandments
from his youth and Jesus loved him. But
he lacked one thing and the great teacher
let him go away sorrowing. Suppostion
asks question here What do you sup
pose Jesus would have done IL some one
OF his disciples had said: You have made
a great mistake see, that is a young
man. a sincere young man. who has much
influence: besides, we are all poor and
he has great riches. We are in need OF
Just such men. Call him back and CON-
promise your terms Imagination an
swers this question. Jesus would have
said: Get thee behind me. satan: thou
sawest not the things that be OF God
but the things that be OF men Jesus did
not compromise his terms. and We must
not.
Morality is good. but Christianity is