Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-09-08

Christian religion, teasing him, tormenting
him about his religion, trying to get him
mad? They succeed in getting him mad,
| saving, you're n pretty Christian!' Does
this young man find it smooth sailing when
| he tries TO follow Christ? Here Is n Chris
| tian girl. Her father des pises the Christian
religion; her mother despises the Christian
| religion; her brothers and sisters scOff at
the Christian religion: she can hardly find
Il quiet place in which to say her prayers
DID she find il smooth sailing when she
tried to follow Jesus Christ? Oh. no: AL
who would live the life of the Christian
religion must suffer perse sution. IL you
do not find it in one way, you will get it in
another way.
| : The question was asked, ''Who are those
nearest the throne2" and the answer came
/ back ''These are they who came up out of
| great tribulation"-"great failing" as the
original has it; great failing. great pound.
ing-"and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb" Oh,
| do not be disheartenedl o child of God,
| take couragel You are In glorious COM
panionship. God will see you through all
these trials, and He will deliver you.
| NV subject also impresses me with the
fact that good people sometimes get very
much frightened. In the tones of these
disciples as they rushed into the back part
Of the boat l find they are frightened al
most to death. They say, Master, carest
Thou not that we perish?" They had no
the boat 1 suppose If We had been there
we would have been just as much alright
ed. Perhaps more.
| In all ages very good people get very
much afTrighted. 1t is often so in our
| day, and men say: why, look at the bad
lectures; look at the spiritualistic sOcie-
ties; look at the various errors going over
the church of God. We are going to foun-
der; the church is going to perish; she is
going down" Oh, how many good people
are afrrighted by triumphant iniquity in
our day and think the church of Jesus
Christ and the cause of righteousness are
going to be overthrown and are just az
much affrighted as the disciples Of my text
were afrrighted. Don't worry, don't fret,
as though iniquity were going to triumph
over righteousness.
A lion goes into a cavern to sleep. He
| lies down with his shaggy name covering
the paws Meanwhile the spiders spin IA
web across the mouth of the cavern and
say, 1--WE have captured him" Gossamer
thread after gossamer thread is spun until
the whole front of the cavern is covered
with the spiders web and the spiders say
1.-The lion is done: the lion is fast After
awhile the lion has got through sleeping.
He roiises himself, he shakes his name, he
walks ont into the sunlight, he does not
even know the spiders weh is spun, and
with his voice he shakes the mountain.
So men come. spinning their sOphisJf,,-'S
ana Sktptlclsu ABOUT Jesus tnflSt. Ib
seems to be sleeping. They say: we have
captured the Lord. He will never come
forth again upon the nation. Christ Is cap
.ured. and captured forever His religion
will never make any conquest among men"
But after awhile the Lion Of the tribe af
Judah will rouse himself and come forth
10 shake nightly the nations What IS
SPIDERS web to the aroused lion? Give
ruth and error a fair grapple, and truth
will come off victor.
Again, my subject impresses mo wi e. the
,act that Jesus was God and man in the
same being. Here he is in the back part
Of the boat. Oh, how tired he looks what
sad dreams he must havel Look at his
.ountenance. He must be thinking Of the
:ross to come. Look at him. He is a man
bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh.
| Tired he falls asleep: he is u man. But
then find Christ at the PROV Of the boat.
| | hear Hin say, Peace, be stilli' And
see the storm kneeling at His feet and the
tempests folding their wings In His pres
ence. He is God.
If have sorrow and trouble and want
sympathy go and kneel down at the back
part of the boat and say, 80 Christ, weary
one of Gennesaret, sympathize with all my
sorrows, man of Nazareth man of the
cross" man, n man. But IL | want to
conquer my spiritual foes, if | want to get
the victory over sin, death and he!!, ! come
| to the front of the boat and | kneel down,
and say, 80 Lord Jesus Christ, Thou who
dost hush the tempest, hush all my grief.
hush all my temptation, hush all my sin"
A man, man, God, a God.
/ learn once more from this subject that
Christ can hush a tempest. 1t did seem as
II everything must go to ruin. The dis
ciples had given up the idea of managing
the ship. The crew were entirely de
moralized, vet Christ rises, and He puts
His foot on the storm, and it crouches at
His feet. oh, yes, Christ can hush the
tempesti
You have had trouble. Perhaps /. was
the little child taken away from you-the
| sweetest child of the household, the one
who asked the most curious questions and
stood around you with the greatest fond
ness and the spade cut down through your
bleeding heart. Perhaps it was an only
son. and your heart has ever since been like
q desolated castle, the owls of the night
hooting among the falling rafters and the
crumbling stairways.
Perhaps it was an aged mother. You al
ways went to her with your troubles. She
was In your home to welcome your children
into life, and when they died she was there
to pity you. That old hand will do you no
more kindness. That white lock of hair
you put away in the casket or in the
locket did not look as well rs it usually did
when she brushed 1t away from her
wrinkled brow in the home circle or in the
country church. Or, your property gone,
YOU said, 81 have so much bank stock, /
have 50 many government securities | have
so many houses, i have SO many farms
all gone, all gone.
|, Why, all the storms that ever tramplei
with their thunders, all the shipwrerE5
have not been worse than this to you. Nst
you have not been completely overthrown.
Why7 Christ hushed the tempest. Your
little one was taken away. Christ says: II
have that little one. L can take care of
him as well as you can, better than you
can OH bereaved mOtheri'' flushing the
tempestl When your property went away,
God said, There are treasures in heaven,
in banks that never break"
There Is one storm into which we will all
have to run the moment when we let go Of
this life and try to take hold of the next
when we will want all the grace we can
have-we will want it all. Yonder see
Christian soul rocking on the surges OF
death. All the powers of darkness seem
let out against that soul-the swirling
wave the thunder of the sky, the scream
ing wind all seem to unite together-but
that soul is not troubled, there is no
signing there are no tears: plenty of
tears in the room at the departure, but he
weeps no tears: calm, satisfied peaceful
all is well Jesus hushing the tempestl BY
the flash of the storm you see the harbor
Just ahead and you are making for that
harbor. Strike eight bells. All is well.
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide;
We're home at last, home at last.
Softly we drift on its bright, silvry tide.
We're home at last, home at last.
Glory to God all our dangers are DER.
We stand secure on the gloriied shore.
Glory to God, we will shout evermore.
We're home at last, home at last.