The morning news., 1897-08-30


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was tossed INTO ur3tb iron thev found
! tbat foUowirn chris p,,s not synootb sail
ing So Won nave found n. So have
/ found IT, Did vou over notice tho end of
/ the IT,. Of me apostlos M Tas,is Cbrist2
! Yon wolIld saw ma If .,,or mon ouont IA
/ have bad "a smooth life a smootb denart-
lire then those mon the disciplas of Iesus
/ Christ. ought 10 have had such a depart-
/ uro ana slfrb j Iira
! 81 lanes LOST his head St pbilin was
! hung to- death ON a niIlar 81 NattheU
/ mad his life dashed out with "A halbert St
/ Mark was dragged Ia death through the
/ streets. ST James the less was beaten
! 10 death with a fulor's CLUB ST. Thomas
| was struck through with a spear. They
| did NOT find following Christ smooth sail
! ing Oh, how they were all tossed in the
! tempest John Huss i'm the fire; Hugh
| Mckail in the hour of martyrdom: the AL
| b!genses. the Waldenses, the Scotch Cow
enanters-did they find it smooth sailing?
But why go 20 history when / can find
all around me a score Of illustrations of
| the +ruth of this subject? That young man
! in the store trying to serve God. while his
employer SCOTS at Christianity the young
| men i'm the same store antagonistic to the
| Christian religion. teasing him, tormenting
| him about his religion, trying to get him
mad. They succeed i'm getting him mad.
saying, You're pretty Christian" Does
| this young man find il smooth sailing
"a hep Ln ri tg fo loxt { ie
Christian girl Her father despises the
Christian religion; her mother despises the
| Christian religion; her brothers and sis
| ters scoff at the Christian religion; she
| can hardly find a quiet place in which to
say her PRAYERS Did she find it smooth
sailing when She tried to follow Jesus
Christ? on, no; all who would live the
life of the Christian religion must suffer
persecution: If you do not find il in one
way, you viii get it in another way.
The question was asked. "Who are those
| nearest the throne?" 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
pounding-"and had their robes washed
and made white in he blood of the Lamb.
Oh do not be disheartened Oh, child of
God; take courage You are in glorious
compamonship. God viii see YOU through
all these trials, and he VIII deliver you.
My 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 tey are frightened al
most to death. They say: Master, car
est thou not that we perish?' They had
no reason TO be frightened, for Christ was
in the boat. I suppose II we had been
there we would have been just as much
affrighted. Perhaps more.
On all ages very good people get very
much affrighted. Il is often so in our
day and men say. "Why. look at the bad
lectures: look al the Spiritualistic socie-
tics; 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 peo-
ple are affriehted bv the triumphant in
iuuity in our dav. and think the Church of
Jesus Christ and the cause of righteous
ness are going 10 be overtbroWn. and are
Just as much affrighted as the discipIes
of my text were affrighted. Don't wor-
ry. don't fret as though iniduity were go
ing TO triumph over righteousness.
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