The Newtown bee., 1897-08-13

the companions are the same, the goal ii the same. The chariots, though seen O. unseen, are there. Circumstances can not drive God out of His world.
 "I know not where His islands lift
 Their tronded palms in air;
 only know cannot drift
 Beyond His watch and care"
 A practical question comes now: Will you rely upon Gods presence with vo, through life and in death? In all tn. vicissitudes of life will you thoroughly trust Him? My friends, it was hardly my intention to be personal. I wished rather to let you read between the lines. purposed to suggest at every turn par allel to you rather than to give minute detail; and yet, long before this, yo, must have seen the occasion Of this ser mon am preaching to-day. If there was any one quality more than another that distinguished the life of our dea, friend, Dea Henry Fairchild. whose body we have this last week laid to it, rest, it was the quality of unfalterine trust. He never lost faith in God; aye ms faith never for one moment quavered for at the last the flame seemed only fin brighten in it's glow. Few men can have such faith, such simple trust. There are three points along the way where mer turn into doubt. Very many believe that Christianity is the right road; not SC many believe they are on that road and fewer still believe that they will reach ! the end of that road.
 DEA HENRY FAIRCHILD DID NOT HEsI. | TATE
 at any one of these points. He Knew that Christianity was the right road; he knew that he was on that road : and he knew that he would reach the end of that road. His faith was like that of the darkey who was asked how long he had been trusting in the Lord. "Well, reckon I'se been trusting Him now nigh on to % years,'' the darkey replied. II hope, then," said his friend, ssthat since you have been trusting Him so long, you will hold on to the end.'' "Oh!" was the reply, Sits not a question of my holding on; it's only question whether de Lord can hold on, and I reckon I can trust Him.''
 Amid the changes In almost every thing that are taking place to-day, is there change, too, in our faith? Do we have, among the professed followers of Jesus, the simple faith and the calm trust that was common 20, 30 or 40 years ago? What is the matter? Is it because we let others do our thinking for us ? We allow the newspaper we take to mould our political opinions; do we let certain leaders in theological thought. who are drifting away from the old moorings. shape, too, our thought about God and our faith in Him? Paul had no doubt about one's personal convictions of truth; ''let every man be fully per suaded in his own mind," he said. I like to think of Paul's faith. There was no note of uncertainty in it from A to z: the whole gamut of his religious belief knew not tremulous tone. sSo run I not as uncertainty; so fight I not as one that beateth the air." Paul did not do anything by halves; he persecuted like madman, and he believed with all his heart. He had foundation for his faith. Designed for 8 lawyer, learning the trade of tent-maker simply because the goats producing the kind of hair used in the making of tents were raised in Cilicia. his native province, and because the son of every Jew, no matter how wealthy the parents, must learn some trade, he was sent to the best theological school of his day, the feet Of Gamaliel in Jeru- salem. Paul thus knew how to weigh evidence and how to test facts. He was g man who never got lost in the common crowd in ability he always stood head and shoulders above them all. He was the leader of the prosecutors against the Christians. Haling smen and women in 1