The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-04-15
The Bee Buzz.
THE FAITH OF OUR MODERN PROPHETS
SELDOM GETS THEM INTO TROUBLE.

SELDOM GETS THEM INTO TROUBLE.
why is it that some men can never be
contented and comfortable and let we'll
enough alone? Now there was Noah !!
Why should he 60 off preaching right
eousness to those corrupt autedeluvians ?
Why should he neglect his own family,
as no doubt he did, to try to save that
worthless set from destruction? Had he
attended strictly to his own business per-
haps Ham might have turned out a bet
ter son. AS it was he saved only his own
family, and but few OF his descendants
have ever accomplished much good in
this world. Why didn't he let them
alone, that wicked crowd of heather
Couldn't the Almighty manage that
without his makir g himself disagreeable
and uncomfortable? To be sure he had
faith in God, and perhaps he couldn't
shake it off; but, couldn't he manage to
have faith and do anything to condemn
the world by it?
Then there was Abraha NJ! A good
man no doubt, but why should he desert
his home and people to wander in q
strange land making trouble everywhere
he went by his peculiar ideas about
God and posterity, 1t is tradition that
his father made images and idols to sell
and that Abram because of his strange
call and strange faith really injured his
fathers business!
Why didn't he keep his faith in Jehovah
TO himself and be content and comfort
able?
Moses was another of the same sort
His faith got him into trouble very soon.
Might have had nice, quiet, comfortable,
royal good time in Egypt, but he chos
rather to suffer with those miserable de-
graded Hebrews, slaves in the land of
Goshen! And there is Elijah.
And so it was with all that list of so
called WORTHLESS spoken of in the Epistle
to the Hebrews! What an imprudent
set they must have been! Why didn't
they mind their own business and let
well-enough alone, keep their faith and
peculiar ideas to themselves and avoid
all Offence against their neighbors /!
What right had they to rebuke other
peoples sins and make troublel No
wonder they were stoned, sawed up, cut
up, and done up in every horrible way,
they might have known they would be,
for wicked people do not like to hear the
truth told, neither do they want to be
made to feel that others are better than
they arel
But the strongest of all is the expert
ence of the Son of God! That Jesus, the
Amounted of God, the Saviour of the
world should get into trouble with the
authorities of His own Church, and be
the cause of so much controversy, con-
fict, hatred, division and persecution
He even said Himse If: ''Think not that
came to send peace on earth, l came
not to send peace but sword" Why
did not the Lord manage so as to keep
on the right side of those opinionated,
hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees?
Why didn't He use diplomacy and avoid
open rupture with Herod and try to con-
vince and persuade PLATE? How He
talked about those men who were in
places OF authority in Israel! How
severe He was against the crafty wicked.
ness of men! With what resistless fury
of indignation He cleaned His Fathers
House of those profane money-changers
and sordid tradersi How He hated the
political corruptions which degraded the
people of God! Could not the Lord
save the world without meddling with
such things?
And then of course the Apostles fol.
lowed His personal example! They wers
so imprudent in rebuking the sins of th,
world 1t makes one shudder in thes,
day 5 to think how boldly they came il
| conflict with the prejudices, falls,
theories, evil persistent wickedness of thl
| world st Paul was rash enough to de
clare that, .sAll that win live godIy ii
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
There are, even now, few peopl,
who believe that the sinful world stil
hates real goodness and that in the ma
ture Of the case the good fight Of faith Ii
God must still go on.
But we have learned to be very pru