Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-06-27
SER RMON
Rev. Or. CaIf,last
Subject: Christ Our Refuge A Message
of ConfOrt. Com me ending the Behav-
ior of the Disciples to Those Who Are
Durdened With sorrow.
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OF Comfort. Commencing the HehnY-
ior of the Disciples to Those Who Are
nurdened With sorrow.
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WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Dr Talnc =, in
the following dis. urse, which ne mas SC
tor publication this week, gives prescrip-
ton for all anxiety and worriment and
| illustrates the divine sympathy for all who
are in any kind OF struggle The te is
Matthew xiv, II, And His disciples went
| and told Jesus
An OUTRAGEOUS assassination had just
taken place. 10 appease revengeful
woman King Herod ordered the death of
| that noble, self-sacrih-- prophet. John
the Baptist. The group of the disciples
were thrown into grief and dismay. They
felt themselves utterly defenseless There
was no authority to which they could APP
peal, and yet grief must always find ex-
preston. 1t there be no human ear to
hear 1t. then the agonlzed soul will cry it
aloud to the winds and the woods and the
| waters. But here was an ear that was
willing to listen. There is a tel.cr pa
hos and at the same time a most admir-
able picture in the words of my text
They went and to 4 Jesus" He could
understand all their grief, and He imme-
iiately soothed it Our burdens are not
, more than half SO heavy to carry if another
shoulder is put under the other end of
them. Here we find Christ, His brow
group OF discinle who, with tears ami
violent gesticulati.-ss and wringing OF
hands and outcry OF bereavement, are ex.
pressing their woe. Raphael. with his
skil,tul brush, putting upon the wall of q
palace some scene of sacred story. gave
not SO skillful stroke as when the plain
hand of the evangelist writes, They went
anu told Jesus
The old Goths and Vandals once care
down upon Italy from the north Eu
rope, and they upset the gardens. and
| they broke down the statues and sl Mt
away everything that was good and beau
| tiful. So there is ever ana anon in he
history of all the sons and daughters of
! our race an incurslon OF rough handed
/ troubles that come to plunder and ran
sack and put to the torch all that men
highly prize. There is no cave so deenv
cleft into the mountains as 20 afford us
shelter, and the foot of fieetest courser
cannot bear us beyond the quick pursuit
The arrows they nut to the string ny with
anerring dart until we fall pierced and
stunned.
| | feel that | bring to you most appro-
pirate message. | mean to bind up all
-FOUR grlefs into bundle and set them on
ire with spark from Gods altar. The
| prescription that cured the sorrow of the
| disciples will cure all your heartaches. |
nave read that hen Godfrey and his
| army marched out to capture Jerusalem.
as they came over the hills. at the first
fash of the pinnacles of that beautiful
city. the army that had marched in 81
ence lifted shout that made the earth
;remble. oh, You soldiers of Jesus Christ,
marching n toward heaven, ! would that
:o-day, by some gl- am from the palace of
| Sod's mercy and Gods strength you might
| De lifted into great rejoicing and that as
| The prospect of its peace breaks your
anraptured gaze you might raise one glad
| hosanna to the Lord!
| In ha t,rSt-riaoa / oa,nrnarI ha aba.
vior of those disciples to all burdencd
souls who are unpardoned. There comes
time IN almost every man history when
| ne feels from some source that he has an
srring nature. The thought may not have
such heft as to fell him. 1t may be only
| ike the fash in an evening cloud just after
very hot summer day. One man to get
rid of that impression will go to PRAYER,
another will stimulate himself by ardent
| spirits, and another man will dive deeper
| IN secularities. But sometimes man can
| not get rid of these impressions. The fact
| is. when a man finds ont that his eternity
| is poised upon a perfect uncer .ainty and
| that the next moment his foot may slip.
he must do something violent to make HIM
| self forget where he stands or else fly for
| refuge.
Some of you crouch under a yoke. and
you bite the dust when this moment YOU
might rise up a crowned conqueror. Driven
| and perplexed as You have been by sin. go
and tell Jesus. To relax the grip of death
from your soul and plant your unshacliled
feet upon the golden throne Christ let the
| tortureS of the bloody mount transfiX
Him. With the beam of His own cross
He will break down the door of your dun
! yeon. From the thorns of ms own crown
| He will pick enough gems to make your
| brow blaze with eternal victory. In every
tear on His wet cheek. IN every cash OF
| His side. in every long. blackenlng mark
of laceration from shoulder to shoulder,
| in the grave shatterine. heaven storming
| death groan ! hear Him say, He that
,ometh unto Me | will in nowise east out y
oh. but you say. instead of curing
| my wound you want to make another
wound-namely. that of convictio.-, Have
| YOU never known a surgeon to come and
| find a chronic disease and then with sharp
caustic burn it all out? So the grace OF
| God comes to the old sore of sin 1t has
| long been ranking there: but by divine
| Of convection, "the flesh coming aga'n as
| the flesh of a little child; where sin
! abounded, grace much more aboundeth-
With the ten thousand objectionable sins
of your life, go and tell Jesus.
You will never get rid of your sins in
any other way, and remember that the
| broad invitation which | extend to you
| will not always be extended. King AL
| fred, before modern timepieces were in
vented, used to divide the day into three
parts. eight hours each. and then had three
| wax candles BY the time the first candle
had burned to the socket eight hours had
| gone and when the second candle had
| burned to the socket another eight hours
| had gone and when all the three candles
were gone out then the day had passed
| Oh, that some of us. instead of calculating
| our days and nights and years by any
earthly timepiece, might caIculate then
| by the numbers of opportunities and !Aer
cies which are burning down and burning
out, never to be relighted. lest at last We
be amid the foolish virgins who cried
! Our lamps have gone out
! Again, / commend the behavior of me
| disciples to all who are tempted. | have
| heard men in mid-life say they had never
| been led into temptation. 1t you have
/ not felt temptation. it Is because you have
! not lied to do right. A man hoppled anc
| handcuffed, as long as he lies quietly, doe:
! not test the power of the chain but wheT
| he rises up and with determination re
solves to snap the handcuff or break tn,
| hopple then he finds the power OF the iron
| And there are men who have been for ter
| and twenty and thirty years bound hanC
| and foot by evil habits who have nevel
| felt the power of the chain because they
| have never tried to break it. 1t is very
easy to go on down with the stream ant
| with the wind lying on your oars, but JUS
| turn around and try to go against th'
wind and the tide. and you will find it i
different matter. As long we go dowr
| the current OF our evil habit we seem t.
| get along quIte smoothly, but if after
| while we turn around and h l the othe
| way, toward Christ and pardon ant
| heaven, oh, then how we have to lay Il
I the oars You will have your tempta .io .
| You have one kind, you another you an
| other. not one person escaping.
/ Again, / commend the behavior OF tn
disciples to all those who are abu d ~
! to the slandered and per cuted. Whei
| Herod put John to death, the disciple
knew that their own heads were not safe
! And d, you know that every John has
| Herod? There are persons in life who d
| not wish you vory well. our oisfortune
| are honeycomt to them. Through thej
teeth they hiss at you, mlsinterpret II
| motives, and would be glad to see you up
set. No man gets through life withou
having a pommeling. Some slander come
after you horned and husked and hoofeC
to gore and trample you. and what ar
! you to dog l tell you plainly that all wh'
| serve Christ must suffer persecution. 1t i
the worst sign in the world for you to b
r l.