The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-14


to follow Christi Or you remember a
Christian girl. Her father despises the
Christian religion: her mother despises
the Christian religion; her brothers and
sisters seoff at the Christian religion: sh.
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? Oh. no! All who would live the
life of the Christian religion must suffer
persecution. If you do not find it in one
way you will get it in another way. But
be not disheartened! Take courage. You
are in glorious companionship. God
will see you through all trials, and He
will deliver you.
My subject also impresses me with the
fact that good people sometimes get fright
ened. In the tones of these disciples as
they rushed into the back part of the
boat find they are frightened almost to
death. They say, Master, carest Thou
not that we perish?" They had no reason
to be frightened, for Christ was in the
boat. ! suppose if we had been there we
would have been just as much affrighted.
Perhaps more. In all ages very good peo-
pie get very much. affrighted. 1t is often
so in our day, and men say: "Why lool,
at the bad lectures. Look at the varions
errors going over the church of God We
are going TO founder The church is going
to perish. She is going down" Oh. how
many good people are affrgh.ed by in
iquity in our day and think the church of
Jesus Christ is going to be overthrown.
and are just as much affrighted as were
the disciples of my text, 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 dowI
with his shaggy name covering the paws.
Meanwhile the spiders spin web across
the mouth of the cavern and say. I'VE
have captured him" Gossamer thread
after gossamer thread until the whole
front OF the cavern is covered with the
spiders web, and the spiders say, THE
hon is done; the lion is fast" After
awhile the lion has got through sleeping
He rouses himself, he shakes his name, he
walks out into the sunlight. He does not
even know the spiders web is spun, and
with his roar he shakes the mountain. So
men come spinning their sophstriec and
skepticism about Jesus Christ; He seems
to be sleeping. They say: I'VE have cap
tured the Lord He will never come forth
again upon the nation. Christ is overcome
forever. His religion will never make any
conquest among men" But after awhile
the Lion of the tribe of Judah will rouse
Himself and come forth to shake nightly
the nations. What's spiders web to the
aroused lion? Give truth and error a fair
grapple. and truth will come off victor.
DO not be afraid OF great revival Oh.
that such gales from heaven might sweep
through all our churches! Oh, for such
days as Richard Baxter saw in England
and Robert McCheyne saw in Dundee
oh, for such days as jonathan Edwards
saw in Northampton ] have often heard
my father tell of the fact that i'm the early
part OF this century there broke out re-
vival at Somerville, N j., and some peo.
pie were. very much agitated about it.
They said: you are going to bring too
many people into the church at once"
and they sent down to New Brunswick
to get John Livingston to stop the re.
vlval. Well. there was no better soul in
all the world than John Livingston. He
went and looked at the revival They
wanted him TO stop it. He stood in thS
pulpit on the Lords day and looked over
the solemn auditory and he said. This,
brethren. is in reality the work of God
Beware how you stop it, And he was
an old man. leaning heavily ON his staff
very old man, And he, lifted that staff
and took hold of the small end of the staff
and began to let it fall slowly through be
tween the finger and the thumb. and he
SAID: "Oh, thou impenitent thou art fall
ing now-falling from life. falling away
from peace and heaven. falling as certain
ly as that cane IS falling through my hand
falling, certainly. though perhaps falling
slowly" And the cane kept on falling
through John Livingston's hand. The re
ligious emotion in the audience was over
powerng, and men saw type of their
doom as the cane kept falling and falling,
uiill lUt kllOD OI Illt cane STRUCK MT.
Livingston's hand, and he casped it stout
ly and said: But the grace of God can
stop YOU as ! stopped that cane and
then there was gladness all through the
house at the tact of pardon and peace and
salvation. Well" said the people after
the service, Il guess you had better send
Livingston home: He is making the re-
vival worse" Oh, for gales from heaven
to sweep all the continents The danger
OF the church of God is not in revivals.
! learn once more from this subject that
Christ can hush a tempest. it did seem
as Il everything must 90 to ruin. The dis
clples had given up the idea of managing
the ship; the crew were entirely demoral-
ized; yet Christ rises and the storm
crouches at His feet, Oh yes. Christ can
hush the tempest! You have had trouble
Perhaps it was the little child taken away
from you-the sweetest child of the house
mold, the one who asked the most curious
questions, and stood around you with the
greatest fondness, and the spade cut down
through your bleeding heart Perhaps it
was an only son, and your neart has ever
since been like desolated castle. the owls
OF the night hooting among the fallen
arches and the crumbhne stairways. Or
all your property swept away, YOU said:
had so much bank stock; | had so many
government securities; ! had so many
houses; had so many faIms-all gone
al gone Why, sir. all the storms that
NNei tidIpltu NllH lHelT lnunuerH, all lnc
shipwrecks have not been worse than this
TO you. Yet you have not been complete
" overthrown. Why? Christ says "I
have that little one in My keeping. ] can
care for him as well as you ,an, better
than you can. o bereaved mother" Hush
ing the tempest. When your property went
away away, God said There are treasures
in heaven in banks that never break. -
Jesus hushng the tempest.
There Is one storm into which we will
all have to run. The moment when we
let go of this world, and try to take hold
of the next we will want all the grace pos
sible, Honder | see a Christian soul rock
ing 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 shrek OF the 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 and peaceful; all is well. BY the
flash of the storm you see the harbor Just
ahead, and you are making for that har
Dor. All shall be well Jesus being our
pilot.
Into the harbor OF heaven now we glide;
We're home at last home at last
Softly we drift on the bright, silvry tide;
We're home at last.
Glory to God, all our dangers are DER;
We stand secure on the glorihed shore!
Glory to God, we will shout evermore,
We're home at last.