Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-06-16

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Hermon and lash Gennesaret into foam
and into agony, but it could not hurt
them. But here is another man who
starts out in worldly enterprise. and he
depends upon the uncertainties of this
life. He has no God 10 help him. After
awhile the storm comes. losses off the
masts of the ship; he puts out his life
boat and the longhoat; the sheriff and
the auctioneer try 10 help him on. they
can't help him of; he must go down; no
Christ in the ship. Your life will be
made up of sunshine and shadows. There
may be in il arctic blasts or tropical tor
nadoes; know not what is before YOU,
but | know if YOU have Christ with ven
all shall be we'll. You may seem to get
along without the religion of Christ while
everything goes smoothly, hut after
awhile, when sorrow hovers over the
soul, when the waves of trial dash clear
over the hurricane deck and the decks
are crowded with pi~ltical disasters oh.
what would You do then without Christ
in the shipP Take God for your portion.
God for your guide, God for your help;
then all is we'll; all is well for time: all
shah be well forever. Blessed is that
man who puts in the Lord his trust He
shall never be confoundcd
But my subject also imprcsses uc with
the fact that when people start TO follow
Christ they must not expect smooth sail
ing. These disciples got into the small
boats, and ! have no doubt they said:
What beautiful day this is! How de-
lightful is sailing in this boat, And as
for the waves under the keel Of the boat,
why, they only make the motion of our
little boat the more delightful" But
when the winds swept down and the sea
was tossed into wrath, then they found
that following Christ was not smooth
sailing. So you have found it; SO | have
found it.
Did you ever notice the end of the life
of the apostle of Jesus Christ? You
would say II ever men ought 10 have had
smooth life, smooth departure, then
those men, the disciples Of Jesus Christ,
ought to have had such a departure and
such life. st. James lost his head st
Philip was hung 10 death on pillar. st.
Matthew had his life dashed out with a
halhert, st. Mark was dragged to death
through the streets. st. James the I.rss
was beaten to death with fuller's club.
st, Thomas was struck through with Il
spear They did not find following Christ
smooth sailing. Oh, how they were all
tossed In the tempest! John IIuss in a
fire; Hugh McKail in the hour Of mar
tyrdom; the Albigenses, the Waldcnscs.
the Scotch Covcnantcrs-- did they find il
smooth sailing? But why go into history
when we can draw from our own mem
DRY illustrations of the truth of what
say2
Not Always Smooth Sailing.
young man in a store trying to serve
God, while his employer SCOTS Mt Chris
tianity; the young men in the same
store, antagonistic to the Christian re-
ligion, teasing him, tormenting him about
his religion, trying to get him mad. They
succeed in getting him mad aud say.
You're a pretty Christian!' Does that
young man find IL smooth sailing when he
tries to follow Christi Or you remember
a Christian girl. Her fnthcr dcspises tho
Christian religion her mother dcspises
the Christian religion; her brothers and
sisters scoff mt the Christian religion. She
can hardly find quiet place in which to
say her prayers Did She find il 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 il in one
way, you viii get il in another way. But
be not dishcartencd, Take courage. You
are in glorious compauionship. God
will see you through all trials, and he
will deliver you
My subject aIso imprcsscs me with the
fact that good people sometimes get
frightened. In the tones Of these dis
ciplcs as they rushed into the back part
Of the boat | find they are frightened al
most to death. They say. Master car
est thou not that we pcrishf" They had
no reason 10 be frightened, for Christ
was in the boat suppose if we had
been there wc would have been Just as
much nffrighted. Perhaps more In all
ages very good people get very much
affrlghtcd, 1T is often So in 4ur day. and
men say: Why. look ut tn, bad lectures.
look at the various errors going over the
church of God. We are going to founder
The church is going 10 perish She is
going down" Oh. how many good pco-
pie are ohrightcd by iniquity in our day
and think the church of Jesus Christ is
going to be oyerthrown and are just as
much aifrighted as were the disciples IL
my text, Don't worry, don't fret. as
though iniquity were going 10 triumph
over righteousness. 4 lion goes into IA
cavern to sleep. He lies down with his
shaggy name covering the paws Mean
while the spiders spin web across the
mouth Of the cavern and say, We have
captured him" GosSancr thread after
gossamcr thread until the whol" front ~
The cavern is covered with the spiders
web and the spiders sHy, The Ion is
done; the lion is fast" After awhile
the lion has got through sleeping He
rouses himself. he shakes his manc, he
walks ont into the sunlight He docs not
even know the spiders ycb is spun, and
with his roar be shakes the mountain. So
men come spinning their sophstrios and
skepticism about Jesus Christ He seems
10 be- sleeping. They say, we have
captured the Lord he viii never come
forth again upon the nation. Christ is
overcome forever. His religion will never
nuke amy conquest among men" but
after awhile the Lion Of tho tribe Of .Iu-
dab win rouse himself and come forth 10
shake nightly the nations. What's a
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