Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-08-21

Dented himself, and brought again tne
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests
md elders, saying, 6! have sinned IN may
Ihey said, What is that to us? Sec thou
to that. And he cast down the pieces OF
went and hanged himself" You have
seen storm held back by the force of the
wind when suddenly the wind ceased and
the storm would break with all its fury;
This was like Judas. | doubt not in all
his following after Jesus that again and
again he was filed with the desire to be
true to Christ, but the, time passes and ne
suddenly the Master withdraws from him
and all the storm of his awful spirit Of be-
trayal breaks upon him, and Judas hangs
himself. There are some of us who have
been resisting Christ, for this spirit has in
flucnced us. We are persuaded of His di..
vine character. Some day His divine hold
apon us may be broken. 1t would be an
awful thing for us to have, to say, They
have taken away my Lord"
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The text again. Let us now think TO-
gether especially of Chrst's care. There
are some texts very like it in the Bible, al
for example, "Take not Thy holy spirit
from fro me-, hRestore unto me the joy Of
Thy salvation," without God, without
hope in the world" for only those can APP
prccatc Mary's position who have been IN
the same place with her, and the most OF
us have been there, and there have been
times without number when we felt that
all was lost, that our position was hope:
less. Notice first of all the weakness OF
Marys faith If she had but stopped to
consider she would have remembered Ills
word that He must rise again. if in the
IA, IL hon, ,f trio1 W. wpnII for
ment to think of His messages we shall be
delivered from this awful fear, Oh, that
God would strengthen our faith in the
hour of trial. Notice also the strength of
her love. Nothing could keep her away
from Christ; the Jewish soldiers had no
.error for her; she would see His body, for
Me loved that. There are certain things
Chat cause as to lose conscious fellowship
with Christ.
First, physical weakness. Whenever the
body is weak be sure to watch and pray,
for the devil will easily overthrow us at
this time.
Second, weakness of faith, but since faith
is the gift of God it becomes weak only
because of lack Of exercise, and it Is not
necessary that any Of us should fail be-
cause of this.
Third, sin. blessed are the pure in
heart, for they shall see Cod 1t is not
given to great minds alone to see Him, nor
rrc,t hearts to feel Ills nrescncc bnt to
nurr bearis and iris BLESSING is within the
rraanh Of ~ ali
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t''e Nn'' n'i iH;s "oi.a ''''' "o"tJ
nrf anJ u" With ti 1his w rrln cn Ho(Tmnn's
"EIr;st IN tbn f.arIer " .I'brist Loforn pi
late" and every other painting that has
zone to enrich the galleries of the world
Suppose we have Him taken out of music,
the music of the Old Testament would go,
for they sang of the Saviour to come; the
music OF the New Testament would be ban
ishcd. for He is the theme of the Psalms
All the music that is worth singing in the
worlds history would depart from us, for
He il the subject of our uraising. sup
pose He were taken out of literature; the
best books in the world are either written
directly concerning Him. or have been in.
spircd indirectly by His matchless love. If
lie were taken out of preaching there is no
man in all the world that could hold a con.
creation for any length of time. for men
delirhted to hear concerning Christ. and
without Christ the message would be as
sounlinr brass and n tinllling symbol
What ii lie were taken out of our living.
Men who do not call themselves religious
vet believe in Christ and flee to Him again
and again in the hour of temptation and
rial and without Christ they wonld bc
ike n boat upon the sea, udderlcss and
hclplcss. What if lie were taken out of
our homes; how could we live when the
baby goes away and the mothers heart is
breaking.
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van lNhe e!llIt'e, lhH LOST "Htu.
ewes az account OF one liefinas, .he son OF
bIln'tflus' VINO became 'hrlstlan' De
c"uH" Oh tnls ms lather' man Oh large
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nome mere ne meets az iae' HT n WHO
rta"S ms ipF'ulI IN ie'', ana many
promises II lie W'ii give MN out one W"fa
2nt OF ms NYG"oulaty 'hat ne VIII restore !fl
nlm TO tne o'4 Joy ,LHt once was ms. he
promise Is az .T''I MATE anu snuuehy iier'
mas Is III ms nome "HI'n .ilhoul 'Hc one
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L3i". ne ,'hu" hi' lnlnrr "yIhS ana ,he
2! N man "ei'i'lltS MS rttu'n anu ri'ts GUY
wy S"n, .I io' ILL., ne i;r H1u ioTnI
sW3mc'hlhg lha' mace your me peau ii .,
MIAe mas heeh laiul'i Wl'lEou h9t tsiI me
what ! must "u NOW, l1r "iii ,t ~ ulc, anu
nhcohSclooSIy the noV negah' rather, YOU
must peIIeEe lu ana p'hol", thG MoIa
!,"d gone rom MN; ne haI l'arteu With'
IT., ana ne s'1mHs SEnnc,"e'q A. IN ,ne pres,
child. They are seated one day in the
garden with their hearts overlooking with
gratitude when the Wlie suggests that tney
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