The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-12-20
THE GLORY OF CRISES
MANS Fart Then, IL Ts stand stall,
While God Fights for Hin--see-
mon by the "Highway aHa
Bywayn Preacher.

Copyright. 1909. BY the A N. Keilogs
Newspaper Company
Chicago. Dec. IA. 1902,
Text: STAND stin. and see the saliva.
ton OF the Lord. The Lord shaH fight
FOR you, ana ye shsn hold your peace
Ell. N:is-A n
Man breads crises. God delights in
them. Man likes to feel that he Is
master of the situation. God wisely
leads the way, sometimes between
the mountain and the deep sea, and
permits the enemy to cut off retrea,
in the rear, SO that His glory can be
manifested and His power realized
in the deliverance wrought. The
words of our text were spoken to the
children of Israel during one of the
most trying crises in their history. 1t
is the third day since they have
fed from the cruel bondage in
Egypt. They are ON the edge of the
desert, and a short distance moro
in their journey will carry them be-
yond the pursuing chariotsl of Pha-
raoh. And when confidence is grow
ing strong in their breasts that they
are safe, suddenly the cloudy pillar
veers to the southwark and leads
them between the mountains and the
sea, and as the afternoon wears away
and the sun sinks to rest the moun-
tains on the right hand cast their
deep shadow of gloom over theslong,
irregular column of helpless men,
women and children, and on the left
hand the roar and splash of the sea
are heard. Suddenly upon their ears
breaks the dull rumble of the on
rushing chariots of the pursuing
Egyptians, and their straining eyes
penetrate the fading light of the
evening, and make out in the dis
lance the advancing enemy. Escape
seems impossible. They are panic
stricken, and in agony of fear they
turn upon Moses and begin to up
braid and abuse him.
Here was trying crisis, indeed!
The vengeful enemy threatening
them in the rear, the walls of rock
and the rolling sea on either hand,
and rebellion in the camp. In the
face CT such awful peril, but, with
eye fixed on that pillar of cloud,
which was even now beginning to
glow with light as the darkness set
tied down around them. Moses
showed sublime confidence in God as
he calmly speaks: Fear not, stand
still, and see the salvation of the
Lord, which He will shew to you to-
day: for the Egyptians whom ye
have seen to-day, we shall see them
again no more forever. The Lord
shall fight for you, and We shall hold
your peace" And then follows the
mighty deliverance of the children of
Israel from their peril, and the ut
ter destruction of the enemy Of God
and Gods people.
And this thrilling bit of history
from the pages of Gods Book has its
lessons for you and for me-Crises
and the glory which shines out OF
them II Gods hand is leading, and
His power controlling. There are
crucial periods in the lives Of every
individual and every nation which
mark the complete breaking away
from old conditions and the entrance
upon larger liberty. The crisis
comes at the point where it is uncer-
tain whether the one who has been
led out will surrender to the pursu-
ing enemy and go back to the land
of bondage and to worse slavery
than ever before, or whether in the
gathering gloom, with the relentless
foe pressing upon him, he will lift
his eyes to the glowing cloudy pillar
of the Divine presence and stand
still and watch for the salvation of
the Lord, which never fails to come.
Watching for the Crisis.-I under
stand that in cases of typhoid fever
the careful physician exercises the
greatest precautions in detecting the
crisis in the disease, for carelessness
and failure. to note the true condi-
ton Of the patient might bring about
a fatal issue. He watches for the APP
proach of the crisis, and so n. prepared
for 1t when it comes. There is. peril
in not discovering the crisis. A
sleeping nurse and a careless doctor
would miss the critical period. There
is peril for you and for me in not
the crisis as it comes to
us in life's experiences. The sleeping
and the careless mind will
make us miss the critical period.
The crisis came in the life of Saul
when at Gilgal he usurped the priest
ly Office and offered burnt offerings
before the Lord. His sleeping con-
science was not sensitive towards
God and it permitted his careless
mind to plunge him heedlessly on to
holy ground. He was not watching.
The crisis came when he little
dreamed II was there. Hardly had
he completed his sacrifice of burnt
Offering when Samuel, Gods prophet
and priest, came. Oh, what an
of difference few moments
make in life, sometimes! SAUL tho
king. by the amounting of the Lord.
with the possibility of perpetuating
a line Of kings through his posterityi
Saul. the rejected one, because he
was not watching for the crisis ard
was not prepared to meet It'll II he
had not allowed his conscience to fall
asleep after he had been called from
the humble occupation of hcrding his
fathers cattle to the responsibility