The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-06

cid age. an old man, and full of years, and
was gathered to his people"
the text. In Hebrews H. 27. "He endured
as seeing Him who is invisible. That ex-
plains the mystery of the burning bush
and this vision of Christ explains how it
was that when your hope seemed to be
consumed and the dearest plan OF yolr
life was burned as in the fire, you rejoiced
David. has learned the secret Of happy liv-
ing when he says in the text, II have set
the Lord always before me; because He is
at my right hand. I shall not be moved"
This vision enabled Moses to surmount
every difficulty. What did he care that
the mountains were on every side, certain
of the Egyptians behind him and the Red
Sea before him. He marched like a CON
queror until the water parted in advance
OF him and dry shod he went over to the
other side. But such pictures az these
have been realized in our day when men
have passed through Red Seas of difficulty
where other men Of the world have gone
down in defeat and all because thew en-.
dured as seeing Him who is invisible"
Third, our Saviour is an illustration. He
always set God before Him. As He came
into the world He said, 10. l come to do
Thy .will;" as He sat on the well curb of
jacobs well, MY meat is to do the will
of Him that sent Me-" as He bowed
in Gethsemane, mot NV will. but Thine
be done" At the beginning of His minis
try, in the midst of it and near to it's close
He gave forth the same music. What a,
life IL was.
"The strong mans strength to toll for
Christ
The fervent preachers skill.
/ sometimes wish. but better far,
To be just what God wills.
No service in itself is small
None great though earth it fill
But that is small that seeks its own.
That great which seeks Gods will"
Fourth. Paul was certainly an ilustra-
ton of the spirit of our text He caught
that vision in the sky as he made his way
20 Damascus and he never forgot it. He
said truthfully, II was not disobedient un-
to the heavenly vision" This made him
insensble to him surroundings. There is
numeration of his trials. III Cor. IL. 24-27,
"Of the Jews five times received ] forty
stripes save one Thrice was beaten with
rods, once was | stoned, thrice | suffered
shipwreck. night and day | have been
IN the deep; in lourneyings often. in perils
of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of
mine own countrymen. in perils by the
heather. in perils in the city, in perils in
the wilderness. in perils in the sea, in
perils among false brethren; in WEAKNESS
and painfulDess, in watchings often, in
hunger and thirst, in hastings often, in
cold and nakedness." And yet here he
says. - have learned with whatsoever
state / am, Herewith to be content. He
was with Paul TO the very end III Timothy
d: 7-S. 81 have fought good fight. | have
finished my course. | have kept the faith:
henceforth there is laid up for me crown
nf righteousness, which the Lord. the
righteous Judge, shall rive me at that day.
and not TO me only, but unto all them
also thu love His appearing"
That was the secret of his victorious
life. and that the secret of his triumphant
death.
If He is before me no path is too hard
for me to travel, since, He walks in every
way in which lie would have me go; nor
shall | ever walk in darkness, for HE is
the light of the world, and in Him is no
darkness at ALL :" nor shall ever be moved.
Have you never noticed the differences
between the second and sixth verses in the
Sixty-second Psalm. The second verse
reads, He only is my rock and my saliva
ton; He is my defense | shall not be
greatly moved" And the sixth is the same
with the exception of one word. "He only
is my rock and salvation; He is my de.
tense; | shall not be moved That word is
greatly There is deep meaning in the
0Tnn omission Of Con GOadenSe haHs has
that the waiting heart should not be much
shaken, that the tottering fence should
not be quite thrown down; the second is
that it shall not be shaken at all.
III.
He. is before me in all experiences,
whether of sorrow or of Joy, but since men
are born unto trouble as the sparks fly up.
ward it is well to remember that He is be-
fore us in suffering. There never has been
a heart ache on the part OF any of His fol-
lowers that the pain did not reach Him,
and He had fellowship with us in our suf-
ferings, as we are privileged to do in His.
He shall be with us even in death
"Since Jesus is mine I'll not fear undress.
ing.
But gladly put off these garments of
clay,
To die in the Lord is covenant blessing,
Since Jesus to glory, thro death led the
way"
w.
1t is an awful thing for a life not to have
the helpful presence of God.
'Oh to have no hope in Jesus.
How dark this world would be-"
One of the ocean dangers that captains
fear almost more than anything else is the
danger OF coming in contact with a "dere'
lict," as a ship abandoned at sea is called.
There are now supposed to he about thirty
of such vessels floating about at the will Of
the currents in the Atlantic waters. They
are without pilot. have neither crew nor
cargo to any port. One of them. which
has a cargo OF mahogany on board and is
level with the waters edge, has been drift
ing about since March. 1891
The peris OF collision at sea have been
reduced since the steamship companies
adopted what is known as the lane routes.
Now the route steamer follows after
leaving New York is fifty miles away from
the route taken by steamers bound west.
One steamer, therefore, is little likely to
meet another and come into collision with
her, But these abandoned ships. not being
under control, and carrying no lights, are a
continual source of danger. The Gulf
Stream carries them northward and then
eastward. and the captains of incoming
ships have warned the Government Of
their whereabouts. One of them has been
cut in two and the two halves are drifting
in company.
There is scarcely any peril of the sea
which is so terrible to the mariner. No
sound viii reveal their nearness. no tenn
perature of air or wave will make known
their approach. Though it carry no guns
a "derelict" is often a more deadly enemy
than man-of-war.
The ship that steers for no port can only
have one influence, and that is to be a
stumbling block in the way to send other
ships to the bottom of the ocean. God
helm rs that not one of ug NAV become n