The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-16

be filled with all the fulness of God" The
story is told OF a man who was confined in
prison cell. Being an artist his paints
and brushes were given him. and on the
wall of the cell he painted the picture of
the cross with Christ on it. Over the cross
he painted the word love. at the top and
the bottom of the cross the words height
and depth, at the cross beams the words
length and breadth. and indeed, it is true
that no one ever quite appreciates what the
love of God is TO him until he has this pic
tu-e of the cross clearly in mind.
Have you ever noticed the differences in
the ending of the lives of Abraham and
Lot! Lots story Is written in Genesis 10.
Ii Is an awful picture. His wife is taken
from HIM. his daughters are disgraced and
he is in despair, while with Abraham the
picture is exactly the opposite. and to my
mind is most beautiful. Genesis %: rs,
And these are the days of the years Of
Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred
three-seore and fifteen years Then Abra-
ham gave up the ghost and died in a good
lsold age. an old man. and full of years, and
was gathered to his people"
Second. Moses was an illustration Of
the text. In Hebrews IL; q, 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 your
I 4Alc was huiuSQ rs III the IRE, YOU TSJOlCeu.
DAVID has learned the secret of happy liv-
| ing when he says in the text. Il have set
the Lord always before me- because He is
at my right hand. | shall not be moved d"
| 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 CON
qI&ror until the water parted in advance
| of him and dry shod he went over to the
other side. But such pictures as these
have been realized in our day when men
nave passed through Red Seas of difficulty
where other men of the world have gone
down in defeat and all because they 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 / 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, Not My will but Thine
be done" At the beginning of His minis
try, in the midst of it and near to its close
He gave forth the same music. What
life it was.
''The strong mans strength to toll for
Christ,
The fervent preachers skill.
l 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 illustra-
ton OF the spirit of our text. lie caught
that vision III the sky as he made his way
to Damascus and he never forgot it. He
said truthfully II was not disobedient un,
to the heavenly vision" This made him
insensible to him surroundings. There is
really nothing more pathetic than his re-
Enumeration OF his trials IL Cor II: 24-27,
OF the Jews five times received ! forty
| stripes save one Thrice was | beaten with
rods once was ] stoned thrice / suffered
| shipwreck a night and a day | have been
in the deep; in journeyings often. in nerils
| 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 peris IN the sea. in
| perils among false brethren; in WEAKNESS
| and palntulness, in watchngs often, in
| hunger and thirst. in hastings often. in
cold and nakedness" And yet here he
says, u have learned with whatsoever
state ] am, Herewith to be content. He
was with Paul to the very end. II Timothy
4: 7s. u have fought good fight, have
| finished my course, | have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
/ Of Righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, shall give me at that day.
and not to me only. but unto all them
also that love His asaAaring.'
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 He would have me go: nor
shall | ever walk in darkness, for He IS
the light of the world and i'll Him is no
glafruacQ uf all - shall / l,a tf,frad
Have yon never noticed the differences
| between the second and sixth verses in the
| Si1tv-secoud Psalm The second verse
reads, He only IS my rock and my saliva
ton: He Is my defense; / shall not be
greatlr 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
omission of greatly Confidence has
grown evidently In the first. hope was
that the waiting heart should not be much
shaken, that the lettering fence should
not be quite thrown down. the second is
that it shall not be shaken at all.
III
lie. is before me in all experiences,
whether Of sorrow or Of JOY, but since men
are born unto trouble as the sparks fy up
ward it is well to remember that He is be-
forc us in suffering. There never has been
heart ache on the part Of any of His fol-
lowers that the pain did not reach Him,
and lie had fellowship with us in our spf
ferings. as we are privileged to do in His
He shall be with us even in death.
Since Jesus is mine III not fear undross-
ing,
But gladly put off these garments of
clay,
To die in the Lord is a covenant blessing,
Since Jesus to glory, thro' death led the
way"
".
It is an awful thing for life not to have
the helpful presence Of God.
ooh to have no hope in Jesus,
How dark TINS 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.