Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-12-19

cross OF Jesus Christ is found in his
willingness to stand and await the
command of the Divine Captain. He
knows when the crisis is on. He sees
with clear vision The dreadful armed
hosts at your rear threatening you
with destruction. His Judgment is
unerring. He knows exactly the best
time to strike. Stand fast, wait on
your Captain, oh, soul. David prays:
Let none that wait on Thee be
ashamed" And In all the trying
times of David's life he never was
ashamed when he waited on the
Lord. He met the crises by waiting.
And in his psalms of praise and
thanksgiving he exclaims over and
over again: ''Wait on the Lord; be
Of good courage, and He shall
strengthen thine heart: wait, / say,
on the Lord"
Have you failed when the crisis has
come into your life? Tt is almost GER
tain to have been because you did not
wait. Some thing must be done, you
thought. That was what the terrified
children of Israel thought. They
wanted to do something, they did not
know what, but they felt it strong
upon them that something must be
done, and that right quickly. Common
sense told them that action must be
taken at once in the face of the awful
crisis. They rallied on Moses and
counted him for fool But. oh. glor-
ious victory in the Lord; he>knew that
God would not fail him, and that the
thing for him to do until God spoke
was to stand fast, to wait. The thing
to do always when darkness is about
you, and you know not which way to
turn, is to walt. 1t is folly to take
action, to move, until God says: go
forward" Then the strong east wind
of His providences will drive a chan
mel through the deepest waters ever
to be met with, and you will pass over
to the other side dry shod and your
enemies will be swallowed in the re-
turning waters. Oh. it is glorious to
wait on the Lord! You have to do it
if you are going to successfully meet
the crises of life. Don't move until you
hear Gods voice speak. He will not
let your ear be deceived if you wait
on Him. You will know when the
command. to go forward comes. If
you are uncertain as to the voice and
your heart is eager to do Gods will,
you may always be sure that it is not
Gods voice that is speaking to you.
But if you are waiting in faith on Him,
faiths ear will hear the blessed voice
| Of God, the heart will leap with respon-
sive JOY and the feet eagerly move in
the direction which God indicates, even
if it is right into the black waters of
a Red Sea.
The Glory of Crises.-And right at
this point will be realized the glory
of the crisis in your life. AS you take
the step forward at His command, God
will divide the waters and the way will
be made plain. There is Divine glory
in every crisis in which God has His
way and the soul waits on Him. And
the glory is realized at the point of
obedience. Patient waiting and
| prompt Obedience will make every
| dark crisis brilliant with the glory of
God. There was the magnificent glory
of the King of Egypt in his palaces,
and his temples, and his pyramids, and
| his great and powerful country. There
was the commanding glory of his great
army, as it came laundering along;
the glittering chariots flashing in the
sunshine, the richly-caparisoned
horses skimming the ground as they
rushed onward; the strong warriors
equipped for the battle riding conf
| IDENTIFY. That seemed to be all the
glory there was that day to the
affrighted Israelites. Even the maies-
tic cloudy pillar of Gods presence lost
its glory in their eyes. and to be slaves
to the Egyptians was better than dy-
ing with God in the Wilderness But
| God never lets the soul that is follow
| ing Him die in the wilderness. Just at
| the point where the soul feels that
death is upon it. God sends deliver
ance and the glory that had appeared
in the ranks of the enemy disappears
beneath the waves of Gods judgment,
and His glory bursts forth from the
| issues of the crisis which the soul had
just been facing. And the soul does
not know what the glory of. the Lord
is until it has seen it flash out of the
crisis to which He has led, and over
which He has control.
| There are little crises and big crises
| in every life. The little ones are met
with every day. The big ones come
when some important issue is al stake.
The little ones if successfully met with
| prepare one to meet the big ones when
| they come. The sleeping conscience
| and careless mind that miss the glory
in the little crises pave the way for de-
| feat in the Important crises when they
come. 1t is magnificent to be-
hold a brave soul like Moses meet
ing the mighty crisis. To see him
stand calmly in the face of panic and
| opposition and ridicule and bitter de-
| nupciation, and patiently wait for God.
He couldn't tell how God was going to
send deliverance. He could not answer
| the forcible and plausible arguments