The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-11

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~. alone was left.
Elijah was very human in this feel
ing and experience. He felt utterly
undone when he thought he stood
man sympathy and companionship,
and when God assured him that there
were seven thousand in Israel who
stood with him in their loyalty to
God he was comforted. Sometimes
tempted and buffeted man feels such
a sense of loneliness in his expe-
riences that he imagines that he
dwells apart in a world of misery all
his own and that there are none who
stand with him or can understand
the peculiar nature of his trouble.
But God comes when the soul is sick
and discouraged and longing for
death and whispers comfortingly:
'Thou are not alone in thy expe-
rience, oh, soul, for there hath no
temptation taken you but such as is
common to man." And then point
ing to His victorious and glorified
Son He goes on to say, ''for ye have
not an high priest which cannot be
tuched with feeling of your in
frmities;. but was in all points
tempted like as We are, yet without
sin"
It is true that misery likes COM
pany, but not misery to make it's
own misery more miserable, but COM
panionship in suffering and tempta-
tion, which IS reassuring and help
full because it is able to point the
way out. The wife and children of
Bunyan's Christian found not little
encouragement and comfort in the
thought that the trials and difficult
ties which beset them on their jour-
ney to the celestial city were SINH
lar to those through which Christian
had passed. 1t is comforting to know
that other saints have travelled over
the same pathway which our feet are
treading, have stumbled over the
same hard, rocky ground. have met
with the same pitfalls and snares by
the roadside, have been drawn off
into the same bypaths of alluring
sins. We are glad that in the history
of the human race which God has
written for our contemplation He has
included mans failures as we'll as his
victories. And by the way, this is
one of the sure evidences that God
is the author of the Bible, for where
man covers up and excuses God
boldly tells the truth and points the
moral. The hundred years which
Noah faithfully spent in building the
ark for the Lord were not sufficient
to make God forget that once Noah
got drunk. All the faithfulness and
loyalty of David, "the man after
Gods own heart" could not stay the
finger of GOD as he recorded the
temptation, the sin, the evil conse-
quences and the repentance of King
David.
IL Gods Word if it would dispel
its sense of loneliness in it's trying
experience. Instead of walking in
solitude it would hear the tread of
other feet, it would feel the presence
of other tried souls, it would see that
the temptation against which it's feet
had stumbled bore the marks of other
feet, it would learn that no tempta-
tion had overtaken it which was not
common to man. Yea, it would learn
more. 1t would find that the print
of the sSaviour's feet had pressed
every inch of the way of the expe-
stumbling rocks, the pitfalls and the
enticing bypaths of sin occurred, fill
ing the pathway with danger, His
strong, unfailing feet led safely
around and over the perilous places
When Columbus had pushed the
prov of his boat across the unknown
sea until the green shores of the new
continent opened to his vision others
were quick and bold to attempt the
voyage, ard soon the sea was filled
with the westward moving ships
When Stanley penetrated the heart
of Africa and at last emerged on the
other side of the continent Others
were ready to follow. and the darl
continent is fast filling with the
white mans feet as he follows the
pathway blazed by the intrepid ex
plorer. When Jesus Christ journeyed
over the pathway of life which wa
filled with the wrecks and failures Of
human life, He blazed a new way
which avoided every pitfal of sin
every bypath, every stumbling blocl
set by Satan, so that Paul could writ,
for you and, FOR me Of Gods faithful
ness, and declare that God would mo-
suffer us to. be tempted above tha'
we are able, but would with tn.
temptation also make way Of es
cape.
II AvING positively assured thesou
that it is not alone in thl
kind nor degree Of temptation whicl
assails It. Paul goes On 70 speak q