New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-17

Reverently IL.
for our comfort more than anything else We IN
Jesus Christ have all things in common with God
and is iSais~ mine in christ ali am and nave
His IN Christ and that n Is the actgat b eu nt
Of e an and h the to Which hs
the feiloWship Se Of sentiment is not the fellowship
Of tO ward certain end it is both
profoundly deeper 1t is the fellowship OF life
mental not to be omitted: but this afternoon
want to speak of what this Fellowship means. sqf
thought in the word fellowship the word Com
munion." so that we will understand our text as
declaring Our communion is with the Father
THE TRUE FRIEND.
Now need not stay very long to remind you
and beautiful words in our language and am
afraid, word very. very sadly abused. There
deemed from abuse and sanctiied to their proper
ana se those t b Is you'd
There is great difference between aequant-
for no ali my but
a many friends in the b T0rd nor have
2Hs ey nG has many Of them on e
Book; Il you want the profoundest definition of
friendship; "A friend loveth." that is the essence;
loeeth at all times the whole truth is stated.
derstand what friendship with God means
So far as have ever read, there three quo
me What human friendship IS than TO any other
tbs thew 'H are reG bs o5 ann not saying
acquainted with all literature; but the three quo
THshp let gye just s by
M ca d daad sgo in and PSq
casually. as It seems to me- in the midst of the
oh. the comfort the inexpressible comfort. of
feeling safe with person. having neither to weigh
thoughts nor measure words, but pour them all
right rig out Just as they are 9hafr and grain to-
sift them. keep what is worth Keeping and then
with the breath of Kindness blow the rest awayl''
Whom y feel pereeyy see h5@ WITH
eyery e that is IN your hesr the mean thing
the confidence? There are very. very few; but
nas Is frie1dship Now let Us climb Our fe
brought into cuch relationship with God that if we
union with US we tosether fua that very idea Of
friendship can feel perfectly safe when | have
door against all other than my Father. say
" ey ons hh e Con never y %sn to hear
from you. and that is word that is of the nature
that Your will s resigned to His when your heart
bsrdIy bV Won e Snn anu you MIX h ne Is . deang
TO tell Him so My first point is that in fellowship
with God as friendship we may dare to say every
I remember mb once saying to my own people in
forgotten and yet IL Is quite true: IF OF
be very probable to deal with me in disciplinary
committee or report me TO- some other committee
that 70 you to-day. why. I wouldn't tell some Of
not for he world 70 reo a9Oqt my
paper in the country would have It. and | would
long as il is the honest doubt Of my heart Perfect
honesty is the outcome OF perfect fellowship.
JESUS AND PETER
But let take a second quotation and this is
one from whom one you'd not very often be in
it stands and It is gem on this matter Of friend
ship. It was Goethe who wrote these words
For the FIRST time / carried on conversation;
for the first time was the inmOst sense Sc, OF my
comprehensive. from another's mouth. What had
saa f6 eiRa S aa to to what
Nov 90 you setGa the value Of thS6g DC you
your friend. you not only feel safe. and say every
Ses ns nd as thing Know as yoa o sy Il
you have imperfectly said. you know that the
ing In o your NE and o struggling to HTq I'd utSera9e
friendship at it's deerest is that Your friend re-
peats it 20 you better than you said Il. proving
he has sppresiafed the thing unspoken and yet
An Illustration: Said Peter to Jesus Where are
you COINS LoTdg' Where ] 80 thou canst not
you cannot come yet; you cannot follow me now"
Now listen to Peter. Here Is Peters best thing
was noble thing he said TO Christ He said:
Yoa say 'o Sst ~ss PRIDE Nothing 0 Of Se
XIII die for as Ghere is his best Sns Now
what will Jesus say to him? II you get rid Of
wiG SEQ What lilo saws. but N YOU do not get MA
OF them you won't see what He says. Johns Cos
II You will strike out GhaptsIE, xiv and read right
Chapter xiv: the two really form the story Of one
conversation of Jesus with His disciples. and you
terrupt Him Peter is the first. and then Thomas.
The fourteenth chapter OF John does not begin a
new discourse; but II is part OF the other
will die with thee and Jesus looked at him and
said wilt thou die with me? Verify. say unto
deny me thrice Let not your heart be troubled;
you believe in God believe also in me: and where
go. you shall come I am going to prepare
place for you. and II prepare place ! will have
is in you" That is exactly what Christ meant.
oh" but you say. 1.-The pronoun in the thirteenth
piu Tts He said Thou shalt deny ms singular
6Tt bea n4v dor Smrs We do5 T mE5
remember another case? Simon. Satan hath de-
baTe p pG for singular 81 AND you Won't
put Peter out of the plural there. will you? and
case either He says. Peter, You are going to
deny me- but don't let your heart be troubled any
everything that lies in you of evil. Peter. you
y y6nk w K9u day. 10Y TonT IS 6G
between your aspiration and its realization lies
contemplate But. Peter do not let your heart be
viii tan take hod Of and 1e break h viii
fulhl your aspiration; you shall follow me; you
Dear a Young Believer tell you're Father the deep
est thing an n your you heart tell Him nm that S you are
that tell Him o snd 80 surely os you do it IN the
will say back to you the thing you have said TO
Him better than you said it to Him Il may not OF
always be quite pleasant
PERFECT COMMUNION
Just once again viii you allow a quotation va
will come down the ladder again to get our footing
Dryden. in that poem. 'All for Love- Take these
few words:
I'VE were so mixed
As meeting streams. both TO ourselves were lost
But from the same; for he was l. / he"
That ls the very ultimate perfection of friendship.
this word Fellowship" give TO God. What IS it
has given Himself to me- Hear me- Sever aS
God gives s to me every day What is It God gives