St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
I HE GLORY OF CRISES
1t Is Manifested in the Deliverances
Which God Sends.

Which God Sends.
nan's Part, Then, IL To Stand still,
While God Fights for Him-Ser-
mon by the "HiEhway and
Byway" Preacher.
tCopyright, 1902, by the A. N. Kellogg
Newspaper Company
~ Chicago, 1902.
Text: STAND still, and see the saliva
tion of the Lord. The Lord shall fight
Tor you, and We shall hold your peace. -
Tx. ABBA
Man breads crises. God delights in
them. Man likes to feel that he is
master of the situation God wisely
leads the way, sometimes between
The mountain and the deep sea, and
permits the enemy to cut off retreat
an the rear, so that His glory car: be
manifested and His power realized
In the deliverance wrought. The
words of our text were spoken to the
children of Israel during one of the
most trying crises in their history. It
is the third day since they 4 have
fled from the cruel bondage IN
Egypt. They are on the edge Of the
desert, and a short distance moro
In their Journey will carry them be-
You'd the pursuing chariots of Pha-
raoh. And when confidence is grow
ing strong in their breasts that they
are safe, suddenly the cloudy pillar
veers to the southwark and leads
them between the mountains and the
sea, and as the aftern Don wears away
and the sun sinks to rest the noun.
tains on the right hand cast thei,
deep shadow of gloom over the long
irregular column of helpless mer
women and children, and on the left
hand the roar and splash of the sea
are heard. Suddenly upon their ears
breaks the dull rumble of the on
rushing chariots ssof the pursuing
Egyptians, and their straining eyes
penetrate the fading light of the
evening, and make out in the dis
lance the advancing enemy. Escape
seems impossible. They are panic
stricken, and in agony of fear they
turn upon Moses and begin to up
braid and abuse him. y
The "I-told-you-so" man was not
unknown even at that early day, anc
forthwith begins to remind Moses
that he had predicted this very thing
back in the land of Egypt. "Bette1
that they had been left to slave fol
the Egyptians than for him to have
brought them out into the wilderness
to perish, We're there no graves II
Egypt?'' Here was a crisis, indeed!
The vengeful enemy threatening
them in the rear, the walls of rock
and the rolling sea on either hand
and rebellion in the camp. In The
face Of such gawful peril, but, witt
eye fixed on that pillar of cloud
which was even now beginning t.
glow with light as the darkness set
tied down around them, Moses
showed sublime confidence in God al
he calmly speaks: Fear not, stant
still, and see the salvation of tn.
Lord, which He will shew to you to
day: for the Egyptians whom W
have seen to-day, We shall see then
again no more forever. The LORD
shall fight for you, and We shall hoic
your peace" And then follows thu
mighty deliverance of the children Of
Israel from their peril, and the ut
ter destruction of the enemy of Goo
and Gods people.
And this thrilling bit of history
from the pages of Gods Book has its
lessons for you and for me-Crises
and the glory which shines out o.
them if Gods hand is leading, ant
His power controlling. There art
crucial periods in the lives of every
individual and every nation which
mark the complete breaking away
from old conditions and the entrance
upon a new and larger liberty. Thi.
is always true when God is leading
The crisis comes midway betweer
! the land of bondage, which lies be
hind, and the land Of promise, lying
Just ahead. The Lord is always try
ing to push His children out of tht
country of bondage into the land Of
larger liberty in Him. The crisis
comes at the point where it is uncer
tain whether the one who has beer
led out will surrender to the pursu
ing enemy and go back to the lant
Of bondage and to a worse slavery
than ever before, or whether in tht
gathering gloom, with the RELENTLESS;
foe pressing upon him, he will lif1
his eyes to the glowing cloudy pillar
of the Divine presence and stant
still and watch for the salvation o:
the Lord, which never fails to come.
Watching for the Crisis.-I under
stand that in cases OF. typhoid fever
the careful physician exercises the
greatest precautions in detecting thu
crisis in the disease, for carelessnes:
ana failure to note the true condi
ton of the patient might bring abou7
fatal issue. He watches for the ap
proach of the crisis, and so is,preparet
for it when it comes. There, is peri
in not discovering the crisis. 4
sleeping nurse and a careless doctor
would miss the critical period. There
IL peril for you and for me in. no
discovering the crisis as it comes t.,
us in life's experiences. The sleeping
conscience and the careless mind will
make us miss the critical period.
The crisis came in the life of Sau
when at Gilgal he usurped the priest
" Office and offered burnt offerings
before the Lord. His sleeping con
science was not sensitive toward:
God and it permitted his careles:
mind to plunge him heedlessly on t.
holy ground. He was not watching