Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-04-08

alone was left
Elijah was very human in this feel
lng and experience. He felt utterly
undone when he thought he stood
alone The human heart Graves hui
man sympathy and companionship.
ana when God assured him that there
were seven thousand in Israel who
stood with him i'm their LOYALTY to
God he was comforted. Sometimes
tempted and buffeted man feels such
sense of loneliness in his expe-
Fences that he imagines that he
uWe's apart in world Of misery ali
his own and ,hat there are none who
stand with him or can understand
the peculiar nature of his trouble
But God comes when the soul is sick
ana discouraged and longing for
death and whispers comfortirplv:
"Ihou 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 We have
not an high priest which cannot be
touched with n feeling of your in
hrmifles; but was in all points
tempted like as We are, yet without
SIM
IL is true that misery likes com
pany, but not misery To make it's
own misery more miserable. but com
partnership in suffering and tempta-
ton. which 5 reassuring and help
full because il is able to point the
way out The wife and children of
Bunyans Christian found not a little
encouragement and comfort in the
Thought that the trials and difficul-
flcS which beSet them on their Jour
ney to the celestial city were sfmi.
lar 10 those through which Christian
had passed. II is comforting to know
mat 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 of
INTO the sam bypaths OF alIuring
sins. We are glad that i'm the history
of the human race which God has
written for our contemplation He has
included mans failures as well as his
victories. And by the way. this is
To
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 sfay the
finger of God as ne recorded the
temptation, the sin, the evil conse-
Puences and the repentance of King
David
7 ET the cmp;ed soul turn 10
l. Gods Word if it would dispeI
its sense Of loneliness in its trying
experience. Instead of walking i'm
solitude il would hear the tread Of
other feet. IL would feel the presence
Of other tried souls. il would see that
the temptation against which its feet
had stumbled bore the marks Of other
feet, 1t would learn that no tempta-
ton had overtal,cn IL which was not
common TO man. Yea. il would learn
more. II would find that the print
Of the SaNiour'S feet had pressed
every inch Of the way Of the eNDe-
riences 90 life and that where the
stumbling rocks. the pitfalls and he
enticiug bypaths 81 sin occurred. ELL
ing the pa hway with danger. His
strong. unfailiue feet led safely
around and over the perilous places
When Columbus had pushed the
prov Of his boat across the unknc WIN
sea until the green shores Of the ncyv
continent opened 10 his vision others
were quick and bold TO aitcmpt the
voyage. ard soon The sea was filed
with the westward moving ships
When Stanley penetrated the heart
OF Africa and al last emerged on the
other side ~ the con iucnt others
were ready To follow. and the dark
continent ia fast filing with the
white mans feet ~ he follows the
pathway bla/ed bv The intrepid cx-
plorcr. When Jesus Christ iourneved
over the pathway Of life which was
filed with the wrecks and failures Of
human life. lie blazed new wav
which avoided every pitfall 81 sin.
every bypath. every stumbling block
SCI by Satan. so that Paul could write
for you and FOR me OF Gods faithful
ness, and declare that God would not
suffer us TO be tempted above that
we are able, bu; would with the
temptation also make a way Of es-
cape.
II ANINGp positively assured the soul
that Il is not alone in the |