Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-06-15
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR.


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Tspic.-what Paul tcacats about riz'ns
nbove discoura cement Ill Cor ~, 7-ls
Few lives, perlt rs no l!fe. have ever
been lived into which ,iiscoura1elueI 5
did not come. Sometimes the discOur-
agements are temporal, anI sometimes
they are spiritual, The mere obtain
ing Of a livelihood is TO thousands be-
set with discouragements. IL every
person now living ana ever TO live
were assured % even the necessities OF
Hfe-home foel ana raiment-for all
the DAYS of his life, to how many
encouragement would give place %
hope and joy! The struggle for exist
ence is such bitter one t,H:.t, Greet
~ and indirectly, Il Srings discourage
ments to many. AID when we strive
to do more than exist. to accomplish "a
great work in life TO realize a fond
and cherished dream. how often dis
courasements beat thick aa1 fast mp
ON u.s. The same conditions exist in
the spiritual realm of life. Ne child
of God ever tried TO serve Him with
out meeting with OBSCURE gemeuts.
AhS ts+t A-ttat ~ N7AaRAAAA9 tarsHtNfsF'e
God" and It is hard to 20 against n3
ture. The environments Of life are not
always conducive to spiritual growth.
ais this poor world friend of grace
to help us on to God?' No one has
sser found it so. Nor shall we. Chris
DAINTY is a struggle. Il is following
Christ. who Travelled a steep and rug
Ss
as He took it up and carried it to Cal
vary.
But in spite of the varied and mani
fold disbursements of life we need
not despair, for we can rise above
them Some think not ana fall beneath
them without making an effort 10 rise
above them, Others try to do SO in
their own strength and do not meet
with signal success. but raal teaches
rs that there is way by which we
may rise above the diseouragemeuts OF
hfe. And the apostle spoke from an
abundant experience. He hal demon
ssrated his theories in his own Fife
he was no pessjmiSt preaching oqti.
mism; he was no novicc, declaring IN
ignorance that which he knew nothing
about He knew from experience. and
therefore he spoke For he says that
he was troubled on every side vet
not distressed; perpleNed Lar not IN
despair; perSeCuted. hut not forsa Zen.
east down, 5ut not destroyed" What
"A array of diseouragements- troubles.
perpleNities. prosecutions ana depres
sions-and yet the apostle arose above
them all His troubles were not NJ
lowed to distress him: he did not de.
SPAR because of his perplexities; he
was prosecuted, but God did not for
sake him. nor did he suecumb to de.
preston, whether ii was mental az
spiritual. He arose triumphantly above
all Universities, and so may and should
we.
But Paul also tea ehes us how we
may arise above our discouragementS
o. BY the power Of God Prayerful
trust in God is absolutely essential TO
success in this work. II can be done
only by leaning on the everlasting
arms" CO BY keeping in mind that If
we suffer with Christ we shall also
reign With Him. We are always de
Evered unto death for Jesus sake. that
the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our mortal flesh" 81 BY
remembering the relations between the
temporal and eternal Our Affections
are light in comparison to the eternal
joys they work out for us. Too many
OF us only see the temporal Paul kept
his eyes upon the eternal and was sup
ported by looking mot at the things
which are seen, but at the things which
srs not seen; for the things which are
seen are temporal but the things which
are not seen are eternal"
BIBLE READINGS.
Josh. i. Il; rs. xvii. l-6; Xvi. / evil.
Is; lisa. XVI. Ii; Matt vi. 1854: John
xiv, Is; 1. Cor. XIV, 81. IS: Gal. vi. 8;
Rev. ii, 10.