World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-12-08

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OF perlshing in the ice and snow
Driven as they we're from thei,
comforts. 10 be exposed to peril
hunger and nskedness. But thi,
they choose rather than the mass
for the sake OF their souls and The
gospel OF the Lord Jesus Christ
For to do otherwise, would be te
abiure God.
Therefore, hesitatingly, they
wont forth from their homes. cot
tages, vineyards, and their fields
not knowing where they were 20.
ing. or what would be the end o
their trisls, But they were d ,,er
mined to 70 forth, like the
israelitcs Masons Of old, Of whom
the world was not worthy; "they
wandered 10 deserts, and 10
Inountains;and Others had trials
Of cmlel mockings and scourges,
yea, moreover of bonds and i'm
prisonment. they wero stoned.
they we're sawn asunder, were
tempted, were slain with the
sword, being destitute, afflicted,
tormented. Not excepting deliv-
erance at the hand Of this beast.
that they might obtain a better
resurrection See Heb ii th /.
Ch., Both. to 39th. VS.
Therefore, wives aud children,
little ihfants. aged parents, the
halt, the lame, the blind and the
delicate female, and even the new
born babe, all mus, take up their
march in the silcn, hour OF des.
pair, and all for the love they had
for Jesus. And, these troubles and
Affections are the beginning Of sor.
rows; just the things that Jesus
warned his people of that should
come.
(Seo Matt, oath. Cb., Sth. to 18th.
vs., Mark, 18th. Oh. and Luke. 81
at. Ch.) In these scriptures you
find the same warning; and the
fulfillmcnt OF these things
coming to pass from the death Of
Christ up to where we find his
loved ones abandoning their hap
ply homes in the dead Of winter;
and only can be completely fulfil.
cd at His second coming:
Wherefore. We say with all can
dor, that .tho sufferings OF those
harmless people, who bad taken
refuge in the valleys, were
only the beginning OF SORROWS;
for hardly had the women and
children Quilted their once peace.
full and cherished, homes thai q
llcentious, licensed prelatical m 0 b
broke IN upon those villages of
the valleys; aud after a few days
OF pretended Zeal, to convert those
who had haxarded their lives by
remaining behind the rest of til q
fleeing christians, in order that
they might, if possible, protect the
property and homes OF their fee,
ing loved ones. And, those
christians, Oddfelows. were will
ing to make unto their powerful
foe. any earthly sacrifice, to have a
reconciliation; yet they met the
demand Of that same foo, (which
demand was. that they should for.
sake their faith and become catho.
lics;) with u stubborn resistance to
all papisticai persuasions: and this
bcas'ly power, seeing his colInsive,
COLLISION frustrated by these faith
fnl ones, who resisted his demands
OF the assignment OF their faith
(which IS the anchor to the soul.
sure and steadfast;" and when the
beast listens into their last solemn
conformation in behalf OF the faith
OF their blessed animator; he sends
his Roman army in upon them 10
rob, burn, AID raise To the founda-
ton, tho beautiful cottages OF
those persecn,ed ones, which was
done in his name, and then slew
With ferocious cruelty, the young
mon aud fathers, who had stayed
behind with the though, Of bcgg.
ing sufficient mercy from the