Milford chronicle., 1907-01-25

/ plaln simple ChflStlan duty, ana yOl
refused to do it.
| How to Get Right.
My brother do you want to see the
sun shine again? DO you want to as
sOclate with loving, gentle, kind PEG
pie? Would you have your pathway
strewn with flowers and your heaven
melodious with songs? Then get right
with God. Get right with your better
and truer self. Undo at once the
wrongs you have done your neighbors.
When the Russian engineers were PLAN
ming the railroad line between ST. Pc
tersburg and Moscow, for personal and
selfish reasons they planned to make
the track bend this way and that.
When they brought their plans to EN-
peror Nicholas, he looked at them a
moment. Then he laid ruler upon
the map and drew Il straight line be-
/ tween the two cities as he answered,
you will construct the line So" Thus
! God draws for Us a straight line Of
duty and until we are willing to fol-
low that straight line of our own &C.
cord we will never be in harmony with
the divine will.
But we must not halt here. Jonah's
anger stands as the symbol of the
small souled Christian that we see
sometimes on a throne or in a bishops +
chair, who says: IF the world cannot .
be saved through me, then 1 shall co
all in my power to destroy it. If / can
not make all Christians surround my
chancel or study my catechism or lis
ten to my preaching, then 1 will do ev-
erything in my power to debar them
from entering any other church or
studying any other catechism or listen
ing to any other preaching. What we
want in religious work is a great
church trust. And the man whom we
want at the head of that great church
trust is a man of our own denomina-
ton or selection. In other words, If
and mine are not going to get the
credit for saving the world. then and
mine will do all in our power to keep I
the world from being saved" Is not {
that exactly the position Of Jonah {
when he got angry with God because {
God had repented of the evil that he '
lad said he would do unto the Nine I
'ltes and he did it not? L
Jonah DisDIeased. I
"There," l can hear Jonah say, 81 t
new it. I knew it. Here l was, the a
reatest prophet in all the east The p
rowds everywhere ran after me. y
Whenever I lifted up my voice l could L
ee mems cheeks pale and their limbs s.
remDle. They were afraid to have me 81
peak one word lest / might hurl a II
ivine thunderbolt at them I gloried Il
l ny power. When l went to faroff al
ineveh. even there the people had
card of my fame. And when l enter "
into that city and began to cry. d
.et forty days and Nineveh shall be til
estrOyed" pandemonium regned ev- CT
ywhere The people got as frighten- Its
as lot Of fawns being chased by SD
e falcons which are trying to pick W,
1t their eyes They Immediately fell th
'wn upon their knees and began to BIZ
ay. l was the biggest man in that I'M
wn What l said was quoted by ev- cia
Y lip. But now God has gone back til,
|A- N-AeAe RADkl4EA 4uG lOI AdIS ] IN
We passed, and every wall is stand be,
g and the homes are all filed with
ppy families. He has ruined all nv A
ophecy business. If l go back into Y
newell, the little children will follow in
and laugh at me. But it displeased ita'
nah exceedingly, and he was very the
cry" Angry for what? Because I "
ID had saved a city? No. Angry be- anf
Use the people might not think him a tic
sat prophet, as they did a few days fen
} when he cried out, yet forty days Min
] Nineveh shall be destroyedr and tbo
, my brother l want to ask YOU a 100
estiOn. Is Jonah's sinful. childish 1r
ger any different from the mean. o-d
picable and repugnant jealousies ~,
many of our modern Christian work
orc fo. instance ouo &c;
an old church which for years
e occupied the most influential posi- ~. -.
/ in the religious life of small city. o. 'g
st of the wealthy and prominent -
of that town go to that church. -
day there comes into that town a ''0.
nS minister who takes broken 'Irl
n church upon a side street. 1t is oHt
ost n mission. Suddenly the power LION
he Holy Spirit comes down upon clat
little congregation. 1t grows and 10 o
VS.. 1t widens its influence. 1t be- OF Il
to gather in the young people by more
es and hundreds. The little church der
wv packed to the doors. The grow vius
congregation has to move into a 1t
er building. Its influence grows thou
er and wider until it spreads out grea
the state and the nation. Do that coulC
and that old established mach
Oh clasp hands and rejoice at the Nine
itudes which are being saved in Of on
church just around the corner? be et
laps so. But, as a rule, such old Ma
)lished churches act very much as a Mi