The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-02-15
OBEDIENT TO HEAV.
EMILY VISION
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| anywhere If he might only serve Him
"There is where so many of us fail
1t is because of this heart Of sin that
we do not answer this vision. Self is
not willing to die, to obey to serve. 1t
is the element of some sin which is not
yet cleansed away.
Il had the rare privilege recently OF
following this man Paul. was in Da-
mascus, where he lived, in Smyrna, in
Ephesus, where he fought the wild
beasts, and as / walked in the foot
steps of this little man, and realized
how he had braved all the danger, oh,
how he doomed up large upon the
horizon of my appreciation. Oh, how
I prayed that might get more of him.
There was man in my church one
year before left home who said to
me, I want to be Christian, but I
don't want to be one like Paul was
But that is just the kind Jesus
Christ wants, and that is the kind the
world needs. Oh for more Christians
like Paul. who was not disobedient to
the heavenly vision and was such a
blessing.
"Oh, men and women, We need a
more thorough going allegiance to
Jesus Christ.
1.-THE third vision was on the sea. He
heard the call from Macedonia, and he
went. In the third vision is the vision
of the Christ guarding the pathway of
duty. He always points in the way of
the larger need.
"a young man came to me and said,
L must give You my change of adj
dress I looked surprised and the man
You have been telling us
that we must do something with our
Christianity, not to only have our
names on the Church roll. There is
a young man in this town who came
from the same town that did. He
has fallen into bad habits, and has
taken to drinking. I am going to do
all 1 can to save him, and SO I have
moved to his boarding house, and 1
don't intend to let him go. I am going
to stay until he can be trusted
There is a young man who cut So
cial life, cut his friends that he might
give himself to save soul. That is
obedience to the heavenly vision.
The fourth vision was in Corinth.
You will remember that Paul had a
piuc udy' IL was aASSouid6AhS oho
Paul was actually going to run, but
he had vision. The fourth vision
is the vision of the living Christ. And
the day will come when you will need
that vision. If you are obedient to this
vision you will come to the day when
you will be cast down as Paul was, but
not deserted.
1.-THE fifth and last vision was on that
ship on the Aegean Sea. You remem-
Der the story. Paul had vision, and
he stood up before those men and said,
The ship must go, but you all will be
saved They looked at Paul and
thought that he must be crazy. What!
saved in sea like that, when every
moment seemed to be the last? This Is
an example of Faith. Faith is that
trust in God when It is absolutely
black. God said so and believe God
1t should be as He has said.
Dear friends, i have been trying to
touch up the elements. Faith and Love
is there; the obedient life. The NTH
vision is the answer to the others.
There was a time when Paul was
not Christian. But one day he saw
a vision. 1t changed his life.
Il said II we come with an obedient |
heart, eager to be obedient, some man |
or woman. some boy or girl. will say.
There is one who has had vision, |
and that person will be eager to have |
that same vision, too"