Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-06-11

I What we have applied individually t
p! the Lords people may also be appliet
I to them as a whole Looking bac
&! over the nearly nineteen centurie
since the institution Of this Church b.
our Lord at his First Advent, partie
ularly since Pentecost, and marking
the varied experiences of these cen
turtles, we perceive that the Church
has passed over a temptestuous route
i'll her journey to the heavenly home
Storms and Gains mark the entire
course, and the evidences are thicken
ing all about us that the severest and
darkest hour, the most stormy period
of her entire career, is just ahead Of
her-just upon her. we might say. The
sea, the world. is all about her and
seeking to enter into her, seeking to
swamp her. seeking to swallow her up.
Many Of the Lords followers al
ready are crying to him in terror,
Master, carest thou not that we per-
ish? Seest thou not how agnosticism,
under a new name Of Higher Criticism,
is seeking to capsize US, to overwhelm
US, to break the cable Of faith by
which we are anchored to the sure
promises Of thy Word! Master, seest
thou not that the very mention of thy
precious blood as the Ransom Price
for sinners, the purchase price of our
release from sin and death. is reviled.
is belittled. is esteemed a common
thing is repudiated by those who
name Thy Name! Master. carest thou
not that thy Word has been so mis-
represented during the dark ages OF
the past that today the intellectuals Of
the world disdain it as the teaching
of doctrines unworthy Of a noble in
tellect. Master, carest thou not that
these have no reverence for thy Book
and for thine own Holy Name? Mas
ter, carest thou not that thy people,
thy sanity ones, are perishing in in
fidelity, in agnosticism; that they are
losing their faith in the precious blood
and in all the wonderful promises Of the
Word. because they see not, neither do
they understand the height and length.
the breadth and depth Of the love of
God which passeth all understanding"
Peace, Be Still! Be Still!
To all such appeals the Masters re-
ply is Have We not yet faithT Do
ye not know that the Word that goeth
from my mouth shall prosper in the
thing whereto it was sent? Do you s
not realize that he who began the
work Of selecting the Church will ac- z
cOmplish it? Do you not know that
naught could come to pass without
your Fathers knowledge and permits
sion? Do you not remember the words I
Of the Lord, Thou couldest have no 4
power at all against me, except it were E
given thee from above" except it were y
permitted thee of my Father John xix. q
ID. Our difficulty has been to some
,xtent the same that our Lord mem e
Toned to the Sadducees saying, "Ye do q
TT, not knowing the Scriptures. nor h
he power of God" Nlatthew xii 29 4
But what say the Scriptures on the q
ubject? We answer that they fore
ell the present condition of things and :
i've us an outlook future They call s.
ur attention to the fact that there is
nominal Church, as well as the real
ne. an outward class of considerable
umbers which have a form of godli- al
ess. but without the power, and a b
little flock which has the Truth and m
in heart relationship with the Lord. u
agotten Of the holy Spirit They tell M
S that we have been mistaken in the ~
lst I'm supposing that it is part of r
le Heavenly Fathers plan To convert y
he word during this present Gospel ,or
&c; that that part Of his plan belongs
the next age; that his present work III
the gathering Of the elect" the ''lit- Ia
P flock" TO be associated with the Re 20
.emer as his Bride in the glorious
iuglom. for which we pray. THY
iugdom come: thy win be done on
nth as it is done IN heaven" They
sure us that the storm of Higher
inddelity and Evolution and
neral godlcssuess and faithlessness
lich we see coming, which is already
ION us, will indeed be a terrible
1rm, the like of which was permitted
the time of trouble which closed the
wish Age and again in the close of
e eighteenth century in the French
The Scriptures show us
at the Lord intends TO make sepa- IL
ton between merely nominal Chris
ms and the saints-the pure I'm heart
e full of faith. the fun of zeal, the II
-ers Of Righteousness. the haters Of as
guilty, And his testing and sitting
.the true wheat and its separation
,m the tares will be a thorough and We
mplete work
BUT we say, if the Church goes Or
vn, if the storm shall wreck the sale
urch of Christ. viii not the entire
.ial fabric be wrecked? Shall not
an perish? But the Lord answers.
ay verify, "a thousand shall fall ~
thy side, ten thousand at thy right "
ld but it shall not come nigh thee "
injure theel The shaking of the All
ial political and financial fabric Loci
ich is closely interviewer with the spE
Eious, viii be something awful. ac
ding to the Scriptural pictures, "a
e of trouble such as never was
re there was a nation, nor ever p
u be afterward," said our Lord
a.