The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-04-20
Peace Be Unto Thee.

While the disciples of Christ were
taking Him across the sea Of Galilee,
a great tempest arose, insomuch that
the ship was covered with the waves.
One of the disciples awoke Christ
saying, Master, carest thou not that
we perish? He arose and rebuked
the winds, and Immediately there was
calm. The disciples looked one
| upon another, wondering, and said,
| What manner of man is this that
even the winds and the sea obey him!
He who can still the waves Of Cali
lee can calm the raging passions
| of men.
The saddest sight in the world to
| me is a man, made in Gods image,
dethroned of reason; the next is
man bound by the chains Of deprav-
ed appetite. Whenever I have look
ed upon one caught in the snare laid
| for him by the great destroyer Of
mankind, my heart has yearned with
pity and compassion for these un-
| fortunate ones, and great longing
possessed me to try to find some
means of escape for them. This has
been the one great desire of my life
and now that the king of kings has
allowed me, a. frail earthen vessel, to
be the bearer of such glad tidings to
a sin-sick world, my heart goes out
in the deepest gratitude to Him, my
only fear being that unwittingly l
may bring reproach or dishonor to
His cause. Death would be prefer
able to such base: jngratitude. pray
God that may always have consci-
ence void of offense toward God and
man.
There is a pretty myth of Pandora's
mysterious box being opened, and all
the evils and miseries that aftlict
mankind being set free. The box
was shut, however, and Hope, lying
in the bottom, was prevented from
escaping. This teaches us that how
ever desperate the situation may be,
there is always hope left.
When man realizes his own help
lessness, then God comes to the res
cue.
Giant despair has locked many of
you up in his filthy dungeon, and
has left you shivering, cold, hungry,
and thirsty to make the best of the
situation you can. He has even told
some of you to destroy yourselves,
that life is not worth living under
such circumstances. Heed him not;
you can get out of this dungeon. l
have come to bring you the key that
will give you deliverance.
Look at the beautiful world about
you, see nature bursting into life.
hear the birds caroling gayly; does
it seem reasonable that man, the
head of all created things, should be
left to languish and die? No, a
thousand times, no! That which
was lost by Adam. is to be restored
by Christ.
When the Israelites murmured
against God in the wilderness, he
sent fiery serpents among them, to
bite them, and many of them died.
When the people repented of their
evil deeds, he told Moses to make
serpent of brass, and set it upon
pole: and it came to pass that every
one that was bitten, when he looked
upon the serpent, lived.
have read carefully the four gos-
pels, trying to find a parable here, as
history repeats itself. I find that it
was to John, the beloved desciple,
alone, that this message was given
which means life to you who have
been bitten by the serpent in the
cup:
And as Moses lifted up the SER
pent in the wilderness, even so must
the son of man be lifted up:
That whomsoever believeth in
him, should not perish, but have
eternal life. John III. 14-15.)
For God sent not His Son to con-
denim the world, but that the world
through Him might be saved. John
III. 17.)
And I, if I be lifted up from the
earth will draw all men unto me.
(This He said, signifying what
death He should die.) John XII.
32-33.)
Was there ever such love as this!
History records instances of friends
dying for friends, but never before
this of a man dying for his enemies.
Christ is King over death and the
grave. 81 am the resurrection and
the life, he that believeth on me
though he were dead yet shall he
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