The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-08-05

Together for good to them that love
Gcd, to them who are the called &C.
ccrding to His purpose" So accord
ing to our faith shall we be able to
rejoice even in tribulation Not that
we enjoy the sufferings; but we enjoy
the thought which faith attaches to
them-that these are only light Attic
tons, intended to work out for us q
far more exceeding and eternal weight
Of glory "-Romans 1928; Corinthians
AIT.
The Boat and the Storm In Antityps.
We may regard the incidents Of our
lesson from typical viewpoint Thus
the boat would seem to be the Gospel
Dispensation, or Gods provision for
carrying Messiah and His followers to
the other side The Master asleep
would seem to prehgure the apparent
Indifference of the Lord, the Head Of
the Church, to the storms of persecu-
ton and suffering assailing His Church
The disciples awakening Him would
seem to imply the prayers Of the
Church throughout the Age, crying
unto the Lord. "Carest Thou not that
we perish?"
What a tempestuous storm broke up
on the Lords people after Jesus had
gone from theml Prosecutions from
the Jews, then from the Gentiles, fol
lowed one another until the entire his
tory of the true Church has been mark
ed by severe trials disciplines, test
H. - nd of
time have the Lords people won
dered at the amount of affection and
opposition from the world, the flesh
and the Devil that their glorifed Head
permits to come upon them. Verify, Ii
seemed as though He were asleep, as
though He cared not for their welfare!
The storm on the Sea of Galilee may
have arisen In some ordinary way. for
aught we know to the contrary. 1t
must have been a very severe storm;
for the disciples were expert, expert
enced fishermen. We might reason
that surely God would not specially
raise up such storm; and that If He
had Jesus would have submitted to it,
and would not have worked contrary
to the Divine arrangement
On the other hand, we might reason
that, since Satan is Scripturally term
ed the prince of the power Of the
air." 1t would be quite In line with his
disposition to seek to destroy Jesus
and the Church, represented by the
Apostles. He might have thought thus
to nip in the bud the Divine arrange
ment which Jesus had outlined; name
ly, His crucifixion In fulfilment Of the
Scriptures At all events, Jesus when
awakened did not hesitate to use the
power He possessed from the Father
to quell the storm-to turn aside the
mischievous designs Of Satan.
AAnd There Was a Great Calm"
We read that when awakened, Jesus
first reproved His disciples for insult
ficiency of faith, as manifested in their
doubling that with Him present with
them they would be entirely safe from
all powers of wind and water and the
Adversary Then He rebuked the
storm. and it quickly subsidized; and
there was great calm.
What could these things mean anti
typically? What lesson could we gain
from them along spiritual lines? The
lesson is that the storms of life which
have beset Gods people throughout
this Gospel Age have undoubtedly been
chiefly under the administration of the
Evil One. He was unsuccessful as re-
spects the Lord. whose faith triumph
ed, loyal unto death. Satan has since
tried. however, to wage a bitter war
fare against the followers of Jesus.
through persecution. SANDER, misrepre-
sentation and falsehood. But in all of
these he has only fulfilled the Lords
prediction. saying. Marvel not II the
world hate you; We know that it hated
Me before it hated you. -
Other Scriptures seem to indicate
that the Church will have something
to do with the authorizing of the trou-
bic of the Day of Wrath, saying, 'aThis
honor have all His saints, to execute
the judgments written, to bind their
kings with chains and their mobiles
with letters Of iron" In any event,
the LOrQ people VIII De quite con-
tent. knowing that ali things are work
ing together fo~ their good, and ulti-
mately for the glory Of our Heavenly
Father and Of Him who redeemed us
through His own precious blood
Soon the time will come for the Lord
to arise and say to the raging ele-
ments, Peace: be stillp' Then will
follow a great calm. the great rest
from the Evil One for a thousand
Fears, during which he shall be bound
that he may deceive the nations no
more until the thousand years are full
filed" Then will come the eternal
rest of heart to all who are now in the
ship with the Lord. and who will then
have the blessed opportunity to be Co
labOrers with Him in the great and
glorious work of blessing the world.
He leaves us not when the storm ia high.
And we have safety. for He ia nigh
Can that be trouble. which He doth
sharef
Oh. rest in peace. for the Lord doth
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