The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-28

Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic@hrist.-.n
Endeayor. etc. for Nov. >. The
Ideal Christian. NJ His Heavenly
Helper" Heb. f3:5-15.
- tBy William r. TiiiSD
Observation-Disclosures marks our
day. Folks are uncertain 81 every
thing. themselves included. The
generality Of mankind seems II 10
without any deep faith. Even from
our politics the intense conviction III
an older DAY appears To have depart
ed The familiar lines or which this
topic is passed.
The Lord IS my helper. l Vii not
What shall men do unto me
Represents an older ideal or thought
Yet We make bold 10 shy that they
set forth the need OF our own tame.
The sense Of God seems to have
faded out Of many lives. More than
we need the fulfillment OF any article
of the days social program. We
need this underlying. all-sustaininE
sense Of being IN alliance with the
great God.
Henry Drummond says: Every
tilil dtlti HAS III liiHtt SpitAtE+ 1tA
Christ be that spring"
Wherever a traveller goes In for
eign lands he is sure to see the ad-
vertisementS o the Singer SewlnE
Machine Company. If the local
agent but knew how great is the
business with which ne is connected
he could say to his neighbors. be
they Arabs or Chinese or Hindus or
plccfor nc "T M "a small nnrf ~ =
great whole. This business is world
wide. My firm is so reat that Il may
he COunted on to do the ~utterlnost
everything it pmosises." So the
worker in the local church may say-
This branch does not by any means
display all the wares OF our house
We dc & Worldwide business. Our
praise is one the lips of men all over
the earth. You cannot understand
the church local until you under
stand the church universal. and all the
members of the corporation. in THIS
world and beyond the skies" 1t IS
, heartening to the average Christian
to remember tho greatness Of the
woct, cf which no is q part. and tho
~omnipotence Of the Head OF tho
) house.
A Christian started out in a drsv-
ing torn to q rescue mission say
ing: THE weather and l are on the
business of the same Master, and we
shall not interfere with each other"
Wherever, in all this wide world
g man drives a nail or writes a book
CT breaches a sermon or teaches 3
chilo or drives a horse for the vel
fare of man and the glory Of God
that man may count on the supper
- I'D naAnnrarfnr OF oil tho HTnltlRGJ
forces of omnipotence.
Some responsibilities belong solel,
to the Supreme Authority; and III
~subordinates are accountable onl,
h, for fidelity. The captain Of a ship
u ard not the stokers or the stewards
, is running that ship. The Unite
u States Navy recently disciplined a
officer because his ship ran aground
when he was not on the bridge a
al but asleep in his cabin. Their
is peace in the assurance that man
things about our life and our wor
are not our affairs at all. but Cod.
We have only to carry out orders
If we are faithful in following IN
orders clearly given. the rest Is wit
Him.
n Many firms fail. say the erea
commercial aRenclcs, Ike Dla an
Rradstreet. because OF insuflcicr
capital. 4 partner with esourcf
would have saved the wrecked bus
ness. So with life. Many of us Al
he going 10 smash simply because Z"
need q Partner, with greater r.
7 sources than ourselves. to be 81
helper. That Partner stands ready
go into business with all who II
Il can do all things through HI
willing to he ~"laborers together VII
Him
4 great confidence is born ~
great experience. II IS the man WI
w. has made many horseshoes who Q
~ fars with no note 81 uncertalntyS
his voice. to shoe the traveller
horse satisfactorily. The youth =
taring active life il uncertain
q himself, because ne has never be-
actually tried. They count me
c~onhdentaily upon the help of -