Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-07-31


 the spirit plane. Begotten of the Spir it, they must develop and be born O. the Spirit in the resurrection, in orde
 to have life eternal at all
 Spiritual Lessons For the Spiritua
 Household.
 There is precious lesson in this miracle for all of the Lords followers | We also have need of faith and O1 tests of that faith. Our daily eXpe l rienceS since we became the Lords | followers have been guided and guard ed apparently by the Power unseen. to the intent that as pupils in the School of Christ, we may all be taught of Him and develop more and more the graces of the Spirit. particularly more faith.
 How important this item of faith is we probably cannot fully appreciate now. It seems to be the one thing which the Lord especially seeks in those now called to be His followers. Without faith it is impossible to please Him." With faith "all things are possible" According to thy faith be it unto thee" Proper faith. of course. is meant, not credulity. not re- liance upon the words of men. but i'm plicit faith in the Lord for all that He has promised to them who love Him upremely.-Hebrews II 6: Mark 9:23
 So important grace must of ne- cessity require many lessons for it's proper development, and therefore we find that ill our individual experiences as Christians we have those core spending to the experiences of the Apostles, as recorded in this lesson. How suddenly the Adversary may at times bring against us whirlwind of temptation or of opposition or of per secution. How overcast. how dark. our sky seems at such times! How the waves of diversity or of affiiction have almost overwhelmed us! And how the Lord has seemed asleep. needless of our distress!
 Such experiences are tests of faith. If our faith be strong. we would keep on with our proper endeavors to ad just matters, corresponding to the eff forts of the Apostles to keep the ship atioat, but with implicit faith in the Lords promise that "all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who. are the called ac- cording to His purpose" So accord ing to our faith shall we be able to ifia in fY.ih lnf Nnf hOf we enjoy the sufferings; but we enjoy the thought which faith attaches to them-that these are only light afflic tions. intended to work out for us far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory "-Romans S:2S; ? Corinthians 4:17.
 The Boat and the Storm In Antitype.
 We may regard the incidents of our lesson from a typical viewpoint. Thus the boat would seem to be the Gospel DiSpensat ton, or Gods provision for Messiah and His followers to the other side The Master asleep would seem to pretigure the apparent 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 them! Prosecutions from the Jews. then from the Gentiles. fol lowed one another until the entire his ory of the true Church has been mark ad by severe trials. disciplines. test ngs of patience and of faith. Many l time have the Lords people won lered at the amount of afiiiction and opposition from the world. the flesh md the Devil that their glorified Head permits to come upon them. Verify. it seemed as though He were asleep, as hough He cared not for their welfare. The storm on the Sea of Galilee may nave arisen in some ordinary way, for lught we know to the contrary It must have been very severe storm: or the disciples were expert. expert i .nced fishermen. We might reason hat surely God would not specially i 'aiSe up such storm; and that if He l lad .IeSus would have submitted to it. md would not have worked contrary O the Divine arrangement.
 On the other hand. we might reason hat. since Satan is Scripturally term | d the "PTirce of the power of the ! ir. ii would be quite in line with his : liSpOSitioh to seek to destroy Jesus md the Church. represented by the ! Apostles He might have thought thus i O nip in the bud the Divine arrange Nent which Jesus had outlined; name y. His crucifXion in fulfilment of the At all events, Jesus when wakened did not hesitate to use the ,Ower He possessed from the Father o qUell the fStOrm-tO turn aside the designs of Satan.
 "And There Was a Great Calm"
 We read that when awakened, Jesus rSt reproved His disciples for insuf- ciency of faith. as manifested in their oubting that with Him present with hem they would be entirely safe from Il powers of wind and water and the