The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-06-02
PASTOR URGES
LOVE OF CHRIST
Giddy Are Held in osr's'0"' Says
Rev. P. w. Petersen

.God LAUGHS AT those who east
themselves out ia sin, and ignore beth
,b. church and God; IT." laughs AZ
,,,.,,. who hang around street cor
nor, aud the dance halls and those
vino nyo this easygoing life whose
aim. t not higher than their nose
sand Rev. Petersen al the Norwegian
u,rien VI. r.. church yesterday morn
i,. i'm his sermon on THE Laughing
c.d" The discourse was taken from
fin. text. He that stitch in the heaV-
ms stall laugh. the Lord shall hold
,hsm in derisiuu." Psalms "a. Con-
inning. ge>. Petersen said in part
God must have changed wonderful
4. IN His attitude towards us these
E.t days lie used Ia be an optimst
who could nnd something good in ev-
,r, ON, Of us. Has lie now turned tu
be- 20 pessimisl VIII" sits and laughs rs
Ia ,ruru"
lie used 90 be- a lover of men, has
H., now turned against MS" Something
Is. Vr,ns somewhere, we must try and
find 10 out. We can not afford To- have
,;oa laugh at rs. we can't stand ii. We
can stand many things if God is with
u.s.
rhc earth may turn upside down,
fine moon may fan from rs place upon
line earth and th, stars upon the
moon the sun may be- turned into
blood and Withdraw Ills glory. All this
v,.Id mean our death surely. hut We
can afford even To die If God is not
hu.uu4 ua to sc"rn; but il God viii
have us in dcrisinn We viii Ice worse
OF drad than living.
.Now. in What state of mind are
We when God laughs at us?
"As christians we fully realize our
imrcrlrctncss. We stumble here and
there We say and do things that may
harm others. still we never meant ii
tn Dee go. We feel sorry for that, and
wish We were more like our Master.
,iod does not laugh at that, no. lie
BE- -Jruur and mighty in the weak ones
Neither does cod laugh at us when
NJ, arc afflicted with bodily Illness
No' Christ svmpathized with and
healed tie sick. The blind received
III. SIGHT the lame strength To walk
an, .rptrs were clcauscd the withered
hand cured We never hnd that Christ
laughed 1T those people. No, he helped
everyone.
Sometimes we find ourselves in the
midst Of loneliness we feel as though
everyone have forsakcn ms. ana God
has forgotten ~ Hut i, Is not so
John vaa put oct on the lonely bare
rJthrs Isle left To- his own fate Il
luu"or and starvation bat as J"hi
was sitting in his lonely cliff Coo
came near, opened his inner eye an'
uncovered the celestial city, an'
showed him the glories of tn" future
iilr So IL was also with John HunNan
ASS Aa was sitting in the damp, darl
cell m tG, ENGLISH prison God SHOWED
him wonderful things. John forgot M
urcary surroundings ANA began III
tummsitinr nf the most romarkabl
boo, next to the Bible, the Pilgrim
PROGRESS. No, God did not forge
Huu}au. II lie ever loved him,
must have been when hc wrote ih"s
precious words:
WIN God laugh AT those IN s"r
row and Distress
When Martha and Mary sen, w"r
Ion christ To come that they may nav
talk with Him in their sorrow, II
came
lie did not begin to laugh them |
sgoru because they sat heartbrokci
Wcrplng over the bereavement of th''
brother, No. He wept with then
and asked where they had laid mn
Then fun of sympathy and composio
he Went with them out To IN" gray
ana called Lazarus back To life
great surprise and joy for the weep'n
sisters
God will not laugh at "A sinner
distress. Peter denied His Mast'
most cmphatically the time he "ugi
To confess Him. He went outside u
gate ana wcpt bitterly, but as