The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-03
SUFFERING IS PRICE OF GOOD Rev. Dr. R. F. Moore Breaches ElOquently on Subject of
 Spiritual Discipline. CALVARY IS SCHOOL
 OF CHRISTIANITY Militant Disciples of Jesus Christ Not Found In Lux
 ury and Indolence.

preached eloouently on Sunday on the subject of Spiritual discipline, pointing out dts necessity and utility Tor the formation of strong character and salvation.
 Dr.. Moore took his text from the gospel of the day. It was the storm at sea. Christ after quelHng the storm took occasion to reprimand the apos- ties for their tirnidfty and weakness of faith. Dr. Moore making moral application of the gospel said, it is a picture of the individual soil sailing the tenapestious sea of life That pie ture has it's alternate lines of shadow and sins; pain and pleasure; bitter and sweet: victory and defeat How true to life it isl Life is not one long sweet song. Whether we are mariners son the sea. or pilgrims plodding our way up the steep hills of endeaVors there will be storms to be b1ffeted and difficulties to be overcome. Every step we take will be irksome1y taken and consequently with pain. Law of Life.
 The law of life is to suffer. That law must be obeyed if we would suc- ceed Pain and suffering are the price l that must be paid for everything that is great and good. There is hardly l anything in life that is a pure grafuity. The ancient philosophers recogndzing this valuable fact embodied it into a princip1e-..there is nothing without great labor This discipline of labor, pain and suffering has been universal ly accepted as a true sin when there is question of developing strong and eff fcient character.
 Character.
 Character is necessary in every de- partment Of human life. Therefore the discipline is necessary that makes a reso1ute and rarest character. It is necessary in the church and school; in the store and office and factory where all should be trained not to shirk but to face and to conquer mafi- fully the difficult and the disagreeable things which from their very nature are factors of force and efficiency Authority and discipline especially in the homes, according to reputable evil dence, are undespensable necessities; if we wish our youth to become not weak, effeminate so self ndulgent but resolute. rarest and reliable. There xis Tendency to give Sto the young too much freedom in the choice of certain things that does mot evoke the and leaves them weak whereas they should be strong. Suffer and be strong! This principle is wrought into the very structure Of our life individual and natural because it is Gods thought. It is the price of success in the things
 
 and especially in the things of the soul
 Adversity.
 Adversity is the cost-mark of char acter. Out of that school have come the most exalted specimens of mental and moral grandeur whose uplifting influence has blessed the world. The storms and prosecutions; trials and temptations; crosses and losses in these constituted the conflict that trained them to be heroes. But it is the development with us of a Chris tian character that is of prime i'm portance.
 Christian Character. It is not in the school of prosperity amidst safe luxury and cal1ous indol-7 ence that we find the strong militant disciples of Jesus Christ Calvary, in deed, is the school of true Christianity. Christ .ds our model and teacher. He Is the @man of sorrows'' .'The cap tain of our salvatfon,'' says St. Paul, twas made perfect by sufferings" If we wish to reign with Him we | must suffer with Him. No Cross no crown. Many of us want to be cloth ed in robes of white but pray to be spared that tribulation out from l which the white-robid Saints of Heav- en have come. But St. Paul again says: Almost ali things are by the l law purEed with blood.''
 I No where is tlads true as upon l Calvary. The world indeed is full of I little calvaries. The path-way of life
 and the highway of history leads con i tinuously over a new Golgotha- It is I 8. part of. the holy discipline of God | to aff1ictz us in one way or other. This l discipline may be from death or dis ease; from poverty. want or woe. Whatever be it's form, it makes men
 think. think deeply, think seriously.
 It makes them think more of God and ] less sof themselves and of the world. ] Its is not often that a. cry reaches so
 deep a place in mems hearts as a sor- | row does; defeat teaches man in a. I way that victory does not. Sorrow l is better than laughter" says the de-
 vine preacher, for by the sadness of l the countenance the heart is made better
 | This is the divine philosophy be
 heath the great fact of aff1iction. No
 man can escape it whether he be l Pope or King. Emperor or President.
 What Job said nearly three thousand years ago is as true now as dt was then: Man born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is filled with many niseries. What is the whole scripture narrative from Adam to Christ but a record of sin, sorrow ! and suffering? stThe days of my pill l grimage are one hundred and thirty
 year> few and evil.'' These were the
 words of the Patriarch Jacob and is
 not this the experience of the great
 mass of mankind, except that their span of life is shorter than his? But l is tribulation is a law of human life
 it is, thank God, a law and condition 1 of Christian progress and perfection. 1 It is a means ordained by Heaven for our sanctiffcatfon and salvation.
 Through many tribuIations it be- hoveth us to enter the kingdom of God" A great writer has said: TSweet- are the uses of adversfty which, like the toad ugly and venenous, wear yet a precious jewel in his head. .
 Discipline Useful :
 What are the uses of diversity God oI,a +I,o e,,1y