The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-11
Twelve Great Verses
Sermon by
REV. FLOYD w. TOMKINS.
The Trust Verse Isaiah xii. 2.

N trust Is that personal relationship to
EGod and confidence In Him which will
string peace to the heart and quietness
SIN the life. even when trouble Expresses
8'nd burdens are heavy. 1t is allied to
faith. but II is more personal and more
devotional than faith. Faith might be
tcalled the root and trust the blossom.
Shy faith we rest upon the promises; by
trust we cling to Jesus Christ. tho Rock
tof our salvation. Trust Is faith In ac
Stion. We say 81 believe" and then we
do what God asks us to do without hes
itation or question. 1t is so I'm our hu-
sinan relationships. have faith in a
IMAM. that is, believe In him; and ]
trust him with my money. my conf
sdence, my love. To gain the full bles-
ahedness of the trust we must, first of
sall. cultivate 1t in little things and In
fthe common life. The reason for not
trusting God is found In "A lack of trust
generally. The man who Is fearful
Subout things and people. who thinks
the world is full Of hopeless wrongs,
who lives In n shadow all the time and
sees nothing but cobwebs, is not likely
TO trust God. He has an untrustinK.
suspicious spirit, which is growing
stronger all the time. He cannot sing
with Robert Browning:
4 trust In nature for the stable laws
or beauty and utility: spring shall
plant
And autumn garner to the end of time
trust In God; the right shall be the
u right
And other than the wrong while He
n endures.
j trust In my own soul, that can per-:
= ceive
The outward and the inward. natures
good and Gods!
y And the reason he cannot SO sing is
that he Is cultivating an unhappy. sus-
picious. complaining nature. said to
good woman. not long ago: why do
you always let that little word IF en-
ter In and destroy all your cheer? You
say. If only knew that God loved
me! If / could be sure that / would
succeed in my work! II only knew l
should see my dear ones In heaven II
Is this little word that destroys your
trust"
BY OUR sUsPICIoNs
WE KILL OUR TRUST
And SO. or our suspicious, we kill
our trust Some people suspect every
BODY. think that every one Is dishonest
rear that every man Is a deceiver. l
was once much perplexef by a woman
was trying to help, who thought
everybody was plotting against her II
la policeman looked at her on the
streets she thought that he was going
70 arrest her. II woman looked at
her from window she thought IT was
la spy. could not dissuade her from
This unhappy fear. And when / told
Ia physician Of the case. he said II was
liz kind of insanity, a disease which
proved that the mind was not we'll
balanced. wonder how many weak
0Ehrisiians who find IT difficult to trust
god may not have the same mental
Twist. which keeps them in the throes
OF unhappiness, AZ they think God
hates them or watches them with un-
Having eye TO catch them in wrong
5doins. and sends them trouble because
he takes pleasure In furnishing them.
| II is better TO be sdeceived by men
Thousand timcs than to lose trust In
all men. II is better TO have charity
land believe that even bad men do not
Ireally mean TO be bad than to hold
that humanity is utterly corrupt and
has little or no good in IT. We must
part OF the child spirit Christ asks us
| to have II we would gain strong
trust In God, such as Isaiah SO glor-
iously sings OF in our text.
3COAIEs FROM CONSCIOUSNESS
OF PRESENCE OF GOD
4 This trust comes from conscious
ness OF Gods presence. God with
me" is the cry OF the trusting soul
We must not think of God as helng
whom we will see in heaven only. but
as a loving friend who is with US
3all the time. Tuesday. September 80,
was day kept By good many Chris
= tian people for many centuries in
memory OF the angels. st. Michael and
9An Angels Day il Is called. I find a
RECORD of It's observance as early as
A. d. 606. In England IL Is called
IMichaelmas Day, and all English chill
dren know the Michaelmas daisy, which
we call In America the aster. The
'asters were lining all the hedges when
] left the seashore II few weeks ago
The day teaches how the angels are
al "a N RI ri,,er
for us. as The Bible SO fully declares.
: The study OF the angels, as the Bible
5teaches us of them, is most interest
ling. Well, God sends them to show
us how dear we are to Him. and how
. He cares for us and watches over 10:
he is not God afar on. but near. A
French writer says; "It is not in
Heaven that we find God. but il Is in
God that we find heaven" He is not
. far from any one of u.s. How can I
HELP trusting Him. then, when He is
= by my side and within my heart? How
= can l doubt or fear when His hand
Heads me and His love protects me and
| His power provides for my wants? He
Us at my right hand" sings David
I"Therefore I shall not be moved"
GOD PLANS FOR US
FROM CHILDHOOD TO AGE
How splendidiy this trust Is Guilt
9yated as we think of Gods planning
for us from childhood to old age! As
48 IdtuSI WdtCHeS MS son grow from
infancy. and gives his best attention
! to his child's progress, so God, with
Infinite love and wisdom and power,
watches over us from infant years to
fold age. and If we will obey Him, good
ness and mercy shall follow US all the
{days Of our life" l love the words
browning puts in the mouth of Rabbi
Ben Ezra:
"Grow old along with me!
! The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first
was made.
|Dur times are In His hand
Who saith, "a whole planned,
Youth shows but half: trust God, see
all. nor be afraid"
Sometimes we find 1t hard to trust
,Giod for the future. 1t seems so UNI
certain, and changes are SO rapid and
Sudden and various. Where shall BIO
/ ten, twenty years from now, and shall
be rich or poor, strong or helpless
X ,,r 1no, FILA