The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-15

ceiyed, although his language was ever simple and his thoughts open and plain. Called before the officer. for trial He was not to be taken off His guard, but even this was but additional opportunity to show His dignity of simplicity and power of kindly reply. The real trial was that of His accusers. and weighed in the balances they were found wanting in all the grand qualities that made Him master of the situa- ton and minister of the simplicity of dignity.
 3. The success of perseverance It would be difficult to find man who does not desire success. lie vests that he may succeed in life undertakings; that success has al ways followed along the line oi perseverance. History is replele with incidents where men have al tained marvellous success because they persevered. Peter tIe Great seeing the ships of other nations sai ing the waters of the Baltic determined to find a place for his own people. Leaving his throne he disguised himself as peasant. and, finding his way to the snip yards of Holland and England learned the trade which he took home to enrich his own commerce. Perseverance in this led him to other great things, and Petrograd today with all its magnificence and wealth of site and position and power, owes it all to the indomit ble spirit of this versatile man. His was a perseverance that knows no defeat Tolstoi. championing the cause of the common people, saw many of his reforms perish in the dust of former superstition, but the future Russia will owe much to the man who would not recognize the possibility of failure
 The principles of Christianity have not advanced on the wings oi ease. Men and women with perse. yerance of a noble sort, worked and wrought in the early days of truth even better than they knew. h the reign of Augustus and Nero to baar (hriSt b. lions den, the stake, the rack, nor lid the years that make up the In. luisition bring earthly diadems or lingly crown. In caves and dens Of the earth the worshippers ga thered in the stealth of night, anC when their Bibles were burned they ies. Slowy but surely the truth found It's footing and that truth wherever found is today monu ment to the success of the perse- Yerance of the saints. Paul and Peter preached the gospel in "every city" but it took the whole man. In after years they loved their life not to the death, but they died as they had lived, for the sake and propagation of the gospel of Christ ~ 4. The wisdom of patience. Many structure, many a life, has fallen wrecked on the beach of time, only for the lack of patience to have fin icbaI oh, tni ,l hardship upward grows the build ing, only to fail in it's final reach for the goal. God would have men know the wisdom of patience, and so He permitted his servant Job to be tested by the arch enemy of mankind. God permitted the devil to test Job ;n his wealth, his fami- ly and his body, and as the devil always magnifies these things, that Job serves God not for naught," SO the Lord would prove to all men that the great things of life are the things of faith rather than the things of sight. "Y. have heard of the patience of Job"
 
 work" for patience is like the key stone of the arch. The real crisis in any mans life is when his pa- tience is being tried to the break ing point. If he fails then he has but proven to himself that he is unworthy the place he had thought he might hold. The lawyer through a fit of indignation loses his pa tience and likewise his client; the merchant loses his patience and his customer; the doctor loses his pa tience aud his patient; the minis ter loses his patience and his con gregation. It has been ordered so of Almighty God. Most any man can lose his patience, but it takes a prince among men to endure the daily testing and come out stronger for the trial and more powerful for good for the testing. A man is no stronger than his weakest point If that weak point be very weak how dire is that weakness Merely to endure wrong is not patience. Patience devises cure for the wrong while it endures it. Tenn, pered with love it cannot fail, fo1 love never faileth,"