Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-03
Sunday Morning Talk
FOUR ANCHORS OUT.

Dfligent Sunday school scholars will recall the story of St. PauPs ship wreck The Alexandrian wheat ship on which the Apostle jol1rneyed to Rome had been caught in a tempest en lee shore off the jagged rocks of Malta With canvas blown away and seams gaping. tIle loss of the galley prevented by good seamanship and al refusal on the part of the captain and crew to become discouraged.
 At the critical hour, emergency tac- kle was brought into use. They cast four anchors out of the stern and fortunate that the anchors held, for thus was saved a whole 5aip's com pany including one life, at least, of vital importance to the world.
 k is not for discussion of nautical tactics, but as parable of life that the episode is quoted. There is sug- gestion here for any hour when the life mariner feels himself driven by wind and waves toward any sort of rocks whatever. Safety then depends on having some reliable anchors ready to throw out to windWard.
 The frivolous reader. if such there be of this column, must bear with me new while I name some very old l fashioned spiritual graces. The name of the first anchor is Faith. Faith is a lively confidence in spiritual reaIi- ties. It is a belief that Omnipotence undergirds the world and that all hu- man affairs are in Gods hands. It is a conviction that righteousness is mighty and must prevail Although we see
 Truth forever on the seaffold
 Wrong forever on the throne, ! l faith bids us believe that
 That scaffold sways the future
 And behind the dim unknown,
 Standeth God within ule shadow Keeping watch above his own. | The second in order is Hone. Mt ii ! Just what Paul himself called it-ar
 "anchor of the soul" Hope points tx tie star in itle sIzyi' keeps men from
 despair, and sends them singinl ! across the years. Hope in the olt I legend, was the one thing that re
 rnained in Pandora's box. and it wa
 the best thing of all. While it re
 mains men can face courageousl.
 whatever difficulties the years bring It is only when the spring of hope, Q
 anticipation. fairly snaps that mel and women give up the struggle am
 trrn their faces to the wall.
 Keep hope aboard I1e craft ther Never doubt that clouds will break
 that the best is yet to be- Love is the third anchor and on that holds in many storm. Tn tn name of love. friends delight to spen , and be spent in each others service
 In the strength of it, man or womai , will bear for long years, the burden Q 7 another's sin and shame. Because Q
 love fathers delve from morn till ev
 and mothers give their lives, a Twin . sacrifice, nor count their burden griev !. ous. It is the motive behind nine , tenths of the worlds best activitie: , Under its spell we forget QUE mean i, ness and our selffshness. Truly doe r I'epnyson sing:
 Love took up the harp of life And smote on all it's chords wit 3 snote the chord of self that. tremblin . Passed in music out of sight. Reverence is a fourth solid ancho \ It was conclusion of George Elk ! that we have two great spiritual need H l something to love- and something : reverence.
 To lack either is periIous. For ho 2, many a young man the first noWT a ward step is thes indulgence of, a moo : of cynicism anda iTreyerenca Says | wise observer of the life of young me \ especially of those who live fin cities ni ssOf all the conclusions gIayen mo z deeply on my mind, think the deel
 est is this: The beginning of ruin
 the loss of deYoutness." One shou pl beware of losing reverence out of III S The habit of worship and the meal 'e of grace the church provides are lell .s to be pffzed.
 s Show me the life crafts that car < aboard the anchors of faiths and nol ssl s-1d love and reverence and you ha' so pointed out those most likely of z = in the fleet to ride out the storms a Ie to reach port at last.
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