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prayed for thee, that thy faith fail
not;;a md We shcaaa remember that
the hands of our Great Intercessor
with God on high never grow weary,
and his love never faint, and his pre-
vailing voices never unheeded.
Howgoften the faultfinding Israe-
lites m%urlnured against Moses and
weakened his hands! But what an i'm
press:ve illustration is thus scene of
Aaron and Hur unfolding the droop-
ing arms Of Moses in the time Of I,
crisis when Israel was in conflict with
a powerful and swarlike foe! It shows
us that all the friends Of God should
at all times and in all places sustain,
stand by and loally assist their lead
ers in the cause of God; and it sug-
gests that failure to uphold their
hands is not only sinful but that it
leads to their own disaster.
Christ is sn,itten and his cause in
jured by every blow struck at his duly
ordained minister and servants When.
in the proper discharge OF their divine
~ appointed WORK. The language of
the Bible is "The repoaches of them
that repoached thee fell on me-" and
HE that touchett you thoucheh the ap-
pie of his eye" so keen his sense of
pain is when his people are injured.
Any opposition to Gods instruments
or to his agents when in the line of
their duty, is opposition to God; and
they that oppose or resist shall re-
ceive to themselves condemnation. Re-
mans 1872.
Disloyalty md anarchy in the
church r far too common, but they
are no less reprehensible than are trea
son and anarchy in the civil govern
ment; and if in the civil order they
are in the time of crisis visited with
the firing squad, in the church they
should at least receive stern rbuke
from every true christian.
traitor in the Church, as Benedict Ar
mold was the first notable traitor in
our young republic; but since one out
of the twelve apostles was what Jesus
called a devil, why should We be sur
prised that occasionally a disloyal be-
trayer is discovered in the church or
in state? Every cbnurch which is loyal
to its leaders and forgetful, individual
ambitions for a place in the sun, has
always prospered; but no church
disloyal to it's duly chosen
leaders can hope to have a full
measure of success in winning men to
loyalty to our great leader Jesus
Christ. By consistent and unselfish
living, by frank and open confession
of Christ, by thoughtful ways of
helpful services, and by being present
with good cheer at the rcllcalls of
public worship, loyal people can might
lily uphold the hands of those charged
with the duty Of leadership in the
church..
Our government is now in fierce
conflict with the worst and tie most
powerful anticnrist of barbarism
which has assaulted the libertiets of
humanity and outraged human de-
cency in many centuries; and Gods
peaceful and liherty-loving peoples
have suffered the. worst horrors and
have born the most fierce and the
most INSCRIPTIONS terrorism which
humanity has witnessed in a thousand
years. And marvellous to acknow-
ledge, among us in America have been
many who have had the treacherous
spirit of Judas and of Arnold; and
because the carnage has been far
across the sea 50 that the ~unspeakable
outrages against Armenia, Servia, Po-
land, Russia, Belgium and France,
have not been actually seen by us,
there have been many unwise takers
Of peace, when there can be no peace
to the wicked. These people know not
of the determination of Germany
either to dominate or to destroy the
world, and they ! misled by the Ger
man propaganda of peace and non
resistance which they pucillanimously
peddle out to any who will listen to
their drivel.
Do you say that your ancestors came
from Germany? What does that mat
ter when YOUR children will have to
live in America? How many thousands
Of Germans came to America to es-
cape the very thing we are fighting to
destroy in Germany.
Everyone, no matter from what
country he or his ancestors came,
should Loyalty intellectually, and un-
equivccally support the President and
our other leaders in every way pos
sible; thus holding up their hands in