The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-17
~COMRADESHIP WITH
 GOD"ADR. w K. HENDRICKS

Using as a text, ''I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me" Dr. w. R. Hem drix, pastor of the Highlands Methodist church, preached forcefM sermon to a large and responsive congregation yes- terday morning. He said in part:
 Fear IS the most cruel taskmaster that men have ever known. To be able to walk unafrad through lifes danger regions. is the most glorious freedom that the sons of men have ever achieved. The text records the experience of a man who has triumphed over his fears through comradeship with God. Though the remedy for our fears has been an open secret for many centuries, count less millions continue their earthly pil- grimage. afflicted and tormented by those fears which take the joy out of life, and hinder our noblest endeavors.
 The most touching scene in The Bugler of Algiers is the final parting, when death claims the heroic Pierre, while Anatole is pleading with God to spare his friend. The prayer begins with these words: Oh Comrade Godi' Few of us could read that prayer and not feel that in it's opening sentence, there is something strildngly different from the prayers that we pray and hear from other lips.
 Some of us are shocked Ellle othe. s feel as if VIC have come upon something more reverent and earnest than we have ever uttered in our formal worship. Is the man who addresses God as comrade guilty of undue familiarity and irrev- erence, or do we convict ourselves of want Of faith and lack of love in of- fering the criticism? Does the Bible reveal God as @ comrade to men in this earthly pilgrimage?
 'Enoch walked with God 300 years. Abraham went out from his kindred, following an invisible Comrade in his arest for new home Daniel found in the lions den a -Comrade. and De- liverer. The supreme tragedy in Job is reached in these words: o that l knew where I might find Him The loss of family health and fortune, were small afflictions as long as Jobs Comrade re- mained with him. For 40 years in a pil- lar of fire and cloud, Jehoviah marched at the head of Israel's columns, that taey and all men after them might know that God is the comrade of His people Individually and collectively.
 From the privations Of camp life, the hardships of prolonged marches, and the sufferings and perils of the battlefield, soldiers become comrades. Actuated by common ideal, for which they suffer in common, thrilled by a common hope, and nerved by a common purpose, they come to have, as it were, common soul, uniting them for all time to come in a fellowship of joy and sorrow; of conquest and victory. God has a throb- hing heart-interest in the affairs of this lower world which men may truly share with him. There are things that He wants done that only human hands can accomplish.
 Through devotion of ourselves to His work we become truly comrades in the spiritual conquests which convert the Kingdoms of this world into the king dom of God. The conditions of this heavenly comradeship are we'll known Go ye into all the world :. and 10 am with you to the end of the ages
 You and I may live our lives so as to be able to say, will fear no evil, for Thou art with me- If we are work ing with God there is no failure to