The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-05-19
WEEK DAY SERMONETTES
(By DR.. H. T. 5. Johnson)
Interracial Secretary for Oklahoma
THE CASTING OUT OF FEAR

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THE CASTING OUT OF FEAR
Luke 1892: Dismiss your fears,
little flock. your Father finds pleas
ure in giving you the kingdom"
If | were asked to name one emo
ton which every man feels would
unhesitatingly name fear" You
are acquainted with fear, no matter
who you are. Christian or heather,
white or black, you are afraid of
something. 1t is so now, it was SO
when Christ delivered the message
from which we quote today. For the
benefit of his hearers and for the bene-
fit Of all mankind, Jesus said: Dis
miss your fears, little flock: your
Father finds pleasure in giving you
the kingdom
/. Dismiss your fears OF sickness.
The average man is in daily fear of
sickness. Many people bring on dis
ease by using all sorts Of patent medi-
cines to prevent disease Men have
become multi-millionaires as manufac-
turers Of patent nosuoms, because the
public feared sickness. Many people
think themselves into the sick-bed
and, in many cases to the grave.
Most people who are sick are sick
mentally. If men generally would
dismiss their fears" OF sickness, the
human family would be as healthy as
brute families. Coueism is a fact, be-
cause the health suggestions which it
recommends dismiss the fear Of dis
ease.
III. Dismiss your fears" Of death
Some people get very little joy out of
life because Of the fear Of death Con-
stantly they are thinking of death as
monster lurking at their heels. This
takes the JOY out Of life for too many
people. Dismiss your fears" Of
death by seeing death as something
other than THE black camel which
kneels at every mans gate, "a leap in
the dark" "a cruel monster" Think
of it rather as the gate to endless
JOY" the friend who relieves us Of
all care, sorrow, sickness, pain and
death" the guide who leads to a home
blessed with so many advantages
that eye hath not seen, ear hath not
heard, nor hath it entered into the
heart OF man the things which God
hath in store for them that love Him"
Become reconciled with God, continue
that relation, and there will be no
need to fear death.
III. Dismiss your fears" Of pow
erty. O, how we dread being poor
So great is our fear Of poverty that
we focalize thought and energy upon
the accumulation Of wealth Thus one
may succeed in the getting OF things
but he often sacrifices that which is
far better. The average person can
not get wealth and keep an abiding
interest in things eternal. Instead Of
getting wealth, wealth gets him. The
tear OF poverty makes many men re-
sort TO corrupt practices which cost
them character, the association Of
good people, helpful example before
their children, and home in heaven.
The price is too great. Better far to
take comfort in the fact that the God
who feeds the birds of the air and
clothes the lilies of the field beyond
the magnihcence of Solomon. will
surely care for His human children
for whose redemption He gave His
only begotten son."
| IN. Dismiss your fears" Of the
success OF others. This fear makes
for individual strife and race conflict.
It has its ground in envy. 1t made
the first murderer and has been the
cause OF multitudinous murders ever
since. The strife between man and
man, the fight between capital and la
Dor, the ever-present conflict between
race and race, would not exist except
for the fear men have Of the success
of others.
| The penacea for all these fears lies
IN the practice OF brotherhood. Broth
erhood cannot be practiced without
interracial cooperation. In proper
ton as this is done will mutual respect
and good will obtain. Frequent as
ISOLATION will ripen into love and
love casteth out fear"