The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1929-01-10

great train of sheep and oxen, intending to keep them
Tor himself. In Samues question, What
led you to such as this? Saul, in much con-
fusion said, 81 have sinned in obeyng Gods word,
bat afraid of the people, and yielded them'
Contrast his cowardice and the failure and deep
shame to which it brought him with the courage of
Joseph, Daniel, Esther, Paul and Martin Luther and
tneir deafness renown--a fruit OF their courage.
Were such thing possible that could please all
men, and receive their good opinion and prase-even
gaining the whole world-at the of disobedence
to COD and the loss of His favor should drive
Dad bargain. For WHIT shall it profit if he
gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what
shall give exchange for his own soul?" l
tell you, that is solemn question to those who
rejecting Christ gain the world with its good
opinion plaudits. 1t is the greatest question
- profit and loss.
Throughout the book of truth are warned over
and again of the and pitfalls into which
men and women have fallen through fear of man; and
I've are also told and again of the utter in
ability of che disfavor of men to hurt permanently
walk upriahtly, delighting to do His will Let
ghese never-faing promises from His word dssipate
all your fear of '"The fear of bring
eth snare; but whose puttuh his tust in the LORD
snail be safe" Again Fear We the reproach of
men, neither be We afraid of their revngs For the
moth snail eat Them up like garment and the
shall them up like wool; but my righteous
cess shall be forever, and my salvation from gener-
atlon to generation Once more: Love
world, neither the things that in the world If
any man love the world the love of the Father is
II him. For all that is in the world the lust of the
esh and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life
IS not of the Father but of the world And the world
passeh away and the lust thereof but he that doeth
tAe VIII OF God abldeth forever.
Ill In the &hird place. those chief rulers had their
opportunity to decide for Christ and to be confessed
y and avowedy His friends They had equal chance
with many others who became His friends and
whom He used wonderfully in the extension of His
>ingdom but, alas! they let the love of popularity
the fear of man, and hope of personal gain keep
them from doing they knew they ought. Througl
an unfounded fear of man, they failed to make the
destny- determining decision. How their choice
how great their loss
"There is tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads to fortune;
Omitted all the voyage OF their life
Is bound in shadows mseries."
They dropped the meat and grabbed for the sha-
COW They rejected the real for the false They re
jected the eternal for the temperate they rejected
the truth for falsehood Where the Pharsees to-
day, and their cause, with their acknowledgements
their hypocrisy and their dupicty? Gone! Where
their synagogues, whose closed docs the chief rulers
feared? All eaten up by the tooth of Time!
Where is Jesus Christ today, whom tne Pharisees
land the chief rulers rejected and of whom they were
ashamed? Where, l ask, is His ministry which they
tried fevershly to crush? Where is the truth He
lgave the world?
kings, Lord of lords and Monarch of monarchs; and
his followers the of heaven for multi
tude and His truth is steadily revolutonzing the
world, which gave his earthly presence welcome
"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
The eternal years of God hers;
But error, wounded, wirthes with pain
And dias her