SUNDAY COLUMN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 42, 12 October 1912, Page 8

SUNDAY COLUMN.

ARROWS AT A VENTURE. By tJie Rov. E. J. Watts-Ditchlicld, M.A., London. Continued. Now for the man that never Jielx>s anybody. His sympathies are bounded by ins own skin. He always prays for .himself. Ho sometimes prays, “Thy will be done oji earth as it is in heaven/'' but he does not realise that in order to have his prayer answered, no must work. Some people want God to send Hus angels to do all His work. Of course, the work God wants you to do is not necessarily the work you like best to do. Rut remember, men, “Christ pleased not Himself,” and the servant is not above His Lord. Christian men should be ready for anything and everything. i remember before the C.E.M.S. was started, I was just about to go for a holiday, and preached on Nehemiah. Upon my return, some working men reminded me of my sermon, and told me that they had talked and prayed about it every Wednesday night in between and something solid had resulted. They gave me a sheet of foolscap on which was written to this effect: “Brotherhood' of St. James the Less. After carefid prayer and thought, we have come to the following resolution: That foi cue next twelve months we will dc any kind of Christian work the Yicaa wants us to do, whether we like it 01 not. For twelve months we will no. criticise each other or any other Chris

Can worker. We will be ready to dc anything that wants doing, withom fault-Jinding and criticising.” Will you realise that the greatest happiness and truest joy in the work, comes in doing something for Jesus Christ ? Get to your work and stick to it through thick and thin, without allowing the devil to' side-track you. Now, supposing some of you hav< not been hit. The next shot will hit everybody. It is aimed at the mai whom God wants. That hits all of you 'What does Ho want to do with yon; Some .from the Old Country will knov. that little island between Ireland and the coast of Wales—the Isle of Man. It has a crest called “Tiro Three Leg; of Man,” with a Latin inscription above, which, translated, reads, “Throw him wherever you will he wil stand.” Manxmen always have a Ic£ to stand on. God wants you all to Ik hfc that—to stand in prosperity, ad vcrs.ty, trial, doubt, temptation. Wha, is the origin of that phrase, “A In do

fellow,?” “And the Lord was' wifi Joseph and he was.a prosperous man.' In one of thei earliest translations i ran : ; “The Lord was ;with' Joseph : and he was a lucky fellow:” And so Ik was. So is every man who has the with* him.. We want you to gta&i Uat. It means good luck in the high es.i sense, in all your trials and temp tations, go to Him and He will carry you through. Are you all praying-men and Bible-rcading men? I never cam a Bible 7 with me in Bethnal Green. 1 say when I am visiting, “Lend me yon; Bible/? Sometimes they have to scares around for it, mid I. have had then go twoi doors down the street to him up; a Bible. Where is yours? I do noi mean that,,big one which is general! under six other books, with a litth fancy mat and a flower pot on toptil© one which it takes you five minutes to get at. I mean the Bible tha; your mother gave you, with this tex. written in it: “Call upon Me in th< day of trouble and I will deliver you/ ( mean the one you can carry in yom packet. Do you read : it every morn • ng? It would be a help to you, wouk; i;- not? Try it. Once on an American railway line the stationmaster’s two little children were playing down the lino in a tunnel. In the tunnel were two little niches in the rock. A train dashed ink the tunnel before the children conk get out. The elder one pushed tin .vounger one into a niche and got ink ihe other herself, calling out as tin train dashed upon them: “Cling close to the rock, Jennie, cling close to the ►rock.” They held on and were saved. So when danger and the train of evi comes, cling to the Rock. Cling tc Christ! Doing that, we are safe. Cling to the Rock of Christ, and you will be saved for evermore. Amen. The following sentiments arc attri .nited to the Rev. Sam. P, Jones “This is a great world in which yoi and I live, brother. There may b< larger worlds, and grander and bettei worlds than this; but this is a great world. Its mountains are God’s thoughts p : lod up, its prairies God’s thoughts spread out, its rivers God’s thoughts in motion, its flowers God’s thoughts in bloom, its harvests God’s thoughts in bread, its dewdrops God’s thoughts in pearls; and wherever wc look about us every object smiles back upon us and says, ‘I am the gift of a gracious Father to His wayward son/ ”

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The great thing in the world is no! so much where wc stand, as in wind direction wc are moving. Virtue alone is true nobility. Mon are born to be serviceable to one another: therefore reform the world or boar with it. Take time to live. This is the real purpose of our coming bore—to learn how to live well. Calmly, earnestly, patiently, go on from day to day, and so build a life which will last through the ages.