The Gospel Trumpet - 35:48

              So wllf I 1eek out my aheep, and will deliver. them out of all place• where tht:<y have been scattered In th• cloudy and dar"k day. -Ezek. !4: 12.
And they shall be my people, and I will bo their God.-Jor. 32:38. At evening tlmo It oh&ll bo llgnt.-Zech. 14:7.
Volume XXXV. Anderson, Ind., U. S. A., Thursday, December 9, 1915. Number 48.
ETERNAL SPRING
Red autumn in the· forest glail<!R
To earth the lcon.veN ifl t1inging7
And hirdA Umt tuwlt wurc Runlit homes
Thoir so11thwnril way are winging.
Grim death aronnrl ouch mortal form
His iey sh<H!tB is win(ling;
The vision of the hri)(htost eye
Hi• gloomy mi•ta are h!inding.
Fresh leave• will bloom on leaflc•s tl•ceo,
New beuntinR With them hringingj
Where now doth nwa.n tho wint.ry wind~,
Jlright hircls will then be singing.
What though ttrouncl our mortal .frnmos
Death 'a ahro1HIS are ever folding,
Wt\ too some cluy fllmll burst h1a bands,
Eternal spring boholiling.
-Jamoe 'rurnor.
SENTENCE SERMONS
Uy Ma1"Y FJ. Cropsey
The Snn of Righteousness never sets in the
head that walks with God.
There is no loss so grcnt a.~ that of a soul.
Poverty, witl1 ,Jesus, is better than the wealth
of the whole WOI"Id, without hirn.
A normal spit·itual birth, is followed by a
heart-hunger for a personal Pentecost.
Salvation is not education, hut a divine trans·
formation.
The golden agn wns ushered in when Jesus
came into the world to cmt the ehains whieh bind
hurwmity to ~in .
The . nations of E11rope have been po~ing as
Christian nations. They are now reaping the
fruit of that unrighteous pose.
The unity taught by Christ can ndt exist out­side
the new birth and the Pentecostal outponr·
ing of the Holy Spirit.
It does not require much effort to ha.ve one's
name put upon a nonrinal ehurch-book, but when
it comes to being added >to Christ's church, there
is no getting around that eternal law · of .God,
"Y e must be born again."
The nations would not pay out . the inune~se
stlJill! they are !!Pending for war, to ev~n~hze
the wol'ld, because their hearl:B were not IO 1t.
Our Father ~ever makes mistru.es in train-.
ing his children. All who respond h.e will bring
to their best and highest.
When we become discouraged, and look for
defeat in our Christian life and work, we place
ourselves in posi'tjon to be attackect by the
enemy.
There is always melody in the heart that is
in tune with God. There is sweet music when
the hand of J esus sweeps tl1e harp-strings of the
soul. ·
Eternity ! Oh .awful thought! Banished for­ever
from the presence of the King, the way of
escape closed, left forever to the angUish of sin.
Bternity! Oh glorious thought! Forever with ·
the King, no veil of flesh to hide his wondrous
face; "like him, for we shall see him as he is."
Worship is an utter going out of the being to
God as a personal Savior, king, keeper, and com­forter.
Much th11.t is called worship in the nom·
inal church is nothiD.g but mockery ; godless, 'paid
si:ng;,rs, and organists, entertain, but do not
worship.
A LIFE OF TRUST
By J. Grant A.nde1·son
' ' Our fathers trusted in thee .. . and were not
confounded" (Psa. 22:4, 5) , These words w~re
uttered by David wt a time when he was in great
sorrow. He reminded God that others · before
him had trUsted , and were vietori1m.s. David
could not, however, find deliverance and ~onsola­tion
by simply a knowledge that. others m other
days . had received help from God; but he ex­ercised
faith for hiDlJSelf and learned to place
confidence and explicit .trust in the Lord. . He
struggled for a time, 'but soon he learned the
lesson. In the next psalm he broke forth in the
following language : ' ' The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want. . . . He leadeth m.e beside the
still waters. . . . I will fear no . evil. '' He no
longer expressed fea1· of ':"ant o.r of evil ; ~nd \he
thought. of being led bes1de st1Il waters 1mphes
surrender and peace. Thank God, that is .ex~
perienced by all those who will trust in him.
There come dark days in each person's life­days
when bright and pleasant thoughts have
hard work to rise; but when we r emember that
our life is lrid in God and that we are no longer
our own we soon settle. down inrto .·a tru'stft1l
state and are at rest. Jesus said, "Come unto
me, . . . and I will give yon rest.'' If he M·
tually gives us rest , we must possess it, or must
be in position to obtain it, to realize :itt when
needed. ·
I grasped a valuable lesspn once when the
train in which I was riding suddenly entered a
dark tunnel.. I did not become excited nor did
I ,jump off in an effort to save my life, but I ·
closed my eyes and rested. . Shortly, we came
out into bright daylight. Oftentimes the same
thing occurs spiritually. .AJl seems to be going
well, when, suddenly the soul · seems to be sur­rounded
with gloom and darkness without any
apparent reason. The powers of dis!!ouragement
thickly hover near. Then is the time to trust in
God. Do not get excited and jump to your de­struction;
do· not throw away your confidence
and trust in God; but simply · take a watchful
rest for a little while, and · you will soon come
out into hright noonday.
The Lord is watching you during your t esting,
for he. has animpor:tant place, no.doubt, :for you
to fill. Congregations, like individuals, pass
through dark places, and they also must learn
the lesson of t rust.
Another time I was passing .through a severe
test, and bad walked the floor for over an hour
when I noticed a motto on the wall, which read,
"I wilHrust and not be afr aid." It seemed that
it was a voice from eternity speaking to me, and
I settled down into . a quiet peaceful r est. 0
troubled soul, cease from all your struggling.
God cares for you. He would suspend the law
of gravitation if necessary, before he would let
yon fall. . Trust him, and ·be both happy and
safe. ·
A WORLD-WIDE REVIVAL
By .E . A . Reardon
A number of the .Lord's people have been
praying for a good. while for God to grant an
extraordinary outpouring of the Holy Spirit
upon his church and to send a r evival, the power
and effects of which shall be felt throughout the
world, especially upon the mission fields.
Nothing can delight and please God more than
to see his children interested in the cause which
d~w his Son to earth. If we cry earnestly and
perseveringly unto him, will he not grant us such
a revival? · Can he deny us that which will pros­per
his church and lead souls to Christ every.
where? . Nay, verily; God is willing ancfwaits to
fulfil· o1_1r desires when • our hearts 'lire prepared,
for reviVals o:f the. Holy Spirit do not come by
.chance. ·