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MASTER CARES! THOU NOT THAT WE PERISH. church) Hi, 38th. “MASTER CAREST MABK n,, THOU not that we perish? And John calling unto him two /hr disciples sent them to Jesus ° f art thou he that should ‘• V ".' B Xk »« for W « C,lin 'rised that John should ask ‘ZXn like this. Did he not v no w that Jesus was the Christ, J he Messiah that should come? nid he not baptise him and say I sa w and bore record that this is hp Son of God? Had it not been revealed to him by the Holy Ghost ■ t Jesus was not the Son of God? Why then did he send to Jesus, fln d a«k this question? Was it to comfirm his disciples, to point them to Christ? Or had hi. faith sro wn w«»k shut up in a prison cell. It was enough to try hi. faith in Jesus. He had been true to Jesus, to Cod. and was put in prison for re buking sin; and from all we can find out Jesus had sent him no message of comfort or .heer, he certainly had worked no miracle to release him from prison. And doubtless the tempter had often said to him, you are mistaken About Jesus being the Christ, the Son of God, for if he had been, he would not have left you in your tmie of need. He either does not care for you, or he is unable to aid you. How long John was thus tempt ed, I know not, but at last he said, I will settle this matter I will ap peal to him and John sends his disciples to Jesus to know of him if he was the Christ. John may have had the same feeling of the disciples. “Master Carest thou not that we perish ? Master carest thou not that lam in prison. And this question is very often repeated though it assumes many different forms. Danger may, and often do be-set us, in the path of duty. The dis ciples were crossing the sea at the command of Jesus it was not a journey commenced at the sugges tion of any of them, but they had entered the boat not only ai, the command of Jesus, but Juses was with them, and yet, it is written, and there arose a great storm of wind and the waves beat into the ship” Luke says that they were in jeopardy. From one standpoint if there was a time when there would be no storm on Gallilee, it would I* when Je.us and his disciple, were crossing, Did he not know all things, did he fore see that storm? why then »eud his friend, ieto danger? Were they notin the path of duty? Sure ly no evil could befall them there- Many of us make this mistake. We think that if we keep in the path s ’s duty we shall be exempt from dorms. But storms come to all. God says he sends his “rain upon th* l just and the unjust” and the same is true of sorrow and trial. °od men get sick, their families &r " afflicted and they die like oth ♦r people. They have financial storms that , ÜBS thuir boats so, at times, that ‘""ks as if they will lose all their wd earnings in a very little time re is a good man, a hard workj prudent, economical, business 1113,11 ’he is honest in all his deal- fellowman; and ho ln d to the poor, always ready ’iitribute of his means liberal- t" the support of the church, > f ‘ta financial storm comes 1 him and he is in straighten dcircumstances. wh' 611 em Pl er is ready to not ? n r i* l h* 9 ear > “The Lord does >o» y ou or would not suf and } oftenti all int ° BUCh Btr * itß ’” u A . u man Bay 9 a9 Jacob me ” these thin 8 8 are against 1 has al A S ain a poor man who him f depending upon wen? h< D 8 \ r9nt tG P ? y ’ wen f Dont you .ee how i . taken down wick, his little funds all soon exhausted, grocery bills drug bills, rent bills, are all fall ing due, and no money to pay them The thought is formed in his heart if it does not pass his lips Master carest thou not that I perl ish? Don’t you see my sad condi tion how important it is that 1 we are suffering, and every dhy the cloud is darker, are you not moved at our sufferings, touched with a feeling for our infirmities? Job was a perfect man God said of him to Satan, “Hast thou con sidered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one 1 hat feareth God and escheweth evil?” Though Job thus walked with God, God said to Satan, “All that he hath is in thy power,” tl o igh a perfect man how the storms beat about his head. And Job’s friends told him “it is your fault. You are only suffering the due reward for your sins,” and hi. wife who knew that Job was near his God, that he was a good man said to him: “The Lord does not care for you; you have washed your hands in innocency and cleansed your heart in vain, curse God and die.” The same old question Carest thou not if I perish? We are apt to think if God does not help us in the way that we feel that we need help and at the time we desire, that he does not care for us. We want to confine God to our ideas and plans, and if he does not see things as we do, there we begin to doubt his love, or at least his wil lingness or ability to give us the needed help, and in this .way we rule God out of our every day life. Therefore there are many good men, yet good men think it is quite right for a preacher to ask God, and expect Him to help him topreach the gospel, and minister to the suffering, and be with him in all his work, and take care of , him and his, at all times. Hence you often hear good men say :“Yes it will do for a preacher to talk that way, but it will not do in my business.” T would this morning that God would help me to get each one here to see that God is interested in all that is for our real good. That He is just as | willing to help a wood chopper to cut wood or a mother to attend to her household, as He is to help the leading merchant in town to attend to his business, and He is just as ready to.help them as He is to as sist a Sunday-school teacher teach a child the way to Jesus, ‘or the leading preacher of Georgia to preach the Gospel of His Son to dying man. We all are teoapt to think and say withjthe diciples, “Carest thou not that we do not succeed? that we fail?” We are too apt to think that we can do things without the help of th* Lord. I don’t need the Lord to help me clean up the house, to cook break. fast,jl know how to attend to this matter without any outside help. I can buy a horse or a cow without the help of the Lord. Take the in cident that is connected with the text and these mtn, if they knew how to do anything in the world, it was to handle a boaton that sea. Had they not been.on the sea all times of day and night for years? Did they not sometimes fish all night? Certainly they knew how to handle a boat on the sea of Gal ilee. Yes, |they could do this if there were no storms, but the storms, the unexpected, is what is liable to come at any time. These diciples soon found out that there were times when they were just as helpless on the sea *as any body else. They needed the Lord to help them row a boat. They did not feel this nee 1, perhaps, until theii lit-1 •t'e bark was temp ist tossed and al-' most ready to be lost. And we do not feel the need of His assistance until some sore trial conies upon us like a storm. Our Savior in tended to teach by this incident that the mere form without the spirit avails nothing to us. \\ as not the body of Jesus in the boat , and yet the storm raged on, though He was with them. He was asleep. They had the THE HUSTLER OF ROME, FRIDAY OCTOBER, 26 1894. I body, they had the form, but it was not the body, the form of Je sus, that did them any good. It was the spirit. Let us learn a les son here that will be a blessing to us all along through life. We have the church, a great blessing it is, too, but it is only the body, the type, that we need that tins church 'in all its work shall be a blessing to all is, a living Christ. You attend her services, hear he r sweet songs, her prayers, these are all good in their place, but then these prayers, these songs, these services fit you for the world, the trials of the coming week, the difficulties that will beset you when you go back to your work you need more than a form. A painted loaf of bread, and a painted beefsteak will not satisfy your hunger, or give you the strength you need for your daily work, they may be perfect as works of art, but they are very poor things to feed a hungry man on. And thus it is with songs and prayers and all the church service. If the soul does not find and feed upon a per sonal, real loving Savior, if you do not wake up the Savior, so to 8 >eak, in your paryers and songs so that he stands before your soul as the very being you need, then the storms of your life will con tinue to beat upon you, and you will be in jeopardy every hour. You read your Bible but your reading does not bring you face to face with a real, loving, helping Savior, you dont wake him up, you have him in the boat with you, but he is asleep, or in other words, y i have the form but not the power, the letter but not the spirit, and hence you do not get that light and comfort from God’s word that he intends. Many people are in the church, their names are on the church roll, they are good-natured people, and in away they wish the church wel 1 , and they imagine that in some way the church is a help to them, but they do not find Jesus in the church, and then in a time of trial they do not get any help, from the fact that they belong to the church. lam alarmed about this class, and it is a large one. They are sat isfying their consciences that all is well, they belong to the church, and is not Christ in the church? and all will be will with them, but they will find out when the storms of life come, that a mere form is a poor, yes, a very poor thing to depend upon. “Master carest thou not that we perish?” ; We may feel that the the trial is almost too hard for us to bear, the storm too severe for our poor little boat, surely the Lord has left us to perish, to the mercy of the storm, and yet it may be the very thing we need. Scotland has engraved on her national arms a thistle. I see our government has appropriated a large mm oY money for some of the Western states to help them de stroy this pest, and there was a time when doubtless Scotland, felt khat the thistle was a curse to the land. Why then have it engrav ed on the national arms? I will tell you. The Danes invading, prepared a night attack upon a sleeping gar rison that was the key to Scotland. They crept silently barefooted to wards the garrison. In a few mo nents Scotland would be at the mercy of the enemy, when they had almost reached the garrison, a sol dier stepped on a great thistle, the hurt caused him to utter a shrill cry of pain, the sound awoke the sleepers in the garrison, they fought bravely and saved the na tion. So the nation was saved, not by a rose but by a thistle. I was over at the Furniture fac tory in North Rome during our meeting, and went through the factory from beginning to the end. I noticed that they had some beau tiful pieces of furniture, tables, hat racks, side boards, bedstaeads, and as I looked at them I thought that the finest of these was once only a rough piece of plank, no beauty about it, but after passing t trough the hands of many skilled workmen, we have the finest piece of furniture, planed, sawed and polished, and it was not done in a moment. The saw seemed as if it would ruin the planks, sawing them into all shapes and form, and then the j plain would not leave much of it. And when the men with sand pa per and dust and rubbersail helped to perfect those beautiful sets of furniture, suppose 1 had said to the man at the saw or the one at the plain: you are rathercold and i hard to that bit of plank are you not? He would have thought me rather simple don’t you think? He would have said : you don’t know what you say. I am only preparing this useless, ugly piece of timber that it may be a thing of beauty in your home and an ar ticle of usefulness. But hold or, don’t saw it so much, don’t set your plane so deep, don’t rub it so hard, you will ruin the piece. They would have said to me: “We know what we are doing, you need not be uneasy we will not saw, plane or rub too much.” Then I go up in the finishing room and I see what it means. Now I understand why they saw, plane and rub so much. I ask my self, can it be true? Is this the same piece that I was looking at down stairs? Then I see how sim ple I was. “Master carest thou not that we perish?” And He said unto them: “Why are ye so fear ful, how is it that ye have no taith? Don’t you know that the storms come and go at my bidding, that I hold the winds in my fist, and the waters in the palms of my hands?” This storm came for your good. How true we would find this if we could only go up in the finishing room. David said: “I will be sat isfied w hen I awake in Thy like ness.” You and 1 doubtless, broth er, think that the saw is cutting rather a large piece, or that the plain is running very deep and fast, and that the polisher is rub bing very hard, but you and I will be satisfied when we awake in His likeness. Then you and I will understand why the storm was so hard. And as we look back upon life we will see what we now count our sorest affletions were our greatest bles sings. You will then see brother, why you did not succeed in your business, why you lost your mon ey, why death came into your home and took that husband, that wife, that child, that mother. Yes, Glory be to God, you and I will be satisfied when we awake i his likeness, that be did all tilings well. And they awake Him and say unto Him : “Master car jst Thou not that we perish?” and he awoke and rebuked the w ind and said unto the sea, “Peace be still.” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. Jesus always, in his own way, and time answers the appeal for aid ; you and I may go to him in every time of need and know that if we are in the path of duty that he can speak to the storm and He who spake to Gallilee sea, “Peace be still,” will also speak to our burdened hearts and there will be a great calm. Weekly Excursions to California. Every Friday morning a one way i excursion leaves Chattanoga via the Queen & Crescent route for Los Angeles, San Franciso and other points in California, carry ing tourist sleeping cars, from Chattanooga to San Francisco with charge via New Orleans and the Southern Pacific railway. Pas sengers holding firstand seconp class tickets are permitted to occu py space in tourists sleeping cars on payment of a nominal rate charged for accommodations there in. These cars are modern and com ortable sleepers in charge of con ductor and porter and are furnish ed with bedding, curtains and all other necessary articles. Passengers en route to Mexico via San Antonio or El Paso, Tex. have only one change of cars by this route. For further information call on or address: A. J. Lytle, D. P. A., 107 W. Ninth St., Chattanooga, Tenn J. R. McGregor, T. P. A., 2005 First Ave., Birmingham, Ala. W. C. Rinsargon, G. P. A., Cincinnati, 0 Rome Mutual Lean Association. HOME OFFICE ROME GEORGIA, 325, Broad Street. A National Building arid Loan Company Purely Mutual, safe investment and Good Profit Made by small Monthly Payments, OFFICER.” . J. A. OLOvER. President. J. d. MOORE, Sec’ty & Tree*. CHAS. 1. GRAVES,|Vice President. J. H. RHUDES, Mgr’ I*nd Dept. HAI.STED SMIT],, General Council. IB94FALL AND WINTER MILLINERYIB94 NO. 302 BROAD STREET. ROME GEORGIA, We are now prepared to Show A Select Stock of New and Sty lish Millinery, Ladies, Misses and childrens, Hats and Bonnets, Baby Caps, Hair Ornaments, Side and Tuck Combs, Ice Wool, Silk floss and Zephyrs. Will sell at lowest Cash prices, Call and See us, Respectfully A. O. GRRRARD. tSsBIL I - 1' Tfc y- Ills OwW - -T *7- ~ • * Madison - Avenue Madison Aveni e and 58th,Street, NEW YORK. per day and up. American Plan. FIREPROOF AND FIRST-CLASS ’N EVERY PARTICULAR. — Two Blocks from the Third and Sixth Avenue Elevated . Railroads The Madison and Fourth Avenue and Belt Line Cars pass the Door, < . , H M. CL ARK, proprietor. Passenger Elevator runs all night. BRICK KILN S LIME KILNS HA’R AND SAND We can furnish fresh Lime in large quanities burned from our own Kilns on short notice. Brick. Lime, Hair and Sand always on hand Greorge “W. Trammell Fourth Ward Br.ck Yards,