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WALKING IN THE DARK
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Kirk Maconachie at Umon Church on Sunday morning
"Who is among you that #feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walkath in darkness and hath
Let no light?
him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God.. Behold all that kindle a fire that gird your- selves abous with firebrands, walk ye in the fame of your fire and among the brands which ye have kindled. This shall", yah have of mine hand; Ye shall Île downin sorrow."-Isaiah 50/10-11-
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Mount Mihara on Oshima (Vries Island), which has been dormant since the violent erup- tion of 1914, became again-active on the night of the 18th ultimo. Mr. Inoue, the Governor of Tokyo, did not hear of it till the 31st when he received a com- munication from the head-man ol the island. Since the 98th ultimo at 1a.m. explosions have been occurring at rates of seven or eight times a minute. The inhabitants of the island are said to be panic-stricken.
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The ing for not attending. policeman delivered the summons to me in an aeroplane," ran his letter, and when I took it up with me it blew out, therefore I did not know the date on which to appear." The defendant was final...
An old writer says of this much neglected passage that it exhibits a contrast between the righteous at their worst and the wicked at their best. The faithful remnant; of Israel, here addressed, find the light of day seemingly gone | from their lives, whilst the path of the disobedient! lay amid colour and brightness. It is the old puzzle of the ages, the wicked flourishing like the green bay tree, and the man who tries to do right: finding every-} thing go Wrong-a frequenti phenomenon but not universal. for if it were the rule rather than the exception the world be satisfied, but that in itself is to would have ceased wonder is to be in a state of darkness, ing at it, whereas it is compared to which the passing done wondering at so gloom of depression and reaction striking a break-away from what is nothing. after all is the normal course of
Now there is good counsel în life: The rule is that God's ways the text for the man whose walk- are ways of pleasantness and the for the time is unilluminated way of transgressors is bard. "Let him trust, in the name of that light is sown for the the Lord and stay upon his God." righteous," and walking with If he does that he will find that God is normally a walking in the the darkness has its uses as well. light. Nevertheless, valleys of us shadow are somewhere upon every path, as well as green pastures and still waters, and (a) For one thing it is then that the same Shepherd Who leads the we learn what trast is God really flock to pleasant places comforts means in actual operation. Untila.m., the military aviator was hard stretches. Abraham was phrase to you. pions and right-the direction of a French instruc- tor at the new aerodrome at called "friend of God," so closely sounding no doubt, but second- did he walk with God in obedience hand, an acquired speech rather Kagamigahara, near Gifu, when, and companionship. But there than the fresh-minted language of as he was engaged in a descent, was a day when a horror of the heart. So long as the path is his machine fell perpendicularly from a height of 80 metres. The great darkness fell upon him, fairly plain, the spirits buoyant and such are recorded of and mind untroubled, the tradi- aeroplane was completely wreck most of God's servants. The tional language of religion abouted and the aeronaut was killed on the spot. He was the first wise trust in God seems but the ac- just judges... the
victim to aviation at the Kagam. kings, the pioneers and reformers cepted platitude. But when you are
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Faith, say our hymn-writers, "trugs where it cannot trace." But are they right? If you can trace, how can you possibly trust? Seeita. they say. is is but a world like this, the more ear-believing, which nest your service of God is, the a way of saying that when you
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more likely are you to have your can see, faith is superfluous. No shadowed hours. People are very 1 do not understand how I am to
(6). That is one discovery to be free in blaming poor Elijah lying trust if I am able to trace, and
måde and one faculty develop despondent beneath his juniper knowing how wholesome it is to
ėd only in the darkness bush, but were they themselves be practiced in trust I do not
There are others. Away in the everzealous enough to get despon-want to be able always to trace.
starry spaces there are systems dent? Hiscase was one of reaction, I want to acquire
which have twin suns in their which means that there had been of walking in the darkness when action before it, and you are need is I want to prove the realityky As soon as one of them sets
the other rises on not at liberty to criticise him in of that rod and staff which the depression unless you emolate Shepherd carries, not for purposes him in exertion. If I have no of picturesque decoration but for at the high aim and make no hard practical bard service effort I may well keep clear of opportune time. Do not imagine disappointment. If I have no suu are being hardly dealt with
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about the vast and splendid existence we had not suspected. it is making growth, growth unj universe of which our world is We come now that our seen in preparation for that
is which in due time will appear. So to speak, part, for if night did not drop her world,
Three very brief remarks in in its plaće timely curtain we should never kept bebold either glistening moon balanced safe in its movements closing- or star-bespangled sky. The by a universe beyond the horizon relations, the movements, the vast of our little day, "He that walketh have to walk in the dark it is inagnitudes, the wonderful in darkness" is on the way to never your duty to look for mathematical and toechanical discover spiritual laws and their darkness, to summon it to you. adjustments of the millions of hearing upon his life, and thus is and wrap its folds around you, to heavenly bodies beyond our own on the way to a firmer trust based take morbid pleasure in it, to
indulge yourself in despondency... would be nothing to us. on a broader knowledge. whole material of our thought (c). Take one further parable Passing through the shades in would have to be gathered and from nature's book, and to find it one thing: living always in. the total fabric of our knowledge let us come down from the skies them is another, and it has been built up from the limited world and look into the cellar. There done away in Christ. They that we lived in and were confined to. we may find the bulbs whose duelt in the shadow of death, When Sir Robert Ball's advicebeanty and fragrance make the upon them hath the light shined." was asked about a daylight-saving charm of garden and greenhouse No one need dwell there now, wi (2) Remember that ever Bill be said that from the obeer in the spring season. But we shall vatory point of view daylight not see them, for the gardener in the dark we are often meanf was a mistake. Night reveals has carefully covered them over advance, that is, not merely more than it obscures, and so from the light until such time as to wait but to go on with our when God would have His friend the roots have been able to shoot It may be impossible at Abraham believe His promise He down and strengthen. Not until to feel what one
led him out at night, and bade then does he bring them to the it is never him tell the stars, if he were able light, for, if he did he would get will what one to number them." Then Abraham, little but stalk and leaf. So also moves in a mysteri we are told, believed God, and it grace in the beart takes the He moves do was reckoned to him for righte-firmest root for living in the when the move ousness." Similarly in our life light. If anything worth while (3) Light no
Christian is like res when its accustomed securities is to resul
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