SUNDAY READING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15521, 31 January 1914, Page 4 (Supplement)

SUNDAY READING.

• "i'Wsm ••••• COMFORT IN TKOUBLJ!. , , Let-not; your- heart be troubled. —To]iaSoJ.i jj "Man" is loin unto trouble, as thespajfcs ■fly upward," and at every ;po|r:t isisorij ronncled. by, a multitude of. anizioties-faVd afflictions,*,, which . make him wo'ndrrwhether the hand, that guides his d?stinjrjt controlled by. a,heart;of| love. 'Many cjaj say "wtfli Job that awn is indeed iias trouble, for' their journey ?roiit thetcradl# t<> the grave is marked by a succcssion oT happenings-that seem to turn' their -cxjfj'tT ence„ into one long weary catastropte' '"."heir, barque is'c-ver sailing on stormy;seas and if for "a" time -it glides into sutofli; water it is oriiv a deceptive pre!nde 1( io still more boisterous burricauen. Arid ,y?C. ir spite-of -these: things, while knowing: thj ; tragedy and the: sorrow of j life, eurif.n.'M speaks the words- that - have'"come d<sss ; through the-ages -with a milage'of-Rat-ing arid of ■ comfort. 'chapter/;'fefflft which they are" taken is perhaps the.b&S known; and the best loved portion of ti« Bible, rivalled only in the Christian heart i by - the incomparable twenty-third .pain,' Into thousands and thousands of .:■ fifartf; it has'come like the music of Van' -angers ;: song. ;In the hour, of crisis it has imp&rl&l rtrength; in' the time of sorrow sit.'sP brought peace and hope.'' "It-is; a chapter of' ' pmfor.tr The sick - love it, for there,is; i music in it that seethes pain and The dyiag'love ~i, for it : has its-revealiag" of the life 'of those who have gor.etdfeaj hjpme - ip the Father's , .WKfd/ffl! burden,»•){ life; presses' heavily, and is overcast- -with I fear,v • 'the thct?ghj||o to-morrow brings an in\ coldness heart, s the whisper of lhe Jeter's "fefici steals ever the t< Anest 5 with its serving '■ balm, and we hear - Him say, as Ke tok* . pur . "Let not your • heart*.s£ troubled.'V- It is a ,'grea« • sentence— the greatest in the whole Blb'fi: in its calm ; assurance; stiengbheaiag-.'sapi confidence. . Authority is stamped letter,- 'Who but Christ could li&&ira£s smm : a '■word ?'• Who hut He ' coiild .'fl'ri'i d fed' to say. "In*a world of '-troumfii'® i.; your heiTTt bo troubled" With: it note of divine, authority :i it"raiU;'s?wiiif® other incomparable utterance, "Come Me-, j ind I will live you rest;"" / ' WB^wd'auch 1 a . command— a coirravi ifc'mlly ;is~thcre must be Something tlUfj jnst'ihf it. ; Tiie;men 'to whom the were vdginslfy spoken were - not . "ft , «P«Pw "Brieve .in God, believe, alsd'-iil i Mo,-" Tjjcm in U 1 " secret, of t'lfi-ecwfidciltl Thus; far w?e» -id believed; for .Jesus..?!# taught -' l -'* & new name .for/?O<J%? ; i ''Father.'' fr vfi:\ a father's lev.' He gal • watching or?-' them; acquainted- Yv-ittfll ; the. affairs .'' their Lie, Ho was plau#< 1 the-whole for 'the?? good ; His? caw . edr,:tc • the sm- Ik-it" event?,- and wk*i3¥*! ' happen,ed-.they vote to knov thstiisS® ' nands tjhoy were if ptjfcct , safety. ';Mf% 1 they .wei-evtpvbelif - m .the sbrS^l 1 they to" believe, in the &>n- The«n|g@ ' doom and despair **>«. al ready casting pti > them its Jong : dark shadow, but ' testing-time';.-came v hey wpto to- rdju.M§ 1 the exhortation, and as .they h'sa tn* ' Cod, ;so wore ; they t<- believe . ia l is :So? • In; the- sorrow; that was. even now .'coai.i;: > to them on i hurrying "feet, they vfO'iliJll > tempted to lose their faith,, to let;goM® : prip>. to sink in despair, and to- pn.j4?' . them t. or . the approaching ' . trial...,Js! ¥ strengthening message falls from the - v ter's lips, "Let - not . your hearg|i|l troubled; tye J believe * ia v God, >i believe", m Me." >- I \P le ."?? C6^B 9 .' s one . that can never . °ld-with time. There is always --tiisM'l! , g? r . ,°' , our faith - faltering and failinglm I nea.th the h«\vy . stroke, of trouble. ,1^ - ?»ij t u ons - at€ ever •• being asked': "Sovf:'® I wod be God -of love", and suffer me . 50 -bereft, so stripped of good. ; Wiiere'.»? > npw the promises of ,hles:4nc whish-»? I constantly in the Scriptures '.M - (*od forgotten tQ be gracious V To ali'- I ®;*-' I • Huid -questionings i the answebo^ with unfailing power, "Believe in. L i IT* J !L itc -" nothing ill ' fnK T A ' : ougll - it seems that iovejfe |"? c A»; that God .haa forgotten , vnp'.Vife > t is no longer yoitr friend,:; idiSSfe ' Chi Li'" *ve 10 believe also in Jcsji' ' i; That-is the^ WW»,to the "enigma ofilw? tw'!' fc K e answer that hushfts' winpost . ?iia v bt<iq