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| THE A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. THEODORE L. CUYLER. Subject: "The Soul's Anchors.'* Brooklyn. N. Y.?The Rev. I)r. Theodore L. Cuyler occupied his old pulpit in Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian . Church, Lafayette avenue and South 9 Oxford street, Sunday morning. A very large congregation was present. Dr. Cuyler. who is now in his eigluy, ^ fourth year, preached with his oldtime vigor on "The Anchors of the Soul." He took as his text Acts xxvii: 29: "They cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day," and said: The account of Paul's voyage to Rome is one of those graphic passages of the New Testament which never loses its interest. It not merely throws a strong.light upon ancient navigation, but is strong confirmation of the truthfulness of the Acts of the Apostles, for modern nautical services have established every word of the narrative. The chief interest to us to-day is its rich, practical, spiritual instruction. The story of the storm and the shipwreck you have all been familiar with irom cnuanoou. r or rourreen a ays me ship had been in the clutch of a terrific "blizzard," as we would call it, but which is described in the narrative as a "eurocyldon." No sun or moon or stars appeared during that terrible fortnight. For safety much of the cargo was heaved overboard and they were obliged to bind around the crazy craft with hawsers in order to keep from foundering in mid sea. They imagined they were drawing nigh to the land, and heaving the lead it tells off twenty fathoms. The next cast of the lead shows fifteen fathoms. They are now close on the lee shore. Only one maneuver can save them. They cast four anchors out of the stern, and it is a striking fact that pictures on the walls of Herculaneum and Pompeii depict the galleys anchored in that ' manner. What a long and dreary night was fhat to the drenched and weary voyagers, while they listened to the terrific thundering of the breakers on the shore. But Paul, Christ's prisoner. is on board, and he is the real master of the situation. His precious life is insured from heaven, for, remember until their work is done. It was part of God's wish that the anr-J chors should preserve the most valuable life then on the globe until Paul's mighty mission was accomplished. Human life is a voyage, and all of you now before me are bound on it for the judgment seat and for eternity. It is not a voyage over smooth seas and before soft, south winds. Everything under God depends on the compass and the anchors. You observe that the anchors are not attached to anything afloat, but they plunge through the waves and bite into the tenacious clay. And so it is with our spiritual anchors. Make fast to God's immutable word and to the omnipotent Saviour, the lord Jesus Christ. An anchor, too, is unseen. And so it is with the inward UiiiUH >viiu iiic uu^ctru iuui koeps many a one safe in the hour of temptation, and brings composure to those in the depths of terrible trials. * When Martin Luther was struck with a heavy head sea he used to let slip the cable of the forty-sixth psalm and. throughout the voyage of life you and I have vital need of the anchors which our divine Master, the Captain of our salvation, has provided for our safety. .What are the four anchors? The first and foremost anchor is faith. That^is often defined as trust in an unseen God, and we take God's word more implicitly than we take the notes issued by the Government, because they bear the stamp of the United States with its vast resources behind it. But the mightiest spiritual force for you and me is the Christfaith. Now, that is'a great deal more than a mere opinion. Faith is infinitely more than a sentiment or feeling or opinion. It is an act; it is the positive act of the soul laying hold of Jesus Christ as our Saviour, joining our weakness to His strength: our unwor\ thiness to His merits: our weak selves to His infinite and almighty Self, We are not commanded only to believe in Christ, we are commanded to believe on Christ, if we would be saved, A friend of mine was staying at a hotel in Albany and noticed a rope in his room and had faith in it because he saw it was a well-braided rope. At midnight he was aroused by a cry of \ - "Fire!" On opening the door the smoke and flames burst in, and he grasped the rope and let himself down in safety to the sidewalk. He believed on the rope. That is saving faith when you rest on Christ, clinging fast to Christ, trusting in Him alone to uphold you to the end and assured of His promise. "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." Salvation of the soul is an actual experience. It is the actual testing of Christ: the actual attachment to Christ, the actual love for Him hid in the very depths of the soul. The British Government requires all its anchors to be stamped. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews is the Holy Spirit's record of the stamps on the anchor of faith. My mother's Bible was marked all through with pencilings on the margin, proving how these various promises had been tested, and the an ehor never dragged. The second anchor is loyalty to Christ and obedience to His commandments. Every day I attach less importance to a religion of mere emotion. It is very pleasant to sing and sometimes to shout on the mountain tops, but a religion of mere emotion is subject to its ebbs and flows and is not reliable in the strain and stress of temptation. Loyalty to the teachings of Christ, loyalty to the everlasting right must be imbedded in the conscience if you and I are not to drift upon the rocks. Even faith without good works would be dead. It has been this lack of loyalty ^ of conscience to the truth, integrity and right which has strewed the beach t with so many pitiable and disgraceful wrecks. The great demand in these days is conscience; the great demand in politics is conscience, and no man is safe under the temptations of commerce or of public life when his conscience is loosened from God's commandments. God never insures a man. even in the church, except while his anchor is fastened to the divine principles of right with the cable of obe dience to the Master. I would say to these dear young friends, beware of the first false step; keep off dangerous ground. In Switzerland I saw the Mortenharsli glacier, where Tyiulall had such a perilous experience. lie and a companion were laslied to a guide. They began to descend on the rough rocks and the" companion suggested that they should walk on the snow alongside. They did so and their weight disturbed the equilibrium of the whole body and sent them down as an avalanche. Just before they reached the precipice the guide thrust his iron shod boot against a projecting rock and shouted. "In the name of i iinti lmlt"' Thor ti-nrp drawn un v.* V/U, JIUlli a itv t? .. V - - ^ when there was but a moment between them and eternity. I would say to every one of you, dear young men. if you find yourselves being carried away by your social surroundings or influences toward the precipice of ruin, plant your feet firmly against God's truth and God's right ere you are swept away. The third anchor is patience. That was a tedious night of peril and gloom which laid upon Paul and his shipmates, but they held out and waited for the day. Patience is that staying power in the will which Paul in his epistle calls longmindedness. It is the ptfwer to endure a continued strain without flinching: it is the staying power that wins the prize. Mark how much of the Old Testament makes of waiting patiently upon God. In the New Testament the word often is endures, and I would say to all those dear young friends, who have lately been united with this church, that the start is not sumcient, -\ue imit- euuiueth shall be saved/' This patient waiting is opposed to every anxiety and the worry that fritters away strength tfnd produces no result. I will give you three simple rules to put into practice. First, take short views; never cross a bridge until you come to it: never fight the battle until the evening is in sight. Second, discharge the duty that comes next to your hands; take the step that God points out immediately before you. If in ascending a mountain you look up you may grow weary, and if you look down you may grow dizzy. One step at a time is the secret of the successful climb, and there is noone with strength enough to bear to-day's duties with the worries and interests of to-morrow piled on top of them. Third, never yield to the demon of discouragement. You parents have need of patience with your children to encourage everything that is good, to bear with perverseness until you can correct it. instead of only increasing it by irritation. "Why do you tell that boy twenty times?" said the father of John Wesley to his broth er. ".Because, repneu me wise mau, "nineteen times go for naught and I shall not gain my point without the twentieth." Wise Susanna Wesley trained the founder of Methodism. God's delays are sometimes a test of faith. Look at that Syrophoenician woman plucking the garment of Christ. She persists, and clings to Him, until He says: "Oh, woman! great is thy faith," etc. During the first charge of my ministry 1 grew so discouraged that I was about to give up when my Master headed me oft' with one of the most powerful revivals I have known. The darkest hour was just before the dawn. Here in Brooklyn to-day God's voice to tne churches evidently is to do their utmost work, to pour forth the most fervent prayer, to engage in the most personal effort and trust to Him for the blessing. The best enterJ O Tl'Avl/] llO VA Vl A tllAlT piiOCO lli IXilO H VUU i.iU ? ^ Jut 14. v*. riodo -of discouragement, when patience was the vital grace that won the day. That glorious old missionary, Judson, worked for five years in Burmah without a convert. Then the cloud burst and the great and permanent Burmah mission resulted. The lesson to-day, beloved members of this" church, is: stand by the pastor, assist him in every movement, echo his every exhortation and, with united pastor and people, let us move on to spiritual harvestings and victory. The fourth anchor is that beautiful word, hope. That is not the possession of good things; it is rather the confident expectation of good things that are assuredly in store for us. "We are saved by hope." In our spiritual life hope is vitally important. I thank God that throughout my life He has enabled me to be an inveterate hoper. The word, however, in the New Testament has sometimes a peculiar meaning in describing the Christian. The apostle, in speaking of the hope of sal vation, cans it "ail alienor sure uuu steadfast holding to that within the vale." Let me ask each one of you this morning. Where is your hope? On what are you resting for this world and the next? Is your hope an anchor fastened! to the Lord Jesus, or is it only a mere cable attached to sand? That great Christian, Harmon Page, who made it a rule never to be with any one ten minutes without saying something good. He went into his Sundayschool with a note book in hand and asked each one, "Have you a hope of salvation?" Most of them gave him an affirmative answer. He came to one man, a stranger, in the adult Bible class, who shook his head and said, "I have none." Sagacious Mr. Page, instead of rebuking him. in a very pathetic tone said, "Then I will put you down as having no hope." The gentleman could not sleep that night. He said, "Page has me down in his book as a hopeless man." and he laid hold of Christ and made his decision for the Master, and the next time he" met the superintendent he said. "Tliank God for your plain, loving talk with me. for I have a hope now like an anchor." I rtita tho rvf that nhilnnthrcDist who came to New York as a humble carpenter, and who wrought such a work that over 100 souls were converted under him. Brother believers, let the storms of earth howl as loudly as they will, if we have committed everything to Jesus all should be well, for so it came to pass that when the daylight broke the tempest-tossed mariners on the shores of Melita come safe to land. So it will be with us, through the night's darkness, through perilous voyages we shall each have our souls fast anchored to the universalizing Saviour, whom alone we can trust for'salvation. My last, loving counsel to every one of you before me, whom I am rejoiced to address once more from this dear old pulpit, is. make fast your anchors to the Lord Jesus Christ if-at last you would find peace in the desired haven. The Reason. 1 Christ came into the world, not to tell us what is right, but to give to our right doing the right flavor.?Rev. ' Frank Crane. ? / " v ;.* v " .. ' -i/'* * / v ^ a KUROPATKIN FIRED I | Luckless General Dismissed in Disgrace by Czar. ! MOST SCATHING REBUKE ! Laconic Imperial Order Relieves Him J ,from Command and Places General Linevitch at Head of Land and Naval Forces. I ! A St. Petersbuig special says: With | the Japanese hanging on the heels j OilU \JL HiC ituiauuto VA. j broken, defeated army, General Kuro! patkin, the old idol of the private I soldier, has been dismissed and dis; graced, and General Linevitch, com' mander of the first army, is appointed ; to succeed him in command of all the ; Russian land and sea forces operating | against Japan. i The word disgrace is written in large letters in the laconic imperial order gazetted, which contains not a single word of praise, and also dis| poses of the rumor that Kuropatkin j had asked to be relieved. The Rusi sian military annals contain no more | bitter rebuke. While it was known that the council had already decided to supplant TCnrnnatkin aftpr thp Mukden disaster. the decision to confer the task of saving the remainder of the army on Lietenant General Linevitch in the J very midst of its flight, although bruited Thursday night, came as a surprise. I It transpires that Emperor Nicholas, j upon the advice of General Drogormij roff and War Minister Sakharoff, determined that the step was necessary j when it became apparent Thursday ! morning that Kuropatkin, while con; centrating for a stand at Tie Pass, ! seemed unaware that the Japanese had worked around westward again and practically allowed himself to be , surprised. Old reports brought by General ; Grippenburg regarding Kuropatkin's | failing mentality also had its influence. Under the circumstances, therefore, 1 it was considered imperative, in view i of the exceedingly perilous position j of the army to turn over its command , to Linevitch, who alone had been able i to bring off his army in order afcer the battle of Mukden. His record in ; the Chinese war had also demonstrate ! pd eanacitv as a commander. Ku ropatkin will return to St. Petersburg forthwith. The task confided to Linevitch of ! withdrawing what is left of the great j army of 350,000 men to Harbin is a desperate one. He is hemmed in on ; all sidiss. General Kawamura, ^presumably is pressing northward ! through the mountains eastward ready j to swoop down; Generals Nogi and j Oku are on the west of the Russian ; forces; the whole line of the railroa'd ; is threatened, if not already cut, and j Chinese bandits are even reported to be in the rear of Harbin. Decided anxiety is felt in St. PeI tersburg regarding the fate of the | army in Manchuria, under its new ) commander, no news of military de; velopments having been received for many hours. The only dispatches from the front j Friday were brief announcements that General Linevitch had assumed command and that General Kuropat! kin was departing for St. Petersburg, I which disposes of a runkw that the latter had committed suicide. In this correspondent's opinion no | pause in the Japanese advance is J probable for some time. The Russians are losing heavily in the rear guard actions, and Japanese columns I are reported to be pushing northward as fast as possible to complete the envelopment of the Russian forces. ) j Fire Destroys Half of Town. About half of the business portion of the town of Galax, Va., was de( stroved by fire Friday morning, re* 1 TY\ o t i n or # I suiting in a iuss v^-i i 000 with probably $10,000 insurance. PEACE OVERTURES SIDETRACKED . Germany Hears Officially That Czar Will Continue the War. j The German government has been I informed that the Russian emperor j has again put aside all peace suggesj tions and is unshaken in his resolution I to continue the war. All the higher i officers of the far eastern army rej cen-tly joined in a petition to Emperor Nicholas not to consider peace, asking that they be given ether opportunities to show the quality of Russian valor, and representing that, although they have retreated, they and the army still have the will to fight. 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