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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
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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
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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.
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KUROPATKIN FIRED
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| 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.
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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.
GEORGIA STONE HAS A SHOW.
Material for District of Columbia
Building May Come from So*jth.
A Washington dispatch says: The
indications are strong that the con
tract for furnishing the stone for the
new District of Columbia municipal
building will go to Georgia. The matter
has not as yet been finally deter
mined, but the bid of the Blue Ridge I
j Marble Company is the lowest.
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