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Yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel, Rev. Wm. Lawrence spoke on Christ's injunction to the seventy disciples, "Salute no man by the way.' St. Luke, Chapter 10, 4th verse.
The Christian often says "How can I live in the world and keep my faith?" My answer is "Be earnest in the faith you now have, and though it be slight, let it be strong."
A great number of the young men who start in life with the determination to work for Christ, lose their faith after three or four years simply because they lose their earnestness. They get nothing to take the place of the faith they have lost. They have stopped to salute every man by the way, and distracted by the questions on all sides of them, they have been unable to maintain their zeal. One way, then, to overcome this evil is to inspire the young with permanent enthusiasm.
Granted, however, that these young men have faith, have they the courage of their convictions? To be a christian does not require much courage, one may say. No, if we mean by christian the conventional kind; but for a man to devote himself body and soul to the service of Christ does require courage. Let men who are afraid to stand up for christianity remember the great men who in the past have been proud to call themselves christians.
The following anthems were sung: Enter not into Judgement-Attwood; It is of the Lord's Mercies-Thorne; O Lord, Our Trust is in Thy Mercy-King Hall.
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