{A Sermon Preached in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by Dean Trivett, on Sunday, August 5, 1928
Have I not commanded thee.
Be atrong and of good courage: be not afraid, neither be thow dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest—Joshua I. 9.
Some Sundays ago I asked you to Hhinke with -me of some of the Aistinguishing marks of a Christian.
introduced. the topic with that verse from St. Paul's Epistle Bote Galtons in which he says Bear in my body the marks of the Tord Jesus." We saw that St. Paul of only bore the outward and visible harks of his sufferings for Jesus @hrist, but also those characteristics in life' and conduct which mark and distinguish the Christian man. And We considered his loyalty. A trait which we found must be one of the Savential marks of the true follower pfyJesus Christ. yo, The Second Essential his morning T want you to think of another just as essential, That Ys courage. The true disciple of Tosus Christ is not, eahnot be timed ahd fearful. He does not shut himself, in the upper-room for fear of any enemy, but goes cheerfully and fearlessly about his duty fearing only God and serving Him regan s of what the world may say.
What an example we have in our Lord Himself, Scene after scene in His earthly life rises before us. Nothing ever turned Him back from' Aoing God's will. We see Him in the Temple with the scourge driving Out those who bought and sold there. 'We see Him fronting the angry at Pilote's judgment seat. And then upon the eross bearing the Shame and bitter agony with such rious heroism. And the great 'Apostle was a true follower. He manifested this mark as all' the world could testify, Paul had been a a for dead at Lystra, he went falled the undiscourageable, Stoned
tead 2, Cor. 11,—the record of his @xperiences. Nothing deterred him, nothing turned him back. Think of tthe heroism of the great army of saints and martyrs—"Who had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and im-Prisonment. They were stoned, thes were sawn asunder, were tempted, lain with the sword." The annals of the Church make glorious pages fu our history.
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