The Ohio Independent Baptist, April 1963

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I t i the i,, 111t: ( hr1,t ,, ht1 111ak.e~ thi p ~ ible! In the 111ean ti rne. ,, hi le ,, ai ting f r tht final , ict r). hri t chal le11ge. tl - , ca. n1n1and tl ~ - t live vict r - ioL1 . l\ o, er 1n Jail)·. In o l iar1 3 : l -3 \\ e r ad : .. If ) e then be r i en ,,,1th hri t. eek tho e thing Vv hich are abo,·e. ""here hri t itteth on the rioht hand of d . et ) our affection ; thing above. not on thing on the earth. F r ) e are dead. and your life i hid "'ith hri t in God." Cla ims freedom Claim by faith your right to thi \ ictor 1· made po ible through the po\\.er of H i re urrei:tion. D. W . \) hittle. a contemporary of Moody, told of witne ing a cene in Al abama "'here a egro mammy had been brought b)' an enraged over eer be– fore a provo t mar h al of the U nited tat army. The incident took place ju t a the ivil War wa clo ing in 1865 and the over eer wa charging her with attempted murder. The egro woman· tory which the complainant and hi companion admitted was e entially true, was as follo\.\' : The lave on the plantation had heard new to the effec t that Pre ident Abraham Lincoln had made them free. The over eer denied that thi \\i a true and told them that they mu t work on. Thi particular mammy, along with all the other laves, did o until he received word that her d aughter. \\. ho had been old to a neighboring plantation. wa eriou - ly ill. \Vhen thi new reached her he begged the over eer to let her vi it her daughter. He refused. She told him that he believed Pre ident Lin– co ln had maJ e her free and that the o, 1 er eer h ad no right to top her. \Vhirling on her hee] . he et off in the direction of the neighboring plan: ta tion. 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The provo t mar hal, who wa com– mi ioned by the Pre ident told the over eer that he wa bound by law to protect the law and that he , the over - eer, not the woman, had violated the law. The over eer wa rebuked and di mi ed while the former lave de– parted to rejoice in her new-found freedom. Well did Whittle comment: "Shal l a lave-woman believe the proclama– tion of man· and will you not believe the proclamation of God? Shall he, in pired by that proclamation over– come her former ma ter; and will not you in the faith that Chri t has re– deemed you overcome your old ma ter?' Oh, do not let Satan keep you a mi erable defeated, downtrodden backslidden powerle di ciple. You can be what you ought to be - Christ lives! Dr. Robert P. 'Fighting Bob' Shuler, a remarkable Methodi t gian t of the fir t half of thi century told an incident in hi bles ed book "Some Dog" I Have Known. ' which um up the kind of courage every child of God hould have in the light of the power of Chri t' re urrection. Let him tell it here in hi own inimitable tyle: ~'In my younger mini try I held a revival meeting in a tabernacle at Stanford Texa . I was entertained at the Stanford Inn. Shortly after my arrival I walked out on the porch of thi little hotel and aw a dog ly ing in the un. Hi face attracted me. That face had made hi tory. It was earned and carred. H ere wa a little patch of reddi h hair there a trip of black hair, treaked aero hi face a bit of tragly white hair el ewhere great car with no hair at all. One ear ,vns al 111os t c ,111111 ·t "I 1 gLlllC. I l is le( I cvc'\ lill ti atl l,cc11 l<Jrn n" a •... r l1crc \VH S "' ~,n \tgl , gas l1 . s till s l1c1wi 11g s igr1 Cl ( fr ·sh hl<l<)tl , i11 l1i s llJJper li11. l-J i,. \\ hc,J c t, c,<I cl<ltfttcntl l t1 lt l the ilenl S l () I \ 0 f t-, a t l I C• " \ l st<J )(I l<1oki ng at l his llog the propr 1cl<>r of tl1c I 11 n waJ kct1 (Jtt t of the f I nt lloc)r. H 'What kintl cJf ti g is that ?' I ~1\kctJ. ~cck1ng to kr1c>w some thing of h1~ ancc\try. H • 1·11 tel I you, f ri cnd.' said the hote l n,an , 'he '5 the kind () f dog that when he walk, up the trect. all the other dog go up the alle} !' H 'Who e i he?' I inquired. 4' ' 0011 ' t belong to anybody,' <;aid the hotel man. " "I'd ure love to have that dog · I ventured. "' ' I wouldn't take a thou and dol– lar for him,' came back the hotel n1an. 'Then that hotel proprietor pro– ceeded to tell me torie that I would not have believed had I not een that dog. The prowes of that dog had pread far and wide. Traveling ales– men had regarded their comrade in hotel al l over the nation with tale.. of the valor of that fellow who lay there before me in the unlight. He could boa t no pride of anee try. H e im,ply 'hung out' round the Stam– ford Inn. o man was his rightfu1 master. H e came and went as the oc– ca ion demanded. He had grown u ... as a pup upon a ranch everal mile from Stamford. One day hi owner left him in town. He had eaten wher– ever he could find food. Gradually the town had accepted him. He wa no– body' dog. And yet Stamford came to proudly own him. His headquarters had gr.adually come to be the Stam– ford Inn. Never retreated ·one thing tood out, as I li tened for the next two week to the tories of prowe concerning that rugged fellow· he had never retreated! He wa not a vicious dog. He appeared a kindly creature. He wa fond of children. H e would follow almo t any– body. But when the test came he wa there. Every belligerent dog that ever vi ited Stamford in hi day had found that out. "I confe that I found my elf pray– ing for omething during that revival meeting. I wa not praying for the brute trength and animal courage of that dog. I was asking God to let me make parallel hi tory on a higher plane. I wanted car from moral and piritual conte t that would match hi car . I wanted a God' man to The OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST