Article October 1, 1910 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from E. M. Martinson, A. S. Fiske, R. J. Campbell

[E. M. Martinson in Standard.]

There are disturbing voices that are guiding voices, and we must learn to follow them. On the mount of transfiguration, when the church militant, in the persons of Peter, James, and John, was introduced to the church triumphant, in the persons of Moses and Elijah, "behold a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid." It was a disturbing voice because it showed them that some one besides Moses and Elijah and Jesus was in that mount. It was a disturbing voice because it sealed upon their lives the consequences of discipleship, which they had already accepted, in such a solemn and momentous and irreparable fashion. It was a disturbing voice because of their conscious sinfulness and unworthiness in the immediate and audible presence of the infinitely holy God. But the voice which came to them, comes also to us. These disturbing voices torment us with difficult ideals. High ideals are not comfortable to live with unless you are forever running after them. The road they lead you is not soft to your aching feet, nor safe to your uncertain life, as Jesus discovered, and Peter, and Stephen, and Justin Martyr, and Huss, and Savonarola, and Adoniram Judson, and a host of other empurpled witnesses.

[Rev. A. S. Fiske, D.D., in Christian Work and Evangelist.]

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