Grip | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1884

Grip.

A VERY important attachment of cable-line street cars is the "grip"—a little apparatus connecting the car with the cable. From this idea or text the Christian at Work discourses as follows:—

"This little word has come to have lately quite a significance to the average citizen of New York and Brooklyn. The running of the cars on the great bridge was delayed for months in order to perfect the grip of the cars on the endless cable. When at length they were started, it was found that the cars would lose their grip, and run back to their starting point, causing vexatious delays, reducing the amount of travel on the bridge, and by just so much impairing its usefulness and increasing the liability to accident. It is much the same way with many Christians in our churches. They lack grip. They start well, and for a season run well, and then suddenly lose their grip and run back. Grip is a Christian virtue, or ought to be. It means taking hold rightly, and then continuing to hold on tightly. It is grip which carries us up over hills of difficulty and lands us at the Golden Gate. It is a firm grip on the endless chain of God's promises that will carry us up over every obstacle into the realm that lies clear, shining above the mists and shadows that darken the valley below. Yes, grip is a Christian virtue."