Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-13
THE effect or PRAYER.

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too slow, and never drives of the prcCi-
pice, and that he controls by n bit that
never breaks, the VI ildest and most raging
circumstances. | heard of "a ship captain
who put out with his vessel with a large
number Of passengers from Buffalo on
Lake Erie, very carly III the season and
while there wa much ice. When they
were well 0ut the captain saw 10 his hor-
rOr that the ice Was closing in on him
from all sides. and he s;tm no way out
from destruction and death. He called
into the cabin the passengers and AL the
! crew that could be spared from their
posts, and told them that the ship 2lust
be lost uslcss God iDtcrpcsed, and
although he was not a Christian maE, he
said:
LET Us PRAY"
! And they al kneit asking God 10 come
to their deliVerance. They went back
to the deck. and the man AZ the wheel
shouted: "All right, cap'H, it's blowing
nor by nor west now While the
PRAYER was going on in the cabin the
wind changed AMI blew the ice out Of the
way. The mate asked: "Sdall ! put on
more sail, cap'ny' NO responded
the cap'n. Don't touch her. Some
one else is managing this ship On,
men and women, shut IN on I'll sides by
lev troubles and misfortuucs, In earnest
prayer PVT az your affairs in the hands Of
God. You viii come out all right. some
one else is managing the ship! 1t did
not merely happen so that when Leyden
| was hcsicged, and the Duke OF AlSa felt
Sure of his triumph, suddenly the wind
termed, and the swollen waters com
PEELED him Ia stop the seigc, and the city
was saved. God that night drove along
the coast OF Netherlands in a black char
lot of storm cloud. 1t did not merely
happen SO that Luther rose from the
place where be was sitting just in time TO
keep from being crushed by a stone that
the instant after fell on the very spot.
| Had Re not escaped where would have
been the reformation? IT did not merely
happcn so hat Columbus was saved from
drowning by An oar that was i~ieating on
the waters. Otherwise, who would have
| unveiled America? II did not merely hap
pen So that whcn George Washington
was IN brooklyn q great fog settled down
all over the place where this church
stands. aud all over this end Of Long Is
land. AID that under that fog Le and his
arm escaped from the clutches of Gen
erals Howe and Clinton. In a chariot Of
mist and cloud The God Of American IN
dtpendence rode along here. On that
pillow Of consolation | put down my
head to sleep ct night On that solid
foundation ! build when J see this nation
in political paroXysm every four years,
not because they care , cents whether 1t
is high tariff, or low tariff, Or no tariff 81
all, but only whether the
DEMOCRATS OR II R~EPUBLIcANs
shall have the salaricd officers. Yea,
when European nations are holding their
breath, wondering whether Russia or
Germany will launch a war that viii in
carnadine a continent. | fall back ON the
faith that my father drives. Yea, | cast
this as an anchor, and plant this as a
column of strength, and lift this as a tel
escOpe, and build this IS II fortress, and
propose without any perturbation to
launch upon M unknown future triumph
ant IN the fact that my father drives.
Yes, he drives very near. | know that
many of the clouds that you see in sum
mer qrc far otf, the bases Of some Of them
I've miles above the earth High on the
| highest peaks of the Andes travellers have
seen clouds far higher than where they
were standing. Gay LusSac, after he hat
risen ia u balloon %, 900 feet, still say
clouds above him.
But there are clouds that touch tn
earth and discharge their rain, and, though
the clouds out of which Gods chariot i
made may sometimes be far away, Otter
they are close by, and they touch on
shoulders, and they touch Il homes, an
they touch us all over. | have read o
two rides that the Lord took in two dit
fcrent chariots OF clouds, and o
another That be will take. On
day, IN a chariot OF cloud
that were u mingling Of fog an
smoke and fire, God drole down TO tn
top of a terrible crag fifteen hundred fee
high, now called Jebel Musa, then Gale
Mount Sinai, and He stepped u Of Iii
chariot among the split shelvings OF rock
The mountain shook as with al agut
and there were ten volleys of thunder
!, each Of the ten emphasizing n tremcr
dous Thou shalt" or Thou shalt not.
: Then the Lord resumed his chariot G
/, cloud and drove up the hills of heaven
! They were dark and portentous cloud
thai made that chariot ut the giving c
the law. But one day he took anothe
ride and this time down to Mount Tabor
? the clouds out Of which His chariot wa
made bright clouds, roseate clouds, illl
mined clouds, and music rained from a
of them, and The music was u mingling c
, carol and chant and triumphal marcel