The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1888-01-25
ceived. But the Bi5le tells again

eeived. But the Bile tells again
and again of answers to prayer.
Abraham and Moses David and
solomon, Elijah and IanieI pray
ed, and the response came prompt
ly from the unseen heavens. Paul
and other apostles praved, and God
gave them the very things that
they asked for New is not the
Bible (which has been tested for 50
many ages, as reliable as the tele~
graph company which has been in
existence less than thirty years? |
tell you it does tot require half as
much faith to the invisible God
of the Bible, has been answering
and hearing prayers for ne arly
six thousand years, rs to send a
message from a railroad way sta
ton aad expect that it will reach
its destination"
a ain we wer, interrupted by the
I'VE whistle announcing that were
entering the town of W, This was
a railroad center, and my friend
had some letters that he wanted to
mail there. We went out when
the train stopped, and seeing in
the depot an iron box with the
words IT. S. Mair upon it, he
put his letters in it and we return
ed to the cars. As soon as we were
seated / said:
Il am now astonished beyond
measure. You, ii constitutional
skeptic, who cannot trust in an ms
visible God, trusting in an iron
box because it has the letters ~.
s. Mai" upon it. Nobody told
yau that it was a letter-box. You
did not see anybody there waiting
to take your letters and carry them
to their destinations But Just be-
cause YOU saw the box you bc,iev-
Ell TINT somebody would cone, and
reading the direction on those let.
tiers, would see 10 it that they went
to the right place and were deliv-
cred TO tie right person. You
have uqhounded eontidance in the
postal service Of the United States,
but yau have ID eonliilenas il the
gospel Of ,Iase hrist
NV fellow tlseel + had thought
. good deal .,boul Heaven, but he
coul | notrcalize that there was any
such place. Yet he confessed to
me that he believed III Ne@ York
ity, thoagh he had never been
there. lie believed ii it because
he had read about it ia books aud
newspapers. And 50 great was his
faith in New York as a real place
and one worth visiting, that lie
had bought ticket for it and was
going there. | could not under,
stand how he corfaed in mems
statements about New York and
and vet ionbs Gods statements
about Heaven.
/ come out again in converse
tion Lad he had made Investments
in Rev York. through persons
whom he had never seen, aud whom
he was induced to trusy Oh the rec
ommendation of Others. Aud vet
when he YVES exhorted to lay up
treasnrers in Heaven be could not
realize kat it would be good in
vsstInept, though God himself
promised a profit of an hundred
told
The more | talked with this man
the more fully realized how ut.
terly unreasonable is the skepti-
cism OF multitudes ip regard to
spiritual things. Ii they would
exercise the same faith in God that
they exercise daily Ia their fellow,
meu, they would soon become
Christians. The gospel comes to
us with stronger proofs of its reality
and value than anything else, and
it only asks us to apply to its prin>
cipals on which we act IN other
things. Though its basis faith, it
is not faith that rests on visions
and dreams, but on solid facts
which not only justify but demand
our confidence.
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Papa, what is a conAagration?v
cit is a big fire my son.
"And what do they call a little