Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-22

BOOK OF the Dlble, shall have collapsed,
and the white horse of the conqueror
| described in the last book of the bible
shall paw the dust in universal do
molition. BY that tremendous fact
my faith is reinforced. The discus
sion is abroad as to who wrote those
books of the bible called the Penta-
uch, whether Moses or HilKiah or
Ezra CT Samuel or jeremiah or an
other group of a1cients. None of
them wrote it. God wrote the Penta-
touch, and in this day of stenography
and typewriting that ought not TO be
difficult thing to understand. The
great merchants and lawyers and
editors and business men of our towns
and cities dictate nearly all their let
ters, they only sign them, after they
are dictated. The prophet and evan
gellst and apostle were Jehovah 8
| stenographers or typewritcrs. They
put down only what God dictated; he
signed ii afterward. lie has been
writing his name upon it all through
the vicssitudes of centuries.
But | come to the height of my sub
| ject when | say / G wav TO reinforce
our faith is to pray for it. So the dis
ciples in my text got their abounding
faith: Lord, increase our fail h.. Some
one suggests: $40 You really think
that prayer amounts to anything?"
/ might as we'll ask you is there line
of Geographic wires from New York
TO Washington, is there line of tele-
graph wires from Manchester to Lon
don, from Cologne TO Berlin. All the
people who have sent and recc red
messages on those lines know OF their
existence. So there are millions of
souls who have been in consta COM
muuicatlon with the capital of
the Universe, with the Throne
OF the Almighty, with the
great Co himself, for years
ana years and years. There
has NOT been a day when supplicatons
did not flash up and blessings did not
Hash down. VIII some ignoramus,
who has never received telegram or
sent one, come and tell us that there
is no such thing rs telegraphic com
tnunication? VIII some one who has
never offered prayer that was heard
and answered come and tell us that
there is nothing in prayer? 1t may
not come rs we expect it, but as sure
MS an honest prayer goes up, a IN rel
full answer viii come down During
the blizzard Of four or five years ago,
YOU know that many of IN telegraph
wires were Frustrated, and | tele-
gra he'd 10 Chicago hy the way of Liv-
erpool, England, and the answer, after
while, came round by another
wide circuit, AMI so the prayer we
offer may come back in way we
nevtr imagined, and if we ask TO have
our faith increased though it may
come by n widely different process than
In 4 iiah tyn nrt. f.,T, a 10 nca
will surely be augmented.
What n frlghttu time we had n lew
days ago down on the coast of Long
Island, where | have been stopping.
That archangel Of tempest, which,
with its awful wings, swept the At
lantic coast from Florida TO New
foundland, did not S are our region.
a ;ew miles away, at Southampton. !
saw the bodies of four men, whom the
storm had slain and the sea had cast
up. as stood there among the dead
bodies | said To myself, and ! said
aloud: These men Icprescn.
homes. What viii mother and father
and wife and children say
when they know this?" Some
OF the victims were unknown, only
the first name of two of them was
found out-Charley and William. ]
wondered then and / wonder now if
they will remain unknoAn, and if
SOME kindred far away may be wait
ing for their coming and ! ever hear of
the rough way Of their going. ! saw
al o one of the three who had come in
alive, but more dead than alive. The
ship had become helpless six tiles out.
aud as one wave swept the deck and
went down on the furnaces till they
Missed AMI went out, the cry was,
30, my Co, we are LOST Then
the crew put on life-preservers,
one of the sailors saying to
the other, I'VE will meet again
on the shore, and, if not well, we
must all 60 some time" OF the TIVE ty-
three men VINO put on the life-preserv-
ers, only three lived to reach the
beach. But what a scene it was as
the good and kind people of South
ampton, led on b. DR.. Thomas, the
great and good surgeon of New
FORK. stood watching the sailors
struggling in the breakers. Are you
still alive" shouted DR.. Thomas to
one OF them out in the b eakers, and
he signalled yes, and then went into
unconsc BUSINESS. Who should do the
most for the poor fellows and how to
reSusci tate them, were the Ques-
tons that ran up and down the
beach at southampton. low the
men and women on the shore stood
wrnging their hands impatiently
waiting for the sufferers to come
within reach, and then they were lifted
up and carried indoors and waited on
with as much kindness and wrapped
as warmly as though they had bcen
the princes of the earth Are they
alive" Are they breathing" do
YOU think they will live'' What can
we do for them?" were the rapid and
intense questions asset, AMI so much
money was sent for the clothing and
equipment of the unfogtunates that
DR.. Thomas had to make IL proclama-
tion that II more money was needed.
In 9th words, all that day it was re-
suscitation.
And that is the appropriate word
for us this morning. as we stand and
look off ucon this awful sea of doubt
and nbelicf on which hundreds are
this moment being wrecked. some of
them were launched by Christian par
entage on smooth seds and with
promise for prosperous voyage, but
n Voliair. cyclone struck them on
one side and Tom Paine cyclone
a. Il