Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-10-04

- faith" Some one suggests, 500 YOU
rel.ly think that prayer amounts to any
.1n-?' might as wrll ask you. is there a
~" ta''Srip1ic poles from New York TO
NlSh'n.toI, is there a line OF telegraphic
SireS irDn Manchester TO Lon lon, from
| Cologne to Berlin? All the people who have
| sent ant received messages on those lines
| 5no| OF their existence. SO there are mill
ons o. sOuls who have ta n in constant COM
nunicatton with tn ''lpitli of the universe,
| With the thron' o. the Almighty, with the
| Srsat God Himself, for years AMI years and
| Tears.
Their has not been day when supplc1-
| lnGs lid not flash up aud blessings
/ td not flash down. VIII some igno-
| .amus. who has never received Telegram or
sent one, come and tell us that there is no
| 'u' thing rs teieSriphIc communication?
VIII some one who has never offered prayer
nat was heard AMI answered come AMI tell
| Is that there is nothing in prayer? II may
| lot come as We expect il, but as sure rs an
inur5t prayer goes upa mcrciful answer will
'O-ne down.
During the blizzard of four or five years
| ago, you know that many of the telegraph
| wires were prOStrated, and | taiegraphed to
Chicago by way of Liverpool, and the answer
| Alter awhile came round by another wide
| circuit. ana so the prayer we oiIer NAV come
| back in a way we never imagined, ana if We
| ask to have our faith increased, although it
| nay come by widely different process than
| hat which We expected, our confidence will
| surely be augmented.
| Oh, put it N every prayer you ever make
| between yorr next breath and your last gasp,
| Lord. increase our faith'-saitn in Christ
| Is our personal ransom from present guilt
| and eternal catastrophe faith in tho onuipp-
cent Holy Ghost Iaithin the Bible the etruaSt
vOlame ever dictated or written or printed
or read faith in adverse provilen"as, har-
nonized for our best welfare; faith in A
judgment day that will set all things right
which have for ages been wrong.
Increase our faith, not by a fragile Al
titlon, but 10y an infnituis of reauparation
Let US DO as We saw it done in the country
while Va were yet in our teens, at tho Old
farmhouse after a long drought. and the
well had been dried, AMI the cattle noaned
with thirst at the bars. and the meadow
brook had ceased to run. anl the grass
witherei, and the corn was shrivelei up,
and one day there WAS a grOwi of thunder,
and then congregation of clouds on the
sky. and then 4 startling flash. ami then a
1renrhing rain, and father and mother put
barrels under every spout at the corners Of
The house and set paiis anil buckets AMI
.ubs and pans and pitchers to catch as
much as they could OF the shower. For in
many of our souls there has been long
drought OF confidence and in many no faith
II all. Let US set out all our affections, all
our hopes, all our contsmplatiorS. all our
prayers, TO catch mighty shower. Lord,
Increase our faith
I like the way that the minister's widow
lid in Elisha time, wGen, alter the family
being very unfortunate. her two sons were
about to he sold for debt. AMI she had moth
in; in the house but pot of oil, and nj
E.iSEa's direction she borrowed from her
nclShbOrs all the vessels Sle could borrow.
and then began to pour out the oil into those
vessels and Key; on pouring until they were
all full, and she became m oil merchant with
more assets than Liabilities. and when sHe
rried, Bring me yet Il vessel the answer
came, "There is not vessel NOR SO let
IS take what oil of faith we have AMI use il
lntil the supply shall be mirIcul0uslym
piled. Bring on your empty vessels. AMI by
he power OF the Lord Col of Elisha they
shall be filed until they can hold no more OF
iubilant, all inspiring and triumphant faith.
what n friChtful time We had a few days
ago down on the coast OF Long Island. wHers
[ have been stopping. That archan.el of
tempest which. with its awful wings, swept
The Atlantic coast from Florida 10 Newfound-
land did not spare our region. A few miles
away, at Southampton. | saw the bodies of
four men whom the storm had slain and the
sea had cast up, As L stood there among the
Head bodies | saidto myself. and said aloud I:
''These men represent homes. What will
mother and father and wife and children say
when they know this?''
Some of the victims were unknown. OnlI;
the first name of two of them was found ont
Charley and William. Iwonlerod then Hc't
wonder now if they will remain unknown
and ii some kindred far away may be waiting
for their coming and never hear OF the rough
way of their going. l saw also one of the
three who had come in alive, but more dead
than alive. The ship had become helpless
six miles out, and as one wave swept the
deck and went down on the furnaces till
they hissei AMI went out The cry was. "Oh,
my God. w are lost IT, Then the crew put
on life prc-ervsrS. one of the sailors saying
to the other, I'VE will meet again on the
shore. and, If not, well, We must ali so some
time"
OF the twenty-three men who put on tho
life preservers, only three lived to reHch the
beach. But what a scene 1t was as the good
and kind people of southampton, led on br
Dr. Thomas. the great and good SURGEON OF
New York, stood watching the sailors gt-Jr-
Cling in the breakers. Are You still aiiveE'
shouted DIR. Thomas to one OF them out in
the breakers and he si.;naicd yes and then
went into uEcOnsclOusness. VINO should 10
the most for the poor fellows and how to
resuscitate them We're the questions that ran
up and down the beach ut Southampton.
How the men AMI women on the shore stood
wringing their hands, iupatienty waiting
for the sufferers to come within rracE, and
then. they We're lifted up and carried INDOORS
and waited on with as much s.nIness and
wrapped as warmly though they had been
the princes of the earth. Are they allveF'
care they breathing!' do you tHlnk th|y
will lfve?" "What can We do for them?'
were the rapid and intense questions asked,
and so much money was sent for the cloth
ing and equipment OF the uncertainties that
DIR. Thomas had to make "a proclamation that
no more money was nee led. In other words.
all that day il was resusctnti0n.
And this is the appropriate word for us
this morning as va stand AMI look OF upon
this awful sea of doubt ant unbeiisf on which
hundreds are this moment being wrecked.
Some of them were launched by Christian
parentage on smooth seas and with promise
Tor prosperous voyage, but Noitaire cyclone
struck them on one side, and q Tom Paine
cyclone struck them on the other side, AM a
had habit cyclone struc; them on all sides,
and they have fOun icrcd far away from shore,
far away from God, andthey nave gone down
or are washed ashore with no spiritual life
left in them.
But, thank God, there are many here to-
day with enough faith left to encourage us
in the effort at their resuscitatton. All hanjs
TO the beach With confidence in Got nat
takes no denial, let US lay hold o. them
Fetch them out of the breakers Bring SOs-
mel warmth and gospel stimulus AMI cospe!
life to their freezing sonls. Rhs''scitiuoh