Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-23

tn1rLy-nlne uuInOTS, haS hCPe scSSs"S~
for a long line of centuries when the
natural tendency would have been to
fy apart like loose sheets of paper
when gust of wind blows upon them?
1t is because God stuck them together
and keeps them together.
But come to the height of my sub
ject when say the way to reinforce
our faith is to pray for it. So the dis
ciples in my text got their Astounding
faith: Lord, increase our faith"
Some one suggests: do you really
think that prayer amounts to any
thing?" / might as we'll ask You is
there u line of Geographic poles from
New York to Washington, is there a
line of Geographic wires from Man
chester to London. from Cologne to
Berlin. AS those people who have sent
and received messages on those lines
know of their existence, SO there
are millions of souls who have been
in constant communication with the
capital of the universe, with the throne
of the Almighty, with the great God
himself, for years and years and years.
There has not been a day when suppl
cations did not flash up and blessings
did not flash down. Will some igno-
ramus, who has never received tele-
gram or sent one, come and tell us that
there is no such thing as telegraphic
viii some one who
has never offered prayer that was
heard and answered come and tell us
that there is nothing in prayer? 1t
NAV not come as we expect 1t, but as
sure as an honest prayer goes up mer-
ciful answer will come down.
During the blizzard of four or five
years ago, you know that many of the
telegraph wires were Frustrated, and
telegraphed to Chicago by the way OF
Liverpool, England, and the answer,
after awhile, came round by another
wide CIRCUIT, and so the prayer we offer
may come back in way we never
imagined, and if we ask to have our
faith increased. although it may come
by widely different process than that
which we expected. our confidence will
surely be augmented. Oh, put it in
every prayer you ever make between
your next breath and your last gasp:
Lord, increase our faith"-faith in
Christ as our personal ransom from
present guilt and eternal catastrophe.
Faith in the omnipotent Holy Ghost.
Faith in the Bible, the truest volume
ever d. : Ia led or written or printed or
read. Faith in adverse providences, har-
monized for our best welfare. Faith in
n judgment day that will set all things
right which have for ages been
wrong. Increase our faith, not by
fragile addition, but by an intinitude
of recuperation.
What frightful time we had few
days ago down on the coast OF Long
Island, where l have been stopping.
That archangel of tempest, which,
with its awful wings, swept the At
lantic coast from Florida to Newfound-
land, did not spare our region. A few
miles away. ut 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, l
said to myself. and said aloud: These
men represent homes" Some of the
victims were unknown. ] wondered
then and wonder now If they will re-
main unknown, and if some kindred
far away may be waiting for their
coming and never hear of the rough
way of their going. i 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 Missed and went out, the cry was:
"Oh, my God. we are LOST Then the
crew put on life-preservers, one OF the
sailors saying TO the other: 1--WE will
meet again on the other shore, and, il
not, we'll, we must all go sometime"
OF the twenty-three men who put on
the life-preservers only three lived to
reach the beach. But what scene it
was as the good and kind people of
Southampton led on by DIR. Thomas,
stood watching the sailors struggling
in the breakers. Who should do the
most for the poor fellows and how to
resuscitate them, were the q uestions
that ran up and down the beach at
Southampton, and so much money was
sent for the clothing and equipment OF
the nnfortunates that Dr. Thomas had
to make proclamation that no more
monev was needed. In other words.
all that day it was resuseitation.
And that is the appropriate word for
us this morning, as we stand and look
off upon this awful sea of doubt and
unbelief on which hundreds are this
moments being wrecked. Some of them
were launched by Christian parentage
ON smooth seas and with promise for
prosperous voyage, but Voltaire cy-
clone struck them on one side and
Tom Payne cyclone struck them on the
other side, and bad-habit cyclone