Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-09-23
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moltion. By that tremendous fact my
faith Is REINFORCED.

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The discussion is abroad as to who
wrote those books Of the Bible called
the Pentateuch, whether Moses or
Hilkiah or Ezra or Samuel or jeremiah
or another group Of ancients. None Of
them wrote it. God wrote the Penta-
touch, and In this day Of stenography
and typewriting that ought not to be o
difficult thing to understand. The great
merchants and lawyers and editors and
business men of our towns and cities
dictate nearly all their letters; they only
sign them after they are dictated. The
prophet and evangelist and apostle were
Jehovah's stenographers or typewriters.
They put down only what God dictated;
he signed 1t afterward. He has been
writing his name upon it all through the
vicissitudes Of centuries
THE PRAYER OF FAITH.
But come to the height Of my sub
+ ject when 1 say the way to reinforce
our faith is to pray for it. So the disci-
Piles In my text got their Astounding
faith. "Lord, increase our faith" Some
one suggests, "Do you really think that
prayer amounts to anything?" I might
as well ask you, is there line of tele-
graphic poles from New York to Wash
ington, is there line Of telegraphic
wires from Manchester to London, from
Cologne to Berlin2 All the 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 cap
ital of the universe, with the throne Of
the Almighty, with the great God him
self, for years and years and years.
There has not been day when sup
phcations did not fash 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 Geographic
communication Will 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 as we expect it, but as sure as
an honest prayer goes up a merciful
answer will come down.
During the blizzard Of four or FIVE
years ago, you know that many Of the
telegraph wires were Frustrated, and I
telegraphed to Chicago by the way Of
Liverpool, 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 a widely DIFF
ferent process than that which we ex-
pected, 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 dictated or written
or printed or read; faith in adverse
proyidences, harmonized for our best
welfare; faith in judgment day that
will set all things right which have for
ages been wrong.
Increase our faith. not by a fragile adj;
dition, but 5tby an illfnitude Of recupera:
J1on. ueJ us no u5 we saw rU7uone m the
country while we'were yet in our teens,
at the old farmhouse after long
drought, and the we'll had been dried,
and the cattle moaned with thirstat the
bars, and the meadow brook had ceased
20 run, and the grass withered, and
The corn was shriveled up, and. one day
there was a growl of thunder, and
then congregation of clouds on the
sky, and then a startling fash, and then
drenching rain, and father and mother
put barrels under every spout at the cor
ners Of the house and set pals and buck
cts and tubs and pans and pitchers to
catch as much as they could of the show
er. For in many of our souls there has
been long drought of confidence and
in many no faith at all. Let US set out
all our affections, all our hopes, all our
CONCENTRATIONS, all our prayers, to catch
mighty shower. Lord. increase our
taith.n
like the way that the minister's Wild
ow did in Elisha's time, when, after the
family being very unfortunate, her two
sons were about to be sold for debt, and
she had nothing in the house but pot
Of oil, and at Elisha's direction she bor-
rowed from her neighbors all tho vessels
she could borrow, and then began to
pour out the oil into those vessels and
kept ON pouring until they were all full,
and she became an oil merchant with
more assets than liabilities, and when
abe cried. "Bring me vet vessel. the
answer came, "There Is not q vessel
more" So let US take what oil Of faith
we have and use it until the supply
shall be mirdculously multiplied. Bring
on your empty vessels, aud by the power
of the Lord God OF Elisha they shall be
filed until they can hold no more OF
jubilant, oil inspiring and triumphant
faith.
RESUsCITATIoN.
What frightful time we had few
days ago down on the coast Of Long Is
land, where I have been stopping. That
archangel Of tempest which, with Its
awful wings, swept the Atlantic coast
from Florida to Newfoundland did not
spare our region. a few miles away. at
southampton, I saw the bodies Of four
men whom the-stogW had slain and the
sea had cast up. AS I stood there among
the dead bodies I said to myself; and ]
said aloud: "These men represent homes.
What will mother and father and wife
and children say when they know thisY
Some of the victims were unknown.
Only the first pane Of two Of them was
found out-Charley and William. !
wondered then and I wonder now If they
will remain unknown and If some kin
bred far away may be waiting for their
coming and never hear of the rough way
Of their going. / saw also one of the
three who had come In alive, but more
dead than alive. The ship had become
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