Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-18

teachings Judge, that will do. 60
back again TO your pillow Of dust on the
banks OF the Ohio" Next 1 put upon
the witness stand a president OF the
United States-John Quincy Adams.
president Adams, what have you to
say about the Bible and Christianity"
The President replies: ST have for
many years made it a practice TO read
through the Bible once a year. My
custom is to read four or five chapters
every morning Immediately after arising
from my bed. Itemploys about an hour
Of my time and seems to me the most
suitable manner OF beginning the day.
In what light SOever we regard the
Bible, whether with reference to reve-
latIOn, to history or to morality, 1t is an
Invaluable and inexhaustible mine OF
knowledge and virtue" Next / put
upon the witness stand Sir Isaac New
ton, the author OF "Prlncipia" and the
greatest natural philosopher the world
has ever seen. "Sir Isaac, what have
you to say concerning the Bihle?" The
philosophers reply is: 1--WE account
the Scriptures Of God to be the most
SUBLIME PHILOSOPHY"
Again our belief is reinforced by
archaeological exploration. We must
confess that good men at one time were
afraid Of biologists hammer and chem
lists crucible and archaeO!ogist'S inveS-
tigatiOn, but now intelligent Christians
are receiving aud still expecting moth
ing but confirmation from all such
sources. What supports the Palestine
Exploration Society?' Contributions
from churches and Christian benefac-
tors.
But come to the height OF my sub
ject when l say the way to reinforce
our faith is 10 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 aDything?" l might
as we'll ask you is there line Of tele-
graphic poles from New York to Wash
iugton, is there a line OF tele9raDhic
wires from Manchester to London, from
Cologne 70 Berlin. 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 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 day when
SupUlicatiOns did not fash up and bless
iugs did not flash down. VIII some ig-
noramus, who has never received a tele-
gram or sent one, come aud tell Us that
there is no such thing as telegraphic
communication? VIII some one who
has never offered q prayer that was
heard and answered come and tell US
that there is nothing in prayer? IL
may not come as we expect, Tut as sure
as an honest prayer goes ", mercitul
answer will come down. During the
blizzard four or five years ago, you
know that many Of thr telegraph wires
were Frustrated, an l telegraphed to
Chicago by the Way Of Liverpool, Eng
land, and the sasWer, after while
came round by another wide circuit,
and so the prayer we offer may come
back in a way we never imagined,
and II we ask to have our
faith decreased, although 1t may come
by a widely different process than that
which we expected, our confidence will
Surely be augmented. Oh, put 1t In ey-
cry prayer you ever make between your
next breath and your next gasp; Lord,
increase our falth"-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 prOvidenceS, harmouized for our
best welfare. Faith In a Judgment Day
that will set al things right which have
for ages been wrong. Increa7e our faith,
not by a fragile addition, but by an In
iuitude OF recuperatiOn. Let US do 1t
as We saw it done in the country while
yet 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 thirst at the bars, and the
meadow brook had ceased to run,
AND THE GRASS wITHERED
and the corn was shriveled up, aud one
day there was a grow of thunder, and
then a congregation Of clouds on the
sky, and then a startling flash, and
then a drenching rain, and faith er and
mother put ba rrels under every spout
al the corners OF the house, and set
pals and buckets aud tubs and pans
and pitchers 10 catch as much as they
could of the shower. For in many OF
our souls there has been a long drought
of confidence aud in many no faith at
all. Let US set out all our affections,
all our hopes, all our CONCENTRATIONS,
all our prayers 10 catch mighty
shower. Lord, increase our faith"
like the way that the minister's widow
did in EllSha's time, when, after the
family being unfortunate, her two
sons were about to be sold for debt,
aud she had nothing in the house but a
DOT OF oil, aud at Elisha's direction she
borrowed from her neighbors all the
vessels she could borrow, and then be-
gan to pour out the oil into those vessels
and kept on pouring until they were all
fuU. and she became an oil merchant
with more assets than liabilities, and
when she cried, Bring me yet YES
SCI. " the answer came, There is not a
vessel more" So let us take what oil
OF faith we have and use il until the
supply shall be miraculously multiplied.
Bring on your empty vessels, and by
the mower OF the Lord God Of Elisha
they shall he filed until they can hold
no more OF jubilant, alI-inspiring and
triumphant faith.
WHAT A FRIGHTFUL TINE
we had few days ago down on the
coast of Long Island, where have been
stopping. That archangel Of tempest,
which, with its awful swings, swept the
Atlantic coast from Florida to New
foundlaud, did not spare our region. A
few miles away, at southampton, l saw
tho bodies Of four men whom the storm