The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-09-22

when . gust Of wind blows upon thsm7
II 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 tex. got their Astounding
faith: Lord, increase our faith"
Some one suggests: ''DO you really
think that prayer amounts to any.
thing?" 1 might as well ask you is
there a line of Geographic poles from
New York to Washington, is there
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 suppli-
cations did not flash up and blessings
did not fash down. Will some lgno-
ramus, who has never received tele-
gram or sent one, come and tell us that
there is no such thing as Geographic
communication? VIII some one who
has never offered a 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 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 a 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 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, har-
monized 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
fragile addition, but by an iniuitude
of recuperation. Let us do as we saw
it done in the country while we were
yet in our teens, at the old farm house,
after long drought, and the we'll had
Dried. and the cattle moaning with
thirst at the bars, and the meadow
brook had ceased to run, and. the grass
withersd and the corn shriveled up,
and one day there was growl OF thun-
der, and then a congregation OF clouds
ON the sky. and then startling fash.
and then drenching rain. and father
and mother put barrels at every spout
at the corners of the house, and set
pals and buckets and tubs 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 at
all Let us set out all our affections,
all our hopes. all our CONCENTRATIONS,
all our prayers to catch a mighty
shower. Lord. increase our faith"
What frightful time we had few
days ago down on the coast of Long
Island, where 1 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. at southampton, l 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 l said aloud: These
men represent homes" Some OF the
victims were unknown. l wondered
then and l 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. 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 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: I'VE will |
meet again on the other shore, and, il
not. well. we must all go sometime"
Of the twenty-three men who put on
the life-preservers only three lived tc
reach the beach. But what a scene il
was as the good and kind people OF
led on by DR.. Thomas.
stood watching the sailors struggling
in the breakers Who should do the ,
most for the poor fellows and how to
them. were the uestions
that ran up and down the beach at
and so much money was
sent for the clothing and equipment OF
the unfortunates that DR.. Thomas had
to make a proclamation that no more
money was needed. In other words.
all that day it was resuscitation.
And that is the appropriate word for
Us this morning. as we stand and look
of upon this awful sea of doubt and