Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-09-20

l1Tsf<i. aud tie While ho<<e q fhf GA
Qnerof. described IA the lzsE book ct TIE
Bible. shall paw ths dust n universal de-
naolitian- By that tremendous f4os nay
faith Is rs-snfmcet
+ Tie discussion = abroad - 10 ~ho
~rots these books e the Bible called
the Pe1tateacb. whelhsr Moses OF
MlkiaA o. Ezr. OF samuel or Jeremiah
or another group Of aneients. None Of
thens wrote lt. God wFsfe the Pentar
touch. snd IN tbis day u ssenogrsphy
and typewriting thai ought not 20 be
difilenlE thing % understand. The great
merchants and lawyers and editors and
business f.ea Of cur towus and cities
dictate nearly all their letters: they only
sign tkem after tlley are dictated The
pro .,het and evangelist and apostle were
rvhovah's stenographsrs or typ~wrft<rs.
They put down only what God dictated,
he signed IL afterwari. He has been
writing his name upor II III through The
yicissitndes O. eenturiss.
rue PRAyKR az FAITH
But i come 60 theheight Of my sub
ject when say the way TO re-enforos
our faith is 10 pray fer It. So the disci-
Piles in my tezt got their Astounding
faith Lord, ipcrea<B our faith" Some
one suggests. do yoi really think that
prayer amounts 10 asythingr ] might
a. well ask you. is there line Of tsle-
graphic poles from New York TO Wash
ington. Is there a Inc OF telegraphio
wirss from Manchester 10 London, from
Cologne TO Berlinl AL the people who
have sent and received messages ON those
lines know OF their existence. So there
are millions Of soulswho have been IN
constant communication with the cap
ital OF the universe. with the throne OF
tho Almighty, with ne great God him.
self. for years and years and years.
There has not ben q day when sup
plications did not fish up and blessings
did not fash down VIII some igno-
ramus, who has ne'er received tele-
gram or sent one. come and tell us that
there is no such ting as telegraphic
communication viii some one who
has never offered a prayer that was
heard and answered come and tell as
that there is nothing in prayeri It may
not come as we expect it, but az sure as
an honest prayer goes up O merciful
answer viii come Down.
During the blizzard Of four OF Eve
years sgo. you know that many OF the
telegraph wires were Frustrated, and !
photographed 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 a 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.
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
providences, harmoniEed for our best
welfare; faith in Judgment day that
will set all things right which have for
ages been wrong.
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skv. and then startling fash. and then
a drepchine rain. and father and mother
mt barrels under every srcut at the cor
ners Of the house and set nails and buck
cts and tubs and mans and pitcbers to
catch "A much a. they could Of the show.
er. For IA many Of our souls there b.
been a long drought of confidence AZ |.
An many no faith NJ all Tat us at n,
AZ, o,r affections all onr homes all mr.
scx,tsr,,ls,;ons ALI our nravars 10 cat,.',
. ,,,;,b,v .hovsr Lord ;ncraasa ouv
faith
like the way that the minister's Wild
ow did In Elishs's time. when. after tho
family being verv unfortunate. her two
sons were about 10 be sold for debt. and
she had nothing in the house but a not
Of oil and at Elisha's direction abe Dor
rowed from her peirhbors all the vessels
sbs could borrow. and then began 20
pour ont the OH into those vessels and