The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-20


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 prov
licences, harmonized for our best well
fare; faith in a Judgment day that Will
set all things right which have for
ages been wrong.
Increase our faith, not by fragile adj
dition, but by an infinitude Of recuper-
alton. Let us do it as we saw ii done
in the country while we Were yet in our
teens, at the old farmhouse, after a
long drought, and the well 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, and one
day there was growl of thunder, and
then congregation OF clouds on the
sky, and then a startling flash, and then
dFenehing rain, and father aTsd
mother put barrels under 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 a long drought
of confidence and in many no faith at
all. Let US set out all our affections,
all our hopes, all our contemplations,
all our prayers, to catch a mighty
shower. Lord increase our faith"
I like the way that the minister's
widow did i'm Elisha's time, when, after
the family being very unfortunate, her
two sons were about 10 be sold for
debt, and she had nothing in the house
but a pot OF oil, and at Eiisha's direc-
ton she borrowed from her neighboFs
all the vessels she could borrow and
then began 20 pour out the oil into
those vessels and kept on pouring un-
til they were full, and she became an
oil merchant, with more assets than
liabilities, and when she cried, Bring
me yet vessel" 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 mirac-
ulously multiplied. Bring on your
empty vessels, and by the power of the
Lord God of Elisha they shall be filled
until they can hold no more of jubil-
ant, all inspiring and triumphant faith.
Lessons of the storm.
What a frightful time we had few
days ago down on the coast of Long Is
land, where had been stopping! That
arehangel 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, 1 saw the bodies of four
men whom the storm had slain and the
sea had cast up. AS 1 stood there
among the dead bodies 1 said to my
self and said aloud; These men repre-
sent homes What will mother and
father and wife and children say when
they know this?'
Some Of the victims were unknown
Only the first name of two of them was
found out-Charley and William. I
wondered then and / wonder nov If
they will remain unknown and if some
kindred far away may be waiting for
their coming and never hear or the
rough way Of their going. / saw also
one Of three who had come i'm alive, but
more dead than alive. The ship had be-
come helpless six miles oct, and as one
wave swept the deck and went down the
furnaces till they Kissed and went out
the cry was, "Oh, my God, we are lost!
Then the crew put on life preserYers
one of the sailors saying to the other,
We will meet again on the shore, and
if not, well, we must all go some time"
OF the twenty-three men who put on
life preservers only three lived to reach
the beach. But what "a scene il was
as the good and kind people Of South
amptOn led on by DR. Thomas, the
great and good surgeon of New York.
stood watching the sailors struggling
in the breakers. Are you still alive?"
shouted DIR. Thomas TO one of them out
in the breakers, and he signaled yes
and then went into uncOnsclOusnesS
Who should do the most for the poor
fellows and how to resuscitate them
were the questions that ran up and
down the beach at Southampton
How the men and women on the
shore stood ringing their hands impa-
tiently waiting for the sufferers to come
within reach, and then they were lifted
up and carried indoors and waited on
with aus much kindness and wrapped as
warmly as though they had been the
princes of the earth. Are they alive?"
Are they breathing?" do you think
they will live?" What can we do for
them?" were the rapid and intense
questions asked, and SO much money
was sent for the clothing and eqipment
of the unfortunates that DR.. Thomas
had to make proclamation that no
more money was needed. In other
words, all that day it was resuscita-
ton.
And that is the appropriate word for
US this morning as We stand and look
off upon this awful sea of doubt and UNI
belief on which hundreds are this mo-
ment being wrecked. Some of them
were launched by Christian parentage