The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-09-22

There mas not been a day when sup
plications did not flash up and blessings
did not flash down. VIII 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 a prayer that was
heard and answered come and tell us
thrt thore Is IL thing in = pyer? 1t may
hescome as we expect but as sure az
an honest prayer goes up merciful
answer will come down.
Daring the blizzard of four or five
years ago, you know that many of the
telegraph wires We're Frustrated, and
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 cole
back in a way we never imagined, AID
If we ask to have our faith increased,
although it may come by 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
providences, harmonized 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 ad-
dition, but by an infinitude of recupera-
ton. Let us do as we saw it done in 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 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 startling flash, and then
a 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
faith"
like the way that the minister's wild
ow did in Elishas 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 Dor
rowed from her neighbors all the 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
she cried, Bring me yet vessel" the
answer came, '"There is not vessel
more" So let US take what oil of faith
we have and use it until the supply
shall be miraculously 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
jubilant, all inspiring and triumphant
faith.
RESUSCITATIoN.
What frightful time we had few
days ago down on the coast of Long Is
land, where 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, saw the bodies of four
men whom the storm had slain and the
sea had cast up. AS 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 this?'
Some of the victims were unknown
Only the first name of two Of them was
found out---Charley and William.
wondered then and wonder now if they
will remain unknown and if some kin
bred far away may be waiting for theil
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
helpless six miles out, and as one wave
swept the deck and went down on the
furnaces till they Kissed and went out
the cry was, "Oa, my God, we are lostr
Then the crew put on life preservers
one of the sailors saying to the other
eve will meet again on the shore, and
if not, well, we must all go some time"
OF the 90 men who put on the life
preservers, only 8 lived to reach tn,
beach. But what scene it was as thu
good and kind people of Southampton
led on by DR.. Thomas, the great ant
good surgeon of New York, stood watch
ing the sailors struggling in the break
ers. 'Are you still alive" shouted DR.
! Thomas to one of them out in the break
ers, and he signaled yes and then wen
into Inconsistencies. Who should d.
| the most for the poor fellows and how
to resuscitate them were the question
that ran up and down the beach at South
ampton.
How the men and women on the shor
| stood wringing their hands, inpatient.
waiting for the sufferers to come within
reach, and then they were lifted up ant
carried indoors and waited on with a
much kindness and wrapped as warml.
Arnica Oh I.inlment is equally goo
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