The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-22


man - tell me that he 'swould try real
hard" to believe me. II have given no
ground for unbelief, / say he treats me
unfa.rly; and one man cannot offer
another man greater insult than
to give him the lie. That is
where all this wretchedness, misery and
woe has come from. All the woe that has
come into this world has come through
that door. There wouldn't be drunkards
reeiing through the streets OF Provi-
dence II 1t wasn't for unbelief;
there wouldn't be any harlots II
IT wasn't for unbelief. Many man has
been knocked down right here In Provi-
dence because someone has told him he
was liar. probably he told the truth,
for Lost men are liars snyway.) Unbelief
gives God the lie. Supposipg DIR. Horton
should say: ~ knew Mr.. Moody
when he was In California, and he told
me wilful iie." Whct could i say? IL
you believe it, i wouldn't do you any
good. There must be confidence between
two parties before there can be any
friendship or communion. Now, let's
get up and get out of the pit
which Adam took US into. Don't let any
man say he cannot believe. / don't be-
lieve q word of II. The trouble Is, people
who cont know what the Bible says say
they cannot believe IL. People say,
81 don't see why faith Is 30
important" Faith is very important.
Supposing they should tell you this build
ing was on fire and you didn't have any
faith In the statement and should sit
there. What would be the result? You
would burn up. Supposing man Is in a
river where there IL q cataract, and
i just shout, "Man, danger aheadl'
But he doesn't believe word; he just
goes on. 1t isn't long before his little
boat In dashed TO pieces and he loses his
life. Faith is very important thing.
Isn't il? Suprosing ] hire two men
to. set out trees and after a
day or two l go out to see how
they are getting along. i find that one
man has set out hundred trees, and the
other only ten. I say, "Look here, what
does this mean? That man has set
out a hundred trees, and you have
set out only ten. What does it mean?"
eyes, but he has cut off all the
roots and just stuck the tops into the
ground" i go to the other man and say,
"What does this mean? Why have you
planted all of these trees without roots?"
~ don't believe In roots, they are OF no
account. My trees look just as well as
his" But when the sun blazes upon the
trees they all wither and die. There are
lot ofpeople running around who haven't
got any roots. A good many people live
on negations. They are always telling
what they don't believe. ! want a man to
tell me what he docs believe, not what he
does not believe. And like to
meet a positive man. We just
want to know what men do believe. We
don't want any trees that haven't got any
roots, for they will dry up when the sun
blazes on them. There are a good many
persons that are just going on in that
way, without-~Any foundation, they
have no faith. People say that
II doesn't make any difference what you
believe IL you are only in earnest. heard
about two men who went up in balloon,
and they thought they had cords
fastened in two places. They cut one
Of the ropes, and they found that there
was no other. One man selves the
rope that is fastened to the balloon and
the other seizes the rope that wasn't
fastened to the balloon. The man that
held on to the balloon was swept up into
the heavens and dashed to pieces and the
other was saved. What you want is a liv-
ing Christ.
Now, people say they don't know as
though they have enough faith. Christ
says, "If ye have faith as a grain of mus
tard seed, you can remove mountains"
The little child that reaches
out his hand and takes the gift
has faith. heard of a woman in
Scotland who was introduced to minis
ter by another minister as a woman OF
great faith, and she instantly rebuked
him. "No, am a woman of little faith
with great God" She had the right idea.
II have got q tumbler Of water, can
truthfully say have water as had the
whole Atlantic ocean.
Then people say they don't know as
they have the right kind OF faith, and
they are running around asking ministers
and reading books to see IL they have the
right kind. Any faith that will
bring you to Christ is the
right kind. Someone has said that
"What the eye is to the body, faith is to
the soul" Now, you don't dig your eyes
out OF your head to see il you have the
right kind, but that is what you are do
ing with your soul. What you
want to do is to see that you
have the right kind of Christ. Have
you ROt " SnTlst tuut nus saNtQ you anu IL
keeping you day by day! II you have,
then you have the right kind of faith. An
Englishman once used this illustration:
A beggar sitting by the wayside,
and a gentleman who had gone by year
after year and passed him
shilling, one day passes the man shilling
and the beggar refused to take it. 81 don't
need your shilling" "What?" al don't
need your shilling" .Why, how is that?
have passed by here year after year and
handed you q shilling. What does it
mean?" And .se beggar said. II
am no beggar now" "What
is the matter? What has changed
your condition?" And the beggar re-
piled, SWELL was sitting here last night,
as usual, and a man came along and gave
me e5000." Why, how did he give il to
your" He just put 1t into my hands,"
"How do you know II is good money!"
because have had 1t tested" (Which
hand did you put out?" My right hand"
"Iow do you know that was the right
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