The Newtown bee., 1895-07-12
Henry Ward Beecher has given

Henry Ward Beecher has given us
 BEAUTIFUL WORD PAINTING
 of what the man of faith is. Let us look upon the portrait: 1.-The man of faith weaves tapestries and paints plc- lures and carves various creations. | Living as he does by faith and not mere- l ly by sight. his ina gining, his picture painting, his idealizing, his holy reverie | is filling the great heavens with all con- ceivable beauty. And what if it be evan escent? So is the wondrous frost picture on the window; but is 1t not beautiful and worth having? So is the summer dew upon the flowers; but is it not re- newed night by night? And faith is given to man to lift him above the casual, the dull, the sodden and to en- able him to conceive, beyond that to which any earthly realization has yet ever attained" So there, dear friends,
 we discover in faith the philosophers
 stone that will turn the dross of earth's cares into golden joys. Take hold on
 God by faith and you may take hold on
 cheer in life. The secret of a happy life is discovered in a firm trust in the
 all sufficient Saviour.
 Another tru6h which comes to us in
 this apostolic aspiration is that our
 
 You will notice that the apostle says that he wants God to give us these I things of joy through our faith in Him. | I believe that our century has made the mistake of centering life in humanity and not in God. But the fact remains | that in order to it's fullest development
 every life must be theo-centric and not homo centric. The French Revolution taught the world the lesson that the | r., ic h,,f vn,tr
 and farce. It is as some one said | s'God, yelled in majesty alone gives light
 to all"
 MAN IS TOO PICKLE,
 too weak, too unworthy for his fellow men to pivot his faith on him. But our God is omnipotent, unchanging, bene- | ficent. He is the same yesterday, to-day and forever. Thousands upon thousands
 can echo the words of valediction which Joshua spake concerning Israel, speak ing from their own experience: "Ye
 know in all your souls that not one
 thing hath failed of all the good things
 which the Lord Your God spake concern ing you. All are come to pass unto you and not one thing hath failed thereof .' And what was the experience of the chosen people of old is the experience of Gods people in every age. Godliness,
 that is having God in our lives is profit
 able for soul peace and happiness in
 every century. The physicians who
 would prescribe for the worlds maladies
 have all sorts of nostrums that they
 think ought to heal humanity's desthly
 sickness. But their prescriptions fail o1
 working cure. One man would hea
 the fostering cancer of sin by more
 altruism and another prescribes more Syacretism. Some think governments life is the root of all evil and on tht
 one side we are offered more paternalisn and on the other more individualism Some prescribe allopathic doses of Free silver" and other homeopathic pills 0 ''Free trade" But who of the social O
 political scientists prescribe more God Yet that is what the world needs to-day More faith in God pivoting your life ol Him. More love for God confiding il t Him like little child. More law iron . God taking His word as law and not de pending on the vagaries of men for tn eternal rule of life. Oh my friends l HUMANITY IS A TROPICAL CHILD !. feeding on husks. We were to be S 2 smart in the far off land of sinful in ] dulgence, We were to become rich. Bu l here we are at the end of thousands 0 pears of experience, clothed in rags wit
 | ' whether life IS worth living and what U the fatal defect in our civilization an r how we can put an end to the clashin !. between classes, how we can stop mo q violence and anarchism and social disin J | tigration. Verify as one looks to-da u at our seething, turbulent, unsatisfie " humanity how true seems those word s of the poet: "If forced from faith for T ever miserable, for what is misery bu Q De G4IS An.l E., sA g be overthroWn." Oh let me echo an T reecho and echo again this truth in you I hearts. You want, you need, you mus D have God God God Then life will b e blessed and life will end in Him, tn l | Light Ineffable.'' There is also anothe D truth upon which I wish to speak brief 2 as corrolary from the text. It is thi l point: That the man who takes God ou e of life out of your life or mine, is tra tor to humanity. I know there are me I to day who glory in shaking down tn D edifice of mans faith. There seems t
 be in them satanic joy when som s trustful soul becomes a doubting sou and the upright believer is changed to l perpetual interrogation point. But 7 say to you, fellow Christians, do not le D a man play the Judas with your soul !. Don't let your minister parade his doubt in the pulpit. He is there to help yo t nearer to God and not to drive you fror God. Turn deaf ear to the man in tn
 pew who can only question and neve 5 accepts eternal verities. Don't cheris 7 doubt yourself for you know France Ridley Havergal says: "Doubt indulget l soon becomes doubt realized" Treat man who would try to destroy your faitl in God and humanity just as all traitor are treated. Shoot him with the bullet l nf uOur nwn frinnrha ut foi ip Go, and let him be buried in the unmarke, | grave of your contempt. He is thie ] trying to steal what is more precious t. you than gold and murderer seekin, to take what is more value than Tiff itself.
 WE NEED TRUTH,
 i not doubt, to make us strong and trust , not unbelief to help us to live aright , Many man has gone straight to perdi tion of body and soul because some pre- tended friend in some dark night stabbed
 his faith to death. For as O'Rielly says } "Doubt is brother devil to despair.
 What man really thinks of the ssno faith he is trying to indoctrinate yot
 with you may learn from the story O : Ethan Allen, the noted unbeliever oi Vermont, and his dying daughter. Ht
 had lost praying Christian wife who
 had taught her child of Jesus Christ and as the girl lay dying she asked hel father: "Shall l believe the principles
 you taught me or shall believe in what
 my mother taught me.'' And witt death confronting him in his child's life he answered: tBelieve in what you
 mother has taught you.'' Unbelief has no victories of which to boast, no bless
 ings to recount. We turn to the 11tt