Arizona republican., 1899-02-12
OUR RMORNING SERMON
CBy Rev. T. Jefferson Danner, Rector of St Johns Episcopal Church,
 Pittsburg, Pal

o Lord God Of hosts, blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee! Blessed is the nation whose sod is the Lord. CPsalms)
 Tn our everyday life trust. conf dence and faith are practically synony- nous terms. Trust, or confidence, is absolutely necessary to the welfare and stability of human society and human government. lt is an essential element of cur nature, and unless 9 man has grown dist~ustful through violation of confidence, it is as natural to him to trust as it is to breathe.
 Trust is a pasidve. helpful virtue or grace. Distrust, in it's very nature, is negative and destructive.
 For it's exercise or manifestation trust demands an object or being to be trusted. And just here comes in the parting Of the ways. While it is as natural tC trust as to breathe it is also as human to differ as to the object or being to be trust ted-and that according as man views this life il it's relations to the life to come. Tn other words mans chief confidence is in things tell- pCr2l or in things eternal, i'll man or il Gcd
 Addison has said: ''The person who has 9 firm tcust in the Supreme Being is powerful in His power. wise by His wisdom and happy by His happiness.' What is true of the individual is true Of the nation. And it may here Dc n0ted-What experience has ever shOwn-that the greater mems trust in God, the greater their trust in their fellow men, and the more trustworthy will all men become. Thus the na- tiCnal question is essentially per- sonal question.
 This parting of the ways. this If feTing manifestation or expression Of trust is indicated elsewhere in the Ps2lns. Some put their trust in char iots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord cur GCd." In the dread issue of war. vic tcry is not always on the side of the st 0ngest and best equipped. "Pr0yi- dence favOrs the strong Dattaiions," is @ saying that is not always verified T. was not verified when the great Span ish armada threatened the downfall Of England in the sixteenth century. Ad- vancinG upon the En2lisl coasts in the form Cf q crescent. the 'tInVincible Ar mada, as it was called, coyerel the sea for the distance of seven miles from point to point.
 England of that day did not rule the waves with her splendid navies t0 the extent that she does today. Latin as- tendency seemed inevitable. A Spanish victory, and the England and America Of today would have had neither place nor namei
 But from every rugged cliff-top the beacon fires signalIed the rallyilg to the unequal struggle, and the almost imprOvised squadron of not more than thirty ships sailed forth to meet the fleet of 130. Cf greater size and better equipment than Europe had ever be- fore seen. Up the English channel sailed the trumPeted invfnc1ble column. followed by it's weaker foe, destroying 6 vessel here and there, and with 2 few 1ireships spreading sudden corsterna- tiCn among the Spanish hosts. Then came neT and unforeseen alIies-the winds and the waves 4 great storm struck the armada, and lined the rocky shores of the northern sea with wrecked and shattered vessels, the flower of the Spanish navy
 To commemorate England's great de- liverance medals were struck bearing on their face the imagery of a tempest 1 tossed fleet, and On the reverse was the legend, God hath breathed upon them and they were dispersed
 In the civil war, Hoods Texas bri- ! G2de were wont to shout this Texan 1 version of Q scriptural passage
 ''The race is not to them that's got
 The strongest legs to run,
 Nor the battle to the people
 That shoots the biggest sun"
 And then, fgurativeIy speaking, horses and chariots-the possessions | and giIded trappings of the world | houses and lands, stocks and bonds constitute too cfjen the sole ground Of trust and reliance of men. One who |