The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-16

Vi inuotald bCCu yN oay eAsO sHss
mountain, Remove hence to yonder
place, and II shall remove, and moth
ing shall be impossible for YOU And
in the ninety-frst psalm David wrote:
He shall give his angels charge over
thee to keep thee In all tiny ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands
lest thou dash thy foot against a
stone
Does the Bible literally mean we
can say to a mountain 'Begone! and
it will tumble into the sea, or that we
can jump off the ledge of rock over
hanging Niagara, and the angels will
fly down and catch us before we are
flung under the falls? OF course not
your answer. God expects every man
to use his common sense. Jesus never
helped anyone unless that person
was first willing to help himself. He
said unto him sick of the palsy, Arise,
take up thy bed and walk He COM
manded the ten lepers, Go show your
selves unto the priests, and 1t came to
pass as they went they were cleansed,'
And way back in the time of Job we
read The Lord turned the captivity
Of Job when he commanded him to
pray for his three friends In other
words, God did not help Job until Jobs
heart was ready to forgive his fellow
men.
Places of Peace.
This peace like a river is not up
in the mountains, but down in the
valleys, down in the home, in the store,
in the factory. Anything that units
you and myself for the ordinary
duties of life and makes you unwil
ling as a parent to care for the child
as an honest man to pay the butchers,
grocer's and clothiers bills is no gos-
pei peace at all.
"As far as l can make out, holy wa
ter with most of us means we can
tumble upon God all meannesses and
sins, and expect Jesus to do every
thing and we do nothing. Oh, for a
practical gospel, for religion to live
by, as well as to die by. as a rivera
gentle river.
Lastly, our peace, like river, must
have its source from above. An old
axiom says water cannot run up hill.
The physical law Of gravity draws
down, does not push up. But in Solo
mons writings we read: All rivers
run into the sea, yet the sea is not
full unto the place from whence the
rivers come, whittier they return
again And in the last chapter of
Revelations st. John saw heaven as "a
pure river of water, clear as crystal
proceeding out of the throne of God
and on either side Of the river was
there the tree of life and the leaves of
it were for the healing Of the nations
Then we turn back to the fifty-fifth
chapter of Isaiah and read AS the rain
cometh down and the snow from hea-
ven and returneth not thither, but
watereth the earth and maketh it
bring forth and bud that it may give
seed to the sower and bread to the
eater, for my thoughts are not your
ehOu6htoy hClIACl yOul WdyO Lly way
saith the Lord
"Then the sun begins to work. The
golden pulleys of evaporation lower,
and the water does not climb up hill,
but lifts itself unto the clouds. And
If you should call, Whittier bound, o
storm?' the wind would shrek, I am
carrying forth a reservoir that the
rivers may be filled and the fields can
drink so that man and beast and bird
and things under the earth and above
the earth shall live
Prayers for Blessings.
Cannot we have this shower of
blessing from above? Let us pray for
a cloud burst of Pentecostal tears and
the manifestations of the Holy Ghost.
This thought is especially appropri-
ate. OF all the Old Testament writers
Isaiah is aptly called the evangelical
prophet because he mentions many
times the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and the sufferings of the cruel
fixion."