The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-26
Beyond what sense and reason can
conceive"

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! Faith has center everywhere,
Nor cares to fix itself in form"
Faith minifies difficulties and magni-
! ffes possibilities of victory. Faith is a
life buoy in disturbed waters to which
the sufferer tenaciously clings until re-
lief comes. Faith is a search-light that
transforms midnight darkness into
MONDAY splendor
Faith in an unseen God, faith in an
underlined country eleyates the believer
above earthly environments, detaches
him from the limitations of sense and
reason and equips with an armor that
the cynic's stab, the critics sting or the
enemy's thrust cannot penetrate,
Equipped with faith-undismayed by
crlticism-undlsturb by Indifference
the Christian burden litter, serene and
trustful, champions a forlorn hope in
confident assurance of ultimate tri-
umph.
Since the fascination of fiction, there
have been wonderful portrayals of
character and remarkable stories of
adventure; but there have been. there
are living examples of faith more trag-
~ ti4etIl INIls1 Iscdl, lllpl DGdulIl III lIldIl
BroWning's Faultless painter, more
startling than Mary Johnston's Cap
tain Percy.
Let us look at them and receive in
SEPARATION. Let us behold Noahs pa
tient preparation of the ark; Sarah s
delight and Rahab's ingenuity; Moses
flight from Egyptian luxury; Enoeh
walking with God; Daniels peaceful
repose with the kings of the forest; a
shepherd boys eagerness to encounter
the Philistine champion; a humble CEN
turion pleading for the life of his faith
full servant; an imploring Samaritan
leper; blind beggar near Jericho.
A little company-a brave commander
sailing over an unfathomed sea To-
wards an undiscovered land, without
chart, without pilot, with one domi-
nant estward-westward I'M
til the joyous shout Land Ho."
A genius listening, waiting, believing
in the life of a dead cable--the first of
many that have connected continents
and thereby heralded the news Of the
moment to the remotest corners OF the
earth.
looking out from his little cage over the
waters towards the home of a faithful
wife in confident expectation of deliver
ance from the pestilential odors of his
island habitation.
The innocence of your own darling,
last night, with closed eyes lovingly
bending over its mothers knees repeat
ing,
Now I lay me down to sleep,
l pray the Lord my soul to keep"
The fidelity, the heroism of that
Christian woman, who last week kissed
to sleep her first-born child--alone-de-
serted, her husband in the cafe, or the
club, or the saloon.
These men, these women, exemplars
Of faith, were stalwart men, stalwart
women.
Shall we weaklings in our burden
lifting disregard the utility of lever
age that has 'subdued kingdoms,
righteousness and obtained
promises"
Lastly, without the help of prayer,
our efforts TO lift will be fruitess.
Tennyson sings, 1.-The more the love,
the mightier the prayer"
Browning says, Prayers move God;
threats and nothing else move men,"
Be this as it may, the bigger the man.
The greater his need of prayer The
greater the effort, the greater the neces-
;ity of prayer
Through prayer, humanity touches
Divinity. BY prayer weakness suppli-
,ates strength. In prayer Divinity re-
,ognizes, regards humanity. Prayer is
he anchor of faith. It's the armor of
service. The soace of sacrifice,
Since the sway of art and the swing
If the painters brush wonderful men
lave painted wonderful pictures. But
here have been, there are, living pic
ures of prayer more beautiful than
3aphaeIs TRANSPORTATION or his Sistine
Madonna, or Michael Angeles sublime
rescoes at the Sistine chapel. Let us
COX at them and be stimulated to duty. |
Let us behold Abraham in the plains |
If Mamre.
Hannah at Shiloh.
Samuel at Mizpah.
David, penitent, forgiven, triumphant. |
Joshua after the captivity.
Daniel, consistent, insistent, invinci-
lie.
The Son of God at Gethsemane, as
7arrar expresses it, calmly praying in |
Irvine compassion for his brutal and |
,itiless nurderers-aye for all who in
heir sinful ignorance cruelty him
fresh forever Father forgive them,
or they know not what they do,
Stephen in the agonies of death,
beading for the murderous mob.
Paul and Silas at midnight in the
rison at Phillip
Martin Luther In his Patmes in the
astle of the Wartburg
Cromwell and his generals in their
light vigils, waiting" as Carlyle put
t, until the disclosure of a door of
ope"
John Bunyan in Bedford jail.
Washington at Valley Forge.
Havelock at Lucknow.
Stonewall Jackson in his Confederate
ani
Chinese Gordon at Khartoum.
Captain Phillip and his sailors on the
eek of the battleship Texas"
These men, spiritual giants, depend
d upon, believed in, loved prayer
hall we, spiritual dwarfs, in our bur-
en- lifting, ignore the efficacy of a lew
rage too large for measurement or
eight. God-given God-loyed.