The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-02-16

of mustard seed we shall say unto this
mountain, Remove hence to yonder
place, and it shall remove, and moth
ing shall be impossible for you And
in the ninety-first psalm David wrote:
He shall give his angels charge over
thee to keep thee in all thy 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! ana
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
handed the ten lepers, Go show your
selves unto the priests, and it 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 q 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
grocers and clothier's bills is no gos-
pei peace at all.
CAS- far as can make out, holy wa
ter with most of us means we can
tumble upon God all mcannesses and
sins, and expect Jesus to do every
thing and we do nothing Oh, for 9
practical gospel, for a religion to live
by, rs we'll as to die by, as a river-a
gentle river.
have its source from above. An ole
axiom says water cannot run up hill
The physical law of gravity draw!
down, does not push up. But in Solo
mons writings we read: All river!
run into the sea, yet the sea is no
full unto the place from whence th'
rivers come, whittier they return
~, oh ~
Revelations st. John saw heaven as Z
pure river of water, clear as crystal
proceeding out of the throne of Co
and on either side of the river wa
there the tree of life and the leaves 0
it were for the healing of the nations
Then we turn back to the fifty-fiftl
chapter of Isaiah and read AS the rail-
comcth down and the snow from hea
ven and returneth not thither, bu
watcreth the earth and maketh
bring forth and bud that it may Civ
seed to the sower and bread to tn
cater. for my thoughts are not you
thoughts, neither your ways my way!
saith the Lord
Then the sun begins to work. TIL
= golden pulleys OF evaporation lowel
and the water does not climb up hill
but lifts itself unto the clouds. An
| if you should call, Whittier bound,
Storm the wind would shrek, I al
carrying forth q reservoir that tn
rivers may be filled and the fields ca
r drink so that man and beast and Dir
= and things under the earth and aboy
a , the earth shall live
! Prayers for blessings.
G Cannot We have this shower {
n blessing from above? Let us pray fC
@ a cloud burst of Pentecostal tears an
t the manifestations Of the Holy Ghos
= This thought is especially appropr
0 ate. OF all the Old Testament writei
r Isaiah is aptly called the evangelic
4 prophet because he mentions man
G times the coming of our Lord Jes'
Q Christ and the suIeriHgs of the cruc
n dxion."