The Newtown bee., 1901-03-08

Heroes Del1eVe IN GOQ ana KNOW UIldU
all their help comes from God; so is 1t
With us all; The passengers on the
Comanche that night felt the need OF
God and expressed that need in prayer
Who stopped to phrase the rhetoric or
polish the sentences? Our churches
are filed with people who say they
cannot pray; but if they really felt a
need for themselves and were,Sure that
God could supply that need, do you not
think they could find some way to ex-
press that need? But, you say, those
passengers on the Comanche felt the
need of a wonderful deliverance from
an awful death. So do we feel such a
need, or we ought to. We don't know
what sin would have done if it could
have had it's way in the world I'M
language to express the awful ravages
sin has already wrought, the pits out
of which we have been dragged by our
Redeemer, and the wonderful salvation
that has been secured.
1t is down right dishonest to call
upon God
ONLY WHEN WE WANT HIM
for immediate rescue. I have myself
a good deal of sympathy for the soldier
who, when lying a-dying upon the bat
tlefeld and asked by the chaplain to
give his heart to God, said: ''Do not
mock me. Do you think that after
having given thirty years of my life to
the service of the Devil, I am going to
throw the flag end into the teeth of
the Almighty and ask Him to receive
me for that?'' We need God in the
joys of life as well as in it's sorrows, in
its calm days as we'll as in it's days OF
great storm. Go out into the fields on
= hy;< 1,,r Win oil tho oorth
is in tune and when the ''perfect day"
has at last come; and does not the
beauty call upon the soul and all that
is within you to praise the Lord?
There is not common meal to which
you sit down but that some thing with
in you says that it is not wholly your
due, and that you ought for it to give
humble thanks to God. In mining
town in Pennsylvania, some years ago,
the shaft Of coal mine caved in and
some of the miners were imprisoned
alive. Strong hands worked vigorous
ly to rescue them from their fearful
grave, but it seemed as if the work
must be abandoned. Just about, how
ever, as the men were going away,
what seemed to be fresh tracks made
by the imprisoned miners were dis
covered. The work was resumed with
increase zest; and soon those thus en-
tombed were brought out barely
breathing, but yet alive. Moved as If
by common impulse, the people
gathered about the mouth of the mine,
many of them avOwed disbelievers,
many whose lips were seldom but
soiled with curses and vulgarity, COM
menced to sing, "Praise God from
whom all blessings flow."
The saving of the ship COmanche
was so remarkable that it was called a
miracle. 1t was miracle of work. 1t
would have been utterly useless for
the company crowded in the smoking
room to have lifted their voices in ear
nest prayer, if the officers with the
crew had not worked like beavers to
subdue the flames.
MANS EXTREMITY IS ALWAYS GODS
OPPORTUNITY.
God is always joining His strength to
mans weakness. Without God man
can do nothing; in very true sense,
without man God can do nothing.
"Give We them to eat.'' The loaves,
broken and blessed by Christ, must be
taken by the disciples and handed to
the companies Of tifties upon the
grass. "Pray We, therefore, the Lord
of the harvest that He will send forth
more laborers into the harvest. The
and towns of Galilee, could work bet
ter in bringing the Gospel to men as
they had prayed before they set out;
that the Gospel be sent forth. I have
not much admiration for the man who,
in the meeting of prayer, prays as II
he would call down all the glOries of
the skies about his head, and, then, the
next day, when asked to do some sim
pie service in the church, shirks his
duty and gives the responsibility over
to another. Work and pray. Pray
and work. do not know which comes
first in importance in promoting the
to save the world? BY praying alone
that the Gospel be preached to all ma
tionS? or with your prayers, when the
door Of opportunity is opened to you.
giving of your time, strength and
money? Jesus tells us that we are to
watch for His coming by doing faith
fully the tasks that our hands find to
do.
What relief it must have been to the
voyagers on the Comanche to reach the
port, and write home to their friends
Of their safety, even before those
friends knew that they had been in
to us, after the voyage on life's tenn
pestuouS sea is over, at last to moor
our barks in the harbor of eternal
peace!
'Land ahead! its fruits are wa wing
Ger the fields of fadeless green,
And thu living waters LAYING
Shores where heavenly forms are seen.
There! let go the anchor
On this bright and silvery bay
Seward fast the tide is gliding,
Shores In sunlight stretch away.
Rocks and storms I'll fear no more.
When on that eternal shore.
Drop the anchor; furl the sail;
am safe within the vail"
May we all be brought, like those who
sailed on the saved Comanche, at last
by our Great Pilot unto our desired
haven.