Milford chronicle., 1906-03-09

good of your shouting. Your eyeball
are useless. Christ can do nothin
for YOU" But still the blind men or
more vociferously, Thou son Of DD
yid. have mercy on u.s. Christ hear
their suppliant voices above the cheer
Of the multitude He stops and say
to them practically this: Blind men
do you believe l am able to open you
ayesi" They answer, Yea, Lord.
Thus Christ says, According to you
faith be it unto you" At first, think
the blind men could not realize tht
full import of the sentence; then 8
smile irradiated their features, and
then the curtains of the eyelids parted
and the men saw. That was the re
ward of their faith. The blessing was
limited only by the measure Of their
belief. According to their faith" and
as they believed for the opening of
their eyes, that boon was granted to
them.
Looks just the same.
take the train and so out to the
| little country town where you were
born. We get Off at the station and go
up the old, familiar street. 1t is sur
prising how little some of the old
country towns change. There are the
same little postotfice and the same lit
tie church covered with the same col
Ored paint When we walk around it
almost seems as though the same
chickens were running about the yards
as ran there thirty years ago. We en-
ter the old farmhouse where you were
born, and find that the son of your
oldest sister. now dead. has it, I turn
to him and say: "Harry, what is the
good of your burying yourself alive
here in the country? You know this
farm will never amount to anything. F
Tie soil is poor. The great ranchers
Of the west, with their wonderful i'm
plements, are able to raise their wheat .
far cheaper than you and by the trans
continental railroad lines undersell you
in the eastern markets. Why do you
not get out of here and go west or 90
to one Of our large cities and make a
name for yourself, as your Uncle Hen
ry has done" The young man looks
up at me and says: "Oh, don't know.
l do not believe l could do it. You
know, was born here, and, though /
make much out of the farm, at
least 1 am assured of one fact-I can
make a living Better a bird in the
hand than two in the bush. Better
hold on to an assured little than to
reach out after something and perhaps
fail entirely" What is the matter
with your nephew? He has Just as
much brain as you, just as much
chance to make a great success as you
lave made. There is just one trouble
le lacks faith-faith in himself. A
nan without faith in himself has no
more chance to forge ahead and ac-
,omplish anything for good than
team engine has to draw Il train with
tut water in the boiler or than a fur
lace is able without fuel for the flames
o feed upon to give forth heat.
Now for the other side of this ques-
ion: Here is a boy born the son Of a
'arber, His mother was a woman of
ngovernable temper, who passed the
asst years of her life in an insane asy-
1m. Poverty ushered him into life.
lis boyhood days were passed by an
Unhappy tireside. But one day. while
Ding along the London streets, he
)oked into the windows Of an art store
nd saw some beautiful pictures. They
pen to him new world. He says, 81,
DO am a painter" But his genius was
ot like that Of Edwin Landseer, who
t fourteen was able to win a prize at
be academy by exhibiting there the
icture of a majestic ST. Bernard dog.
tut slowly, painfully, amid ridicule.
nth an empty purse and an empty
-omach, he had to struggle on at his
lnyas. Every outside influence fought pl
i'm back. Only the inward consciousness as
lat he was a painter kept him at his
lsk. Then what Boswell was to Sam
el Johnson John Ruskin became to =
IN. Then Ruskin, the matchless art
'itic, led the English world to his feet.
hen came success. William Turner 30
ecame the most honored colOrist Of g
/ the British empire. 1t was the tri- az
nph Of faith. Would William Turner g
'er have accomplished what he did,
ith the whole world ignoring him for -
ears. had he not been willing to starve II
Id suffer because he believed in him
If?
The words of my text are a promis-
~ note. 1t has unlimited possibilities
the Bank of Grace. 1t has the name
the Lord God Almighty at the bot
n Of it. Indorsed it is by the blood Of
Christ. 1t does not read,
hereby promise to pay to a repent
t sinner $1OO or 81 ,OOO," but it reads.
promise to pay to a repentant sinner
ything and everything that his gos-
faith is able to carry away With -
n" VIII you come to this Bank az
ace today? VIII you make your re-
ests as big as the mercy of God. as