The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-25


forward in triumphant faith. planning
to work out your prayers, expecting
God to answer your petitions In due
time
He Got the Funds.
"The great trouble with some peo-
ple," said q famous speaker | once
beard lis this: They ask God for a
certain blessing; they declare that they
make their petitions in good faith; then
after they arise from their knees they
never expect God to answer their
prayers. Now, when | was In the army
| ran out of money. ! had to have a
certain amount to meet necessary ex-
penses. SO I wrote home to my father
and told him my needs. | told him
what | wanted. knew he would send
me that money, because what | wanted
was right to have, and my father was
financially able to meet my wants. so
I wrote to my father to send my mon
ey to certain postoffice, as ! expected
to be there In about three weeks. Up
on the faith which had in my father
l went ahead and supplied my necessi-
ties and when I arrived at the post
Office l got my money as | expected.
Now, that is the way we should honor
God. We should believe in him. We
should ask big things of him. And
then we should go forth In simple
faith, expecting that he will answer
our prayers" No man ever spoke trner
words than these.
The more I pondered upon this part
Of my subject the more remembered
that the greatest workers for Jesus
Christ have been men who had no
financial capital save their faith. They
lived In one sense up to the last cent of
their income. They prayed for big
things, and then. having deliberately
and calmly made up their minds that
God wanted them to undertake big
things. they went ahead and built their
hospitals and started their reformatory
movements. and their money came
when It was needed, as the mamma of
the wilderness came day by day to
their way to the Promised Land. Some
time ago there came into my posses
sion book with this suggestive title,
"Tales of Trust" 1t is written in the
anecdotal style. There page after page
Is filed with the answers men have re-
ceived to their prayers. AS turned
these leaves over said to myself: IF
all these stories are true. how ne-li
gent have | and other men been of this;
mighty pewer! One fact know-if all
the answers that God has sent to pray
err had beer written down. If only the
instances in which God came to the
financial help of those who were doing
big things for him because they had
asked of him big things, suppose that
even the world itself could not contain
the books that would be written
Faith In Men.
But not In prayer alone is n brimful
gospel faith necessary. We must have
faith i'm the men and the women by
whom we are surrounded If we would
accomplish great things for his honor
and glory. We must believe that God
can enter into the hearts OF our friends
and recreate them into mighty spil-
itual forces for good as he can enter
into our lives and make US mighty
spiritual agencies. Paul writes in one
Of his epistles, Il can do all things
through Christ, who strengthened me. .
Paul had a right to say that. | have
right to say that about myself. And
| also have a. right to say that about
every man, woman and child with
whom | come in contact In daily life
Now, there is no human power which
will more quickly make a man use
full servant of Jesus Christ than the
divine faith which we have In oul
brothers and sisters that through; God
they can do all things.
But the great trouble with our at
tempt to reclaim men IS this: Whel
men and women start to do wrong
when they begin to wander down into
the paths of sin, the world loses faitl
in these sinners. When these sinners
try to come back to the straight paths
of purity and truth the world fights
them back and turns toward them the
cold shoulder Of Indifference and doubt
And after the world loses faith In {
| man, then the time is not far distant
when that man will lose faith in him
self, and then--God pity him! For
with jump. he will leap over thu
precipice of despair. Oh, faith. thol
mighty faith, thou faith by which Abe
| sacrificed and Enoch walked and Abra
ham went forth into an unknown lane
to find an Inheritance for his children
oh, faith, thou mighty faith, by which
Joseph ruled and Moses led the chill
dren Of Israel forth from their Egyp
tan bondage and with which Joshu;
rocked down the Jericho walls; oh
faith, thou mighty faith, with whicl
Peter and James and Mary Magdalen
Bonded the knee to worship Christ
oh, faith, thou mighty, divine faith
shall we not lay hold of thee AM
through the power of the Holy Spirl
save our fallen fellow men for God?
Mothers Are Faithful.
Did | say that all the world woul
lost It's faith In man after man ha
sinned seven times seven? Yes, sal