Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-31
REV. r. w. SANFORD TALKS
OF HIS PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
Continued from Page One.)
a God-given fireplace again.

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our great center (Shiloh) and there
feed the people, but God had said: Go
| around We knew thatsdid not mean
| the hilltop, hut the coast. We were
| about our Masters business. For three
years we had been led by the spirit
| never daring to decide whether we
would go to this port or that port, but
| spreading the matter before God
seeking to know His will, and not sail
| ing until it was known. Much as we
desired to see our loved ones, we must
| continue our career of conquest along
| the coast of our native state until
such time as God Himself permits us
to go up Then with gladness- we will
| Journey homeward to the hilltop and
| there rejoice with the hundreds gath
| cred at that great place of assembly.
But we remembered those longing
| to hear our voices and sent represent
;ativcs to break the bread of life, to
| feed their hearts with the love of Cod
! to spread fresh food upon their spirI..
| tual table and to ring forth the halle
lujahs due our precious Lord.
with such spirit as this we sent our
| large company back to the shores that
they might fill the hilltop with the
| tinkling bells of intercession once more
| and the Kingdom fieet-numbering
| four now, the Coronet, Kingdom, Rip
pie and Overcomer moved out into the
| sea, en- route for other fields of labor.
| We had asked God for $4,000 to fit out
the feet properly for evangelistic cam
| paigns to the ends of the earth. The
| first island visited in answer to prayer,
| yielded us one-tenth of that amount.
| Seven days after we reached our
native land we had not set foot on the
soil we loved. On the far off African
coast we had heard voice say: The
conquest of America afresh.' AS we
continued our journey towards Rock
land we heard that voice say: Amer
| lea is won.''
| Mr.. Sandfords attitude throughout
| the long interview was neither excit.
i able nor eXtravagant, but the spirit CT
| enthusiasm breathed in every sentence
| When l planned the foundation of
Shiloh the skeptics derided the idea
and called me wild. A reporter came
down from Lewiston and saw the plans
which l had drawn on a sheet of brown
paper, and went home thinking he had
encountered a new and strange freak.
A few months later he visited me again
and saw the foundation of the first
building completed and he heard me
declare my prophecy from the corner
stone. A year from the date that he
saw my plans he was privileged to wit
ness the dedication of a structure cost
ing $1,000. A little later that was fol-
lowed by a childrens building costing
$25, 900, and still later there was erect
ed a temple costing over 100000, until
today we have property interests on
the hilltop valued in worldly figures at
fully quarter Of a million dollars.
How was it all done. you ask? 1 can
only tell you that these things came
about through long and earnest prayer.
"Shiloh has withstood the storm IF
criticisms for many years, yet through
it ALL and through the hard times-for
there have been hard times-our num-
bers have increased from 800 to nearly
double that number. There have
been what the world calls deserters,
but any person is free to go whenever
he fancy Wills it. when they came
they surrendered their worldly posses
sionS as | had done years before. That
there were some who could not stand
the test Of our manner of living is not
| strange. ard some have gone forth, a
| Jew to heap abuse upon those whom
they had embraced with the new faith,
and some | regret to say, to life If
sin.
ministers and religious denomina-
tions have misunderstood us. Yet l
believe in ministers and churches, and
pray for them as l pray for sinners.
1 &c
knew what there was going on | guess
YOU would think there was a devil. He
knows that we have found the method
of bringing men to God ard to repent
ance and it is he who inspires these
attacks that we may be crushed. But
we shall WHINE have already won.
| With me God is a real person. l talk
to him and he answers. Not in words,
as you understand them. but plain 80
| ne here''-and the speaker struck his
breast. 1t was this voice of God which
controlled our tour of the world, and
who safely guided our little cookie
shell of yacht through typhoons. hur-
ricanes, earthquake, cholera stricken
communities and Under the burning
suns of the equator. An American ship
which undertook to go around Cape OF
| Good Hope ahead OF US foundered with
| all on board, and later we learned OF
| another being wrecked. yet God safely
| guided our little craft through the
| crisis There were tears in the lead
| er's eyes as he spoke, and he seemed
| to have forgotten the existence of his
auditors.
Where shall we go next? That is a
question | cannot answer because we
do not know ourselves. We are wait
| ing for the word Of God, and will go
when and where he says
Mr. Sanford was wrestling with a
large mass of correspondence when in
terrupted by the reporters visit. Some
| Of the letters, he said, bore the post
mark of year ago. Two stenograph-
ars accompany the fleet The Coronet
shows the effects of her long voyage
The copper has disappeared from the
vessels bottom almost entirely, and the
need of early repairs is pressing. On
board the Coronet and Kingdom are
some very interesting trophies Of the
world tour Chief among these is a
great white pelican whose wings meas
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