Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-03-08

tlpon God. How many times when
ask processing Christians Are you
Christian?" l get a hestant answer;
a'Ob. / hope So" or 'SWhy, yes, | think
| So" so uncertain, so run or DOUBT.
lack Of faith
There were many places where the
Lord could not do many mighty works
because of the unbelief Of the people
and he intimated that that was likely
To he the condition OF things clear
down to the end of this age The text
| is a grand avenue of divine power and
vet how few of us seem to have 1t. for
| the faith of most of us might be called
| "fair weather faith which is not
much account in the storms OF life.
| Only now and then do you find one so
( strong in faith, so filed with the di-
! vine peace as to sail right into the eye
| of the wind. breasting successfully the
| storms of life, rising above all the
troubles an6 pressing steadily forward.
/ such souls are rare and such churches
! are rare. There is no grander sight in
the great spiritual conferences now go
! ing on than that OF souls or churches
( who by the force of their faith take
| everything before them and by the
power of their own spiritual momen-
/ tum gather everything before them.
Want Faith Not Afraid.
With such souls and such churches
the enemy fees before them and Satan
also and that is just what we want
right here today: Faith that Is not
AFRAID Of anything, the faith that dares
| anything and everything You and
may be active to the point of restless
ness and we may be self sacrificing 70
the point of starvation and death and
| yet fail simply for lack OF faith, falth
| to believe that God is able and willing
to subdue any enemy that may come
against us, to remove any obstacle in
! our pathway, faith in his actual pres
| ence with us and in US to accomplish
| his purpose through us. / think the
| trouble with a great many Of US Is we
/ work with the idea that God Is way
behind the farthest fixed star. As long
as we are in the pathway Of duty, as
1 long as we are doing the work God
| gives US to do, we have no right to
| doubt, no right to fear. but to put I'M !,
plicit confidence In him, that he VIII
| carry US through. The thing that
| ought to be done can be done by
| people trusting in God.
Will Win in Norwich.
Faith like Jehosaphats will win the
victory for God right here in Norwich
\ in this year of grace. That is the faith
| you must have and this has always
| been true. It is not so much the greae
| thinkers as 1t is the great believers
| who have won great victories in all
| commercial and civic life. Without
| faith nothing could be accomplished In
business, the simple confidence of men.
| When it rises to the real confidence OF
| God there is no limit to the accom-
! plishment of his purpose. It was that
| faith that gave the fathers of old their
| courage; they believed in the Lord GOD
| and therefore they we're able to do
something In behalf of Gods cause. 1t
| was that same faith that moved that
/ great ancestor OF mine to start that
| great wave of Protestant reformation
| and that sort of faith that caused our
| fathers to cast off an allegiance to a
| foreign country and has brought our
| nation to the forefront OF the world.
| With that faith we can 90 anything
| and the Lord gives US that faith now.
| If you will put your faith in God and
| take hold together and carry forward
| Gods cause, using the agencies that
God furnishes us, we shall certainly go
out as did Johosahaphat's army with a
victory
At the evening service Rev. Mr.. Lu-
| ther spoke upon "Wanted-A Man.
| taking his text from Ezekiel 1880.
Communion service followed the reg
ular evening service.
Rev. c. C. Luther is to be at the First
| Baptist church during the next two
| weeks. Vhe meetings to begin Tuesday
| evening and held Tuesday, Wednesday,
/ Thursday and Friday OF this week.
| Tuesday and Friday afternoons Rev.
| Mr. Luther is to give illustrated talks
| to the children which will be greatly
enjoyed by the young people.