Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-30
Take Your Bearings" Is the
AdUice Sunday Gives Audience

potent that He can only throw down card
houses when all the signs are right They
decline TO magnify His power for fear
they will overdo It!
And II they accidentally make a strong
assertion as to His power, they immedi-
ately neutralize Il by "as it were" or
in a measure, perhaps"
GOO and Faith.
At the time OF an earthquake, when the
trees were being uprooted and the hills
melting away and houses falling, an old
woman jumped up and down, clapped her
hands and cried, That's the kind OF a
God believe mistakes things. IL He
wants to-
That was the kind OF a God Joshua
proclaimed-a God who would overwhelm
them with astonishment as to the mighty
display OF His power. SO the people be-
gan to stiffen up their spines and throw
back their shoulders and expect some
thing.
Faith" Is the biggest word in the lexi-
con OF a Christian. 1t Is the countersign
that admits you TO the inner circle OF
power. Doubt and timidity are strangers
to a man of faith.
The man OF faith is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
energetic. The man of faith does not
droop nor sang in the miodle. His enthus-
siasm is as infectious as the smallpox
OF the laughter OF little children. Faith
puts song on his lips-fire in his blood
cement in his backbone. He puts the
ball over the fence when there are three
men on bases the last half of the ninth
inning, two out and you need four runs,
and you are upl
| Don't think that God has ever been all
in. He never has been and never will.
He is not like a lot Of people who can
spar well, but who haven't the punch.
He Is not like the people who cannot
produce the sleeper" God never has to
! go into repairs.
'Ye have not passed this way hereto
| fore''-meaning, take It, that everything
| is now to be new-difterent from any
thing they had previously known.
The people believed 1t. and soon there
was great commotion in the camp. There
was the busy hum Of preparation. People
worked with a will. They talked will
glowing faces of the mighty God Of
Jacob and what He was going to do.
They were looking for great things
far greater than ever. Yet they had seer
great things.
Most of them were children when they
came out of Egypt. They had seen the
destroying angel come through the lane
and STAY the first-born in every HON,
where the blood was not on the doofpost
They had seen mama rained from
heaven every morning for forty years.
Man with Little Faith Deserves
Little God.
They had seen the mighty hand OF Go,
roll back the waters OF the Red Sea
They had seen the waters rush out of tn
rock as the rod of Moses struck It. The!
had seen the rod of Aaron blossom ans
bear almonds in a night.
They had seen the cloud OF qualls com
up and feed them until they loathed tn
meat. They had seen the dying sprini
into life with one look at the brazen ser
pent. They had seen the ground opel
and swallow up the stiff-necked rebel
lious. They had seen the pillar OF fir
lead them by night and the cloud b,
day. But now there were greater things
There would be more and greater re
viSals IL the people and this preache
expected something! The man with
little faith deserves a little God. TIL
man with mountaineering faith get
earthquake resultsl
II our faith is puny. so We are neve
able to make more than a gimlet hol