Show FAITtl Believe the Lord el Christ sad boa clint be soseaAcho rrtst AMERICAN FunK Iw IS90 Special Correspondence of the DESERET weJaiIa arc dark I dull damp loathsome places even now but they were oree in the Apostolic times I imagine today vi o a standing in tliu Phllllppian dungeon Do you not feel the chill Do you not hear the groans of tho o incarcerated ones LIsten again It is the cough of a conjunctive or tlie struggle of ouo in fa nightmare of n great horror You listen again and hear a culprit hii chains rattling rat-tling as he coiLs over in his dream But there is another sound in that prison I I a song of joy auJ I gLadness The music comes windIng wind-Ing through the corridors of the prison It is tbe tons of Paul and 13 They cannot bleep Thy have been whipped very badly hipped Ths long gashes of their backs are bleeding yet They lie flat on tile cold ground their feet fast in wooden sockets and of I course they cannot sleep Hut thty can sing Jafler what are you doing with these people Why have they been put in here Oh they have been trying to make the world Letter I I that 31 That alit I A pit for Joseph A lions cave for Daniel A blazing furnace for Shadrach Bullets for Joseph and liyrum Smith A duuireou lor Paul and Silas While I am standing In the gloom of that Iliiilijpplau uuugeon attn tat JhI11pln luug1 nUl hear the mingling voices of sob and groan and blasphemy and Hale lujaii suddenly earthquake The iron bars of the prison twist ilcs pillar crack otT the solid maoury begins to heave and rock till all the doors suing open and the railsull with a terrific crash The Jailer joler feeling himself rr5 > ousible for tilts prisoner < puts his sword to hU own heart proposing with one strong keen thrust to putnn end so his ix citemeutaud cgitation But Paul cries out Stop > ttojj Do tbjtull no harm We are all here Iheu I See the Jailer running through the dust and amid the ruin of hot prisoDnnd I see him throwing him I Jlm self down at the feet of these prisoners I prison-ers crying out What jail I ti What shall 1 do Comiact thrill c lug tremendous atistrur anncr memorable I through earth nOd heaven Have faith in the Lied Jesus Christ ant then that lon Ied Well we have all read of the earthquikrs in Lisbon in Lima in Alepiio I and in Carucjas but w e live in a latitude where In all our mans orj there has not been one Covers volcanic disturbance dJturLuc And sit we have teen fifty earthquake Here I it a man who lias Uxu building up a large fortune HS bi buldlug the I money market was felt in all the al world He thinks he isis < t hac s i all numbing rivalries In 0 trade JV and he says to himself Now lam free and safe from all jiosibie perturba pertur ton But a national panic strikes strjt jnlc the foundations cf the commercial word and business crash tetalillshmcnt gees all that mag Here is a man who has built up a beautiful home His daughters have Hi tughtrs ltlo just come borne from the college te clle with diplomas cf graduation Ills sons have started in life honest temperate and lr When the evening lights are struck there I a happy and an unbroken family cir de But there lias been an accident acltcnt down at the beach Visa young man ventured 0 far out in t surf The Ulezraiil hurled tin trrnr to the city AfTearthquakc struck under the foundations of that beauti bt ful home The pianor eltsed the curtains drojipeu the laughter I ur hushed Craali go all those domestic do-mestic hopes and procpects ana exp Jrlcls pectatiom S my tiear reader we have all felt he Ie al fet Vie shaking down of some trouble nnd them lIS tuble was a time tme when we were as much excited as the Jailer in the jnou and we t cried out ns he did What shall I do7 What hal I do ° The same reply that the apostle mode to sm him me I appropriate to uc Have Jaitn in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou Eha be saved You cannot put your hearts pt hert con fidence in a rnau until IOU know what stuB lIe i made of When then I ask you who this is you want me to trust in you tell me he ii Ta very attractive looln Oh how aUrjcUvu hh niaunei Why when jKaw Uhrfct coming along the street tiny ran into Uitir houses nnd they ftrapped Up their invaiidsas quickly a thy could and brought a them out that He might loc at them Oh there w something f pleasant M inviting so cheering in everything He rj in I His I very look When these zlek ones were brought out did Hessy Takeaway thoso sores do not trouble me with thoJO leprosies Ko uoj there was a kind look there was a gentle word there was a healing touch 1 ifira They could nut lap away from In addition to this softness of character there was a fiery momentum mo-mentum How the old hypocrites Irtmbled before him Hot the kn or 11m rlh lm1 I Here is a plain roan with afew tailors at his back coming oQtho i Sea of Galilee going Up to the palace pa-lace of the Ccsars making that palace quake to the foundationand uttering I word of Def and kindness kind-ness which throbs thrtugh all the earth ant through I the beet I and through all the ages Oh ho was a loving Christ But It was I not tKeminacy or iu pldlly of char i Ilter I wanuceoinrunled with ma I jesty infinite and omnipotent Christ i only wanting to get from us n lint ue give to rcoreH ot people d everyday What is that r If tbe o people whom we trust day by day are more worthy than Christ J they are more faithful than Christ if they have done more than Christ ever did then give than the preference but I we really think that Christ Is I as trustworthy trust-worthy as they are then let us deal with Him as fairly Oh fays wine In 1 light way I believe that Chrit was born In Bethlehem and I believe that Ho died on the cross But m dear reader do you believe i with your bead or your heart I will Illustrate the difference You are In your own house In the morning you open a newspaper and you read how Captain Brave heart on the sea risked his life forth for-th salvation of his passengers You siy What a grand fellow he must have bieu His family deserves very ivell of the count You fold the newspaper and sit down at the table and perhaps do not think cf tbat incident again That historical torical faith But now you arenn the sea and I is I night and you arc asleep and are awakened by the shriek of Fire You rush out on the desk You hear amid the ringing of the hands and the faint inp the cries Xo hope We are Iot We are lost The rail ruts out its wings of fire the n > is make a burning ladder In the night heavens the spirit of wreck liU > cs in the waves and on the nl hurricattu deck 11kt out its baa nerofgiiiokcanddarkniot Down with the life boats cries the cap cap tiln Down with the lifeboats People null into them The boils are about full Room only for one more man You are standing on thedetk licslde the captain Who shall it l Ic You or tot captain The captaIn say You You Jump and are saved He stanus thercanddie 0W you believe that Captain Braveheart sacrificed himself for his passenger but you fLn believe It wllh love with tear wills hot anil long continued exclamations exclama-tions with griefat his lots and with Joy at your deliverance That b i saving faith In other words that you believe with all the heart and believe in regard to yourself On this hinge turn these lines aye the salvation of your immortal foul You often go across a briJco you know nothing about You do not know who built the bridge you do not know what material it is made of but you come to I and walxovtr I and ask no questions And here Is nn arched bridge blasted from the nol of Aces and built by the Architect of the whole universe spanning the dark gulf between sin and t htcousne and all God asks you is to walk acres I nnd you start and yon come to It and you stop and you go a little wovon and you top and you fall back and ou experiment You say How do I know that bridge will hold me Instead of manbin on with firm step asking no lu tOo butfeellnj that the strength of the eternal God U I is under JGU Oil was there ever prize oflered so cheap as pardon anti heaven are offered to u1 For how much A million dollar I i h certaiiilr worth more than that But chaser tlian that wo can have It Ten thousand dollars Less than that Five thousand dollar Less than that One dollar Less than that One cent Less than that Without With-out money and w Ithout priie Xo money to joy no penance to sufier Only ont decisive action of tbesoul Have faith in the lord Jesus Christ antI Viol shalt b raved Dn ED ISAAC |