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that old feeling over me again, and I want 

 to read them over and over. It is easy to 

 say we believe ; but our actions tell more 

 truly than our words whether we really be- 

 lieve or not. When Moody left his situation 

 in the shoe-store, and spent all the day long 

 In laboring for the salvation of the street 

 Arabs in Chicago, his actions showed he be- 

 lieved in the Savior. He knew these lost 

 ones ought to be cared for by somebody. 

 He knew that Jesus had said, — 



For I was a hungered, and je gave me meat; I was 

 thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, 

 and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was 

 slek, and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye came 

 unto me.— Matt. 25: 35, o6. 



And he believed what he said was true, 

 liow wonderfully was the promise fulfilled 

 in his case, in only a few months! He had, 

 in his own rough, boyish way, sought first 

 the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 

 and most wonderfully had all things else 

 been added. He had lost his situation, lost 

 his money, and all his little earthly store. 

 God remembered him, and money was 

 poured down at his feet until he had to tell 

 them he had no use for more, and asked 

 them to take it away. Somebody has said 

 that God is seeking opportunities to shower 

 down blessings upon us, and lets them come 

 just as fast as he sees he can do so, and not 

 do us harm. When God saw that Moody 

 was safe, that he trusted God, then could 

 God trust Moody. He could trust him 

 through great prosperity, and through great 

 worldly praise. Are you sure, reader, God 

 could trust you througliout the same V 



God intrusted to Peter and John the 

 power of working miracles. Is there a man 

 living who could be trusted with such power 

 to-day V Can you think of any one whom 

 you know, any one that you have read of, 

 who could be safely intrusted with the pow- 

 er Peter had to heal the sick, and not have 

 it spoil him, and make him grow proud 

 when it should be taken up and heralded 

 right and left, as such a power would be 

 nowadays V If the one who possessed this 

 power fully believed in Jesus, believed in 

 him more than he believed in the power of 

 money or the power of fame and praise and 

 renown, of course he would be safe ; but 

 who is there who would stand the test of 

 such an ordeal V I have many times given 

 a queen to a queenless colony by simply 

 dropping her on a comb separated a little 

 from the rest. The glad news of a queen in 

 the hive would quickly spread, and in a very 

 short time all the bees would join in a regu- 

 lar stampede from all parts of the hive, just 

 to get near and touch, or take a look at the 

 wonderful new comer. With the present 

 intelligence and thirst for knowledge, I can 

 readily imagine we might have about such a 

 rush from both the Old as well as ISTew 

 World, should God ever again confer on one 

 human being the power that Christ and his 

 followers had. Who is there that, under 

 such circumstances, could preserve a sim- 

 ple, unwavering trust and faith in God V 



Have we any examples, at the present 

 time, of great blessings poured out upon 

 those who have or who do trust in God, or 

 believe in the only begotten Son of God ? 

 We have, for one, Mueller, of England, who 



commenced a few years ago asking God to 

 send him the means for putting in practice 

 his project of saving the orphans of that 

 great city of London ; and although he has 

 never asked a copper of any one but God, in 

 answer to prayer he has now received over 

 four millions of dollars, and is at present al- 

 most a standing miracle, showing what faith 

 and trust in God will do. His greatness is 

 in his simplicity. His whole life is devoted 

 and bound up in the care of those orphans, 

 and his work seems to be very nearly in the 

 line of that of our Savior while here upon 

 earth. Mueller lives and works for them, 

 having nothing of his own, and pleasing 

 not himself, even as Jesus pleased not him- 

 self during his sojourn here. 



Wm. E. Dodge, of jSTew York, lately de- 

 ceased, is another instance of a man who 

 lived for others, and who was greatly blessed 

 with means almost unlimited. Other cases 

 are coming up, and becoming more and more 

 frequent, of wonderful prosperity poured out 

 to those who use it for the good of their fel- 

 low-men, imtil it really begins to seem as if 

 the day were fast coming when all men 

 shall agree that godliness is indeed profita- 

 ble, and that selfishness and greed not only 

 make their possessor unhappy, but by no 

 means enable him to gain in the end in 

 worldly store. 



There is another great field for explora- 

 tions, and I am sometimes inclined to think 

 it is as plain before our eyes as was the 

 great expasne of unknown waters before the 

 eyes of our fathers. I am -inclined to think, 

 too, that as wonderful a new world lies over 

 in that direction as Columbus found when 

 he pushed out boldly, in accordance with 

 his "belief." Columbus believed in land 

 beyond the great sea, and his work showed 

 plainly that his belief was sincere ; so sin- 

 cere that he trusted himself on the broad 

 expanse of waters. The world did not know 

 America then. Jesus said, '' O righteous 

 Father, the world hath not known thee." 

 The world does not know God much better 

 than the world then knew of that new land. 

 When those who have had views of the new 

 Jerusalem tell of it, the world will not then 

 believe. Is it not so V Let us try a familiar 

 little text:— 



Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and 

 persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil 

 against you lalsely, for my sake.— Matt. 5:11. 



How many believe this, as Columbus be- 

 lieved in his new venture V How many are 

 willing to accept it, and trust their lives on 

 itV It has been before the world for centu- 

 ries, and almost all men have admired it and 

 recommended it. Jesus said you are to do 

 right ; and after having done right, you are 

 to keep quiet, look happy, and be happy. 

 He said yoti must not worry nor be troubled, 

 no matter how badly wicked people act. A 

 young minister once said he wanted religion 

 enough so that when folks lied about him 

 he could feel happy over it. A kind of sad 

 feeling comes over me when I think of this 

 speech of his. It sounds more like the 

 speech of a young minister than of an old 

 one. It savors of the faith of a new-born soul. 

 O God our Father, give us, give me that faith 

 that will help us to rest trustingly on thy prom- 



