Western Record (Newspaper) - June 21, 1893, Kackley, Kansas 7B Mo all the breach to every unt Volume June Whole and dear you what is right o von know that Weep and way for you the sorrow you are causing Human can never tell are treading i the road that leads to you to Jesus i yon give lip all your the Saviours culling for to take you in think moment is the see that man God will not armed savages to kill us on praising God tor his marvel an will escape waste blessings by faking my harmless j ing it into a heart Unit is left hand and a Bule American full of fraud and lies and tomahawk in rhe right I with A purity is his tolet and in stanlly again to lock the aoor on him crowd around the hive your ansel mother pee yon as vou are solemn promise laid her neath the sod your Avay of vud live to please your God are you making roWin your home children waiting u not come har to Sin is a which cuts the bonds that unites the soul to many prayers are not answered because incon sistent with a greater GoJ sees that the thing we ask for would not really be best for Christ asked that the cup might be removed if It was not That cup was necessary to human We ask to be kept from God may see the furnace of is the only thing that will cleanse Hence all the true prayers has in it the will be TIlV Last A IV fill Night In tlie month of 1 86 John was on the island of in the New Hebrides group They for a considerable time prayers never says a strong Then many prayers are for amount to Every Christian knows is to the door have it We have on Heavens has riot been of as rev as Elijahs first When the and why earnestness is one cause jod with Desire We do not prayers cannot be We prayer very easy O ur the element of tra is a weight of i the wings of It mount r reason why of prayers are not answered We want certain for self ahd it contribute The will of the inquired nor the of prayers fail at the point Faith is the key that i the storehouse of the thaj joins j the devine supply It is ladder on our and down with It is to successful prayer as is to the of the And many prayers bV so a been in peril of their lives among the live liad been threat ened and abused and ordered to A of measles attacked the mission to up the worship ot ai cause of By wonderful providences they Had from time to time been de crying tj God Tor help saved out of all their At the cannibals fierce and and Talon was driven from his mission forhis they at be more receiving than not re tlie According be it the heart iniquity hearts the Lord will not Only when we keep his may we ask what has it been said V ir i reached another station occupied by Mr On the third day ot the cannibals came to the Mission and to show them through the Paton had that bolted himself witnin a was basy went every room in the to see concluded that lie had gone and so left disap pointed at not finding and leav him to praise Gqd for another de liverance which man had neither planned nor But was not Paton had an empty revolver which a missionary had given him some time and wich which one or two occasions he had fright ened the savages The story of the last awful night on the island is thus by out with long watch ing and many fatigues I lay down that night early and fell a deep About ten oclock the savages again My clinging still to me amid the wreck of all else on sprang quietly Upon pulled at my showing danger in at me through the I silent ly awoke and who hd also fallen committed in hushed and know ing tney not see a glare fell Men passed with flaming torches and first they set fire to the church all and then to a reed fence connecting the church and the dwell In a tew minutes the would bs in and self ami He very reluctantly did holding me Stop here and let You will never I quick Leave that to In a few minutes our house will be in and then nothing can save He did let me arid locked the door again from the inside and while his wife and he prayed and watched within I ran to the burning reed cut it from top to bottom tore it up and threw it back into the so that the fire could not by it be carried to our dwelling J saw on the ground shadows as if something was falling around started Seven or eight savages had surround ed and raised great clubs in the I a Kill him kill him One savage to sieze hold ot leaping from his I drew the from my pocket and leveled it as for my heart up in prayer to roy I dare to strike and my Jehovah God will punish He ana will you for burning his for hatred to worship and and for all your bad We love all for doing you you want lull But pur God is litre now to protect Us and to They yelled in rage and urged each other to strike the first but ths Invisible One restrained I stood invulnerable beneath his shield and succeeded in roiling the tide of flime from our this dread moment occurred an incident which my readers may explain as they but which I trace directly to the interposition of my A rushing and roaring sound came like the noise of a mighty engine or of muttering Every head was in that and they knew froin previous hard ex that it was one ot aw ful tornadoes of wind and i the wind bore the flames away trom the dwelling house had it come in the opposite direction no earth have saved us from being all consumed It made the work the on ly a tew but it brought with it heavy and murky cloud which poured out a perfect tor rent jf tropical the flames of the burning church were thereby cut off from extending to seizing upon he reeds anil the bush it had become al most impossible now to set to our dwelling The stars in their were fighting against Sisera The mighty roaring of the the black cloud pouring down un ceasing and the whole sur roundings awed those savages into Some began to withdraw from the lowered their Weap ons of and This is rain Truly Jehovah God is fighting for them and Whelping Let us A panic upon them threw away their remaining torches in a few moments they had all dis appeared in tlie bush and 1 was left lous taste God is good Blessed that in him Returning to the dorr Mission I let me I am now all to support yon and care of the Mathieson let me iu and If ever time of need God sent help and protection to Ins servants in spurned her ofter and tu ned hsr away and No I wiU liot carty out the He But she came to him in his helpless and now they are living a happy She has been true to her She takes care of that answer to lie has done so to my it is a Blessed 5e his holy name tion of Jesus Christ will do for In tear and joy we united our I every We are worse than Truly our Jesus has Christ came from the throne not less in the elements of J ot heaven and redeemed us from the nature than in the savage of He bore our sins for us in the Jesus Often own body on the He was since have I wept over his love and wounded for miv mercy in that and pray for our his stripes we are Hi took the penalty of the law into His own ed that every moment ot my remain ing life may be consecrated to tlie service of my precious friend He tasted death for Saviour j On ist of Mi All through ihe remainder of the by giving up His own night Paton kept with his Will you have Him as your little dog rear the enemies Will you let you frow lurking preparing to kill them the cune 01 the law now Will yort plunder their house and burn pass froni death unto life You while their weeping friends were f have He that and anxious to In the Son hath and he that the morning the welcome not the Son hath not life And ho ho was heard rolling up I you and J stand before the ques from the A the will What did you do with was in the dnd that night Paton and Mathieson and his wife were on board a boat and the next they were on board the Blue Bell sailing for But the gospel planted in was not preached in The took and in the closing month ot 1891 a house of Christian worship was erected in and on the 28th of October it was ded to the Almighty amid the rejoicings and gifts of those who hid been brought from the darkness cannibalism to the light of ie knowledge of the glory pt God in my Son offered you eternal life through did you do with the of fesus What did You do When the war broke relates Moody in one of his ser there was young iran in New England who was engaged to be married to a He enlisted for three years Letters passed be tween the H e w rotn to her afte r every The three years were nearly She was counting the he would The battle of the wilderness came She got no for some Day after day she went t ihe little village but got no letter but it last one came in a strange writing by one pf his She tore it It stated that he had lost both his armsin the and how he loved as lie would be dependent of u cold world for his support as she worthy ot a noble husband he would release her from hei en gage at liberty to marry She never answer she who she ed The next train that left that little village for the she was She went to the army and her entreaties took her beyond the and she got down to the hospital in the She got the number 01 the ward and the cot he was went down that long line of cots and at Last her eye fixed upon that number She rushed to that cot and bent over arid kissed that armless and she I will never give you These will toil for I Him WHOM CONCERN fcor the piist few years tbt saints at this place have to keep unity cf the spirit in the bonds of Those who are best acquainted that incur three different cle known as the and the But re gard less of our personal convictions on these points of we by grace divine together in One worship ing God in rtie beauty of For the past six months our fellow ship communion as a has been more perfect than ever he last winter was largely conducive towards this end Although much had said to prejudge the people against yet when he camein the power and of to magnify ahd the name of the God of the walls of gave way arid all differences of opinion were swal lowed up and forgotten in the bap tism of holy love that rested upon The ordinance people joined with the others in praising God for the meet ing and for the unusual unction and power that attended the preaching of t he And they made good their profession of unity ship by helping to bear tire expenses of the meeting and inviting to come Since that time we have enjoyed uninterrupted unity and receiving among us all ministers who have come in the of the and washing preachers have all come and gone and jar or friction has been discovered only as the one or the other have undertaken to set up their doctrines as standard of Christian character or a test ian We have asked no one to compro mise their convictions points of doctrine neither do or command silence ia
