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Title: Annual report
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher: (Ocean Grove, N.J.) : Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Contributing Library: New Jersey State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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" The first word in bringing back a lost soul is, ' Believe, and whoever
believeth shall be saved. He requires this faith, because the want of it
makes him a liar. This is the attitude of every unbeliever; saying
in the face of the loving Heavenly Father, I don't believe your
words.' How do we feel when our fellows doubt us ? How must God
feel when we doubt Him?
" Now, what is the trust that God requires of us ? Is it that He is
able? No! Willing? No! That He will do it? No; but that He
does it! Believe that ye receive, and ye shall have. Faith lives in an
eternal now. The grace is given, the bond is sealed, and lies at your
feet. Take it, and sing, Hallelujah, 'tis done.'
" This, O sinner, here at Ocean Grove, this marvelous place, from which
it would seem, the angels do not go away, here, and now, this is the way
to be saved. And this is the way to be sanctified. Take Jesus by simple
trust. All the blood can do, and the blood washes whiter than snow—you
will realize this very hour, by simply believing Gods Holy Word."

56 OCEAN GROVE, N. J.

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Rev. T. L. Cuyler,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

National Temperance and Publication Society.
July 27-31.

Prophetic lips, long centuries ago, proclaimed to the world of mankind,
" Trust ye in the Lord Jehovah." But humanity, almost in despair,
turned in the direction from which the sound proceeded,
and despondingly
inquired " Why?" Then the same voice continued, and said, with un-
swerving and majestic firmness, " For in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting
strength." This was rock in sand desert—high noon on the midnight of
the soul. Sometimes, even now, however, in the blackness of the howling
tempest, we, in our forgetfulness, ask, " Is there any sun?" But that
grand old Luminary sits enthroned in his wonted sphere, smiling upon the
partially enveloped earth, unconcerned as it there never was a cloud, or

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 57

even the thinnest gauze-like vapor to obscure his light. So small are
these things on the disk of his undimmed splendor.
We sometimes say truth sits on granite. Rather, truth is granite !

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