The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-01-09

Tie SEX Man oF Europe has hor5me -
sick. u1ryithstanGiu. al trc medication ot war
and Diplomacy. Slar the Turk may now IN various
parts ~ tiat Empire embrace the Christian rcIs-
iru without tie punishment aG'4 am '"e
various Eul-3rian. Greek, Arabic. and American
Rls,- OF tl1c Heterogeneous government are BENG
vigorously re-tauzhc the first principles ut Divine
Truth. In Italy TIE temporal U-Ulmlu o- JHe
paEoev has been most ma-ve.cu>.y clr>uINSSuaSi
VAST PORTIONS OF tlc property % the N-SaAeI
Church has been S1ll.hv ami for cae State and
che Wa.jcu>e>. assisted by Christians ~ EoE2od-
have descended from thcic mountain retreats ~
a-eS. and arc filling tire land with Bibles In
Au-tria. rLe Pore has been obliged tn relax MS
Grasp. true religion ie-ias O. revive. ana already
90 we hear az q ur~- wonderful worS 9t grace
among the ;ccSllFrE 1t Bohemia Protestant
GERMANY has ieaaug "a nation AMI 81 power and
the slight 1l Eati.u-.i~l j. RAPIDLY uhatinE-
Evangelical religion IS beginning both N taSe
hcart and take root IN France and within the
last few DAYS. General Prim Of Spain, not only
permits. bat earnestly requests. the barust aud
Foreign Bible S-cIetv % send Bibles L that
Priesi-cwsci land. where hu5 . few weeks before
~ the town % Na-lla. a man was sentenced 20 2
year and n half Of Imprisonment Tor reading and
teachiu. Gods word.
In England. Scotland. and particularly in Ire
llni. there have. during these few years past
been most remarkable and extensive revival- of
religion and the nation has now under advise
ment the abolition OfJhe Irish Estabiishct Church
thus commencing throughout the kingdom the
work of removing ali the church establishments
which in our day have certainly become an lni-
uediment u the best progress OF thirst hInEiom.
in the United States of America, but litJle more
than a wear from the first observance of the week
of PRAYER. commenced one OF the most marked Of
all the REVEALS ever experienced IN that land OF
reviyals: and the Lord has there - overturned the
body polite that every slave Is now free, and mill
lions of dollars are yearly devoted by the voluntary
contribution of Christians - efforts 10 enable
these inteiIects. dwartcd aud im6ruted by slavery,
u take their true PLACE Is free men IN Christ
Jesus. And a. We glance soutuward on the
American Continent we find the wealth and p0-
litiell power OF the R1mish church greatly broken
in Mexico. 50 that il i now rapidly becoming one
of the most inviting and hopeful OF missionary
fields: and even in South America. large regions
are open TO the Bible and 10 Christian labor.
Tie heart palpitates with excitement AZ the
largest and briefest recital OF the moral and reiig-
iOus agItationS and advances since the Week OF
PRAYER began % be observed, such Is Tor depth
and for extent throughout tic whole world, were
never before crowded. into any twelve years, and
hardly into any twelve centuries. And no Chris
tan but believes these events 10 be effects, in
large degree, of the spirit OF prayer which has
sped from city 10 city and people to people, till
now :. many people and strong nations are, AT
least, beginning - 10 seek the Lord of hosts and
pray before the Lord"
Who of Us can hesitate To invest u our utmost
ability by sO-called =. contributions 70 the most
glorious and most successful Of all the e.5eTprises
of our dav and Of time and NhO can fail Of being
reused To the most hearty and absorbing union in
prayer. with the hundreds OF thousands u fellow
christians, glowing III union 80 complete that the
fame OF wo.shiplng supplication shall not for 4
week 70 come q moment flicker ON earth's entire
globe. And in joining this call 70 pray, ii Is 4
very important suggestion. that we 10 not allow
ourselves 70 be carried away by a mere phiian-
thropic enthusiasm. desiring simply. or mainly,
70 be sharers in the cclat and JOY Of the grandest
Of guTerTTISe< Nor 80 shall we take oar Mace in
thc holy circle Of c0-w0rkers with God.
Our first step Is that OF deep humiliation and
clntritiJn before God. We must first unite IN
Tcnitential tears. before we can rise together -
prevailing prayers. We can only receive tne
necessary power after that the Holy Ghost
shall have come upon us. and we shall not receive
that baptism with the Holy Ghost and with fire,
save Is We - continue with ono accord IN prayer
and supplication-' The whole world Is praying
for this grace for rs. and Is we pray for the
whole world let as not forget orr own most needy
selves. Like charity, humiliation in prayer
should begin nj home. though il cannot remain
there. Daring this week, which Is - many Of us
one of thc busiest of the whole year, let Us rescue
Il few hours for ourselycs. with the zeal OF a Icr-
sonal necessity, remembering thar before the
Lord. in spiritual matters, e We are wreUched, and
miserable, and poor. and blind. and naked"
And, as a further stimulus, let Us emem5
that in not an unimpOrtant sense. we Ot this cS-
trcme west longitude, are those Who each day ui
prayer pronounce tie praying Worli'S Amen.
From Micronesia, and the Islands IN extreme
east longitude, do the early mathis Of each days
ascend. Westward the voice of prayer in
crcascs hourly. added - by our brethren in the
Continental Island Of Australia then 10y the few
in Japan, who have heard the dying summons
then by several thousands along the shores and
rivers Of China. who have taken up their march
for the truly Celestial World. From the emerald
islands of Malaysia, and hedeep ta~nglesof Farther
India. do PRAYERS ascend from Il few devoted Ia
bOrcrs and their scattered converts. till We reach
thousands Of PRAYING karcns. where Budha
rcigne. From multitudcs OF Christian hearts
liOng the - coral strands'' Of India Proper and
It's dependencies, riscs the swelling volume of
prayer. more fragrant far among It's cocoa shaSes
than Z. the spicy breeZcs which blow Ger CcylOUis
From Madagascar, and the shores Of At-
'ica, discnthralled EthiopIans stretch forth their
hands in agomiZing prayer. From all The last
md the = Holy Land crusaders for Il city not
IF this world. lift up their joyous shout as they in
lrayer dcscrv the battiemenJs of tie New Jerusa-
he glorious enthusiasm spreads. and prayers as
end from the venerable affairs ofages. Inenceto
Grcenland's icv mountains and onward 10 Old
plymouth Rock. where the Puritan Fathers were
u pray centuries ago. And still westward
he holy impulse spreads. through the Land OF
freedom, OF the Bible, and of Prayer, till it
it=elf toward the setting sun, ON the bO-
ON Of the Pacific.
And now, az to US, on this latest point in each
lay of the world prayer is lett the closing
vords of the volume OF united supplication, shall
We not cDdeavor daily in the true spirit of prayer,
say B. Amen, even 50, come, Lord Jesus