Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-10
THE PRAYERS OF JESUS.

AS Jesus stepped forth after the baptism on
the banks of the river, he stood severed from
the past, connected with a new future Naza-
reth, its quiet home, its happy days, its peace
full occupations, lay behind trials and tolls
and suffering and death lay before him. He
would not have been the Son Of man had he
not felt the significance and solemnity Of the
hour he would not have been the full parta-
ker of our human nature, had the weight of
his new position, new duties, new trials, not
pressed heavily upon his heart. He turns in
the pure, true instinct of his sinless humanity,
to seek support and strength in God, to throw
himself and all his future upon his Father in
prayer.
But who may tell how he felt and what he
prayed? What desires, what hopes, what So
licitudes, went up from the heart at least, if
not from the lips, of this extraordinary sup
plant. Never before had the throne of the
heavenly grace been thus approached, and
never before was such answer given. The
prayer ascends direct from earth to heaven,
and brings the immediate answer down. It
is as he prays that the Spirit comes, bringing
light and strength and comfort to the Saviour,
sustaining him under that consciousness cf
his sonship to God, which now 6lls expands,
exalts his weak humanity. And does not our
great Head and Representative stand before
US here type and pattern of every true be-
lever in the Lord, as to the duty, the privi-
lege, the power Of prayer? Of him, and of
him only, of the sons of men, might it be said,
that he prayed without ceasing; that his life
was one of constant and sustained communion
with his Father.
And yet you find him, on all the great oc-
casions of his life, having resource to separate,
solitary, sometimes to prolonged acts Of devo-
ton. His baptism, his appointment Of the
twelve apostles, his escape from the attempt
to make him king, his TRANSPORTATION, his
agony in the garden, his death upon the cross,
were all hallowed by prayer. From the low
est depth, from the highest elevation of his
ministry, he poured out his spirit in prayer
For his mission on earth, for all his heaviest
trials, he prepared himself by prayer. And
should we not prepare for our poor earthly
service, and fortify ourselves against tempta-
tions and trials, by following that great ex-
ample? The heavens above us are not shut
up against us, the spirit who descended like a
dove has not taken wings and flown away
forever from the earth. There is power by
which these heavens can still be penetrated,
which can still bring down upon us that gen.
tie messenger of rest-the power that lies in
SIMPLE humble, earnest, continued, believing
prayer.-Dr. Hanna.
CHRIST THE END OF THE LAVA woman
who was in great distress about her sins, went
to great many meetings in the hope Of get
ting comfort, but did not find it. "At las" ,"
she said, 81 found that was going to meet
ings instead Of going to Christ, and then got
light"
She gave up depending on herself, or her
minister, or the prayer meeting, and came
right to Christ, and he saved her.
Friend, have you come to Christ? ? Moth
ing else will save you. "Fcr there is none
other name under heaven given among men
whereby we must be saved. Acts 4: H.
Your sins need an atonement; come then to
Christ, "Who his own self bore our sins in his
own body on the tree should live unto right
eousness." 81 Peter 9: "a
Come freely, for he says, "Him that cometh
unto me, I will in no wise cast out. John g.:
81.
Come quickly, for "Thou knowest not what
a day may bring forth. PROV 27: 1.