The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-12

felt condemned Of God. Thus I lived until I was
seventeen, when determined. ~ all hazards. t.
Now, here is point in the personal experience
OF child VINO, Without knowledge OF the Scrip
lures consciously shared It's PROMISES to those who
obey them. and lived therein some Two years.
sharing the witness or the Spirit with his spirit
that ne was child Of God, as the Bible declares.
proving the efficacy OF prayer aud the verify OF the
Bible to all true worshippers or God.
10 makes no difference whether Drs. Carpenter
and Tyndali call this the result OF my prayers or
tnose OF somebody ese or whether they deny that
STANDS on the Bple Sasis N - defiance Of
enought And as the promises OF God conditioned
on On PRAYER were realized. 1t is logical sequence
mat prayer was used by myself or BY others and
was answered. Another point Ia, that my expert.
ence rom my fail for some eleven years. only cor
dennation OF the dlsobedent, the SCIENTISTS soph-
istiy TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
But the scene now changes Hooked at myself
ana at the world and found every thing lust as
Carpenter and fyndall have IL all their lives.
W SGrrSS, anno ruined and lost world lying In
fesents lost man. all proving that represen tation
true; Now SAID wili prove the truth or lalsty
those who will forsake their evl ways through the
grace and help OF Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and
guilt and sin. This battle was indescribabiy sore
and hard0ught Tor three months Inldeuty. with
God. Much Of the time could only say, .sink or
SWIM iiye OF die," here set my standardfor "yc-
Thus passed three months, when Jesus spoke and
the STERN went mourning into silence at HIS voice.
slnals thunders ceased and DER my head the .bow
OF promise beamed. Prayer had prevailed Gods
promise was nine. God had fulfilled His word.
the Bible TO me was true. The Spirit bore witness
with my spirit that was a child OF God. NV
triumph WAS lar more glorious than my utmost iui-
aginatlon had conceived, for my ''sun did not go
Gown, neither ala my moon withdraw itself; the
Lord was my everlasting light and the days or nv
mourning were ended"
dlspate such testimony Can thew in omen coupt
swear down ana rebuff the millions OF witnesses
past and present, to the truth OF God and His word
III their personal experience OF the same blessed
deliverance from guilt and sinP We're all these
witnesses Ignorant fanatics : We're the 100 minis
ters who listened to Carpenter and Tyndail In Zion
college, when these gentlemen made this assertion
and asked the question given above, and whom
Tyndhl eulogized as learned, &c.-were they All
fools or knavess What climax or sell-esteem and
egotsm! Thus are both Tynda and Carpenter
standing proofs OF the truth or the Bible repre-.
sentations Of man as we'll as OF the imbecty of
numan reason when IT leaves the only standard Of
Again. I have seen ana experienced many
answers to prayer, both direct and immediate, not
only IN simple Christian experlence-of which all
God's cMldren are. samples-but in temporal
things. ! have seen disease which threatened TO
be fatal immediately and suddenly arrested In
mediate answers to prayer in business: and In
law nave known party defeated by non-appear-
ance and non-cOrrespOndence, through non-recep-
zion Of q letter and delay OF railroad train, In
answer to the united prayers OF two or three per-
sons who made 1t Q special subject OF prayer that
COD would deliver the defendant from the unjust
anu vile claims OF the other party. l have known
hundreas-l might say tnousands-oI dollars
saved to persons who could Ill afford to lose them
and where there seemed no other hope therefor
but God IN answer to prayer.
Many hundreds OF well authenticated cures,
even OF cases given up by physicians, and OF can
GERS, levers, epilepsy, insanity, &C., &C., have been
granted in answer to prayer alone. What arrogance
and impudence for such men to stump the world
In denial OF the least degree OF effect the uni
verse for the efficacy OF prayer, and to taunt PEG.
pie who believe teach and know the efficacy OF
PRAYER with asking them whether 1t Is really
possible that you can have any belief therein In
a Wy nrha tn NnU ixfaf tl,,.
hypocrltes. II this Is not the very acme OF arro-
gance, impudence ignorance or hypocrisy know
not what can be. Do neither man nor his inter-
ests belong to the universe
A. w, BLAKESLEY