Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-08
PRAISE THE LORD.
DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 9Th, 1882

DAYTON, Ohlo, Aug. Otn, 1857.
D,Gr IaieriOr;
$50 from Richmond, and sos
from Winchester "helped the cause" agood
deal last week, and made Hall rent and
board bill easy to pay. / set down Rich
m0nd for 500, incorrectly last week. Five
friends contributed the $50 One dear la
dy in Winchester sent the S25 to Marie.
These friends will never know till the
Book Of Remembrance is opened how their
opportune gifts lifted sinking spirits and
furnished the "sinews Of war" in the
good fight Of faith" now going on. Some
take this thing out in "talk"-polite but
uumeaning-others don't even do THE;
while yet "little flock" thank God, don't
gas, but act. And these are they who will
win crown. So, please, don't let us hear
any more, dear Walton, about these devo-
ted friends, you write about, who will new
er see that "little organ" sold for a board
bill, for do assure you ii might nave
gone Just that way, had not "doers" and
not "forgetful hearers" las james calls
them) come to the front. In this connec-
ton cannot refrain from quoting another
verse from this same quaint but blessed
Epistle writer. "If one Of you say unto
Them" (the needy brother or sister, de-
part in peace; be ye warmed and filled;
notwithstanding, re give them not there
things which are needful to the body;
what doth it pro6t?" james 2; Is. Verb.
Sap. Sat" "And don't you forget it," l
have not forgotten "Pink Cottage" and
never shall, though you may rest assured
il has not soured on me. The dear LORD
keeps me sweet, all along the line. And |
learn lots of lessons as 20. The sweetest
Of all is, that JESUS never disappoints.
o how | have learned that, afresh, since
coming TO Dayton.
Another very valuable one, has also been
learned in this rough school; and that is,
that there are "wheels within Wheels" as
Ezekiel has it, in our experience. The
whole Of symmetrical life is made up Of
successive rehearsals Of the principle that
governs the whole; so that while the plat
forms on which we walk are ever higher
and higher, yet, on each, in turn, we "be-
gin at the beginning" Precisely as in an
ordinary education, we learn the rudi-
ments Of each science in succession. No
previous proficiency in what is gone over,
removing the necessity Of beginning with
the A, B, G of the new study. So in Spir-
itual life, tits ever "First the blade, then
the ear, after the full corn in the ear"
Ard this not only in the whole life, but
continually rehearsed in the parts that go
to make ur the whole. Each part is but
the whole in epitome as the completed whole
is an aggregation Of the parts, and just
like them.
The application Of this principle has
helped me 10 un dersiand the Dayton meet
ing, as il bears on the development Of my
own individual ministry, more than any
thing else. II is simply repetition; on
different platform, Of the trial that met me
in the Winter Of &c when this Eyangel-
ism began. Then, wrought in Lebanon
for a whole month, as faithfully and pa
tiently as ever did in my life, yet with
out fruit in gathered sheaves." could
count on the fingers OF one hand, the souls
saved in that first meeting-so far as We
saw. That trial safely and patiently pass
ed, uninterrupted success set in. During
that memorable month, the LORD 80
sweetly kept me that | never for a moment
yielded TO a feeling Of disappointment in
God, though sorelY tempted once and
again. SO il has been in Dayton while
passing through the same A, b, G trial, on
a new and wider platform Of service. II
in Kentucky | heard the voice of Jesus
saying with the same emphasis, that sent
me from Chicago to Kentucky in the be-
ginning, but now, not "gO 10 Kentucky
and preach my gospel" but go unto all