Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
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Snurch will pray with its face toward the
est, and all the prairies and inland
cities will surrender to God: and will
pray with face toward the sea, and all
the islands and ships will become Chris
tlan. Parents who have maynard sons
Will get down on their knees and say:
Lord, send my boy home," and the boy
In Canton shall get right up from the
gaming table, and go down to the wharf
TO lind out which ship starts first for
America.
Not one of us yet knows how to pray.
All We have done as yet has only been
pottering. and guessing. and expert
menting. A boy gets hold of his faith
ef saw and hammer, and tries to make
something, but it is poor affair that he
makes. The father comes and takes the
saw and hammer. and builds the house
or the ship. In the childhood of our
Christian faith; we make but poor work
with these weapons of prayer, but when
we come to the stature of men in Christ
Jesus, then, under these implements.
the temple of God will rise and the
worlds redemption will be launched.
God cares not for the length of our
prayers, or the beauty of our prayers. or
the place of our prayers; but it is the
faith in them that tells. Believing
prayer scars higher than the lark ever
sang; plunges deeper than the diving
bell ever sank; darts quicker than light
ming ever flashed. Though we have
used only the back of this weapon in
stead of the edge, what marvels have
been wrought! If saved we are all the
captives of some earnest prayer. Would
God that, in the desire for the rescue of
souls, wemight in prayer lay hold of the
resources of the Lord Omnipotent.
we may turn many to righteousness
by Christian admonition. Do not wait
until you can make a formal speech. Adj
go home alone to-day. Between this and
your place of stopping you may decide
the eternal destiny Of an immortal
spirit. Just one sentence may do the
work. Just one look. The formal talk
that begins with sigh, and ends with a
cantlng shuttle, is not what is wanted,
but the heart throb of man in dead
earnest. There is not soul on earth
that you may not bring to God if you
rightly go at it. They said Gibraltar
could not be taken. 1t is rock, sixteen
hundred feet high and three miles long.
But the English and Dutch did take it..
Artillery, and sappers, and miners, and
fleets pouring out volleys of death, and
thousands of men, reckless of danger,
can do anything. The stoutest heart of
sin, though it be rock, and surrounded
by an ocean of transgression, under
Christian bombardment may be made to
hoist the flag of redemption.
But is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? Ny text
promises to all the faithful eternal lus-
ter. They that turn many to righteous
ness shall shine as the stars forever"
AS stars, the redeemed have bor-
rowed light. What makes Mars and
Venus and Jupiter SO luminous? When
the sun throws down his torch in the
Heavens the stars pickup the scattered
brands and hold them in procession as
the queen of the night advances; SO all
Christian workers, standing around the
throne, will shine in the light borrowed
from the Sun of Righteous ness-Jesus
in their faces, Jesus in their songs. Jesus
in their triumph. Christ left Heaven
once for tour of redemption on earth,
yet the gloritied ones knew He would
come back again. But let Him abdicate
His throne. and go away to stay forever
the music would stop; the congregation
dispense; the temples of God be dark
ened; the rivers Of light stagnate, and
every chariot would become hearse,
and every bell would toll. and there
would not be room on the hill sides to
bury the dead of the great metropolis,
for there would be pestilence in Heaven.
But Jesus lives, and so all the redeemed
] live with Him. He shall recognize them
as His comrades in early toll, and re-
member what they did for the honor of
His name and for the spread Of His
kingdom. All their prayers and tears
and work will rise before Him as He
looks into their faces, and He will di-
vide His kingdom with them; His
peace-their peace; His holiness
their holiness; His joy-their JOY. The
glory Of the central throne reflected
spot Of sin struck from the Christian
orb, and the entire nature a-tremble and
afash with light. they shall shine as the
stars forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers shall be
like the stars in the fact that they have
light independent of each other.
Lool. up at the night, and see each
world shows it's distinct glory. It is not
like the confagration. in which you can
not tell where one flame stops and an
other begins. Neptune, Herschel, and
Mercury are as distinct as if each one of
them were the only star; SO our individ-
ualism will not be lost in Heaven. A
great multitude-yet each one as observ-
able, as distinctly recognized, as greatly
celebrated, as if in all the space. from
gate to gate. and from hill to hill, he
were the only inhabitant; no mixing up
no mob-no indiscriminate rush; each
Christian worker standing out illustri-
ous-all the story Of earthly achieve
ment adhering to each one; his self-de-
malls, and pains, and services, and vic
tories published. Before men went out
to the last war, the orators told them
that they would all be remembered by
their country, and their names be COM
memorated in poetry and in song; but go
to the graveyard in Richmond and you
will find there 5000 graves, over each
one Of which is the inscription, "Un-
known" The world does not remem-
Der its heroes; but there will be no I'M
recognized Christian worker in Heaven.
Each one known by all; grandly known;
known by reclamation; all the past story
of work for God cleaning in cheek, and
brow, and foot. and palm. They shall
shine with distinct light as the stars, for
ever and ever.
Again: Christian workers shall shine
like the stars in clusters. In looking up,
you find the worlds in family circles.
Brothers and sisters-they take hold of
each others hands and dance in groups.
Orion in a group: Pleiades in group: