Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-01

b'Nu1it bN hSNS lO-HHcHls DuI u prayer
shall catch II at one sallop. A boy run
ming away from home may cake the mid
night train from the country village and
reach the seaport in time 10 gain
the ship that sails on the morrow; but
mothers prayer will be on the deck 10
meet him, and in the hammock before
he swings into it, and at the capstan be-
fore he winds the rope around il, and on
the sea, against the sky, as the vessel
plows on toward it. There is might
ness in prayer, George Muller prayed
company Of poor boys together, and then
he prayed up an asylum in which they
might be sheltered He turned his face
upon Edinburgh and prayed, and there
came thousand pounds. lie turned his
face toward London and prayed. and
there came thousand pounds He
turned his face toward Dublin and
prayed, and there came thousand pounds.
The breath of Elijah's prayer blew all the
clouds off the sky, and it was dry
weather The breath Of Elijah's prayer
blew all the clouds together, and ii was
wet weather. Prayer, in Daniels time,
walked the cave as lion tanner. II
reached up, and took the sun by its
golden bit, and stopped it. We have all
yet to try the full power of prayer.
The time will come when the
American church will pray with its face
toward the west, 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
Christian. Parents who have waywarG
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 gambling table, and go down to the
wharf to find 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 experiment
ing. A boy gets hold Of his fathers saw
and hammer, and tries 10 make some
thing, but it is a poor affair that he
makes. The father comes and takes the
same saw and hammer, and builds the
house or the ship. In the childhood of
our Christian faith, we make but
poor work with the 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 number 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 diving bell
ever sank; darts quicker than lightning
ever flashed. Though we have used only
the back Of this weapon instead of the
edge, what marvels have been wrought!
If saved, we are all the captives Of some
earnest prayer. Would God that, in de-
sire for the rescue Of souls. we might 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 formal speech
Address the one next to you. You will
not go home alone today. Between this
and your place Of stopping you may de-
eide the eternal destiny Of an immortal
spirit. just one sentence may do the
work. Just one question. Just ono look.
The formal talk that begins with sigh
and ends with canting shuttle il not
what is wanted. but the heartthrob of a
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. II is a
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, reck.
less of danger, can do anything. The
stoutest heart Of sin, though it be rock,
and surrounded by an ocean Of trans.
gression, under Christian bombardmenl
may be made to hoist the flag Of redemp,
| ton.
But is all this admonition, and prayer
and Christian work for nothing2 Ny
text promises TO all the faithful eterna
luster. They that turn many tC
righteousness shall shine as the stars for
ever"
As stars, the redeemed have borrowed
light. What makes Mars and Venu
and Jupiter so luminous2 When the sur
throws down his torch In the heavens IN,
stars pick up the scattered brands anc
hold them in procession as the queen O
the night advances; so all Christian
workers, standing around the throne
will shine in the light borrowed from tn,
Sun Of Righteousness-Jesus in theil
faces, Jesus in their songs, Jesus in theil
triumph. Christ left heaven once for Q
tour of redemption on earth, yet the
glorilied ones knew he would come back
again. But let him abdicate his throne,
and 60 away to stay forever, the music
would stop, the congregation disperse, th,
temples Of God be darkened, the river,
Of light stagnate, and every chariot would
become hearse, and every bell would
toll, and there would not be room ON the
hill sides 10 bury the dead of the grea,
metropolis, for there would be pestilencc
in heaven. But Jesus lives, and 80 ali
the redeemed live with him. He shall
recognize them as his comrades in earthly
toll, aud remember what they did fol
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.