Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-24

get btIe htuUIc, Dut ke siN
must use means, snd that was: stick to the
old ship!" God is not weak, needing our
help, but God is strong, and asks us to Co
operate with Him that We may be strong,
too. Pray by oil means, but don't forget
the fig. poultiee.
COP ANSWERS PRAYERS
offered in the right spirit, seconded by our
own effort, is the first aud last lesson OF
this text, and it is o lessou that this age
reeds to learn. In all communication
between hsaveu and earth is cut of, let us
know it. if all the Christian prayers that
are going up toward God never reach Him,
then, say, let silence smite the lips OF the
afflicted world, and the nations smother
their groans and die quietly. God an.
swers prayer. The text elbows it. You
say: ~ don't bslieve the Bible; think
thst Il Gee things were merely ccincidspces
which are often brought as answers to
prayer" Do you say that? Was II mere
hsppeu-so that Elijah prsye for rain just
IS the rain was goipg to come anyhow!
Did Daniel pray in the wild beasth' den
iust at the time when all the lions happen
ed TO have lockj jaw? Did Jesus pray at the
grave Of Lazarus just at the time when
LsEsrus was going to dress himself and
come oct anyhow Did Jesus lose His
place in His sermon, and make mistake,
when He said: ASK, and II shall be
given unto you; seek, aud ye shall find;
knock, and il shalt be opened unto your
And, lest some were 20 stupid they could
not understand il, he goes on: For
everyone that asketh receiveth; and he
that seeketh fndeth; and 10 him that
knocketh it shall be opened"
But some one persists in saying; 81
don't believe anstbiug Of the Bible"
Then ! appeal to your own instincts
PRAYER in certain circumstauc q is rs natu-
raj to man as the thIobbipg in the pulse,
as the respiration Of the luDga Put .
company of men-I don't care bow bsd
they are in some iminsnt peril, and they
will cry out: God have mercy on usw j
challenge that the,e men who don't be-
lieye in prayer charter steamer, 20 out In
the ''NArows." swing out eight or nire
hundred miles 10 sea, and then heave TO
and wait for cyclone. And after the cy-
clone comes aud the veste el has gone under
ten times, when thsy did rot expect II,
would rise again, and the bulwarks have
been knocked in, and the masts are gone
if they do not pray, | will surrender Liy
theory. Do you tell me that this instinct
which God has put in us He put there just
to mock us for His own cruel amusement
IL God implanted that instinct in the hu-
man heart, it was because In His own heart
-. IL
BRING ON IHE WITNESSES
To prove that God does hear prayer, /
put on the witn.ssstsnd, Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Ez: kiel, jeremiah, Micah, John,
Paul, Peter and King Hezekiah. Tell me,
ye ancient baitle-felds, ye Oriental tbresh-
ing floors, ye Judeau con-fslds, ye Cali.
lean fshipg-smacks, is God deaf and
dumb, and blind before sll human psti-
ton? That God answers prayer, bring
the ten million facts Of Christeudom 20
prove. There hiss never paper enough
come out Of the papet-mllls to wIi.e the
stoay. Has not many o mother prayed
back her rad hoy from the ends OF the
esrth-from Canton, from Madras, from
Constantinople-unth he kutlt beside her
in the old homestead? Have there not
been desperadccs snd renegsdes who have
looked into ths door Of prayer -mestiDg TO
laugh and scoff st it, until they ran to the
altar crying ont for mercy Did not the
blacksmith in Lyons, New Iort, pray to
God until there came great awakening
that shook the community.
In my parish, in Philadelphia, one
night, At a meeting, | asked young man
10 20 into room at the side Of the
church, and talk upon the theme Of ,e'ig-
;on He grew Violently angry, and shook
his fists at me. We resolved to pray for
that young man, and we prsyei that he
might yield his soul 10 God, And when,
next night, at the meeting, the side door
was huug open, he was the irst 10 step in.
Prayer had captured bin. bad clsss-
mate in college, whose uncle, d.. John
Scudde-, of Inji', wrote to him, saying:
81 will pray for you every day until such
day, aud theu will give my attention
~ some other sui I-ct." The last day Oi
these prsyerp, when they had all gathered
up before the throne of God, my cllssmate
su urrend.rad bis sOul TO Jesus. This is no
second hand story | saw the letter, and
knew the young man.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Bat why should l go 30 fA? / have
had. in my own experierca, and ! have
had IN the history of my own family, the
Evidence that God answsrs prayer. Ny
mother, with three Christian women, az
scmbl,d wsek after week, and prayed fCI
II cir children; thy kept mp that prayer
meeting OF four perons year after year
! The world kuew LothiDg Of it, God an
swtred all those prayers. All tie RrouI
came in: the eleven sons and daughters VI
/ my mo- her came 10, myself the lat.
Sickness came to my household-hcpa
/ les. sickness, as il seemed TO many. Al
three O'Clock on Saturday afternoon th,
/ invalid was carried to the steamer fol
Savannah. At eleven o'clock the mex
day, being Sunday, standing in this verJ
place. a msn OF God prayed for the recoy
eiy Of the sick one. At that time, clever
o'c.ock, she who bad been prostrattt
three weeks, with come help
walked up on deck. The occurrence
was as near to being mirsculou
az can insgioe. That che was hopeless
sick, psop'e who sst up with her nigh
after night, and are here, cin testify
That the prayer for her recovery VS.,
offered in this pulpit, thoussnds Of peopl
could testify. That ut eleven o'clock OF
that Sunday morning sire walked up o.
deck, as by miraculous recovery, cil
the passengers on ths Saa JsCiutO, com
msnde l by Captain Atkins, December Ia
TO testify. This IA no second hand story
Prayer ippotent! II dared TO thin
there was no force in prayer, mstbink
God, after ell be bss done fJr me and min
would strike me dead. Prayer impotsn
Why II is the mighliest force in the un'
rec Lightning has no speed, the Alpio,
avalsnt he Das no power compared with il
PRAYER ~ HISTORY.
Will you let the distractions and tb
vsgari. Of few sktp'ics or q good msn
-krptics, stand h. side the experience Q
General Havelock, who came out 10 ( on
of the Eogli.h army, lifted bis hat, an
called upon the L7rd Almighty? or q
G Gorge Washington, who st Valley Forg
was fouLd upon his knees 10 pray er? or 0
William Wilberforce, who went from tn
British Parliament to the closet Of d.
votiot? or Of Lstimer, who .tood with hi
hands on FIRE, in martyrdom, praying 70
his pIosscutor? Wrs Wsshiogto
weakP Was ITavelock weak? W,
wllberforce weak? Was Latin.
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