Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-12-30


! under patent yentilators | have
known children siekly who every day
had their bath, and l have known
children robust, the washing If whose
faces would make their features un-
recognizable.
God did not make the law and then
run away from it, What is law of
naturei Ii is only Gods usual wayof
doing things. But he has said that if
his children ask him 10 do thing,
and lie can consistently do il. he will
do it. Go on with your pills, and
plasters, and nostrums, and clixirs,
and your catholicon, but remember
that the mightiest agency in your re-
covery is prayer. Prayer TO God
brought the kings cure the lump of
figs being the God directed human in
strlmentality.
| would have you also see-for ii is
another lesson Of the subiect-thut our
prayer must also be accompanied by
means. IL is an outrage TO ask God TO
do a thing while we sii indoleut. The
prayer, to be acceptable must come
not only from the heart, but from the
hands. We must work while We
pray. devotion and work going to-
gether. Luther came tu Melancthon's
bedside and prayed for Lis recovery,
and insisted, at the same lime. that he
should take some warm solp. the soup
being just as important a the prayer.
In the time Of the great llagUe that
came TO York, of England he priests
prayed all night and al day for
the removal of the plague, but did
not think of clearing out the dead
dogs and cats that lay in the cutters,
causing the sickness. We must use
means as well as supplication. fla
man has evening prayers" ask
ing for health and then sits
down TO a full supper of indi-
, gestibles nj IL o'clock at night, his
prayer is a mockery. a farmer has
no right TO pray for the safety Of his
family when he knows there is no
cover on the cistern. The Christian
man, reckless about his health, ought
not TO expect the same answer TO his
prayer as the Christian man expects
who ptiIeS regularly at 10 o'clock at
night and takes his morning bath with
the appendix Of Turkish towel. Paul
said TO the passengers of the Alexan-
drian corn ship that they should get
safe ashore, but he told them they
must use means, and that was: Stick
to the old ship" God is not weak,
needing our help, but God is strong,
and asks us TO cooperate with him
, that We may be strong, too. Pray by
all means, but don't forget the fig
poultice.
) THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER ILLUS
TRATED.
That God answers prayers offered in
, the right spirit, seconded by our own
effort, is the first and the last lesson of
this text, and il is a lesson that this
age needs TO learn. II all communi.
cation between heaven and earth is
J cut off. LET us know it, If all the
Christian prayers that are going up
toward God never reach him, then, 1
, say, let silence smite the lips of the
afflicted world, and the nations smother
their groans and die quietly. God
does answer prayer. The text shows
it, You say; Il don't believe the
Bible; think that those things were
merely condolences, which are
often brought as answers TO prayer"
Do you say that2 Was il mere
happen SO that Elijah prayed
for rain just as the rain was going to
come anyhow2 Did Daniel pray in
the wild beasts den just at the time
when all the lions happened 20 have
lockjawl Did Jesus pray at the grave
of lazarus just at the time when Laz-
arus was going to dress himself and
come out anyhowl Did Jesus lose his
place in his sermon and make a mis-
take when he said: ASK. and il shall
be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and il shall be opened unto
your And, lest some were SD stupid
they could not understand IL, he goes
on: For every one that aslieth re-
ceiveth, and he that seeketh iindeth,
and TO him that knocketh il shall be
, opened"
! But some one persists iii saying; Il
: don't believe anything of the Bible"
a Then appeal TO your own instincts.
D PRAYER in certain circumstances is as
e natural 10 man as the throbbing in tho
C pulse, as the respiration of the lungs.
, Put company of men-l don't care
: how bad they are-in some imminent
peril, and they will cry out: God
have mercy on usl' challenge that
= these men who don't believe in prayer
/ charter a steamer, go out in the Mar
rows, swing out eight or nine hUn-
dred miles 10 sea, and then heavc 30
} and wait for cyclone, And after thc
cyclone comes and the vessel has gone
under ten times, when they did not
/ expect it would rise again, and the
bulwaFlSs have been knocked in, and
the masts are gone-if they do not
! pray, will surrender my theory. Do
you tell me that this instinct which God
has put in us, he put there Just 10
mock us for his own cruel amusCmenti
If God implanted that instinct in the
| human heart, II was because in his ovn
heart there was something responsive.
To prove that God does hear PRAYER.
, put ON the witness stand Abraham
Isaac, jacob, Ezekiel, jeremiah. Micah,
John, Paul, Peter and King Hczel1inh,
, Tell me, ye ancient battlelields. ye
Oriental threshing floors, We Judosn
corn fields, yc Galiloan fishing
smacls Is God deaf and dumb hpd
blind before all human petitioni That
God answers prayer, | bring the ten
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