Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-02


want physician who sees no God in human
anatomy to doctor my broken bones If cd
made us lan1 l think He did, AMI II fine
Bible is true tand / arm rather disposed r.
think it Isl. then it is not strange that PRAYER
does traverse natural cause; ny, that it in
law. He did not make it so strong He conld
not break it. If God made our bodies. when
they are broken He is the one to mend them
and it is reasonable that we should call Him
in to do it. II my furnace in the cellar
breaks down. there is no one SO competent 10
repair it as the manufacturer II my watch
stops there Is no one so competent to set II
going as the one who made it, II the body
is disordered, call in the Maker of it. Il Il
not all, as these physicists tell us, matter of
ventilation or poisoned air. OF cleanliness or
dirt. OF nutritious diet or poor fare. | nave
known people to get we'll in rooms where the
windows had been six weeks down, tight
shut, and have known them to die right
under patent ventilators. have known
children sickly who every day had their bath.
and have known childrenrobust the wash,
fng of whose faces would make their features
1nrecognizable.
/ would have you also see-for it is another
lesson of the subject-that our prayer must
also be accompanied by means. 1t is an out
rage to ask God to do thing while we sit
indolent. 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 together. Luther
came to Melancthon's bedside and prayed for
his recovery, and insisted, at the same time
that he should take some warm soup, the
soup being just as important as the prayer
In the time of the great plague that came to
York, Of England, the priests prayed all night
and all day Tor 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 we'll
as supplications. III man has evening
prayers" asking for health and then sits
down to full supper of indigestibles
Mt 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 re-
tires regularly at ten o'clock at night and
takes his morning bath with the appendix OF
a Turkish towel.
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
it is lesson that this age needs to learn. IL
all communication between earth and heaven
is cut off, let us know it, IL all the Chris
tian prayers that are going up toward God
never reach Him, then. | say, let silence smite
the lips OF the afflicted world, and the nations
oiiOtHtI tutiT RTOdIs anu ule quietly. you
does answer prayer. The text shows it
You say: 81 don't believe the Bible: think
that those things were merely condolences.
which are often brought as answers to
prayer Do you say that. Was it mere
happen so that Elijah prayed for rain just
as the rain was gong to come anyhowl Did
Daniel pray in the wild beasts den just at tho
time when all the lions happened to have
lockiaw, Did Jesus pray at the grave OF
Lazarus just at the time when Lazarus was
gong to dress himself and come out anyhow
Did Jesus lose His place in His sermon, and
make mistake. when He said ASK, and it
shall be given you: seek, and We shall find:
knock, and it shall te op ned unto you"
And, lest some were so stupid they could not
understand il, He goes ON: "For every one
that asketh receiyeth: and he that seeketh
findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened
To prove that God does hear prayer, put
on the witness stand Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Micah, John, Paul. Peter
and King Hezekiah. Tell me, ye ancient
battle fields, We Oriental thrcshing floors. ye
Judean corn fields, We Galiean fishing
smacks, is God deaf and dumb and blind
before all human petition! That God answers
prayer, / bring the ten millions facts Of
Christendom TO prove. There has never
paper enough come out of the paper mills to
write the story. Has not many a mother
prayed back her bad boy from the ends Of
the earth-from Canton, from Madras, from
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES he knelt beside her in
the old homestead Have thoTe not been
desperadoes and renegades who have looked
into the door Of a PRAYER meeting TO laugh
and scoff at 1t. who have been drawn by the
power Of prayer, until they ran to the altar
crying out for mercyi Did not the black
smith in Lyons, n. y, pray to God until
there came a great awakening that shook
the community.
I have bad n NV oyv,, axnarianca and
have had in the history OF my own family,
the evidence that God answers prayer. Ny
mother, with three Christian women, as
sembed week after week and prayed for
their children; they kept up that prayer
meeting of four persons year after year
The world knew nothing of it. God an
swered all thoss prayers. All the group
came in; the eleven sons and daughters Oh
my mother came in, myself the last.
Sickness came to my Observation-Disclosures
as IL seemed to many. AT O'Clock
on Saturday afternoon the invalid was car.
ried to the steamer for Savannah. At Ill
o clock the next day, being Sunday, standing
in this very place, a man of God prayed for
the recovery OF the sicl: one At that time,
L o'clock. she who had been Frustrated three
weeks, with some help walked up on deck.
The occurrence was as near to being mracu-
lous as can imagine. That she was nope
lessly sick people who sat up with her night
the prayer for her recovery was offered IN
this pulpit, thousands Of people could testify
That at IL O'Clock on that Sunday morning
she walked up on deck. as by miraculous
recovery, call the passengers on the San
Jacinto commanded by Captain Atkins,
December 10, 70 testify. This Is no second
hand story. -
PRAYER impotent, II / dared TO think
there was no force in PRAYER, methinks 0oa;
4 fter ali He has done for me and mine would
strike me dead. Prayer impotenti Why i
Is the mightiest force in the universe. l1ght-
ming has no speed. the Alpine avalanche has
no power, compared with it,
And now, in conclusion. have to present
Won some checks. blank checks. on the bank
81 heaven, written in blood, and signed oy
he hand wounded on the cross. IL IS not
safe for you to give blank check with your
name to it, You do not know what might
be written above But here is blank checs
which God says can give you; u Is signed
bv the hand writing of the Lord Jesus Chrlst
and YOU can ill it up with anything yon want
70. ASK, and it shall be given TO YOU
seek. and We shall fndn I do not say that
your prayer will be answered in Just the way
vou az r,act Int do say il will be answered