News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-03
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That God ans, yers prayers offered in the
right spirit sec( 'nded by our own effort, is
the first and the last lesson of this text, and
it is lesson that this age needs to learn. If
all commu nicatfon between earth and heaven
is cut off, let US know it If all the Chris
tian prayers thai going up toward God
never reach Hirl then, ! say, let silence smite
the lips of the fflicted world, and the nations
smother THEN: groans and die quietly. God
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 ii hat Elijah prayed for rain Just
as the rain IS gong to come anyhow! Did
Daniel pray in: the wild beasts den Just at the
time when a Il the lions happehed to have
lockjaw! Dill 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 a mistaktL when He said: ASK. and it
shall he given you; seek, and We shall find;
knock, and it shall / e opened unto you"
And, lest some were so stupid they could not
understand it, He goes on: ''For every one
that assseth reGeiveth; and he that seeketh
indeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened"
To proxs Il rat God does h.ar prayer, put
on the wifnes stand Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Ezekiel Je-amiah, Micah, John, Paul Peter
and King AeHkiah. Tell ME, We ancient
battle fields. We Oriental threshing floors We
JuQ6dn CAFli u0iuS. Jc fNdlll6du 1lSulIlS
smacks, is God deaf and dumb and blind
before all hannah petition. That God answers
prayer, l bring the ten millions facts of
Christendom to prove. There has never
paper enough come out of the paper mills to
write the stoty Has not many a mother
prayed back Der bad boy from the ends of
the earth-fro u Canton, from Madras, from
Constantinoplt until he knelt beside her in
the old homes cad! Have there not been
desperadoes and. renegades who have looked
into the door of PRAYER meeting to laugh
and scott at it, rho have been drawn by the
power of prayer until they ran to the altar
crying out for lercy? Did not the black
smith in Lyons, n. Y, pray to God until
there came a great awakening that shook
the community!
have had in my own experience, and
have had in the history of my own family,
the evidence tn At God answers prayer. My
mother, with three Christian women, as
sembled 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 those prayers. All the group
came in; the eleven sons and daughters of
my mother CO me in, myself the last
Sickness ca ne to my Acknowledgements
sickness, as it seemed to many. At 3 o'clock
on Saturday afternoon the invalid was car
ried to the steamer for Savannah. AT IL
o'clock the next day, beip g Sunday, standing
IN this very place, man of God prayed for
the recovery of the sick one At that time
IL O'clock she who hid been Frustrated three
weeks, with some help walked up on deck
The occurrence was as near to being miracu
lous as [ can imagine. That she was hope
lesSly sick, people who sat up with her night
after night, and are here, can testify. That
the prayer for her recovery was offered in
this pulpit, thousands of people could testify.
That at II o'clock on that Sunday morning
she walkel up on deck, as by a miraculous
recovery, call the passengers on the San
Jacinto, commanded by Captain Atkins,
December 49, to testify. This is no second
hand story.
Prayer impotentt If / dared to think
there was no force in prayer, methinks God,
after all He has done for me and mine would
strike me dead. Prayer impotentI Why it
is the mghtiest force in the universe Light
ming has no speed, the Alpine avalanche has
no power, comp are with it.
And now, in cor cluSion, have to present
vol some checks. blank checks on the bank
OF heaven, writtsr; in blood, and signed by
the hand wounded on the cross. 1t is not
safe for you to gTve blank check with your
name TO it. You do not know what might |
be written above But here is blank check
which God says J can give you; it is signed
by the hand writing of the Lord Jesus Christ, |
and you can filE 1t up with anything you want |
to- ASK, and it shall be given to you; |
seek, and We shall find" 1 do not say that |
your prayer will be answered in Just the way |
you expecS but do say it will be answered |
in the best way. OH will you trust Him? |
This is the o1tcone of all his subject
If | should ask The men and women in this |
audience who have found God n prayer |
answering God TO rise up, you would nearly |
all rise up. In time of darkness and trouble, |
as in time of light and prosperity, He an
swered you. L conmlend you to that God to
whom your parents; dedicated you in in
fancy They beljevesi so much in prayer that
their last word was supplicatiOn for you.
Having heard you in days of prosperity, He
will not reject yCmr last petition, when in
the darkened room after they have wiped
the dew of death Trom your brow, and the
whole group of love- ones have kissed YOU
good-by, you have OF ly strength enough left
to pray: Lord Jesus, receive my spiritI'