Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05

States, and all through Christendom. and all
around the world let us join hands in holy
pledge that we call upon God for the power.
On, for the power from on high, the power
| that came on Pentecost, yea, for ten thou
sand Pentecosts. Sucn times will come, and
| they will come in our day ii We have the
faith and the prayer and the conservation.
The Time and Place for Action.
As the power from on high in 1857 was more
| remarkable in academies Of music and ly-
ceum halls and theaters than in churches,
why not this winter OF 1891 in these two
academies of music, places OF secular enter
| tainment where we are, during the rebuild-
| ing of our Brooklyn Tabernacle. so grandly.
and graciously treated by the owners and
lessons and lessees; why not expect, and why
not have the power from on high, comforting
power, arousing power, convicting power,
converting power, saving power, omnipotent
power? NY opinion is that in this cluster
oi cities by the Atlantic coast, there are
SOC, 600 people now ready to accept the
| gospel call ii, freed from all the convention
alities of the church, it were earnestly and
| with strong faith presented to them.
In these brilliant assemblies there are hun
| dreds who are not frequenters of churches
and who do not believe much, it at all. In
ministers of religion or ecclesiastical organi-
cations. But God knows you have struggles
in which you need help and hereavements in
which you want solace, and prosecutions In
which you ought to have defense, and per-
| plexities in which you need guidance, and
with a profound thoughtfuluess you stand
by the grave of the old year and the cradle
of the young year. wondering where you will
be and what you will be when rolling
years shall cease to move"
Power from on high descend upon them!
Men of New York and Brooklyn, offer
you God and heaven! From the day you
came to these cities, what struggle you
have had! / can tell from your careworn
countenances. and the tears in your eyes.
and the deep sigh you have just breathed
that you want reinforcement, and here it is,
greater than Blucher, when he reinforced
| Wellington, greater than the Bank OF
England, when last month it reinforced the
Barings; namely, the God who through
Jesus Christ is ready to pardon all your sin,
| com lort all your SORROWS, scatter all your
doubts, and swing all the shining gates OF
heaven wide open before your redeemed
] spirit. Come into the Kingdom of Godi
Without a half second of delay, come in!
Not Power From the Level.
| At the first communion after the dedica-
| tion OF our former church, 1923 souls stood
up in the aisles and publicly espoused the
| cause of Christ At another time 400 souls;
at another time 500; and our 4, 500 member
ship were but small part OF those who
within those sacred walls took upon them
selves the VOWS of the Christian. What
turned them? What saved them? Power
| from the level? No. Power from on high.
But greater things are to be seen il ever
these cities and ever this world is to be
taken Tor God. There is one class of men
and women 10 all these assemblages in whom
| / have especial interest, and that is those
who had good fathers and mothers once, but
they are dead. What multitudes of US are
orphansl We may be 40, 80, so years old.
but we never get used to having father and
mother gone Oh, how often we have had
troubles that we would like to have told
them, and we always felt as long as father
and mother were alive we had some one TO
whom we could 60. Now 1 would like to
ask if YOU think that all their prayers in
your behalf have been answered. mo,
you say, shut it is too late, the old folks are
gone now." must courteously contradict
you. 1t is not too late.
I have lend in the ministry, who was
| attending the last hours OF an aged Chris
tiau, and nv friend said to the old Christian:
us there no trouble on your mind?" The
old man turned his face to the wall for few
moments and then said: "Only one thing;
| hope Tor the salvation of my 10 children,
| but not one of them is yet saved; yet I am
sure they will be. God means to wait until
/ am gone" So he died. When my friend
told oi the circumstances eight of the ten
had found the Lord, and l have no doubt
the other two before this have found Him.
Oh, that the long-postponei answers to
prayer for you my brother, for you my SIS
ter, might this hour descend in power from
on high.
The History of Unanswered Prayers.
The history Of these unanswered prayers
| for you God only knows. They may have
been offered in the solemn birth-hour. They
may have been offered when you were down
with scarlet fever or diphtheria, or men,
branous Group. They may have been Of
tered when you were sound asleep in the
trundle-bed, and vour mother came in to see
if you were rightly covered in the cold win
ter night. They may have been offered at
| that time Which comes at least once in al
most every yboiy's life when your father and
mother had hard work to make living, and
they feared that want would come to them
| and you. They NAV have been offered when
| the lips could no longer move and the ewes
were closed for the long sleep. o, unan-
swered prayers of father and mother, where
are you? In what room of the old home
stead have they hidden? 0, unanswered
/ prayers, rise in midst OF many tears into
| cloud, and then break in a shower which
shall soften the heart of that man who is so
hard he cannot cry, or that woman who is
ashamed to prayl o, armchair of the aged,
now empty and in the garret among the
rubbish, speak out! o staff of the pilgrim
who has ended his weary journey, tell OF the
parental anxieties that bent over thee. o
family Bible with story of births and
deaths, rustic some OF thy time-worn leaves,
and let us know of the wrinkled hands that
once turned thy pages, and explain that
spot where tear fell upon the passage: 30,
Absalom. my son, my son, would God had
died for theeP'
Good and gracious God! What will be-
come of us, il after having had such devout
and praying parentage, we never pray for
| ourselves? We will pray. We will begin
| now. Oh, for the power from on high,
power to move this assembage, power to
save Brooklyn and New York, power of
evangelism that shall sweep across this con-
tinent like an ocean surge, power to girdle
the rourd earth witt red girdle dipped in
tine blood of thsS cross If this forward
movement is to begin at all, there must he
some place for 1t to begin, and why not this
place? And there must be some time for it
to begin, and why not this time?
| A Pleasing Sense
of health and strenpth renewed of ease and