The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-01-07


came TO these citlcs what o struggle you
have hadl / can tell from your care
worn countenances, and the tears In
your eyes, and the deep sigh yon have
Just breathed, that you want reinforce
ment, and here It is, greater than
Blucher, when he reinforced Yelling
ton, greater than the Bank Of England.
when last month 1t reinforced the Bar
ings, namely, the God who through.
Jesus Christ is ready to pardon all your
sin, comfort all your sorrows, scatter
all your doubts, and swing all the
shining gates Of Heaven wide open be-
fore your redeemed spirit. Come into
the kingdom of God Without half
second Of delay, come in!
Many Of my hearers to-day are what
the world calls, and what would call,
splendid fellows, and they seem happy
enough and are jolly, and obliging, and.
II were in trouble would go to them
with as much confidence as would to
my father, If he were yet alive. But
when they 60 to their rooms at night or
when the excitements of social and busi-
ness life are off, they are not content,
and they want something better than
this world can offer. understand them
so well, would, without any fear of
being thought rough, put my right hand
on their one shoulder and my left hand
on their other shoulder, and push them
into the kingdom of God. But can not
Power from on high, lay hold Of them!
{ At the first communion after the ded-
ication ofour former church. three hun
dred and twenty-eight souls stood up in
the aisles and publicly espoused the
cause Of Christ. At another time four
hundred souls; at another time five hun
dred; and our four thousand five hun
dred membership were but small part
of those who within those sacred walls
took upon themselves the vows Of the
Christian. What turned themP What
saved them? Power from the level?
No. Power from on high.
But greater things are TO be seen II
ever these cities, and ever this world is
to be taken for God. There is one class
Of men and women in all these assem-
blages 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 orphans!
We may be forty, fifty, eighty years old,
but we never get used to having father
and mother gone. o, how often we
have had troubles that we should 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
90. Now | would like TO ask II
you think that all their prayers in
your behalf have been answered. "Nc,'
you say, "but It is too late, the
old folks are gone now" i must cour-
teously contradict you. 1t is not too
late. have friend in the ministry,
who was attending the last hours of an
aged Christian, and my friend said to
the old Christians: "ls ther no trouble
on your mind?" The old man turned
his face to the wall for few moments
and then said: "Only one thing. hope
for the salvation of my ten children, but
not one Of them is yet saved; yet ] am
sure they viii be. God means to wait
until ] am gone" SO he died. When
my friend told of the circumstances
eight of the ten found the Lord, and
have no doubt the other two before this
have found Him. o, that the long post
poned answers to prayer for you my
brother, for you. my sister, might this
hour descend in power from on high.
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 membraneous Group
! They may have been offered some hight
when you were sound asleep in the
| trundle-bed, and your mother came in
! to see IL you were rightly covered in
the cold wintry night. They may have
been offered ut that time which
, comes at least once in almost
, everyone's life when your father
and mother had hard work to make q
: living, and they feared that want woult
/ come TO them and you. They may have
I been offered when the lips could NJ
r longer move and the eyes were CLOSED
for the long sleep. o, unanswered
/ prayers of father and mother, wher'
[ are you? In what room OF the ole
3 homestead have thcy hidden? o, nm
! answered prayers, rise in mist of man,
! tears into cloud, and then break in
/ shower which shall soften the heart o
that man who is so hard he can not cry
! or that woman who Is ashamed Il
pray! o, armchair OF the aged, nov
, empty and in the garrct among the rub
bish, speak out! o, staff of the pilgrim
e who has ended his weary journey, tel
{ Of the parental anxieties that bent owe
: thee. o, family Bible, with story o
J, births and deaths. rustic some Of th!
E time-worn aves, and let us know o
e the wrinkled hands that once turne'
thy pages, and explain that spot wher
7 tear fell upon the passage: 20. Absa
lom, my son, my son, would God ha'
8 died for theel'
r Good and gracious God! What vii
become ofus II, after having had sucl
: devout and praying parentage, w
: never pray for ourselves! We will pray
/, We will begin now. 0, for the powe
q from on high, power to move this as
d semblage, power TO save Brooklyn an
d New York, power OF evangelism tha
/, shall sweep across this continent llt
+ an ocean surge, power TO girdle tn
!, round earth with red girdle dippe
: in the blood OF the cross. !
\ this forward movement Is TO begil
9 at all, there must be some place for
d TO begin, and why not this place? An
Il there must be some time for II TO begir
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