Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-09

OF tputtlng nAlfb UctNctu uortn ana n0ftn-
west side, instead Of getting their power
from ths secret place Il thundes. We
want the power q man rsts when he Il
alone, the door locked - his knees; At
midnight; with such y burden OF souls
upon hn that makes him eTy out, first In
lAmentAtion and then in nptureS
Let an the Sabbath sch0Sl teachers and
Bible class instructors, and all reformers
and all svangelists, and all ministers know
that diplomas and dictionaries and ency-
clopedia and treatises. and libraries are
cot the source Of moral and spiritual
achievement, but that tim room Of prayer,
where 10 one but God l. present and no
one but God hears, Is ths secret place Of
thunder. Secreti All, yest So secret that
comparatively few ever find Il. At Bos-
cobel.. England, we visited n house where a
king Was once hid. No one, unless IL were
points1 out TO him, could fnd the door in
the fiEsr through which the king entered
his hiking place.
When there hidden the armed pursuers
looked IN vain for him, and afterward
through an underground passage, far out
in the fields, he came out IN the open air.
So this imperial power q spiritual infiu-
encs has q hiding plaes, . secret place
which few know, and III comes forth some
times in strange and mysterious ways, and
far of from the place where it was hidden
you can find IL only by diigent searching.
But you may find 1t, and some Of you will
find it, and wish you might all find It,
the secret place Of thunder.
GOING To EUROPE.
At nine o'clock Wednesday morning,
June Is next, on the steamer City Of New
York, expect to sail for Liverpool, to be
gone until September. It is in acceptance
Of many invitations that / am going on a
preaching tour. i expect to devote my
Scotland, Ireland and Sweden. want to
see how many sOuls can gather for the
kingdom Of God. Those countries have for
many years belonged to my parish, and ]
go TO speak to them and shake hands with
them. want TO visit more thoroughly
than before those regions from which my
ancestors came, Wales and Scotland.
But who Is sufficient for the work I'm.
dertakef I call upon you who have long
been my coadjutors to 60 into the secret
place Of the Almighty, and every day from
now until my work is done on the other
side Of the sea to have me in your prayers
In proportion to the intensity and continu
ance and faith Of the prayers, yours and
mine, will be the results. If you remem
Der me in the devotional circle, that will
be well; but what most want is your i'm
portuning. your wrestling supplication ir
the secret place of thunder. God and you
alone may make me the humble instru
mentality In the redemption Of thousands
of souls. I shall preach in churches, In
chapels and in the fields.
Twill make it a campaign for God and
eternity, and hope to get during this alb
sence q baptism of power that will make
me Of more service to you when return
than I ever yet have been. For, brethren
and sisters in Christ, our opportunity fol
usefulness will soon be gone, and we shall
have our faces uplifted to the throne o1
judgment, before which we must give &C
count. That day there will be no secret
place Of thunder, for all the thunders will
be out. There will be the thunder of tn,
tumbling rocks. There will be the thunder
of the bursting waves. There will be the
thunder of the descending chariots. Thert
will be the thunder of the parting heav
ems. Booml Boomi
But all that din and uproar and crasl
will find us unaffrighted, and will leav,
| us undismayed, if we have made Chris
our confidence, and as after an Angus
shower, when the whole heavens have beer
an unlimbered battery cannonading tn,
earth, the fields are more green, and tn,
sunrise is more radiant, and the water
are the more opaline, so the thunders O
| the last day will make the trees of life ap
pear more emerald, and the carbuncl
| of the wall more crimson, and the sap
phire seas the more shimmering, and tn
sunrise of eternal gladness the more EN-
purpled. The thunders of dissolving ma
ture will be followed by celestial psalm
ody, the sound of which St. John on Pat
mos described, when he said, II heard
voice like the voice Of mighty thunder
ings" Amen.