News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-02

aries and encyclopedias and treatises
and libraries are not the source of
moral and spiritual achievement, but
that the room of prayer, where no one
but God is present and no one but God
hears, is the secret place of thunder.
Secret? All, yes! So secret that COM
p~aratively few even find it.
At BOscobel, England, we visited a
house where a king was once hid. No
one, unless it was pointed out to him,
could find the door in the floor through
which the king entered his hiding place.
When there hidden the armed pursueTs
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 of. spiritual
influence has Il hiding place, q secret
place which few know, and it comes
forth sometimes in strange and mys-
FERROUS ways and far from the place
where it was hidden you can find it only
by diligent searching. But you may
find it, and some Of you will find it, and
l wish you might all find 1.-THE secret
place of thunder.
DR.. TALMAGE GOING ABROAD.
At nine o'clock Wednesday morning,
June Is next, on the steamer City of
New York, l expect to sail for Liverpool.
to be gone until September. 1t is in &C
ceptance of many invitations that | am
going IN a preaching tour. l expect to
devote my time to preaching the Gospel
in England, Scotland, Ireland and
Sweden. | want to see how many souls
l can gather for the kingdom of God.
Those countries have for many years be-
longed to my parish, and l go to speak
to them and shake hands with them. |
want to visit more thoroughly than be-
fore those regions from which my an
cestors came, Wales and Scotland.
But who is sufficient for the work |
undertake? call upon you who have
long been my coadjutors to go 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 in
tensity and continuance and faith of the
prayers, yours and mine, will be the re-
suits. If yoT remember me in the de-
votional circle, that will be well, but
what l most want is your importuning,
your wrestlin% supplication in the secret
place of thunder.
God and you alone may make me the
humble fundamentally in the redemp-
ton of thousands of souls. l shall
preach in churches, in chapels and in
the fields. l will make it a campaign
for God and eternity, and L hope to get
during this absence a baptism of power
that viii make me Of more service to
you Wen l return han l ever yet have
been. For, brethren and sisters in
Christ, our opportunity for usefulness
will 0 be gone, and we shall have
our faces uplifted to She throne of judg-
ment, before which we must give ac-
count. That day there will be no secret
place of thunder, for all the thunders
will be out. There will be the thunder
of the tumbling rocks. There will be
the thunder of the bursting waves.
There will be the thunder Of the de-
scending chariots. There will be the
thunder of the parting heavens. Boom!
Boom!
But all that din and uproar and crash
will find us unaffrighted, and will leave
us undismayed, if we have made Christ
our confidence, and as after an August
shower, when the whole heavens have
been an unlimbered battery cannonad-
ing the earth, the fields are more green,
and the sunrise is the more radiant, and
the waters are the more opaline, so the
thunders Of the last day will make the
trees of life appear more emerald, and
the carbuncie of the wall more crimson,
and the sapphire seas the more simmer
ing, and the sunrise of eternal gladness
the more empurpled. The thunders of
dissolving nature will be followed by a
celestial psalmody the sound of which
st. John on Patmos described, when he
said, 81 heard a voice like the voice of
mighty thunderings!' Amen!