Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-05-31

looked IN vain Tor him, and arterward
through an underground passage, far
out in the fields, he came out in the open
air. SO this i'm, rial power of spiritual
influence ha7 hiding place, a secret
place which fw know, and it comes
forth sonnet les in strange and mys-
terious wrvs and far from the place
where it " - hidden You can find it only
by diligelt searching. But you may
find it, and tome of you will find it, and
| wish you might all find 1.-THE secret
place of thunder.
DIR. TALMACE GOING ABROAD.
At nine o'clock Wednesday morning,
June j. next, ON the steamer City of
New York, expect TO sail for Liverpool,
to be gono until September. 1t is in ac-
ceptance of many invitations that l am
going on a preaching tour expect to
devote my time to preaching the Gospel
in England, Scotland, Ireland and
Sweden. want to see how many souls
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. l
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 l
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 you remember me in the de-
votional circle, that will be we'll, but
what most want is your importumng,
your wrestling supplication in the secret
place of thunder.
God and you alone may make me the
humble instrumentality in the redemp-
ton of thousands of souls. l shall
preach in churches, in chapels and in
the fields. will make it campaign
for God and eternity, and 1 hope to get
during this absence a baptism of power
that Will make me of more service to
you Wen L return than l ever yet have
been. For, brethren and sisters in
Christ, our opportunity for usefulness
will soon be gone, and we shall have
our faces uplifted to the 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. Boomi
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 opahne, 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
nature will be followed by
celestial psalmody the sound of which
st. John on Patmos described, when he
said, 81 heard voice like the voice of
mighty thunderingsP Amen!