Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-06-16

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TO be strong physically as TO tie strong
without prayer. The only way 10 get any
strength into the soul is b. prayer, aud tie
only difference between thar Christian
that is worth everything and that who is
worth nothing is the fact that the last
does not pray and the other does.
| And the only difference between this
/ Christian, who is getting along very fast
in the holy life, and this, who is only get
ting along tolerably, is that the first prays
more than the last. You can graduate a
hans progress in religion by the amount
Il prayer, not by the number Of hours,
perhaps, but by the earnest supplication
that he puts up TO God. There is no ex-
ceptiOn 10 the rule Show me "A Christian
man who neglects this kind of duty and
will show You one who is inconsistent.
Show me man who prays, and his
strength and his power cannot be exag-
gerated. Why. inst give To man this
power of prayer and you give him almost
omnipotence
This afternoon you will see two Sabbath
school teachers That one does not gain
the attention of her class This one does.
What is the difference between them, their
intellects being about equall The first
thought ouly Of her own apparel The
other came from great prostration before
God in earnest supplication, asking that
Gods mercy might come upon the school,
and that in the afternoon she might gain
the attention OF those five or six inimorfals
that would De around her. The one teacher
has no control over her class. The other
sits as with the strength of the Lord God
Almighty
a minister comes into the pulpit He
has a magnificent sermon, all the sentences
rolnded according to the laws of rhetoric
and fine sermonizing, and the truth makes
no impression on the hearts Of men. PEG
pie go away and say, VERY beautiful,
wasn't it" A plain man comes into the
pulpit He has been on his knees before
God. asking for an especial message that
day, and The hearts of men open TO the
plain truth, the broken sentences strike
into their consciences, and, though the
people may disperse at the close of the sery-
ices seemingly without having received
any impression, that night voices will be
lifted in some household, Men and breth-
rem what shall we do TO be savedg' Oh,
this power OF prayer, Pray prayi
Another woui OF counsel have to give
BE faithful in Bible research. A great
many good books are now coming ont. We
cannot read half of them At every revo-
luton Of the printing press they are COM
ing They cover our parlor tables and are
Ia our sitting rooms and Libraries. Glori-
Gus books they are. We thank God every
day for the work Of the Christian printing
press But | have thought that perhaps
the followers of Christ sometimes allow
this religious literature To take their at
tenti0n from Gods word. and that there
may not be Us much Bible reading as there
ought to be.
How is that with your own experience;
just calculate in your minds how much
religious literature you have read during
the year. and then how large a portion Of
the Word of God you have read and then
contrast the two and answer within your
own soul whether you are giving more at
tention to the books that were written by
the hand of man or that written by the hand
of God. Now you go TO the drug store and
you get the mineral waters, but you have
noticed that the waters are not so fresh
or sparkling or healthful as when you get
these very waters at Saratoga and Sharon
getting them right where they bubble
from the rock. And | have noticed the
same thing in regard TO the truth of the
Gospel; while there is good deal of re-
freshment and health of the Gospel of God
as il comes through good books, find it is
better when come to the eternal rock of
Gods Word and drink from that fountain
that bubbles up fresh and pure to the life
and the refreshment and the health of the
soul
READ THE BIBLE
Read the Bible and il brings you into
the association of the best people that ever
lived You stand beside Moses and learn
his meekness. beside Job and learn his pa
thence, beside Paul and catch something
of his enthusiasm, beside Christ and you
feel his love And yet how strange it is
that great many men have given their /
whole lives to the assaulting of that book. I
cannot understand it. Tom Paine work
ed against that book as though he received I
large wages, and was inspired by the very
powers of dark ness, confessing that all the I
time he was writing he did not have the /
Bible anywhere near him. How many 4
powerful intellects have endeavored Co de 4
stroy il. Hume. Bolingbroke. Voltaire /
have been after it. Ten thousand men I
now are warning against the truth of 4
Gods Word. What do you think of 4
themi | think il is mean. and will prove
it, | will prove it is the meanest thing
that has ever been done in all the centu-
turtles.
There IS ship at sea and in trouble.
The captain and the crew are at their wits
end. You are ON board. You are an old
You come up and give some good
which is kindly taken. That is
all right. But suppose, instead of doing
that. in the midst of all the trouble you
pick up the only compass that is on board
and pitch it over the taffrailg Oh, you say,
that is dastardly. But is it as mean as
thss Here is the vessel of the world going
Oh with sixteen hundred millions of pas
sengers, tossed and driven in the tempest,
and at the time we want help the infidel
comes and he takes hold of the only COM
pass and he tries to pitch it overheard. 1t
S contemplate beyond everything that is
Have you any better lighti
Bring it on if you have. Have you any
better comfort to give u.s. Bring it ON if
Tou have. TfIave you any better hopei
Bring it on if you have, and then you may