The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-31

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 a hiding place, a secret
place which few know, and it comes
forth sometimes in strange and mys-
terious 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
I wish you might all find 1.-THE secret
place of thunder.
DIR. TALMAGE GOING ABROAD.
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. 1t is in ac-
ceptance of many invitations that 1 am
going on preaching tour. 1 expect to
devote my time to preaching the Gospel
in England, Scotland, Ireland and
Sweden. l want to see how many souls
I 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? I call upon you who have
long been my coadjutOrs to so 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 well, but
what 1 most want is your impOrtuning
your wrestling 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. 1 shall
preach in churches, il chapels and in
| the fields. 1 will make 1T a campaign
| for God and eternity, and l hope to get
during this absence baptism of power
| that VII make me of more service tC
you Ven return than 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 &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 the tumbling rocks. There viii he
| 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 unaffrig hted, 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, anC
the waters are the moro opaline, so the
thunders of the last day will make the
trees of life appear more emerald, anC
the carbuncie of the wall more crimson
and the sapphire seas the more simmer
ing. and the sunrise Of eternal gladnes'
the more empurpled. The thunders O
dissolving nature VIII De followed by {
celestial psalmody the sound Of which
st. John on Patmos described, when ht
said. i heard voice like the voice o
mighty thunderings!' Amen!