Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-06-02

inr while Wa, pFeithltis II. Ahste "-eN'
noon took the train for great outdoor
meeting in Ohio. ! said to myself, ''I.,is
sermon was blessed today and it is fresh IN
my mind, and will preach ii tomorrow IN
Ohio And did preach il, but not IN as
prayerful spirit, and ! think no one else
| had been PRAYING about it, and II Turned
into the most inane and prohtless discourse
that ever delivered. IL was practically
the same sermon. but on Wednesday il had
| IN il "A power that comes from the secret
,lace of thunder, and on Thursday it had
On it no such power at all.
PRAYER IL THE PULPIT.
Oh. pray for u.s. Poor sermons in the
pulpit are the curse of God on prayerless
parish. People say: what is the matter
with the ministers iu our timer SO many
Of them seem dissatisfied with the Bible
and they are trying to help Moses and
Paul and Christ out of Inconsistencies and
ntradictions by fixing up the Bible" As
we'll let the musicians 90 TO work to fix up
Haydn's "Creation." or Handels Israel
IN Egypt" or let the painters go to fixing
up Raphael's TRANSPORTATION" or archi-
.eets 20 10 fixing up Christopher Wren's
ST. Paul's.
Rut ! will tell you what is the matter.
There are too many uneonyerted ministers.
Their hearts have never been changed by
.he grace IF God. A mere intellectual
ministry is The deadest failure this side OF
perdtion. Alas for the Gospel Of icicles!
From apologet!cs and hermeneutics and
logmatics coed Lord deliver us They are
trying 10 get from transcendental theology,
Dr. from profound exegesis. or from the art
Of splitting hairs between north and north
west side, instead Of getting their power
from the secret place of thunder. We
want the power a man gets when he is
alone the door locked; on his knees: at
midnight; with such burden Of souls
upon him thai makes him cry ont, first in
lamentation and then in raptures.
Let all the Sabbath school teachers and
Bible class Instructors, aud all reformers
and all evangelists, and all ministers know
that diplomas and dictionaries and ency-
elopedias and treatises and libraries are
not the source Of moral and spiritual
achievement, but that the room Of prayer.
where no one hut God is present and no
enc but God bears, is the secret place Of
Secrets All, yes! So secret that
few ever find il. At Bos-
cobel England. we visited a house where Il
king was once hid. Noone. unless it were
pointed out to him, could find the door in
the floor through which the king entered
his hiding place.
When there hidden the armed pursuers
loohed in vain for him. and afterward
through an underground passage, lar out
in the fields, he came out i'm the open air
SO this imperial power Of spiritual influ-
ence has a hiding place, secret place
which few know, and il comes forth some
times in strange and mysterious ways. and
far of from the place where IL was hidden
you can find il only by diligent searching.
But you may find IT, and some Of you will
find il, aud ] wish you might all find il,
The secret place Of thunder,
GOING TO EUROPE.
At nine o'clock Wednesday morning.
June 10 next, ON the steamer City Of New I
York. expect to sail for IAserpool, TO be /
gone until September. II is in acceptance /
IF many invitations that | am going on a |
tour | expect to devote my 4
lime to preaching the Gospel in England, 4
Scotland, ireland and Sweden. / want 10 1
zee how many souls | can gather for the 4
lingdom of God. Those countries have for +
many years belonged to my parish. and /
20 to speak 10 them and shake hands with {
hem. ! want to visit more thoroughly I
han before those regions from which my
came, Wales and Scotland.
But vino is sufficient for the work un-
lertakes ! call upon You who have long
'een my coadiutors to 90 into the secret
,lace Of the Almighty, and every day from
low until my work is done on the other
idle Of the sea to have me In your prayers.
n proportion 10 the intensity and cuntinu-
nee aud faith Of the prayers. yours and
nine, will bp the results. II You remem-
'er me in the devoi 2nal circle. thar will
'e well; but what 7Sgrt want is your inn
ortunng your wrestling supplication in
he secret place OF thunder God and you
u ss- may make me the humble instru-
mentality in the redemption OF thousands
{ souls. ] shall preach in churches, in
hapels and in the fields
will make il a campaign for God and
ternity, and hope to get during this alb
ence a baptism OF power that will make
ne OF more service 10 you when return
han ! ever yet have been. For, brethren
nd sisters in Christ, our opportunity for
sefulness will soon be gone, and we shall
ave our faces uplifted 10 the throne OF
Judgment. before which we must give nc
omit. That day there will be no secret
lace Of thunder, for all the thunders will
q out. There will be the thunder Of the i
lmbling rocks. There will be the thunder
the bursting waves There will be the |
lunder of the descending chariots. There !
ill be the thunder of the parting heav- {
ns. Boom, Booml
Bat all that din and uproar and crash
i'll find Us unafTrighted. and will leave ,
5 undismayed. if we have made Christ ;
ur confidence, and as after an August /
lower, when the whole heavens have been I
Il numbered battery cannonading the I
nth, the fields are more green, and the I
lnrise is more radiant, and the waters
re- the more opaline, 80 the thunders of ..
ne last day will make the trees of life APP :
EAR more emerald, aud the carhuncle I
the wall more crimson, and the sap
hire seas the more shimmering, and the Y
lnrise of eternal gladness the more EN- =
lrpled. The thunders Of dissolving ma 4
Ire viii be followed by celestial psalm
~. the sound Of which 81 John on Pat
os described when he said, Il heard Z
Dice like the voice of mighty thunder