Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-06-03

niDie class instructors, ana all reiorihers
and all evangelists, and all ministers know
that diplomas and dictionaries and ency-
clopedias 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 Secrets All, yesl So secret that
c9rnparatively few ever fild it, At Bos-
cobel, England we visited a house where
king was once hid. No one, unless it We're
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
looked in vain for him, and afterwarsl
through an underground passage, far out
in the fields, he came out IN the open air.
So this imperial power OF spiritual intiu-
ence has a hiding place secret place
which few know, and il comes forth some
times in strange and mysterious WAYS ana
far OF from the place where it was hidden
YOU can find it only by diligent searching.
But You may find it, and some of you VIII
find it, and I wish you might all find it,,
the secret place Of thunder
GOING TO EUROPE.
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 It is in acceptance
OF many invitations that l am going on q
nreaching tour l expect to devote my
time TO preaching the Gospel in England,
Scotland, Ireland and Sweden. l want to
see how many souls / can gather for the
kingdom Of Cod Those countries have for
many years belonged to my parish, and
20 to speak to them and shake hands with
them I want to visit more thoroughly
than before those regions from which my
ancestors came, Wales and Scotland.
But who IS sufficient for the work I'M
dertake9 I call upon you who have long
been my coadiutors 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 ia your prayers
In proportion TO the intensity and cOntinu-
ance and faith Of the prayers, yours and
mine, viii be the results. II you remem-
Der me in the devotional circle that will
be well; but what most want is your inn
poFtuning. your wrestling supplication in
the secret plHce of thunder God and you
alone may make me the humble instru-
mentality in the redemption Of thousands
Of souls shall preach in churches, in
chapels and in the fields.
eternity, and l hope to get during this alb
sence a baptism Of power that will make
nc Of more service to you when ! 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
Judgment 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 will be the thunder
| Of the bursting waves. There viii be the
thunder Of the descending chariots. There
viii he the thunder of the parting heqN-
ems. Booml Booml
But all that din and ufroar and crash
will find us unafrighted, and VIII leave
us undismayed if we have mifle Christ
cur confidence, and ts after N August
shower, when the whole heayensNhave been
an numbered battery cannonading the
earth, the fields are more green, and the
sunrise IS more radiant, and the waters
are the more opaline, so The thunders Of
tie last day viii make the trees Of life ap-
pear more emerald and the carbuncle
Of the wall more crimson, and the sap
phire seas the more shimmering, and the
sunrise Of eternal gladness the more en-
purpled. The thundcrs Of dissolying ma
ture will be followed by a celestial psalm
ody, the soundtof which St. John ON Pat
mos described, when he said, Il heard a
voice like the voice OF mighty thunder
ings" Amen.