The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-01

where no one but GOd Is present ana no
one but God hears, is the secret place of
thunder. Secret. All, yes! So secret that
comparatively few ever find it. At Bos-
cobel, England, we visited a house where
king was once hid. No one, 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
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 influ
ence has a hiding place, a secret place
which few know, and it comes forth some
times in strange and mysterious ways and
far off 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 l 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 IL is in acceptance
of many invitations that / am going on
preaching tour ! expect 10 devote my
time to preaching the Gospel in England,
Scotland. Ireland and Sweden / want TO
see how many souls l can gather for the
kingdom of God. Those countries have for
many years belonged to my parish, and |
go 10 speak 10 them and shake hands with
them. / want 10 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 ! call upon you who have long
been my conductors 70 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 20 have me in your prayers.
In proportion 10 the intensity and continu-
ance aud faith of the prayers, yours and
mine, Will be the results. II you remem-
Der NE in tine devotional circle. that will
be well; but what most want is your inn
portuning. your wrestling supplication in
the secret place 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.
will make it a campaign for God and
eternity, and l hope TO get during this alb
sence n baptism of power that will make
me Of more service to you when return
than ] ever yet have been. For, brethren
and sisters IL 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 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 descending chariots There
will be the thunder of the parting heav-
ems. Boom! Boom!
But all that din and uproar and crash
will find us unafrighted, 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 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
the last day viii make the trees of life APP
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 thunders of dissolving ma
ture will be followed by celestial psalm
ody, the sound of which st. John ON Pat
mos described. when he said, Il heard a
voice like the voice Of mighty thunder
ings!" Amen.