The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-28
PREACHERS %PoSTULATES.
A ssrnon foe Hard Times-Ths Advan-
tages Of Attending Praysrnseting-
Lost Opportunities, How d the
Convenient Season.
N. u. CHURCH.

N. n. CHURCH.
Good cheer for hard times.n Text:
sFor all things are yours" 1Cor. 3-2l.
Faith 10 necessary in every experience
OF life. Faith in ourselves, our fellow
men and in God. II is the lack Of faith
that has produced these hard times.
Absolutely nothing else. Every vault
for safe deposit In Chicago 10 rented, and
the owners OF sums small and great
carry the keys in their pockets. Unbe-
lief, too, brings hard times in religious
life, TO the church or to the individual.
This taxi 10 an exhautless treasury IL
we win only believe it. What are some
OF the "alI things" that are ours?
1. A good living. .My God shall
supply oil your need" Our bread and
water and raiment 10 sure. Who ex-
poets the lilies to lose their bright array,
or beautiful fragrance; or the sparrow to
die of hunger because OF hard timesY
"Are We mo- Of more value than many
sparrows?"
2. A pure character. "A good name
la rather to be chosen than great riches,
ETC." There is untold wealth in o good
character. ALI may secure tho treasure,
aud no man can take it from us. He
may lose all else and yet be rich, and
have all else and yet be poor. What is
the highest satisfaction OF wealth. Is it
not in having . plenty for every emsr.
gency? In it alone snonghf What is
the greatest emergency in life? Isit not
the last, when flesh and heart and
friends fail? At the hour Of dsath,
which is better to possess, wealth or
character
3. The promises OF God. Any exper-
fence that comes to us, which causes US
TO find comfort and reality in the word
OF God, is a positive blessing, notwith-
standing it may be disguised IN tiieblack
Grape OF sorrow. These promises are
notes payable on demand, cashiers
checks on heavens inexhaustible treas.
ury. Nothing would honor God more
than forces to make a concerted srun,
on His great bank. "Giving does not
i~mpoverish him."
4. The resources OF prayer. To be
shorn Of human props, and to have the
natural channels OF income shut off, il
sometimes a means OF grace IN driving
US to our knees. DIR. Pierson calls
prayer the gift OF the knees" lie says
that waiting on the Lord by prayer has
the same effect upon the soul, that il
has on an empty bucket to set II under
q rain spout II gets filled.
Is. Opportunity, golden word. Health
Is good capital; honor Is above par
courage ii Indispensable; faith 10 God
completes the capital needed for the
best start 10 success.
8. T~reasureslin heaven. These are
promised us. We sometimes think thai
our treasures there are in proportion Il
our gifts OF money here. There 10 much
elise that ID precious in the sight ot God
Sympathetic tears crystallize into pearls
Kind words and simple decide Of trus
charity will not pass unrewarded. liz VI
lose all here, we may have much there
"Where moth or rust cannot corrupt ol
thieves break through and steal"
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Heb. 1I;24, Is. aLet us consider ons
another, to provoke to love and to gooi
works. Not forsaking the assembling 81
ourselves together, as the ann 81
some is, but exhortine one another, and
SO much the more as ye see the day ap
preaching.
The text would doubtless cofer al re
iigious assemblies. / will consider ONLY
the prayermeeting.
Those Christians who do the most ct
~fective work for themselves, for other
and for the church, attend the prayer
meetings. This is emphatically tbt
peoples meeting. 1t affords op~portunit,
to tell our experiences, to comf0el
and pray for each other, ard to Lessor
our griefs and burdens, and double oul
joys by sharing them together. Som.
one says, Thoughts shut up want air
they spoil like balls unopened 70 tn
sun" II ID the SAME With Christsan e.
~periences, joys and sorrows. The praye
injecting affords weekly wayside restiDl
places with c~ongenial spirits; mutna
vows are made. and sympsthies ~
tended; fainting hearts are made reso
lutte and UNCERTAIN fsetTtaksa victcriop
tread. nfs ths tres With fruit ani
foliage for Dealing m .oasis Of rsfssah
ment; Elain with seventy palms, %,
twelve fountains, which never run dry
ii id : plsos iorait to receive and 10 q
good; 1h>ts ws witness Tor Christ; 4
new con~secsation. At such q mestin
Thomas doubts were resolved into fail
We should place ourselves In the way 3
l~rsceiving instruction, comfort and hell
The meeting missed may have held