The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-09-22

ly admonition. Have you uttered il
to-day? Will you utter it tomorrow?
Will you utter it now? Compel them
to come in.
/ think there is a great work also to
be done in the way of prayer. If we
had faith enough to-day, we could go
before God and ask for the salvation of
all II people in our churches, and they
would all be saved, there and then,
without n single exception. There
might be professional men there; po-
htical men there; worldly men there;
men who had not heard the gospel for
twenty years; men who are prejudiced
against the music; men who are pre-
JUDGED against the church; men who
are ~prejudiced against the preacher;
men who are prejudiced against God
l do not care-they might be brought
in by fervent prayer-you would COM
pei them to come in.
Oh, for such an earnest prayer! Peo-
pie of God, lay hold pf the horns of the
altar now, and supplicate the salvation
of all those who sit in the same pew
with you; yea, the redemption OF all
those who sit in your churches. What
a momentOus hour! God help.
At the close of a religious service,
and when the yeople had nearly all left
the building, a pastor saw a little girl
with her head bowed on the back of a
pew, and, passing down the aisle, he
said to himself: THE little child has
fallen asleep" So he tapped her on
the shoulder, and said: 1.-THE service
is over" She said: 81 know it is over;
l am praying, sir, I am praying"
"Well," said the minister, whatsoever
We ask of God, believing, We will re-
ceive." ''She said: "Is that in the
Bible?' "Yes," he said, there is a
promise of hat kind in the Bible"
"Well," she said, ''let me see It." So
he turned over the Bible until he came
to the promise, and she said: THAT'S
80, is it?. Now, o Lord, bring my
father to to this church tonight"
While she was praying her father
passed into h door of the church, and
came down by his child and said:
"What do you want of me?" When
that child had begun to pray one hour
before for her father he was three
miles away; but by some strange i'm
pulse that he could not understand he
FASTENED to the church, and there the
twain knelt, the fathers arm around
the child's neck, the child's arm around
the fathers neck, and there he entered
on the road to Heaven. "WhatsOever
ye ask of God, believing, we will re-
ceive." That was an answer to the
child's prayer. What did she do? She
compelled him to come in.
l tell you to-day, my friends, of Q
great salvation. Do you understand
what it is to have q Saviour? He took
your place. He bore your sins. He
wept your sorrows. He Is here now ia
ave your soul. A soldier, worn out In
his country's service. took to the violin
as a mode of earning his living. He
was found in the streets Of Vienna,
playing his violin; but after q while
his hand became feeble and trem.
ulous, and he could no more make
music. One day, while he sat there
weeping, a man passed along and said;
my friend, you are too old and
too feeble; give me your VIOLIN" and
he took the mans violin and began tc
discourse most exquisite music, and the
people gathered afound in larger and
larger multitudes, and the aged mar
held his hat, and the coin poured In
and poured in until the hat was full
Now said the man who was playing
the violin, put that coin in YOU
pockets" The coin was put in the ole
mans pockets. Then he held his ha'
again, and the violinist played NOR
sweetly Than ever, and played unit
some of the people wept and som
shouted. And again the hat wa,
filled with coin. Then the violin
list dropped the instrument ant
passed off, and the whisper wen
out: who is ftp" who Is it?" an(
some one just entering the crow
said: "Why, that is Bucher, the grea'
violinist, known all through the realm
yes, hat Is the great violinist." Tn,
fact was, he had just taken that man
place, and assumed his poverty, an,
borne his burden, and played his music
and earned his livelihood, and mad,
sacrifice for the poor old man. So tn,
Lord Jesus Christ comes down, and H,
finds us in our spiritual penury, ant
across the broken strings of His owl
broken heart He strikes a strain of In
finite music, which wins the attention
Of earth and Heaven. He takes on
poverty. He plays our music. II
weeps our sorrow. He dies our death
A sacrifice for you. A sacrifice for me
Oh, will you accept this sacrific
now? do not single out this and tina
man and this and hat woman. But
say all may come. The sacrifice is o
great, all may be saved. Does 1t no
seem to you $ If Heaven was very near
1 can feel its breath on my cheek. Go
/, Is near. Christ is rear. The Hol
Spirit is al Ministering angels ar
near. Your glorified kindred in Heave
: near. Your Christian father near
Your glorified mother near. Your de
parted children near. Your redemI
ton near