The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-21

, that man must mean nv soul" and he
went into his back Office, knelt down,
and began to pray. Then he took his
hat and went out to the office of this
Christian physician, and said: What
can L do to be saved?" and the two doc
/ tors knelt in the office and commended
their souls to God. All the means used
in that case was only the voice of one
good man, saying: Give my Christian
love to the DOCTOR" The voice of kind
ly admonition. Have you uttered it
to-day? VIII you utter it tomorrow?
Will you utter it now? Compel them
| to come in.
think there is 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 the people in our churches, and they
would all be saved, there and then,
without a single exception. There
might be professional men there; po-
litical 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 pr 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
momentous hour! God help.
At the close of a religious service.
and when the yeople had nearly all left
the building, 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: The service
is over" She said: Il know it is over;
| am praying, sir, | am praying"
"Well," said the minister, whatsoever
we ask of God, believing, We will re-
ceive." ''She said: rs that in the
Bible?" ''Yes," he said. there is
promise of that 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
SO. is it?. Now, o Lord, bring my
father to to this church tonight"
While she was praying her father
passed into the 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
we 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
great salvation. Do you understand
what it is to have Saviour? He took
your place. He bore your sins. He
wept your sorrows. He is here now to !
save your soul. A soldier, worn out in |
his country's service. took to the violin |
as mode of earning his living. He |
was found in the streets of Vienna, |
playing his violin; but after a while |
his hand became feeble and trem- |
ulous, and he could no more make |
music. One day. while he sat there /
weeping, man passed along and said: |
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too feeble; give me your VIOLIN" and |
he took the mans violin and began to
discourse most exquisite music, and the
people gathered around in larger and
larger multitudes, and the aged man
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 your
pockets" The coin was put in the old
mans pockets. Then he held his hat
again, and the violinist played more
sweetly than ever, and played until
some of the people wept and some
shouted. And again the hat was
filed with coin. Then the violin
ist dropped the instrument and
passed off, and the whisper went
out: who is ito" who is it?' and
some one just entering the crowd
said: why, that is Bucher, the great
known all through the realm;
yes, that is the great violinist." The
fact was, he had just taken that mans
place, and assumed his poverty, and
borne his burden, and played his music,
and earned his livelihood. and made
sacrifice for the poor old man. So the
Lord Jesus Christ comes down, and He
inds us in our spiritual penury, and
across the broken strings of His own
broken heart He strikes a strain of in
mite music. which wins the attention
If earth and Heaven. He takes our
poverty. He plays our music. He
veeps our sorrow. He dies our death.
sacrifice for you. A sacrifice for me.
Oh, will you accept this sacrifice
low? / do not single out this and that
nan and this and that woman. But
ay all may come. The sacrifice is SO
rreat. all may be saved. Does it not
eem to you as if Heaven was very near?
can feel its breath on my cheek. God
S near. Christ is near. The Holy
'pirit is near. Ministering angels are ,.
lear. Your glorified kindred in Heaven
lear. Your Christian father near. -,
our glorified mother near. Your de-
'arted children near. Your redemp-
ion near