National Baptist world., 1894-09-28

your godly walk compel the people to
come in
/ have friend, Christian physi
who one Gay became very anxious
about the salvation of brother physi-
clan, and so he left his office, wert
down to this mans office and said: rs
the doctor in?" No" replied the
young man waiting, ''the doctor is not /
in" Well said the physician, ''when
he comes tell him | called, and give /
him my Christian love" This worldly /
doctor came home after awhile, and !
the message was given to him, and he
said within himself: ''What does he
mean by leaving his Christian love for
me?' And he became very much |
awakened and stirred in spirit, |
and he said after awhile: ''Why, |
that man must mean my soul" and he
went into his back office, lznelt down,
and began to pray. Then he took his
hat and went out to the Office OF this
| Christian physician, and said: What
can | 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? Will you utter it tomorrow?
VIII 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 preiudiced against the preacher;
men who are prejudiced against God
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 religious service,
and when the yeople had nearly all left
the building, pastor saw 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, l am praying.'
, WELL" said the minister, whatsoever
l We ask Of God, believing, ye will re-
ceive." ''She said: rs that in the
Bible?" eyes," he said, ''there is a
promise of that kind in the Bible. .
9 "Well. she said, ''let me see it." So
l he turned over the Bible until he came
to the promise. and she said: THAT S
so, is it?. Now, 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 hi
hastened to the church, and there the
. twain llnelt. the fathers arm arOun(
the child's neck. the child's arm arOunt
the fathers neck. and there he entered
on the road to Heaven. ''WhatsOeve
y We ask of God, believing, ye will re
: ceive" That was an answer to th
~ childs prayer. What did she do? Sh'
y compelled him to come in.
o | tell you to-day, my friends, of ;
= great salvation. Do you understan'
;, what it is to have a Saviour? He too
: your place He bore your sins. IL
i wept your sorrows. He is here now t
Il save your soul. A soldier, worn out i
=. his country's service, took to the wolf
as mode of earning his living. ii
a was found in the streets of Vienna
70 playing his violin; but after a Will
g his hand became feeble and tren
,, ulous and he could no more max
20 music One day. while he sat ther
-. weeping, a man passed along and sale
:, INV friend you are too old an
a. too feeble: give me your viOlin;" an
- discourse most exquisite music, and tn
:. people gathered around in larger an
', larger multitudes, and the aged ma
!, held his hat and the coin poured
~ and poured in until the hat was full
1f Now" said the man who was playin
"a the violin, put that coin in yor
l. pockets" The coin was put in the ol
"a mans pockets. Then he held his he
,o again, and the violinist played MOI
~ sweetly than ever, and played unit
,r- some of the people wept and SON
+o shouted. And again the hat wa
~ filled with coin. Then the violil
ar ist dropped the instrument an
~ passed off, and the whisper we1
NJ out: ''Who is it?" who is it?" an
,el some one just entering the crow
va said ''Why, that is Bucher, the gre;
- violinist, known all through the realn
"a YES. that is the great violinist." II
or fact was, he had just taken that man
~ place. and assumed his poverty, ar
- borne his burden, and played his musl
% and earned his livelihood, and mac
n+ sacrifice for the poor old man. SO tt
~ Lord Jesus Christ comes down, and +
,1,- finds us in our spiritual penury, an
| Al, cf.iTrc of His