The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-24

parted TO US an influence as real and
| sensib g as the electric shock which the
galvanic battery gives when ita knob ia
touched. Az impossible as 1t Is that our
thoughts should affect the world md
stir men to action sill they have been
| iucarnsted in human speech, 80 contrary
70 Gods method Is IL that the Holy
Spirit should accom- plish his couvicttnR
and renewing and sanctifytng work ex
cept by operating through the tongue
and life and energy of living men and
women. The mimicry of revivels, ef-
footed by the skill of magnetic preach
ero, we indeed too often see. But shat
an evangelist, filled with the Spirit of
God, should stir whole communities
with sudden and resissless religious
impulse lie not strange fact, but one in
perfect accordance with scripture teach.
Ing and precedent. Say not In thy
heart, Oh cautious Christian, that the
revival Is not of God because 1t is
brought by man; that the divine SOW
ereignty has been ignored and sent to
the rear because human agent has ap.
peared at the front. when God would
save man." says Jeremy Taylor, "he did
1t by way OF man." and whether Is be
salvation or sanctiication, the couvic-
ton of sinners or the quickening OF be-
levers this is always HIS method.
But there are various operations by
| the same Spirit, and the same endue-
| ment is given for other kinds Of service.
Let us take example from among the
Christian philsnthropists.
Does one speak too strongly who calls
the orphanage at Bristol, England, 1.-The
standing miracle OF the nineteenth cen.
tury?" We simply point to the fact OF
one man sheltering, feeding, clothing,
| andleducating thousands Of POOR children
through a series Of years with no funds
| or resources to draw from except what
God has sent him in answer to PRAYER
And remem bering also that the money
| expended in this work has amounted In
all to some millions, we concede at least
that 1t Ia an extraordinary enterprise.
| We look at the man who has been the
human agent in guiding this vast benef.
| cence, and we instinctively desire to get
| a glimpse into his closet to discover IL
possible what secret transactions with
God lie behind this great public trans.
| action. And here we find the same story
which has been told over and over again
| in this book.
George Muller WAS converted in 1925
while student in the University OF
Halle, but until 1929 he hardly seemed
to have known whether there be any
Holy Spirit He has graphically told
us how in that year while staying at
Teignmouth. in England. he was made
| acquainted with the person and Office
wo:k OF the Comforter, and how the
blessed secret OF the Spirits guidance
and illumination and enduement was
msde known to him. It all came to him
now se divine baptism. OF tho ioy
and exaltation which followed he thus
| speaks:
"In the beginning of September 1 re-
turned to London, much better in BODY;
and IS to my soul the change was so
great 1t WAS like q second conversion
After my return to London, sought to
benef. my brethren in the seminary.
and the means 1 used were these. 1
proposed to them to meet together every
morning from six to eighs for prayer
and reading the Scriptures; and then
that each of us should give out what he
might consider the Lord had shown him
to be the meaning of the portion read
One brother in particular was brought
into the same state ns myself, and
| others l srust were more or less benefit
ted. Several timea when | went to my
room after family prayer in the even
| ing, l found communion with God SO
swees that I continued in prayer till
AFTER twelve, and then being full of Joy,
went into the room of the brother just
referred to, and finding him also in q
similar frame of heart, we continued
praying until one or two; and even then
l was few times so full OF JOY that 1
could scarcely sleep, and at SIX in the
morning again called the brethren to-
gether for prayer"
He who four years before had drank
OF the water of life now found 1t within
him we'll OF water springing up in to
everlasting life;" and the third expert
ence began at onoo to tollow-"out of
his heart shall flow living water" How
many orphaned lives have those streams
since enriched and made glad?
What Mr.. Muller discovered In this
experience was, that the Holy Spirit
can do for US those things which with
endless toll and endeavor we undertake
to do for ourselves. He will lead US into
ell truth IL we will only let him, instead
OF taking philosophy and logic as our
schoolmasters. Finding out this, ne
says: THE result WAS that the fist
evening 1 shut myself into my room to
give myaelf to prayer and meditation
over the Scriptures, l learned more in g
few hours than had done during pc
Rod of several months previously"
Hear this, ye teachers in the schools of
the prophets. Some of us think that you
have gone down to Egypt for help in
summoning science and metaphysics
and rational learning into your class
rooms to furnish you the key of knowl-
| edge. "There standeth One amonR YOU
whom ye know not" Ask Him who has
been sent TO take of the things OF Christ
and show them unto you, what Ia the
meaning Of this mystery and that, and
lie will reveal is unto you. We have q
| delightful glimpse into one theological
| lecture.roon, whose doors we would de.
| sire to set open before the ewes of eyerv