News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-02-20

it, and cluoh tHeir fists, hut it is tho
power % God anl the wisdom Of God
unto salvation. But. alas, if it is only
preached IN pulpits and on Sabbath
days We must 90 forth snto our stores,
our shops, our banking houses. our fac
tories and the streets, and everywhere
preach Christ. We stand in orr pulpts
for 2 hours ON the Sa' bath and COM
mend Christ to the people. but there
are lGS hours III the week, and what arc
the 2 hours On the Sabbath against
the l6G? Oh, there comes down the or
dination of God this day upon all the
people, men who toll with head and
hand and foot-the ordination comes
upon all merchants, upon all mechanics.
upon all tolers, and God says to you as
he says to me: "Go, teach all nations.
He that beleveth and is baptized shall
be saved, and he that believeth not shall
be damned" Mighty gospel, let the
whole earth hear it The story of Christ
is to regenerate the nations, it is to
eradicate all wrong, it is to turn the
earth into a paradise. An old artist
painted the Lords Supper" and ho
wanted the chief attention directed to tho
face of Christ. When he invited his
friends in to criticise the picture, they
admired the chalices more than they
did the face, and the old artist said,
"This picture is a failure" and ha
dashed out the picture of the cups, and
said: 81 shall have nothing to detract
FuoO cf Va .CrI (Nl,riCt Sc ,u
all Of this picture. "
Power of Christian Song.
Another powerful sickle for the reap.
ing Of this harvest is Christian song.
know in many churches the whole work
is delegated to few people standing i'll
the organ loft. But, my friends, as 9th.
ers cannot repent for us and others can.
not die for us, we cannot delegate to
others the work Of singing for US. Whila
few drilled artists shall take tho
chants and execute the more skillful
music, when tho hymn is given out lei
there be hundreds and thousands OF
voices uniting in the acclamation. On
the way to grandeurs that never cease
and glories that never die let us sing
AT the battle Of Lutzen general cama
to the king and said: "Those soldiers
arc singing as they arc going into bat.
tie. Shall I stop them?" mo" said
the king, "men that can sing like that
can fight. Oh, the power of Christian
song Whom argue here, you may ar.
que back. The argument you make
against religion may be more skillful
than the argument l make in behalf OF
religion. But who can stand before the
pathos of some uplifted song like that
which we sometimes sing:
Show pity, Lord; o Lord, forgivel
| Let rcpenting robel live!
| Arc not thy mercies large and free2
May not sinner trust in thee2
Another mighty sickle for the reapins
Of the gospel harvest is prayer. What
does God do with our prayers? Does he
| go on the battlelnents of heaven and
throw them off? No. What do you dd
with gifts given you by those who love
you very much? You keep them with
great sacredness. And do you suppose
God will take our prayers, offered in
the sincerity and love of our hearts, and
scatter them to the winds? Oh, mol He
will answer them all in some way. Oh.
what mighty thing prayer is 1t il
not q long rigmarole of "ohs" and
"ahs' and "for ever and ever, amens. u
1t is breathing of the heart into the
heart of God. Oh, what mighty thing
prayer isl Elijah with it reached up to
| l,a al n,,1 uhnnlr I0xxy,, tha Cboxro1c
With it John Knox shook Scotland.
With it Martin Luther shook the earth.
And when Philip Melanchthon lay SIGH
unto death, as many supposed. Martin
Luther came in and said, Phillip, wa
can spare youl' "Oh, said he, MAR.
tin, you must let me 60. am tired Of
persecution and tired Of life. l want to
go to be with my God. "No," said
Martin Luther "you shall not go; you
must take this food, and then / will pray
for you. " "No, Martin, said Melanch
thon, "you must let me CO." Martin
Luther said, You take this food or
will excommuncate you" He took the
food, and Martin Luther knelt down and
prayed as only he could pray, and con
valescence came, and Martin Luther went
back and said to his friends, "God has
saved the life Of Philip Melanchthon in
direct answer to my prayer. Oh, the
power of prayer! Have you tested it?
Prayer Has Its Echo.
DR.. Prime of New York, in his beau,
tiful book entitled Around the World, y
described mausoleum in India which
it took 1000 men 20 years to build
that and the buildings surrounding-and
he says: Standing in that mausoleun
and uttering word, it is echoed bacl
from Il height Of 100 feet; not an ordi
nary echo, but prolonged music, al
though there were angels lowering il
the air. And every word of earnes
prayer we utter has an echo, not from
the marble cupola of an earthly mauso
leum, but from the heart of God an(
from the wings of angels as they hover
crying, Behold. he praysl' Oh, ties
it? Mighty sickle for reaping this gospe
harvest, the sickle of prayerl
1t does not make SO much difference
about the posture you take, whetheI
you sit, stand or kneel, or lie Oh you
face, OF in your physical agonies lie OF
your back, 1t does not make any differ
ence about the physical posture, as wa;
shown in hospital, when the chaplain
said as he looked over the beds of tn,
suffering Let all those wounded mel
hero who Would like tn he 1oraved fo-