Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

power OF GOD ana the WISDOM OF God
unto salvation. But, alas, if it is only
preached in pulpits and on Sabbath
DAYS, We must go forth into our stores.
our shops, our banking houses, our fac
tories and the streets, and everywhere
preach Christ We stand in our pulpits
| for 9 hours on the Sabbath and COM
mend Christ to the people, but there
are 160 hours in the week, and what are
the 2 hours on the Sabbath against
the 166? 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 toilers, and God says to you as
he says to me: eco, teach all nations
He that believeth 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 'I4ord's Supper" and no
wanted the chief attention directed to the
face Of Christ When he invited his
friends in to criticise the picture, they
did the face, and the old artist said,
'This picture is a failure" and he
dashed out the picture Of the cups, and
said: 81 shall have nothing to detract
from the face of the Lord. Christ is tho
all of this picture. -
Power of Christian Song.
Another powerful sickle for the reap
ing Of this harvest is Christian song I
know in many churches the whole work
is delegated to few people standing in
the organ loft. But, my friends, as 9TH
ers cannot repent for US and others can
not die for u.s. we cannot delegate to
others the work Of singing for US. Whilo
a few drilled artists shall take tho
chants and execute the more skillful
music, when the hymn is given out let
there be hundreds and thousands Of
voices uniting in the acclamation. On
the way to erandeurs that never cease
and glories that never die let US sing.
At the battle of Lutzen a general carno
to the king and said: "Those soldiers
are singing as they are going into bat
tie. Shall [ stop them?" mo" said
the king, "men that can sing like that
can fight. Oh, the power of Christian
song! When I argue here, you may ar
que back. The argument you mako
against religion may be more skillful
than the argument I make in behalf Of
religion. But who can stand before tho
pathos of some uplifted song like thaG
which we sometimes sing:
Show pity, Lord o Lord, forgivei
Let repentng rebel live!
Are not thy mercies large and free?
May not a sinner trust in thee?
Another mighty sickle for the reaping
of the gospel harvest is prayer. What
does God do with our prayers? Does no
go on the battlenents of heaven and
throw them off? No. What do you do
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, no! He
will answer them all in some way. Oh,
what mighty thing prayer is! It is
not a long rigmarOle of "Ohs" and
''ahs'' and ''for ever and ever, amens' -
1t is breathing of the heart into the
heart of God. Oh, what mighty thing
prayer is! Elijah with it reached up to
the clouds and shook down the Showers.
With it John Knox shook Scotland
With it Martin Luther shook the earth.
And when Philip Melanchthon lay sick
unto death, as many supposed. Martin
Luther came in and said, "Philipp, VIC
can t spare you!' "Oh, :" said he, MAR
tin, you must let me go. l 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. :" mo, Martini said Melanch
thon, "you must let me CO. Martin
Luther said, ''You take this food Or I
will communicate you" He took tho
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"
described mausoleum in India which
it took 90, 900 men 90 years to build
that and the buildings surrounding-and
he says: standing in that mausoleum
and uttering a word, it is echoed back
from a height of $50 feet; not an ordi-
nary echo, but a prolonged music, as
though there were angels towering in
the air. - And every word of earnest
prayer we utter has an echo, not from
the marble cupola of an earthly mauso
leum, but from the heart of God and
from the wings of angels as they hover,
crying, Behold, he praysp' Oh, test
it? Mighty sickle for reaping this gospel
harvest, the sickle of prayer
It does not make so much difference
about the posture you take, whether