The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-29

everywhere preach Christ. We stand
In our pulpits for two hours on the
Sabbath and commend Christ to the
people: but there are 1873 hours in the
week, and what are the two hours on
the Sabbath against the 166? Oh, there
comes down the ordination OF God this
day upon all the people, men who toll
with head and hand and foot-the or
dination comes upon all merchants,
upon all mechanics, upon all toilers,
and God says to you as He says to me:
go, teach all nations. He that be-
lieveth 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,
1t Is to eradicate all wrong, it is to
turn the earth into paradise. An old
artist painted the Lords Supper, and
he wanted the chief attention directed
to the 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 failure" and
he dashed out the picture of the cups
and said: II shall have nothing to de-
tract from the face Of the Lord; Christ
is the'all of this picture"
Another powerful sickle for the reap
ing of this harvest is Christian song.
1 know in many churches the whole
work is delegated to a few people
standing in the organ loft. But. my
friends, as others can not repent for us
and others can not die for us, we can
not delegate to others the work OF
singing for us. While q few drilled
artists shall take the chants and exc
cute the more skillful music, when the
hymn is given out let there be hun
dreds and thousands of voices uniting
in the acclamatia. On the way to
grandeurs that never cease and
glories that neve die, let US sing.
At the battle of = Lutzen, gen.
eral came to the king and said: "Those
soldiers are singing as they are going
into battle. Shall l stop them?"
NO." said the king, men that can sing
light that can fight" Oh, the power
of Christian song! When argue here
you may argue back. The argument
you make against religion may be
more skillful than the argument I
make in behalf of religion. But who
can. stand before pathos of some up
lifted song like that which we some-
times sing:
Show pity, Lord, o Lord. forgivei
Let repenting rebel live!
Are not Thy mercies large and free!
May not q sinner trust in Thee?
Another mighty sickle for the reap
ing of the Gospel harvest is prayer.
What does God do with our prayers?
Does He go on the battlements 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 sa-
credness. 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! Hefwfi answer them all in some
wal Chg Whath mighty thing prayer
iss III HI iiot y lofty figmarole of "ohs,"
and ~ hH, and tsfnE. ever and ever,
Amens It isA rS hing of the heart
into tho h #oi oh, what
mighty thin prayer tatEiijah with it
r6ached np tp 3he 0lrHdsa and shook
dawn the shnwers. Wikh3it John Knox
shook Scotland. With 4tM Martin Luther
shook the earth. And whe1. Philip
Melanchton lay sick unto death, as
many supposed, Martin father came
I'm and said: d Hip, We can't spare
your .'Oh," said he, Martin, YOU
must let me go; / lam tired OF persecution
and tired of lifo. want to go, ia. 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
l will excommunicate you" He took
the food and Martin Luther knelt down
and prayed as only he could pray, and
convalescence came and Martin Luther
went back and said to his friends:
"God has saved the life of Philip Me-
lanchthon in direct answer to my
prayer" Oh, the power of prayer.
Have you tested it?
Dr. Prime, of New York, in his beau
tiful book, entitled Around the
World" described a mnusoleum in
India which it took 10000 men &c years
to build-that and the buildings sur
he says: ''Standing in
that mausoleum and uttering word,
it is echoed back from a height of $50
feet, not an ordinary echo, hut a pro-
longed music, as though there were
angels lowering in the air." And
every word OF earnest prayer we utter
has an echo, not from the marble
cupola of an earthly nausoleum, but
from the heart of God and from the
wings of angels as they hover, crying:
BEHOLD, he prays!' Oh, test it!
Mighty sickle for .reaping this Gospel
harvest, the sickle of prayer! = = val
oh" says some man, Shave been
going on thellwsoug froad for 80, 40 or
so years; havS gone Through the
whole catalogue iof crime, and must
first get papae4 ffxedspp." All, you
will neverEges Yourself fixed up until
Christ takes you ~ charge. You get
worse and worseluntil He comes to the
rescue. ."Not the righteous; sinners,