The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-17
And the Best Blood Purifier.

tion songl When argue here you may
argue back The argument you make
against religion may be more skllful than
the argument ] make i'm 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, forgive!
Let a repenting rebel liVel
Are not thy mercies large and free2
May not "A sinner trust in thce2
Another mighty sickle for the rcaping of
the gospel harvest is prayer. What does
God do with our prayers? Does he go
on the hattlements 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 sacred
ness. And do you suppose God will take
our prayers offered i'm the sincerity and
love of our hearts, and scatter them to
the winds? Oh. no! He will answer them
al IN some way. on what mighty thlng
prayer is! 1t is not a long rigmarole Of
obs and "ahs," and "fOr ever and ever,
amens." 1t is a breathing of the heart
into the heart of God. Oh, what a mighty
thing prayer is! Elijah with 1t reached up
to the clouds and shook down the show
ers. With 1t John Knox shook Scotland.
With it Martin Luther shook the earth.
And when Philip Melancthon lay sick I'M
to DEATH as many supposed, Martin Luz
Their came in and said: Philip, we can't
spare your oh" said he, Martin, you
must let me go; am tired of persecution
and tired of life. / 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 Melancthon, you must let
me 60" Martin Luther said you take
this food, or l will eXcommuncate you"
He took the food and Martin Luther knelt
down and prayed as only he could pray,
and convalescence came, and Martin Lu-
Their went back and said to his friends:
God has saved the life of Philip Melanc-
thon in direct answer to my prayer" oh,
the power of prayer! Have you tested It?
DR.. Prime Of New York, in his beautiful
book, entitled Around the World" de-
scribed a mausoleum in India which it
took 10000 men twenty-five 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 hight of $50 feet; not an ordinary
echo, but a prolonged music, as though
there We're angels lowering in the air"
And every word of earnest prayer we ut
ter has an echo, not from the marble
cupola of an earthly mausoleum, but from
the heart OF God and from the wings of
angels as they hover, crying: Behold he
prays! Oh, test 1t? Mighty sickle for
reaping this Gospel harvest, the sickle of
prayer.
1t does not make so much difference
about the posture you take, whether you
sit, stand or kneel or lie on your face or
IN your physical agonies lie on your back.
1t does not make any difference about the
physical posture, as was shown in a hos
pltal, when the chaplain said, as he
looked over the beds of the suffering
Let all those wounded men here who
would like to be prayed for lift the hand :
Some lifted two hands; others lifted one
hand; some with hands amputated could
only lift the stump of the arm. One man.
both his arms amputated, could give no
signal except to say: Mel Me-" Oh it
does not make any difference about the
rhetoric of your prayers it does not make
any difference about the posture; it does
not make any difference whether you can
llft hand or have no hand to lift. God
is ready to hear you. Prayer is answered.
God is waiting to respond
Lift up your eyes upon the fields for
they are white already to harvestr How
many. have you reaped for God2 Do Won
ask me how many 1 have reaped for God?
l cannot say. Now can you say how
many you have reaped? l hope there are
some who have been brought into the
kingdom of God through your instrument
tality. Have there not been? Not one?
You, man thirty-five, forty, fifty years
of age and not one? / see souls coming m
to glory Here is a Sunday school teacher
bringing ten or fifteen souls. Here is a
tract distributor bringing in forty or fifty
souls. Here is man you never heard of
who has been very useful in bringing souls
to God. He comes with one hundred and
fifty souls. They are the sheaVes of his
harvest. How many have you brought?
What win the angels say? Better crouch
down in some corner of heaven and never
show yourself. Oh, that harvest is to be
reape1 now! And that is this instant!
Why nNt be reaped for God this hour?
oh" says some man, Il have been
going on the wrong road for thirty, forty
or fifty years. have gone through the
whole catalogue of crime and must first
get myself fixed up All you will never
get yourself fixed up until Christ takes
you in charge. You get worse and worse
until he comes to the rescue. Not the
righteous; sinners Jesus came to call %
So, you see, l take the very worst case
there is. If there is a man here who feels
he is all right in heart and life, l am not
talking to him, for he is probably a hyp-
ocrite. l will talk to him some other time.
But If there is a man who feels himself
all wrong, to him / address myself.
Though you be wounded in the hands and
wounded in the feet and wounded in the
head and wounded in the heart and
though the gangrene of eternal death be
upon YOU one drop of the elixir of divine
life viii cure your soul. Though you be
soaked in evil indulSences, though your
feet have gone in unclean places, though
YOU have CompaniOned with the abandon
ed and the lost, one touch of divine grace
viii save your soul
l do not say that you will not have
struggles after that. Oh, no. But they
VIII be a different kind of struggle You
go into that battle and all hell is against
YOU and you are alone, and you fight and
you fight, weaker and weaker and weak
er, until at last you fall and the powers
of darkness trample on your soul. But
in the other case you go into the battle
and you fight stronger and stronger and
stronger, until the evil propensity goes
Gown and you get the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ Oh, come out of your
sins! Have you not been bruised with sin
long enough? Have you not carried that
load long enough? Have you not fought
that battle long enough?
l rattle the gates of your sepulcher to-
day. l take the trumpet of the gospel
and blow the long, loud blast Roland
went into battle. Charlemagne's army
had been driven back by the three armies
of the Saracens, and Roland, in almost
despair, took up the trumpet and blew
three blasts in one of the mountain pass
es, and under the power of those three
biasts the Saracens recoiled and fled in
terror. But history says that when he had
Il Nan ,.
broke.
I take this trumpet of the gospel and