The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-05-07

Nttt- dIo ht ~ ptti W tliC duttI-
ence: Il am a Christian; and l Will
die as q Christian Though lie was
dragged out and stoned to death, they
could not drown the testimony made
under such awful circumstances. II
am q Christian; / will die as q Christ
ian." Let the redeemed of the Lord
say So
What d confirmation would come if
all who had answers to prayers would
speak out. If all merchants in tight
places because of hard times, would
tell how, in response to duplication,
they got the money to pay the note.
If the farmers in time of drouth would
tell how, in answer to prayer. the rain
came just i'll time to save the corn. If
all parents who prayed for q wander
ing son to come home would tell how.
not long after, they heard the boys
hand on the latch of the front door.
Samuel Hick, an English Methodist
preacher. solicited aid for West India
missions from Il rich miser, and failed.
Then the minister dropped on his
knees, and the miser said: 81 will
give thee a guinea If thou wilt give
over" But the minister continued to
pray. until the miser said: 81 will
give thee two guineas if thou wilt give
over Then the money was taken to
the missionary meeting. Oh, the pow
er of prayer! Melancthon. utterly dis
couraged, was passing along a place
where children We're heard praying,
and he came back, saying: Brethren.
take courage: the children are praying
for u.s." Nothing can stand before
prayer. An intidel came into a Bible
class to ask puzzling questions. Many
of the neighbors came in to hear the
discussion. The infidel arose and said
to the leader of the Bible class: 81
hear you allow questions asked" "Oh,
yes, said the leader, ,"but at the start,
let us kneel down and ask God to
guide is" 'Oh, no." said the infidel,
II did not come to pray, l came to dis
cuss." But" said the leader. ''you
will, of course, submit to our rule, and
that is always to begin with prayer"
The leader knelt in prayer, and then
arose and said to the inidel: "Now
you pray" The inide1 replied: Il
cannot pray; | have no God to pray to.
Let me go! Let me go!" The spectat-
ors, who expected fun. found nothing
but overpowering solemnity, and a re
vival started and among the first who
were brought in was the inidel. That
hotSl III 1t. LII al ouI hNCS LIZ
have been times when we felt that
prayer was answered. Then let us say
so.
There fingers on this side of the riv-
err that divides earth and heaven,
ready at any time to cross over, the
apostle of prayer for this century, Jer-
emiah Calvin Lanphier, the founder of
the Fulton Street Market prayer meet
i,,~ orI ~ J1 chn,,II mt ~, hic cy,oota
cleS and read this, | salute him as
more qualified than any man since
Bible times in demonstrating what
prayer can do. Dear Brother Ian
phier! The high heavens are full of
his fame. Having announced a meet
ing for II o'clock, Sept. %, 1857, he sat
in the upper room on Fulton street,
New York, waiting for people to come.
He waited for a half-hour, and then q
football was heard on the steps. and
after a while, in all, six persons ar
rived; but the next day twenty; and
the next day forty, and from that time
to this, ove thirty-eight years, every
day, Sabbath excepted, that Fulton
street prayer meeting has been a
place where people have asked prayer,
n answers to prayer have been an
nounced land the throb of that great
heart of supplication has thrilled not
only into the heavens but clear o
the world more than n spot OH
earth. That has been the place where
the redeemed of the Lord said so!
Let the same o~utspokenneSs be en-
ployed toward those by whom we have
been personally advantaged. We wait
until they are dead before we say so.
-FOUR parents have planned for your
best interests all these years. They
may sometimes, their nervous system
used up by the cares, the losses, the
disappointments, the worriments of
life, be more irritable than they ought
to be, and they probably have faults
which have become oppressive as the
years go by. But those eyes, long be-
fore they took on spectacles. were
watching for your welfare, and their
hands, not as smooth and much more
deeply lined than once have done for
you many a good days work. Life has
been to them more of a struggle than
you will ever know about, and much
of the struggle has been for you, and
how much they are wrapped up in
your welfare you will never appreci-
ate. Have you by word, or gift, or be-
hayior, expressed your thanks? Or if
you cannot quite get up to say it face
to face, have you written it in some
holiday salutation? The time will soon
pass, and they will be gone out of your
sight, and their ears will not hear and
their eyes will not see. If you w
them any kindness of deed or any
words Of appreciation, why do you not
say soI How much we might all of us
save ourselves in the matter of regrets
if we did not delay until too late an
expression of obligation that would
have made the last years of earthly
life more attractive. The grave is
deaf, and epitaphs Oh cold marble can
not make reparation.
In Conjugal life the honeymoon is
soon past and the twain take it for
granted that each Is thoroughly I'M
derstood. How dependent on each
other they become as the years go by,
and perhaps nothing is said to make
the other fully understand that n
of dependency. Impatient words some
times come forth, and motives are mis-
interpreted, and it is taken as a mat
ter Of course that the two will walk
the path of life side by side until about
The same time their journey shall be
ended; but some sudden and appalling
illness unlcosens the right hands that
were clasped years before at the altar
of orange blossoms, the parting takes
place. and among the worst of all the
SORROWS is that you did not C%ftener. if
YOU ever did at all, tell her or tell him
how indispensable she was, or how in