Milford chronicle., 1896-02-21

ing as they are going into battle Shall
stop themy NO said the king Men
that can sing like that can fight. Oh,
the power Of Christian songl Whom ]
argue here, you may argue back. The ar
gument you make against religion may be
more skillful than the argument I 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, forgiyel
Let repen5ing rebel live
Arc not thy mercies large and free2
May not n sinner trust in theeq
An Effective Sickle.
Another mighty sickle for the reapina
Of tho gospel harvest is prayer What does
God do with our prayers? Docs he 60 on
tho battlelnents Of heaven and throw them
Off No. What do you do with gifts given
you by those who love you very muohi
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
winds2 Oh, mol He will answer them
all in some way. Oh, what a mighty thing
prayer isl 1t is not a long rigmarole Of
+ .ohs' and tabs" and for ever and over,
amens." It is breathing Of the heart
4 into the heart Of God. oh, what a mighty
thing prayer isl Elijah with it reached up
+ to the clouds and shook down the showers.
With it John Knox shook Scotland. With
ib Martin Luther shook the earth. And
when Philip AIelanchthon lay sick unto
/ death, as many supposed, Martin Luther
came in and said, "Philipp, we can't spare
you" ''Oh, F" said he, Martin, you must
let me goi 1 am tired Of persecution and
tired of life. want to go to DO with my
God. " "No," said Martin Luther you
shall not go. You must take this food,
and then will pray for you" No, Mar
tin, - said Melanchthon, you must let me
go.n Martin Luther said You take this
food, or l will excommunicato you" He
took the foot, and Martin Luther knelt
down and prayed rs only he could pray,
and commissioner came, and Martin
Luther went back and said to his friends,
"God has saved the life of Philip Melaneh-
thon in direct answer to my prayer" Oh,
the power of prayer Have you tested It'll?
Dr. Primo Of New York, in his beauti-
ful book entitled "Around the World, "
described mausoleum in India which it
took 20, 600 men p years to build-that
and the buildings surrounding-and he
says, standing in that mausoloum and
uttering a word, it is echoed back from n
height of $50 fcet-not an ordinary echo,
but prolonged 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 cup0la of an
earthly mausoloum, but from the heart of
God and from the wings Of angels as they
hover, crying, "Behold. he prays" Oh,
test It'll Mighty sickle for reaping this
gospel harvest the sickle of prayer
Forins of Little Consequences.
II docs not mako so much difference
about the posture you take, whether you
sit stand or kncol or lie on your face or
in your physical agonies lie on your back
IL does not make any difference about the
physical posture, as was shown in hos
pital, when he chaplain said as he looked
over the beds of tho suffering Let all
those wounded men here who would like
ID DO prayed for lift the hand Some lifted
two hands, others lifted ono hands some
with hands amputated could only lift the
stump Of the arm. One man, both his
arms amputated, could give no signal ey-
ccpt to says Mel MoP Oh, It does not
make any difference about the rhetoric of
your prayers. 1t does not make any differ.
enoe about the posture, 1t docs not make
any difference whether you can lift 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
bhey are white aiEeaig 90 harvest How
many have you reaped for Godg DO yo0
ask me how many / have reaped for Gods
1 cannot say. Now, can you say how
many you have reapedf 1 hope there are
some who have been brought into the
kingdom Of God through your instru-
mentality Have there not been? Not
Dnef You. q man 85, 40, aQ yoars Qf age |
and not onpf I see souls coming up TO ]
glory. Here is a Sunday school teacher
bringing 10 or 10 souls. Here is tract
distributor bringing IN 40 or 90 souls. /
Here is q man you never heard Of who has |
been very useful in bringing souls TO God. |
He comes with 100 souls. They are the /
sheaves Of his harvest How many have I
you brought? Not pne-can it boz What /
viii God says What Will the angles sayi 1
Better crouch down in some corner Of |
heaven and never show yourself Oh, that |
harvest Is to be reaped now And that is
this instant Why not be reaped for God /
this bourY
ooh, says some man, II have been 60
Ing on the wrong road for 80, 40 or 90
years. I have gone through the whole cata-
logue Of crime and must first get myself
fixed up" All, you will never get your
self fixed up until Christ takes you in
charged You get worse and worse until
he comes to the rescue, mot tho righteous
sinners Jesus came to call. +" So, you see,
take the very worst case there is. If
there is man here who feels he is all
right in heart and life, l am not talking
TO him, for ho is probably a hypocrite. 1
will talk to him some other time. But u
there is q man who feels himself all wrong,
to him I address myself Though you be
wounded IN the hands, and wounded in
the feet, and wounded in tho head, and
wounded in the heart and though the
Of eternal death be upon you
one crop of the elixir Of divine life will
cure your soul Though you be goRked in
Evil indulgences, though your feet have
gone in unclean places, though You have
with tho abandoned and the
lost, one touch Of divine grace viii save
your soul
"Whosoever wnl."
I do not say that you will not have
struggles after that Oh, mol But they
will he different kind Of struggle. You
90 into that battle and all hell is against
you, and you are alone, and you fight, and
rou fight, weaker and weaker and weaker
lAllAA ttt ANat NNu AfAAA WIG hiAA FffNAa ~ ! .
darkness trampla on your soul. But in the
,ther case Won 90 into the battle, and YOU
agHU stronger ana stronger ana stronger
lntil the evil propensity goes down, and
You get the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ On, come out OF your sins
Have you not been bruised with sin long
,noughF Have you not carried that load
ong enoughi Have you not fought that
battle long enoughP
1 rattle the gates Of your sepulcher to- {
lay l take the trumpet OF the gospel and !
blow tho long, loud blast. Roland went
INTO battle. Charlemagne's army had been
lrivon back by the three armies Of the ]
and Roland, in almost despair
iook mp tho trumpet and blow three blasts
ia one Of the mountain passes, and under
ihe power Of those three blasts the Sara {
,ons recoilod and iled Ia terror But his
-ory says that when he had blown the
third blast Roland's trumpet broke