The Monitor-register., 1896-01-24
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places because OF hard times would tell
how in response to supplication they got
the money to pay the note; if all farmers
in time of drought would tell how in an
swer to prayer the rain came just in
time to save the crop; if all parents who
prayed for wandering son to come
home would tell how not long after
they heard the boys hand on the latch
of the font door!
Samuel Hick, an English Methodist
preacher, solicited aid for West India
missions from rich miser and failed.
Then the minister dropped on his knees,
and the miser said, 81 will give thee
guinea If thou wilt give over" But the
minister continued to pray, until the
miser said, 81 will give thee guineas
If thou wilt give over. Then the mon
ey was taken to the missionary meeting.
Oh, the power of prayer! Melanchthon,
utterly discouraged, was passing along
a place where children were heard pray
ing, and he came back, saying, "Breth-
rem, take courage; the children are pray
ing for u.s.. Nothing can stand before
prayer. An infidel came into Bible
class to ask puzzling questions Manysof
the neighbors came in to hear the dis
cussion. 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 us. "
"Oh, no." said the infdel. 81 did not
come to pray; I came to discuss. -
But" said the leader, "you will, of
course, submit to our rule, and that is
always to begin with prayer" The lead
or knelt in prayer, and then arose and
said to the infdel, "Now you pray. ="
The infdel replied, 81 cannot pray. l
have no God to pray to. Let me go! Let
me go!"- The spectators, who expected
fun, found nothing but overpowering
solemnity, and a revival started, and
among the first who were brought in
was the infidel. That prayer did it, In
all our lives there have been times when
we felt that prayer was answered. Then
let us say SO.
Outspokenness.
There fingers on this side of the river
that divides earth and heaven, ready at
any time to cross over, the apostle Of
prayer for this century, jeremiah Calvin
Lanphier, the founder of the Fulton
street prayer meeting, and if he should
put on his spectacles and read this I
salute him as more qualified than any
man since Bible times in demonstrating
what prayer can do. Dear Brother Lam
phier! The high heavens are full of his
fame. Having announced meeting for
| n;o hr I,
upper room on Fulton street, New York,
waiting for people to come. He waited
| for half hour and then football was
heard on the steps, and after awhile in
all six persons arrived, but the next day
90, and the next day 40 and from that
time to this, for over 3S years, every
day, Sabbath excepted that Fulton
street prayer meeting has been place
where people have asked prayer and an
swers to prayer have been announced,
and the throb of that great heart of sup
plication has thrilled not only into the
heavens, but clear around the world,
more than any spot on earth. That has
been the place where the redeemed of
the Lord said SO!
Let the same outspokenness be en-
.ployed toward those by whom we have
been personally advantaged We wait
until they are dead before we say so.
. Your parents have planned for your best
interests all these years. They may
sometimes, their nervous system used
up by the cares, the losses, the disap-
pointments, 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 before 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 day S 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 i'll your welfare you will
never appreciate.
Have you by word or gift or behavior
expressed yonr thanks? Or if you cannot
quite get up to say it face to face, have
you written it in some holiday saluta-
ton? 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 owe them any kindness
OF deed or any words of appreciation,
why do you not say so? How much we
might all Of Us save ourselves i'll the
matter of regrets if we did not delay un-
til too late an expression Of obligation
that would have made the last years of
earthly life more attractive. The grave
is deaf, and epitaphs on cold marble
cannot make reparation.
In conjugal life the honeymoon is
soon past, and the twain take it for
granted that each is thoroughly under
stood. How dependent ON each other
they become, and the years go by, and
perhaps nothing is said to make the
other fully understand that sense of de-
pendence Impatient words sometimes
come forth, and motives are misinter-
preted, and it is taken as a matter 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 IN
loosens the right hands that were clasped
years before at the altar of orange bios
SONS, the parting takes place, and
among the worst of all the sorrows is
that you did not oftener, if you ever did
at all, tell her OR tell him how indis-
pensable she was or how Indispensable
he was to your happiness, and that in
some plain, square talk long ago you did
not ask for forgiveness for infirmities
and neglects, andsby some unlimited ut
terance make it understood~ that you
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