The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-28

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ion. But who can stand before the paihos u
some upllited song Ike that which we some |
times sings
show pity, Lords o Lord, torgivei
Let "a repenting rebel live.
are not Thy merciea large and ireo2
May not q sinner trust In Thee3
Another mighty sickle for the reaplne Of
the gospel harvest ls prayer. What does God
do with our prayouY Does 10 20 on the bate
Elements Of heaven aud throw them ON No.
What do you do with gifts given you by
those who lave YOU very muehf You keen
them with great Raorodness. And do You
suppose God viii take our prayers offered IN
the sincerity and love Of our hearts. and
scatter them to the winds2 OBJ mol He win
answer them an ia some way. oh. what q
mighty thing prayer icy i is not a long rig.
mnrola Of "ohsH and tabs" and "forover and
| ever. amansn Il Is a breathing Of the heart
| into the heart ot God. oh. what a mighty
| thing prayer isl Elijah with u reached up
10 the clouds and shook down the showers.
| With Il John Knox shook Scotland. With Il
/ Martin Luther shook the earth. And when
/ Philip Melanehthon lay sick unto death, az
many supposed, Martin Luther came IN and
| said, "Philipp. we can't spare you" "Oh,"
/ said he. MARTIN. you must let me 20. nm
/ tired Of persecution and tired OF life. want
/ 10 90 TO be with my God" mo. said Martin
| Luther, ''you shall not 60; you must take
this food, and then win pray Tor you.
| enc, Martin" said Melanohthon, "you must
/ let me 60" Martin Luther said. "You take
| this food or Win exc0mmunicate you" He
| took tho food. and Martin Luther knelt down
| and prayed as only he could pray. and con-
valescenoe came, and Martin luther went
back and said to his friends, GOOD has saved
thelife Of Philip Melanehthon in direct an
swer to my prayer" oh. the power OF
prayer Have YOU tested ~
DR.. Prime. OF New York. in his beautiful
| book entitled "Around the World de-
scrifed mausoeum in India which It took
| 10000 men twenty-five years to build-tbat
and the buildings surounding-and he
says; "standing in that mausoleum and
uttering a word, II Is echoed back from
height OF $50 feet not an ordinary echo.
| but a prolonged music. as though there
we're angels lowering 10 the air." And every
word Of earnest PRAYER we utter has an echo.
not from the marble cupola Of an earthly
mausoleum, but from the heart OF God and
from the wings OF angels rs they hover cry
ing, "Behold. he prays" Oh test IT.
Mighty sickle for reaping this gospel harvest,
the sickle Of prayer
It does not make 50 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. II does
not make any difference abort the physical
posture, as was shown In hospital, whan
the chaplain said as he looked over the beds
OF the suffering: 'Iet 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 Mel" Oh, It
does not make any difference about the
rhetoric OF your prayers; 1t does not make
any difference about the posture; II does not
make any difference whether you can lift a
hand or have no hand TO lift. God is ready
to hear you. Prayer Is answered. God Is
waiting to respond.
Gift up your eyes upon the fields, for they
are white already to harvestI" How many
have you reaped for God2 Do you ask me
how many have reaped for God2 / cannot
say. Now can you say how many you have
reaped2 / hope there are some who have
been brought into the kingdom OF God
through your fundamentally. Have there
not been2 Not one2 You, man thirty-ave.
forty, fifty years Of age and not one2 / see
souls coming uD 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 100 souls.
TEey are the sheaves OF his harvest. How
many have you brought Not one-can 1t
be2 What win God say2 What will the
angels say2 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 hour?
"Oh, says some man, 81 have been going
on the wrong road for thirty, or 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, take the
very worst case there is. II there is q man
, here who feels he is all right in heart and
life, l am not talking to him, for he is prob
ably hypocrite. will talk to him some
other time. But II there is man who feels
! himselfall wrong. to him address myself.
, Though you be wounded In the hands and
wounded in the feet and wounded
: in the head and woEnded in the
heart, and though the gangrene OF eternal
, death be upon you. one drop Of the elixir OF
divine life will cure your soul Though you
be soaked in evil indulgences, though your
, feet have gone In unclean places, though you
have companioned with the abandoned anc
; the lost, one touch of divine grace will saVt
your soul
: l do not say that you will not have strug
I giles after that. Oh, no! But they will be .
! different kind of struggle. You 90 into that
= battle and all bell Is against you, and yot
q are alone, and you fight and you fight
a weaker and weaker. until at last you fal
. and the powers OF darkness trample on you
n soul. But in the othes case you go into the
4 battle and fight stronger and stronger anC
n stronger, until the evil propensity goe
II down and you get the victory through gu
n Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, come out of you
= sins! Have you not been bruised with sill
4 long enough? Have you not carried tina
!" load long enough? Have you not tough
n that battle long enough?
~ / rattle the gates of your sepulcher to-day
n I take the trumpet Of the gospel and bloy
a. the long, loud blast. Roland went into bat
"A tie. Charlemagne's army had been drive
II back by the three armies of the SaracenE
II and Roland, in almost despair, took up th
"a trumpet and blew three blasts in one Of tn
n mountain passes, and under the power {
y those three blast the saracens recoiled an
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