The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-01-31

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we were all crying, not bitter tears,
but tears of joyful emotion, and in
three days, in that neighborhood, all
the Ice had gone out Of the river In
a springtime freshet of salvation.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say So"
have but little interest in what
people say about religion as an abb
straction, but have illimitable inter
est in what people say about what
they have personally felt of religion.
1t was an expression of his own graft
tude for personal salvation which led
Charles Wesley, after season of great
dependency about his soul, and Christ
had spoken pardon, to write that i'm
mortal hymn:
Oh, for thousand tongues, to sing
My great Redeemer's praise
1t was after Abraham Lincoln had
| been comforted in the loss of "Tad,"
the bright boy of the White House,
that he said: II now see as never be-
fore the preciousness Of Gods love in
Jesus Christ, and how we are brought
near to God as our Father by Him."
~ IL
mee Ing in Portland, Ore, when an
ex-attorney-general of the United
States arose and said: Last hight /
got up and asked the prayers of Gods
people. | feel now perfectly satisfied.
The burden is rolled off and all gone,
and feel that could run or fly into
the arms of Jesus Christ"
What oo,, E,.,,, ~ xr1,,IJ co,x,o
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 supplication,
they got the money to pay the note.
If all farmers in time of drought would
tell how, in answer to prayer, the rain
came just in time to save the crop. If
all parents who prayed for wander
ing son to come home would tell how,
not long after, they heard the boys
hand on the latch of the front door.
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
Lanphier! The high heavens are full
of his fame. Having announced a
meeting for - o'clock, September 90,
1857, he sat in the upper room on Full
ton street, New York, waiting for peo-
hour, and then football was heard
on the steps, and after awhile
in all six persons arrived; but
the next day 20, 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 beena place where
people have asked prayer and answers
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!
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 |
Impatient words some
lines come forth, and motives are mis-
and it is taken as mat
Ter of course that the two will walk
,he path of life side by side until about
,he same time their journey shall be
ended; but some sudden and appalling
illness unloosens the right hands that
we're elapsed years before at the altar
If orange blossoms, the parting takes
,lace, and among the worst of all the
sorrows is that you did not oftener,
f you ever did at all, tell her or
ell him how Indispensable she was, or
low indispensable he was to your hap
,iness, and that in some plain, square
ak, long ago, you did not ask for for
.iveness for infrmities and neglects,
md by some unlimited utterances
make it understood that you fully APP
,reciated the fidelity and reinforce
nent of many years. Alas! how many
uch have to lament the rest of their
ives. ''Oh, if had only said sol'
My subject takes q wider range.
The Lord has hundreds of thousands
f people among those who have never
oined His army because of some high
deal of what Christian should be, or
ecause of fear that they may not
old out, or because of spirit of pro-
rastination. They have never public
Y professed Christ. They have as
,uch right to the sacraments and rs
,uch right to all the privileges