The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22

May not u sinner trust In Inee!
Another mighty sickle for the reap
ing of the gospel harvest is prayer.
What does God do with our prayersf
Does He go on the battlements OF
Heaven and throw them off? No.
What do you do with gifts given you
by those who love you very much
You keep them with great sa~credness.
And do you suppose God will take our
prayers, offered in the sincerity and
love of our hearts, and scatter them to
the winds? 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 ''shs,'
and 'for ever and ever, Amens." 1t is
a breathing Of the heart int 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 it Martin Luther
shook the earth. And when Philip
Melanchton lay sick unto death, as
many supposed, Martin Luther came
in and said: philip. we can't spare
you'll" ''Oh," said he, Martin, you
must let me go; l am tired of persecu-
ton and tired of life. l want to go to
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Luther, you shall not go; YOU must
take this food and then l will pray for
you. mo, Martin" said Melanchton,
t'you must let me go" Martin Luther
said: You take this food, or l will
excommunicate you" He took the
food and Martin Luther kneIt down
and prayed as only he could pray, and
co~nvalescence anne and Martin Luther
went back and said to his friends:
God has saved the life of Philip Me-
lanchton in direct answe to my
prayer" On, the power of prayerl
Have you tested it?
1t does not make SO 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. 1t does not make any diff
ference about the ply steal posture, as
was shown IN a hospital, when the
chaplain said when he looked over the
beds of suffering: Let all those
wounded men here who would like to
be prayed for lift the handr" Some
lifted two hands; others lifted n
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:
"Mei Mel" Oh, it does not make any
difference about the rhetoric of your
it does not make any differ
ence about the posture; it e not
make any difference whether you lift
a hand or have no hand to lift. God Is
ready to hear you. Prayer is answered.
God is ready to respond.
Lift up your eyes upon the fields,
for they are white already to harvsstl"
How many have you reaped for God?
Do you ask me how many 1 have
reaped for God? cannot say. Now
can you say how many you AVE
reaped? 1 hope there are some who
have been brought into the kingdom
of God through your instrumentality.
there not been? Not one? You,
man IS, 40, so years of age, and not
one. L see souls coming up to glory.
Here Is a Sunday school teacher bring
ing ten or fifteen souls. Here is a
tract distributor bringing in forty or
fifty souls. Here is a man you have
never heard of who has been very use
full in bringing souls to God. He comes
with $50 souls
They are the sheaves of His harvest.
How many have you brought? No one
can it be? What will God say? What
will h angels say? Better crouch
down in some corner of heaven and
never show yourself. Oh, that harvest
is to be reaped now! And that is this
Why not be reaped for God
this hour?
"Oh," says some man, 81 have been
going or the wrong road for 30, 40 or
so years; 1 ave gone through the
whole catalogue of crime and must
first get myself fixed up" Ah, 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 CALI" So, you see, /
take the very worst case there is. If
there is a man here who feels he is all
right in heart and life, ! am not talk.
ing to him, for he is probably a hypo.
critic. ! will talk to him some other
time. But if there is q man who feels
himself all wrong, to him ! address
myself. Though you be wounded in
the hands and wounded in the feet and
wounded in the head, and wounded in
heart. and through the gangrene
of eternal death put upon you, one
drop of the elixir of divine life will
cure your soul. Though you be soaked
in evil indulgences, though you feet
have gone in unclean places, though
you have companioned with the aban-
doned and the lost, one touch of divine
grace will save your soul
l rattle the gates of your sepulcher
I take the trumpet of the gos.
pei and blow the long, loud blast.
went into battle. CHARLIE
magne's army had been driven back by
the three armies of the ~Saracens, and
Roland, in almost despair, took up the
Trumpet and bleW three blasts in one
of the mountain passes, and under the
power of those three blasts the Sara
oens recoiled and fed in terror. But
history says that when he had blown
the third blast Roland's trumpet broke,
I take this trumpet of the gospel and
blow the first blast: "Whosoever will"
1 blow the second blast: seek we the
Lord while he may be found" l blow
the third blast: Now is the accepted
But the trumpet does not
Il was banded down by our
to us, and we shall hand IL
down to our children, that after we
are Q6du Lney may DlOW the trumpet,
the world that we have a
God, a loving God, a sym
pathetic God, and that more to Him
than the throne on which He sits is the
Joy of seeing a prodigal put his finger
on the LATCH of his fathers house.
invite anyone the most inidel, any.
one the most atheistic. l invite him
into the kingdom Of God with just as
much heartiness as those who have
for so years been under the teachings
of the gospel and believed it all. When
was living in Philadelphia a gentle
told me OF q soene in WHICH he
was a participant. In callowhill street,
in Philadelphia, there he'd pee a pow
meeting going on for some time
and many were converted, and among
others one of the prominent members
of the worst club house in that city.
The next night the leader OF tina club
house, the president Of it, resolved that
he would endeavor to get his eomrade
away. lie game to the door, and be-
fore he entered he heard a Christian
song, and under It's power his soul was
He went in and asked for
prayer. Before he came put he was n
Of converting mercy. The next
ANOTHER comrade went TO reclaim