Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-20

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Street Prayer Meeting, and if he should
pun 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 Lanphierl The high
heavens are fun of his fame Having
announced q meeting for u o'clock Sep
TENDER %. 1857. ne sat in the upper
room on Fulton street. New York wait-
ing for people 20 come He waited for
q half hour. and then football was
heard on the steps, and after awhile i'm
all six persons arrived; but the next
day twenty. and the next day forty, and
from that time TO this, for over thirty
eight years. every day. Sabbath except
ed, that Fulton Street PRAYER Meeting
has been a place where people have
asked prayer and answers 70 prayer
have been announced, and the trob Of
that great heart Of supplication has
thrilled not only into the heavens. but
Gear around 5ie world. more than any
snOt on earth That has been the place
where the redeemed Of the Lord said so.
Let the SANE Outspokenness be en-
pl0yed toward those by whom we have
been personally advantaged. We wait
until they are dead before we say 50.
Your parents have planned for your
best interests ell these years. They
may sometimes. their nervous system
used mp by The cares, the losses. the dis
appointments. 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 days work Life has been to
them
MORE OF A STRUGGLE
than you viii ever know about, and
much of the struggle has been for you,
and how much hey are wrapped up in
Your welfare YOU will never appreciate.
Have YOU by word or gift or behavior
expressed Your thanks? Or if you can
not quite get up TO say it face 10 face,
have you written il in some holiday sal
utatiOn? The time Will soon pass and
and their ears viii not hear and their
eyes VIII not see. If YOU eve them any
kindness of deed or any words of apDre-
citation. why do You not say SO? How
much we might all of us save ourselves
in the Meter of regrets if we did not
delay until too late an expression Of
obligation that would have made the
last years of earthly life more attract
i've. The grave is deaf. and epi.aphs
on cold marble cannot make reparation.
In coDiugaI life the honeymoon is
soon past. and the twain take it for
granted th3t 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 understand that sense Of depend
ence. Impatient words sometimes come
forth. and motives are misin,erpreJed
and 60 is taken as q 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 unl0Osens
the right hands that were clasped years
before at the altar or orange blossoms.
-he par ing takes place. and among the
worst of all the sorrows is that You did
not oftenerif YOU ever did at au,te her
or tell him how indispensable he Yves to
your happiness, and that in some plain,
square talk, long ago. YOU did not ask
for forgiveness for infrmities and neg
lects. and by some unlimited Utterance
make it understood that YOU fully ap-
preciated the fidelity and reinforcement
of many years. Alas, how many such
have TO lament the rest Of Fheir lives,
ooh. if I had only said 500
My subject takes q wider range. The
Lord has hundreds of thousands Of pe0-
PIE among those who have never joined
his army because OF some high ideal Of
what a Christian should be, or because
of a fear that they may not hold out, or
because Of a spirit Of procrastination.
They have never publicly confessed
Christ They have as much right TO the
sacraments and as much right TO all
the privileges OF the church as thOus-
ands who have for years been enrolled
in church membership, and yet they
have made no positive utterance b.
which the world may know they love
God and are on
THE ROAD TO HEAVEN.
They are redeemed Of The Lord, and yet
do not say so. Oh. what an augmenta-
ton IL would be if by some divine i'm
pulse an those outsiders should become
insiders. I tell you what would bring
them TO their right places, and perhaps
nothing else will. Days of persecution.
III they were compelled TO take sides
between Christ and his enemies, they
would take the side of Christ. and the
faggO-s and the instruments Of torture,
and he anathemas of all earth and
hell would not make them blanch.
Martyrs are made out of such stuff as
they are. But let them not wait for
such DAYS as I pray 10 God may never
come Drawn by the sense of fairness,
and justice. and obligation. let them
show their colC-s Let the redeemed OF
tie Lord say So,
There are men to whom life is a grind
and O conflict, hereditary tendencies to
be overcome. accidental environments
10 be endured. appalling opposition TO
be met and conquered. and they never
so much as had o rose pinned TO thor
coat lapel in admiration. They never
hrl a song dedicated to their 1aue.
They never had book presented TO
them with a complimentary w%rd on
the fy-leaf AT they nave 10 SO for
THEIR LIFETIME BATTLE
is scars. But in the Last Day the story
will come out. and that life will be put
i'm holy and transcendent rhythm, ana
their courage end persistence and faith
and victory viii not only be announced