Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-22

upon Oil mercnanG6, upon Ill uecnaulCs,
upon all toilers, and God says to you as
he says to me- go, teach all nations.
he that believeth and is baptized shall
be saved, and he that believeth not shall
be damned" Mighty gospel, let the
whole earth hear It'll The story of Christ
is to regenerate the nations, it is to
eradicate all wrong, 1t is to turn the
earth into n paradise. An old artist
painted the Lords Supper, and he
wanted the chief attention directed to the
face of Christ. When he invited his
friends in to criticise the picture, they
admired the chalices moro than they
did the face, and the old artist said,
"This picture is failure, and be
dashed ont the picture Of the cups, and
said: II shall have nothing to detract
from the face Of the Lord. Christ is the
all Of this picture.
Power OF Christian Song.
Another powerful sickle for the reap
ing Of this harvest is Christian song.
know in many churches the whole work
is delegated to few people standing in
the organ loft. But, my friends. as 9th
ers cannot repent for Us and others can
not die for us, we cannot delegate to
others the work of singing for US. While
few drilled artists shall take the
chants and execute the more skillful
music, when the hymn is given out let
there be hundreds and thousands Of
voices uniting in the reclamation. On
the way to grandeurs that mover cease
and glories that never die let us sing.
At the battle Of Lutzen q general came
to the king and said: "Those soldiers
are singing as they are going into bat
tie. Shall I stop them?" "No," said
the king, "men that can sing like that
can fight. I" Oh, the power of Christian
song When arguo here, you may ar
que back. The argument you make
against religion may be more skillful
than tho argument / mako in behalf of
religion. But who can stand before the
pathos of some upliftcd song like that
which we sometimes sing:
Show pity, Lord o Lord. forgivol
Let n repenting rcbel 1.-Two!
Are not thy mercies large and free?
May not o sinner trust in thoe!
Another mighty sickle for the reaping
Of the gospel harvest is prayer. What
does God do with our prayers? Does he
20 on the battlenents 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 sacredness. 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, no! He
will answer them all in some way. Oh,
what a mighty thing prayer is! It is
not a long rigmarole of "ohs" and
"ahs' and "for ever and ever, amens. "
1t is breathing of the heart into the
heart of God Oh, what mighty thing
prayer is! 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 Melanchthon lay sick
unto death, as many supposed, Martin
, Lufhe- came'in and said, Phillip, we
cen tsnaroyou :" "Oh, said he, Mar
tin, you must let me 60. am tired OF
persecution and tired Of life. I want to
20 to be with my God. Z" mo, said
Martin Luther, "you shall not go; you
must tako this food, and then will pray
for you. " "No, Martin, +" said Melanch-
thon, "you must let me go. ;" Martin
Luther said, lyon take this food or l
will excommunicate you. He took the
food, and Martin Luther knelt down and
prayed az only he could pray, and con-
valescence came, and Martin Luther went
back and said to his friends, "God has
saved the life of Phillip Molanchthon in
direct answer to my prayer. " Oh, the
power of prayer Have you tested it?
Prayer Has It's Echo.
DR.. Prime of New York, in his beau
tiful book entitled Around the World, "
described IL mausoleum in India which
it took 20, 600 men % years to build
that and the buildings surrounding-and
he says: standing in that mausoleum
and utterin2 word, it is echoed back
from height Of $50 feet; not an ordi-
nary echo, but a prolonged music, as
though there were angels lowering IN
the air +" And every word of earnest
PRAYER we utter has an echo, not from
the marble cupola Of an earthly mauso-
leum, but from the heart Of God and
from the wings of angels as they hover,
CRYING. "Behold, he prays'' Oh, test
it? Mighty sickle for reaping this gospel
harvest, the sickle of prayer
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 differ
ence about the physical posture, as was
shown in hospital, when the chaplain
said as no looked over the beds Of the
suffering: Let 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 am
putated, could give no signal except to
say, "Me! Mel' Oh, it does not make
pny difference about tho rhetoric of your
prayers; it does not make sny difference
about the posture; it does not make any
difference whether you can lift q hand
Or have no hand to lift. God is ready to
hear you. Prayer is answered. God Ii
waiting to respond.
Lift up your eyes upon tho fields, for
they are white already to harvest !!
How many have you reaped for God?
Doyou ask Inc how many l have reaped
Tor God? I cannot say. Now can you
say how many you have reaped? hopo
there are some who have been brought
into the kingdom Of God through your
instrumensality. Have there not been?
Not one? You, q man S5, 40, 30 years