Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-28

the life of Philip Melanchthon IN direct an,
swer to my prayer" On: the power OF
prayer! Have YOU tested itE ..,.,
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hook entitled WAround the World" de-
scrir ed mauso' cum in India which 1t TOOK
%. 00H men twenty-five years to build-that
and the buildings suTounding-and ne
saws: :'Standing in that mausoleum ana
utferin9 word. It is echoed back from a
height OF $50 feet not an ordinary ecno.
but prolonged muse. as though tnere
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
mausoleum, but from the heart OF God ana
from the wings of angels as they hover cry,
ing. Behold he prays" Oh. test III
Mighty sickle for reaping this gospel harvest.
the sickle OF prayer
1t 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. 1t does
not make any difference abort the physical
posture, as was shown in hospital. VII m
the chaplain said as ne looked over the beds
OF the suffering: ''Let all those wounded
men nere 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, ''de! Me-" Ga, it
does not make any difference about the
rhetoric OF your prayers; it does not make
any difference about the posture: 1t does not
make any difference whether you can lit
hand or nave no hand to lift. Go is ready
to hear you. Prayer is answered. Col is
| waiting to respond.
"Lift up your eyes upon the fields. for they
are white already to HARVEST" How many
have you reaped for Col? Do you ask mo
how many have reaped for God? cannot
say. Now can you say how many you have
reape1? | hope there are some who have
been brought into the kingdom of God
through vour instrumentality. Have there
not been? Not one? You, a man thirty-fve.
forty, fifty wears OF age and not one? see
souls coming I'D to glory. Here is Sunday
school teacher bringing ten or fifteen souls.
| Here is a tract distributor bringing in forty
or fifty souls. Here is a man you never heard
of who has been very useful in bringing
sous to God. He comes with $50 souls.
They are the sheaves of his harvest. How
many have Won brought? Not one-can it
be? What will God say? What will the
angels say2 Better crouch down in some
corner of heaven and never show yourself.
Oh, taat harvest Is 10 be reaped now. And
that is this Instant Why not be reaped Tor
God this hour?
'fOa," SAYS some man. "I have been going
on the wrong road for thirty, or forty or
fifty years. l 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 10
the rescue. ''Not toe righteous-sinners.
Jesus came to call" SO. you see, take the
very worst case there is. If there is man
here who feels he is all right in heart and
life. an not talking to him. for he is proc
ably hypocrita. will talk to him some
other time. But il there is man who feels
himself all wrong, to him address myself.
Though you 0e wounded in the hands AND
wounded in the feet and wounded
IN the hea and wounded in the
hear. 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 uuclean places, though you
have companionei with the abandoned and
the lost, one touch OF divine grace will save
your soul.
do not say that you will not have strug-
giles after that. %, no. But they will be
different kind of struggle. You 90 into that
battle and all bell is against you, and you
are alone. and you fight and you fight.
weaker and weaker. until at last you fall
and the powers OF darkness tramp.e on your
soul. But in the other case you go into the
bait and fight stronger and stronger and
stronger until the evil propensity goes
down and you get the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, come out OF your
sinsi Have Won not been bruised with sin
long enough? Have you not carried that
load long enough? Have you not fought
that battle long enough?
rattle the gates of YOUR sepulcher to-day
! take the trumpet of the gospel and blow
the long, loud blast. Roland went into bat
tie. Chariemagne's army had been driven
back by the three armies OF the Saracens,
and Roland. in almost despair, took up tue
trumpet and ew three blasts in one of the
mountain passes. and under the power OF
those three blast the Saracens recoiled and
fed in terror. But history says that When
he had blown third blast Roland's trumpet
broke
take this trumpet OF the gospel and blow
the first blast, "Whosoever will" blow
the second blast. "Sesk We the Lord while
He may be found" blow the third blast. J"
"Now is the accepted time" But the trum-
pet does not break; it was handed down by
our forefathers to us, and we will hand 1t
down to our children, that after we are dead
they may blow the trumpet telling the world
that we have pardoning God a loving Goo.
a sympathetic God. and that more to Him
than the throne on which He sits is the JOY OF
seeing prodigal put his finger on the latch
of His Fathers house.
Invite any one the most inndel, any one
the most atheistic. l invite him into the
kingdom of God with just as much hearth
ness as those who have for fifty years been
under the teaching of the gospel and believed
ital. When l was living in Philadelphia,
gentleman told me Of scene ia which he
was a participant. In Callowhill street, In
Philadelphia there had been powerful
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 that club house. the presi-
dent of it, resolved that he would endeavof
to get his comrade away. He came 10 the
door, before he entered he heard a Christian
song, aud under its power his soul was
agitated. He went in and asked for prayer
Before he came out he was a subject OF con-
verting mercy. The next night another
comrade went to reclaim the two who had
been lost to their sinful circle. He went,
and under the power of the Holy Ghost be-
came a changed man, and the work went on
they were all saved and the infamous club
house disbanded. Oh. it is a mighty gospel
Though you came here child OF sin, you
can go away child of grace. you can go
away singing:
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved wretch like me.
once was lost, but now an found
Was blind, but now see.
OBJ, give up your sinsl Most OF your lie
is already gone. Your children are going
on the same wrong road. Why do you not
stop? This day is salvation come 10 thy
| ,o,no Whu nnt this nnmenf look I'M into