The Monitor-register., 1896-02-21

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others the work Of singing for us. While
a 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 acclamation. On
the way to grandeurs that never cease
and glories that never die let MS sing.
At the battle of Lutzen general came
to the king and said: "Those soldiers
are singing as they are going into bat
tie. Shall stop them?" "No," said
the king, "men that can sing like that
can fight. !" Oh, the power of Christian
song When argue here, You NAV ar
que back. The argument you make
against religion may be more skillful
than the argument make in behalf of
religion. But who can stand before tho
pathos OF some uplifted song like that
which we sometimes sing:
Show pity, Lord; o Lord, forgivei
Let repenting rebel livei
Are not thy mercies large and free?
May not sinner trust in theep
Another mighty sickle for the reaping
Of the gospel harvest is prayer. What
does God do with our prayers? 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 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, mol He
will answer them all in some way. Oh,
what mighty thing prayer is 1t is
not a long rigmarole of 'tohs'' and
"ahs' and "for ever and ever, amens. "
1t is a breathing of the heart into the
heart of God. Oh, what 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 Melanchthon lay sick
unto death, as many supposed, Martin
Luther came in and said, "Philipp, we
can't spare you'll" "Oh, said he, MAR
tin, you must LET me go. am tired Of
persecution and tired of life. I want to
go to be with my God." "No," said
Martin Luther, "you shall not go; you
must take this food, and then I will pray
for you" "No, Martin, said Melanch-
thon. "you must let me CO." Martin
Luther said, "You take this food or I
will excommunicate you. He took the
food, and Martin Luther knelt down and
prayed as only he could pray, and con-
valescence came, and Martin Luther went
back and said to his friends, "God has
saved the life of Philip Melanchthon in
direct answer to my prayer. - Oh, the
power of prayerl Have you tested it?
Prayer Has Its Echo.
DR.. Prime of New York, in his beau
tiful book entitled Around the World"
described a mausoleum in India which
it took 30, 900 men 90 years to build
that and the buildings surrounding-and
he says: STANDING in that mausoleum
and uttering word, it is echoed back
from height of 100 feet; not an ordi-
nary echo, but 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, "Bsnold. he praysP' 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 he 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 I;
others lifted one hand; some with hands
Rmputated could only lift the stump of
the arm. One man, both his arms am
putated, could give no signal except to
say, "Mel Mel" Oh, it does not make
any difference about the rhetoric of your
| prayers; it does not make any difference
about the posture; it does not make any
difference whether you can lift hand
or have no hand to lift. God is ready to
hear you. Prayer is answered. God is
waiting to respond.
''Lift up your eyes upon the fields, for
they are white already to harvest p
How many have you reaped for God?
Do you ask me how many have reaped
say how many you have reaped? hope
there are some who have been brought
into the kingdom of God through your
fundamentally. Have there not been2
Not one? You, man 35, 40, so years
of age and not one? see souls coming
up to glory. Here is Sunday school
teacher bringing 10 or Is souls. Here Is
tract distributor bringing in 40 or 30
souls. Here is man you never heard OF
who has been very useful in bringing
souls to God. He comes with $50 souls.
They are the sheaves Of his harvest.
| How many have you brought? Not one
can it be? What will God say? What
will the angels say? Better crouch down
In some corner Of heaven and never show
yourself. Oh, that harvest is to be reap
ed nowi And that is this instant Why
not be reaped for God this hourl
| The Touch of Divine Grace.
"Oh," says some man, 81 have been
going on the wrong road for 80, 40 or
! 80 years. Ihave 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 to the rescue. Not the
righteous-sinners Jesus came to call !"
So, you see, I 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 talking to him, for he is proba-
| bly, hypocrite. Twill talk to him some
other time. But if there is a man who
| feels himself all wrong, to him l ad-
dress myself. Though you be wounded
| in the hands and wounded in the feet
and wounded in the head and wounded
| in the heart, 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 unclean places. though you have COM
| panicned with the abandoned and the
lost, one touch of divine grace will save
| your soul.
I do not say that you will not have
struggles after that. Oh, mol But they