The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02


the sky, as the vessel plows on toward
1t. There Is a ightiness in prayer.
George Muller prayed company OF
poor boys together, and then he prayed
up an asylum in which they might be
sheltered. He turned his face toward
Edinburgh and prayed. and there came
a1, 900. He turned his face toward
London and prayed, and there came
81. 900. He turned his face toward
Dublin and prayed. and there came
fl. 900. The breath of Elijah's prayer
blew all the clouds off the sky, and 1t
was dry weather. The breath of Eli
jah's prayer blew all the clouds to-
gether and it was wet weather.
Prayer, in Daniels time, walked the
cave as q lion-tamer. 1t reached up
and took the sun by its golden bit. and
stopped it, and the moon by its silver
bit, and stopped it.
We have all yet to try the full pow
or of prayer. The time will como
when the American church will pray
with its face toward the west and all
the prairies and inland cities will sur
render to God; and will pray with face
toward the sea, and all:the islands and
and ships will become Christian. Parents
who have maynard sons will get down
on their knees and say, Lord, send
my boy home," and the bow in Canton
shall get right up from the gaming
table and go down to find out which
ship starts first for America
Not one of us yet knows how to pray.
All we have done as yet has only been
pottering. A boy gets hold of his
fathers saw and hammer, and tries to
make something, but it is poor af-
fair he makes. The father comes and
takes the same saw and hammer and
builds the house or the ship. In the
childhood of our Christian faith we
make but poor work with these weap-
ons of prayer, but when we come to
the stature Of men in Christ Jesus,
then, under these implements, the
temple of God will rise, and the
worlds redemption will be launched.
God cares not for the length
of our prayers, or the num-
Der of our prayers, or the beauty OF
our prayers, but it is the faith in them
that tells. Believing prayers scars
higher than the lark ever sang;
plunges deeper than diving bell ever
sank: darts quicker than lightning ever
flashed. Though we have used only
the back of this weapon instead of the
edge, what marvels have been wrought.
If saved, we are all the captives of
some earnest prayer. Would God that,
in desire for the rescue of souls, we
might in prayer lay hold of the re-
sources of the Lord omnipotent!
We may turn many to righteousness
by Christian admonition. Do not wait
until you can make formal speech.
Address the one next to you. You
will not go home alone to-day. Be-
tween this and your place of stopping
you may decide the eternal destiny of
an immortal spirit just one sentence
may do the work. Just one question.
begins with sigh and ends with
canting shuttle, is not what is
wanted, but the heart throb of a
man in dead earnest. There is not
soul on earth that you may not bring
to God If you rightly go at it. They
said Gibraltar could not be taken. 1t
is rock LOGO feet high and three
miles long. But the English and
Dutch did take it. Artillery, and sap
pers and miners, and fleets pouring
out volleys of death, and thousands of
men reckless of danger can do any
thing. The stoutest heart of sin,
though it be rock and surrounded by
an ocean of transgression, under Chris
tian bombardment may hoist the flag
of redemption.
But is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? My
text promises to all the faithful eternal
luster. They that turned many to
righteousness shall shine as the stars
forever" AS stars the redeemed have
a borrowed Light What makes Mars
and Venus and Jupiter SO luminous?
When the sun throws down his torch
| in the heavens, the stars pick up the
scatter ed brands, and hold them in
procession as the queen of the night
advances; SO all Christian workers.
standing around the throne, will shine
in the light borrowed from the sun OF
ACCOMMODATIONS in their faces
Jesus in their songs, Jesus in their tri
umph.
Christ left Heaven once for tour o.
redemption on earth, yet the glorifiet
ones knew He would come oack again
But let Him abdicate His throne. aut
go away to stay forever, the musi,
would stop, the congregation woult
dispense, the temples of God be dark
ened, the rivers of life stagnate; ant
every chariot would become a hearse
and every bell would toll. and Their,
would not be room on the hiIlsides t.
bury the dead Of the great metropolis
for there would be pestilence il
Heaven. But Jesus lives, and s.
all the redeemed live with Him
He shall recognize them as His com
rades in earthly toll, and remember
| what they did for the honor of Hi
} name, and for the spread Of His king
} dom. All their prayers and tears an,
work will rise before Him as He look
into their faces, and He will divide Hi
kingdom with them; His peace; Hi