Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-09-25

turned MIS- TACO toward London ana
prayed and ti.c:-o came $1,000. He
turned his face toward Dublin and
prayed and there came e1,000. The
breath Of EliJah's prayer blew all tho
clouds Off the sky, and it was dry
weather The breath Of Elijah's prayer
blew all tile clouds together, and it was
wet weather Prayer, i'll Daniels time,
walked the cave as a lion tanner. 1t
reached up and took the sun by its gold
Ell bit and stopped it and the moon by
it's silver bit and stopped it,
We have al yet to try the full power
Of prayer The time will come when
the American church will pray with its
face toward the west, and all the prai-
ries and inland cities will surrender to
God and will pray with face toward the
SCH, aud all the islands and ships will
become Christian Parents who have
hayward scus will get down OH their
knees and say, Lord send my boy
homo, an; the boy in Canton will get
right up tron the gaming table and go
down to find out which ship starts first
for America
Mons Knows How to Pray.
Net one CT US yet knows how to pray
All we have done as yet has only been
pottcring A boy gets hold of his IA
theirs saw and hammer and tries to
make something, but it is Il poor affair
that he makes The father comes and
takes the same saw and hammer and
builds the house or the ship. In the
chilCih ri of our Christian faith we
make i..t poor work with these weapons
of prayer, but when we come to tho
stature of men III Christ Jesus then, I'M
der these implements the temple OF
God will rise and the worlds redemp-
ton will be launched God cares not
for the length of our prayers, or the
number of our prayers, or the beauty OF
our prayers or the place of our prayers,
but it is the faith III them that tells
Believing prayer scars higher than tho
lark ever sang, plunges deeper than div
ing bell ever sank, darts quicker than
lightning ever flashed. Though we have
used only the back of this weapon ID
stead Of the edge, what marvels have
been wrought! If saved we are all tho
captivcs of some earnest prayer. Would
God that, in desire for the rescue Of
souls, we might in prayer lay hold Of
the resources of the Lord Omnipotentl
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 today. Between this
and your place of stopping you may de-
eide the eternal destiny of an immortal
spirit Just one sentence may do the
work, just one question, just one look.
The formal talk that begins with sigh
and ends with canting shuttle is not
what is waited, but the heart throb Of
q man III dead earnest. There is not q
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 u
rock 1000 feet high and 3 miles long,
but the English and Dutch did take it.
Artillery and sappers and miners and
fleets pouring out volleys Of death and
thousands of men reckless of danger can
do anything The stoutest heart of sin,
though it be rock and surrounded by an
ocean of tr;.iisgression, under Christian
bombarClnlent may hoist the flag of re-
demption.
But is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? My
text promises to all the faithful eternal
luster They that turn many to right
eousness shall Lime as the stars forever. "
AS stars the redeemed have borrowed
light. What makes Mars and Venus
and Jupiter so luminous? When the sun
throws down his torch i'll the heavens,
the stars pic, up the scattered brands
and hold them in procession as tho
queen of the night advances So all
Christian workers, standing around the
throne. will shine in the light borrowed
from the Sun of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
in their faces. Jesus in their songs, Je-
sus in their triumph.
To Shine on Forever.
Christ left heaven once for tour of
redemption on Garth, yet the glorified
ones knew he would come back again
But let him abdicate his throne and go
away TO stay forever, the music would
stop, the congregation would dispcrse,
the temples of God be darlened, the
rivers Of life stagnatc, and ever chariot
would become Il hcarse, and every bell
would toll, and there would not be
room Oh the hillsides to bury the dead
Of the great metropolis, for there would
be pestilence in heaven But Jesus lives,
and 50 all the redeemed live With him
He shall recognize them as his comrades
in earthly tot! and remember what they