Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-23

and the ccssttest favors that were ever
given. and though she attended church
and TO religious emotion OF ANY kind /
she thought IL positively vulgar. Wines. /
cards. theatcrS. rounds OF costly gayety 4
were TO her the highest satisfaction One
day = neiShbor sent IN visiting card and |
this lady came down the stairs IN tears.
and told the whole story how she had nos |
slept for several nights. and she feared she |
was going 10 lose her soul. and she won
dered Il some one would not come around
and pr y with her. Prom that time he,
entire Z 'neanor WAS changed, and thcagh
abe WAS ~ called anon TO sacrince s,iy *
her amen ties % life. she consecrated her
beauty he sOcisl position. her family. her
all to God and the church and usefulness.
Everybody said in regard 70 her. Have
YOU noticed the change. and what IA the
world caused itsH And no one could make
satisfactory explanation In the course 81
two wears. though there was no general
awakening in that church. many such $50
lated cases 81 unexpected and CnNc-
ccuntablc conversions took place. The
very people whom no one thought would
Be affected by such considerations were
converted. The pastor and the officers OF
the church were on the lookout for the
solution % this religious phenomenon.
Where i it2' they said. and who i Il.
AID what l. it,"
A. las; the discovery was made and all
vas explainei. \ poor old Christian wo-
man standing In the vestibule % the church
one SUNDAY morning trying 10 Get her
breath R.-afn before She went upstairs %
the gallery. heart the inquiry and told the
secret. For years she had been In The
habit - concentrating all her prayers for
particular persons IN thai church She
would see some man or woman present.
and. though she might not know the per
sons name she would pray for that person
Until he or she was converted % God All
Ter prayers were for that one perSon-lust
/ that one. She waited and waited for com
Il lot
+ for membership stood up whether her pray
/ ers had been effectuRl. Il turned out THAI
I these marvellous instances % conversion
. were the result otthat OLD womaa's pray
f as as sat IN th- gallery sabbath bv sabbath.
Sert and wirenei aud poor aud unpOticei.
. A if.tfa cloud % ronsecratet humanity how
p e-inS IN tue galleries. That WAS the secret
F place Of the thunder. There = some hid
den. unknown, mysterious source Tor A.
most al the moral and religious power de-
. rnoustratet. Not one out OK ten million
PRAYERS ever strikes 2 humas ear. On pub
b lie occasions q munster % religion voices
4 the SuUrlications o. AZ assam hlA-e. but the
ueave-s - all the congregation are In
silence. There Is not a second in a century
when PRAYERS are not ascending. bat NY
RAIDS Of then are not even a loud n \
whisper. for God hears a thought A. plainly
- = vocaliratiou. That silence Of suppl
ca;ion-henisQhertc and perQe:ual-is the
secret place % thunder.
TIE dav will co-ne-Goi hasten it-when
. people Will and ont the velocity. the ma
ieStv. the muitipctence % prayer We bra-'
about our limited express trains which pat
rs down a thousand miles away IN twenty
four hour bat here Is something by which
in \ moment We may confront people 5Vot
miles away. Wehrac about Our telep ones
but here i something that beats the tele
: ,,hone IN utteranee and reply. for God says
/ Before they call. I viii hear" We bras
about the photograph. In which a man cai
speak. and his words and the tones Of IN
voice can be kept FOR aSes. and BY the turn
ing Of q crank the words may come iortl
uuon the ears % another century. ou
PRAYER allows u % speak words iato III
ears % everlasting remembrance aud 81
. the other side % eternEies they VIII D
heard Oh =. Who az wasting your bre3t
2 ant wasfirc vour nerves and wasting YOU
lungs wishing for this good and that goo
b for the church and the world. why DO 80
Z not q into the secret place % thunder
!. sRut DO saws some one. ''that il q heaut
e fui theory. vet Il does not work in my ca.'
forIsm in = cloud % trouble or clou
p Of rerser alton or cloud ~ poverty or
: cloud % perrlexity." How glad / az
? that you told me that. That j. ~ra-tly 81
j. place 70 which NY text refers. II was fro
e q cloud that Col arswerri ISrael-tf
> cloud over the chasu crt through The r.
= Sea-.he cloud rhRr was Light - the Isra
z iIt-- anl darkness l. the Egyptians.
- Wa from a cloud. tremendous cl0U
p that Goa made reply. l. was cloud tn
T. was a secret place q tAgnder. 80 -
y cannot get away from the consolation
- nv text by talking that way. Let all q
j. people under cloud hear it. Il answer
= fhe- 10 the secret place % thlnter-
= This subject help. urc 70 explain so1
. things Won have not understood about ~
! . -aia useful uen and women. Many 81 The
r. have not -uperabuntance of edlcatio
II YOU had their brain in . post I'D ortem e.
- Auin1tion and YOU could weigh u IL Won
no- weigh any heavier than the asera-
L. They have not anything especially inlr'
r sive in personal appearAlce- They are u
-e very fueat % tongue They pretend
as nothing unusual ia mental faculty or
j. ciaI influence. b1t YOU feel thelr pow
T. YOU are elevated ia their presence YOU 2
- = better man or . better woman havl
4 confronted them. You know INA. IN
~ taiie-tual erlOwuent you are their
% rerior while ia the matter % moral a
~ religious influence they ar- vastly Your
DO .erior Why - thiss To nnI the r.
0, iation % this secret Won must g ba
A thirty or forty or perhaps sixty years
-. the homestead where this HAN
- brought 10. IL l. q winter morning, d
e. the sall0w candle D. lighted and
or fires kinJled. sometimes the shawl
r. hardly enough % start the wood.
~ mother l. preparing the breakfast the bl
2y / etg-f dishes are on the table. and the liz
he the kettle on the hearth rarties with
AZ. steam The father j. az the barn feed
yer tie s.ork-the oats throw INTO the nor
re- bin And the cattle cruuchlng the cora