Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-20


before he swings into it, and at the cap
stan before he winds the rope around,
and on the sea, against the sky, as the
vessel pl0vs On toward it. There is a
rnightiness in prayer George Muller
prayed a company of poor boys to-
gether, and then he prayed up an asy-
1uen III which they might be sheltered.
He turned his face toward Edinburgh
and prayed and there came 81, 900 He
turned his face toward London and
prayed and there came $1,000. He
turned his face toward Dublin and
prayed and there came $1,000. The
breath Of Elijah's prayer blew ali the
clouds OF the sky, and it was dry
weather The breath Of Elijah's prayer
blew all the clouds together, and it was
wet weather. Prayer, in 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 stepped it.
We have all yet to try the full power
IF PRAYER The time will come when
the American church will pray with its
face toward the west and all the prai
rils and inland cities will surrender to
God and will pray with face toward the
sea, and all the islands and ships will
become Christian. Parents who have
hayward sons will get down on their
knees and say, Lord, send my boy
home, " and the boy in Canton will get
right up from the gaming table and go
down to find out which ship starts first
for America
None Knows How to Pray.
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 Ia
theirs saw and hammer and tries to
make something but it is {. poor affair
that 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 weapons
Of prayer, but when we come to the
stature of men in 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 in them that tells.
Believing prayer scars higher than the
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 the
captives 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 Omnipotent!
We may turn many to righteousness
by Christian admonition. Do not wait
until you can make a formal speech.
Address the one next to you. You will
not so 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 wanted, but the heart throb Of
3 man in 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. It is
rock l 800 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 transgression, under Christian
commandment may hoist the flag of re-
de,nption.
But is all this adnonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? Ny
text promises to all the faithful eternal
lJster. ''They that turn many to right
eousness shall shineas the stars forever. -
As stars the redeemed have a borrowed
light. What makes Mars and Venus
and Jupiter so luminous? When the sub
throws down his torch in the heavens,
the stars pick up the scattered brands
and hold them in procession as the
queen Of the night advances. So all
Christian workers. standing around the
throne, viii shine in the light borrowed
from the Sun Of Righteousness-Jesu s
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 earth, yet the glorifed
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 disperse,
the temples Of God be darlzened, the
rivers of life stagnate, and ever chariot
would become hearse, and every bell
would toll, and there would not be
room on the hillsides to bury the dead
Of the great metropolis, for there would
be DeStilence in heaven But Jesus lives
and so all the redeemed live with him.
He shall recognize them as his comrades
in earthly toll and remember what they
did for the honor of his name and for
the spread of his kingdom. All their