The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-24

village ana reach the seaport III VlIne u
gain the ship that sails on the morrow,
but mothers prayer will be on the
deck to meet him, and in the hammock
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 plows ON toward it, There is
mightiness in prayer. George Muller
prayed a company of poor boys to-
Tather, and then he prayed up an asy-
ium in which they might be sheltered
He turned his face toward Edinburgh
lad prayed and there came Ell, 00O He
turned his face toward London and
prayed and there came Ell, 900. He
turned his face toward Dublin and
prayed and there came $1,000. The
breath of Elijah's prayer blew all the
clouds off the sky, and it was dry
weather. The breath of Elijah's prayer
blew all the clouds together, and 1t was
wet weather Prayer, in Daniels time,
walked the cave as lion tanner. 1t
reached up and took the sun by its gold
en- bit and stopped it and the moon by
it's silver bit ahd stopped it.
We have all 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-
RIGS 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
wayward sors 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 q 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
ever flashed. Though we have
used only the back of this weapon in
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 Omnip0tentl
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 a sigh
and ends with q canting shuttle is not |
what is wanted, but the heart throb of |
a man i'll dead earnest There is not a |
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 a
rock l, 900 feet high and 3 miles long
out the English and Dutch did take it.
Artillery and sappers and miners and
1eets pouring out volleys of death and
thousands of men reckless of danger can
10 anything. The stoutest heart of sin,
hough it be rock and surrounded by an
ocean of transgression, under Christian
may hoist the flag of re-
lemption.
But is all this admonition and prayer
md Christian work for nothing? My
ext promises to all the faithful eternal
ulster. They that turn many to right
shall shine as the stars forever"
As stars the redeemed have borrowed
light. What makes Mars and Venus
md Jupiter so luminous? When the sun
hrOws down his torch in the heavens,
he stars pick up the scattered brands
nd hold them in procession as the
queen of the night advances. So all
christian workers, standing around the
hrone, will shine in the light borrowed
rom the Sun of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
II their faces, Jesus i'll their songs, Je-
US i'll their triumph
To Shine on Forever.
Christ left heaven once for tour of
exemption on earth, yet the glorified
mes knew he would come back again.
But let him abdicate his throne and go
way to stay forever, the music would
top, the congregation would disperse,
he temples of God be darkened, the
ivers Of life stagnate, and ever chariot
would become a hearse, and every bell
would toll, and there would not be
DOM on the hillsides to bury the dead
# the great metropolis, for there would
Ne pestilence in heaven. But Jesus lives,
nd so all the redeemed live with him.
lie shall recognize them as his comrades
Il earthly toll and remember what they
lid for the honor of his name and for
he spread of his kingdom. All their
prayers and tears and work will rise be-
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