The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-09
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BY MARGARET BoTroME.


/ pray. without thinking how old
fashioned they sound. The min.
lister says the words; the people
who lead in prayer say them, ana
they always sound to me like the
benediction. The minister says,
"Receive the beuediction How
many receive ity Did you ever
take time to think how wonderful
the benediction is? 'The grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, aud fellowship of the
Holy Ghost, be with us all ever
more. Amen" How many say
"Amen" with their hearts and go
away thinking they have received
the benediction?
So tits with prayer. How many
really pray? Mind, l do not say
how many say their prayers, but
how many really pray? And yet
we do pray-to some one-for ev-
cry earnest wish felt or express
ed is a prayer, but l am talking
of praying to the One that says He
is our Father-and really to pray
is TO ask How to do what we be-
lieve He has the power to do and
the love to do. If we do not feel
this we do not pray. Prayer to
the majority Of people who say
they believe in prayer, is, l am
afraid, quite unsatisfactory.
PEOPLE ARE TOO BUSY TO PRAY
NOWADAYS.
Now this subject Of prayer has
an old-fashioned sound, and some
of us perhaps think of our moth
ers and fathers, and maybe Of a
family altar and family prayers
but that was in the long ago-and
there has been no family altar
probably in our house. Men and
women of these days are, as a
class, too busy to pray. The
men have their business to attend
to, the women their business
and some day the business will
all be over, and to me looks as if
then they would be out of bust
ness-for if they did not lead lives
of prayer they did not get hold Of
eternal realities-for they come
through prayer. AS | heard
Canon Gore, when on a visit to
this country, say, "The awfulness
of death is that it does not change
anything" Now let us act like
sensible men and women, and
just stop and think: What am 1
going to do in the next world?
For there is a next world. There
is always something next. Now,
of course, another will take my
business when l go; another will
take charge of my children, of my
house; all that | leave Of material
value will be used by others-but
what will happen to me? What
will l have of interest when my
physical life is over and [ am re-
moved entirely from my sur
roundings?
ALL GOOD THINGS COME THROUGH
PRAYER.
l have recently been reading a
book--a modern book-aud as it
was written by one who perhaps
would not call herself evangelical,
it was the more remarkable. She
said the evangelical belief regard
ingman' sneed ofredemptionrests
on the most absolute foundation
of truth; "The Divine germ in
man must relate itself to God, the
Divine Power; as the wire must
receive the electric current in
order TO transmit the message, so
man made in the image Of the
Divine, with the germ of infinite
power in himself, must place him
selfarightin heuniverse, through
the potency Of prayer. Once in
the current of Divine aspiration
and inspiration everything be-
comes possible. The resources
of all the universe open and en-
treat one to enter. The life that
now is, and that which is to come
are as intimate as the life of
childhood, and youth, and Of
manhood. Man does not go to-
Heaven, but he creates his own
Heaven, and enjoys the happiness
and harmony associated with the
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