Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-04-06
PRAYERS WITH GOOD WORKS.
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Two conditions are necessary TO
physical health and crowth-rpposa
and exercise. Some men wear out:
others rnst out. y man has no right TO
DO either. The old wagon that hasn't
| turned wheel in year is as unfit
Tor service rs the one that has been
run a year without ell For the Chris
tiaS prayer is the oil and good works
the exercise, ana both are necessary
for strength and service.
We use the word wait with so
many meanings that it is necessary to
define II here. Does it mean wait as
Il servant waits upon the table? IA a
handmade waits upon her mistress?
There is no suggestion of service in
the word here translated wait" Does
it mean to wait as a committee of citi-
Zens waits upon the Mayor. as a COM
mittee Of employees waits upon the en-
| ployer? The word as thus defined
fails to convey the meaning of the
text. Does it mean TO wait as a lover
waits" upon his lady? Such defini-
ton is entirely inadequate to express
iAe Thought OF tne prophet.
Does it mean to wait as on2 waits
for a belated train? If you have had
the experience of waiting to meet
friends at our Union Station within
the last few months, you have doubt
less discovered that such waiting" is
not conducive to spiritual or moral up
lift. This cannot be the meaning of
the word. for God is never behind time.
We are never under obligation to wait
for the Lord in that sense. The word
has in it the thought of earnestly ex-
pccting. of hoping for the Lord.
Many man has made shipwreck of
his life by neglecting the rest. the
waiting, the hoping for the Lord. the
renewing of his strength. by the proper
observance of the hour of prayer.
TO renew" ones strength. or. liter
ally, TO change ones strength, has I'm
If the suggestion of resisting an attack.
When the enemy is Attacking and finds
the position of the defender too strong
for him he changes his mode of attack.
The Christian prepared by prayer, has
changed his strength to the point of
attack. and is the better able to resist
temptation.
The prophet enlarges upon the
thought in the figure of the eagle
mounting aloft in strength and beauty.
What II vision il the eagles vision.
Higher and higher lie mounts; far
above the earth; the mountaias he
come but molehills to his vision. the
tall trees and the verdart meadow
grass are one to him in height.
The child from the tenement of the
broad expanse of Natures verdure in
the country. is thrilled with JOY. What
OF the soul that mounts upon eagles
wings and Eeholds fer The first time
that there is something beyond his own
narrow home something beyond his
own little selfish aims. something be
yond his own little ideas Of God. some
thing beyond the narrow walls of
worldliness within which he has spent
his life? As he mounts upward upon
the God-giyen wings Of faith and love
he sees more and more a realization
OF his hope What he regarded as
mountains of Insult are seen to be but
molehills of forgetfulness; what seem
ed to him deep ravines of injury hardly
appear mt all from his lofty position.
The very winds of yeXation and oppo-
sition and hardship become aids for
his higher fight and bring him nearer
to his God.
Would to God we all might get out
of the VI; ley of formal service and up.
up. into the clearer light of Gods re-
deeming love.
They that wait upon the Lord in
prayer shall mount up on wings and
get a grander view of both the plans