Milford chronicle., 1904-02-05
The Grace Of God.


n enid such narrowing surrounding
,. VIII not God give you enough grace il
i the darkest hours OF your Christian lif,
. to be a good Christian soldier so thai
. you shall love your fellow church mem
' bers as yourself? l say in the darkest
hours of your life" because I firmly
believe that some so called Christians
; are passing through a religious crisis.
You are now about to decide your
whole eternal destiny You are to de.
eide 1t not by how you profess to love
God. but by how you are willing to
| love your fellow church members. Are
you ready, here and now. as Christian
soldiers to "be kindly affectioned TO one
another, with brotherly love in honor
preferring one snother?" Do not tell
me that it is impossible for you TO live
IN Christian sympathy with those who
belong to your same church family. Bv
the grace Of God it is possible. And il
you are not willing TO let that divine
! love have full control of your life. then
instead of staying in a church and dis
putting and finding fault continually
I
ter for you to leave that church and 20 .
back TO the world and thereby play
the gospel coward, as did the % 600
men who deserted Gideon's standard
at the first opportunity the Hebrew
commander gave them to skulk home.
The church should be a harmoniouslv
organized army. 1t Is not only possible
thereby to hurl a solid front against
the Satanic foe, but also by preponder-
ance of numbers. concentrated in one
move, to make, as the Bible saws. q
little one become a thousand and a
small one strong nation COncentra-
tIoh ID military parlanre means not
only conquest but generally the com
piete mystifcation and disorganization
Of an opposing foe If by sure mathe- e
malical calculation the military chief. 0
tam can drive as battering ram ten a
men against one man on the S
letenSiye. the successful outcome OF the v
'oudict becomes an assured fact.
Power of the Prayer Meeting. II
1t was by the successful coDcentrs. n
Ion OF forces against his enemies and 81
y the lightning rapldity of his move. d.
lents that Napoleon Bonaparte won Ut
us great victories. During all the mil. u
Iary career Of the Little Corsican"
Is armies were outnumbered BY those IN
his opponents. But one day we find ID
le brilliant military genius attacking al
ne wing Of the Austrian army. The HN
ext day we find him attgcl,iaa ~ We
ing OF the Austrian army One dav Dc
is falling upon the defenseless Itai. WI
n nelds by boldly scaling the Aims ua
mother day we see him concentrating Una
artillery fires upon separated part rui
the German army. Napoleon with MS
forces would have been wiDed off lhe
face Of the earth ten wears before ina
met his fate at Waterloo had he ot eu
Apted to battle his enemies in bulk. hlg
beat Austria and Italy and Ger eml
my and Spain by defeating his foes G.
detall-piecemeaL He did it by the ioI'
Ter of military concentration. This Hsh
s the way Frederick the Great car. crlU
1 on his wars of many years. This cau'
s the way Washington and Nathaniel MIN
'ene won their victories. ana il was Iesl
ms way that "StOnewall" Jackson. AeeI
b small force at his back. became suits
terror Of every northern commander not
upon Virginia soil. So. your
friends. as Gideon marshaled his may
e hundred, the church soldiers q
lid be a united band They must WISH
able to hurl all their sDirituaI per'
meth against tho So+a,ia 81 s'i. Ia word
e and at one time ehoui
wv can this great forward move ready
Of a single church against sin be corne
entrated and conserved. Eirst ~ ing. {
The church members every seven
answering church roll at the mid. Las
PRAYER meeting Wednesday oersh
prayer meeting IS even more i'm. monio
mt than the Lords day worsbip in the
by the commingling of PRAYERS age IL
the spiritual forces of a church Bened
ne inaamed with the holy zeal and the Bl
nquering gospel enthusiasm. Ir ia But b
at roll call that the members of gone S
'hurch must give diligent heed and h
church membership at the comm;
eek prayer meeting is of over. all no
hlng Importance l know of what have
'A-s9 10y AAAG nave observed NNNANH \
ways Of two kinds of churches could
one | have seen a mighty COS traitor
inquest going on month in and Brutus
out. Why! The people attend. Infinite
midweek prayer meeting In to do
her kind of church spiritual re. 1t Is
we're never assured. Why? The Presery
10 matter how the pastor beg. Chrlstii
ld pleaded. failed 10 attend tho who ar
ek prayer meeting. A church my fell
fuli prayer meeting means n 10 plac'
ally eonquering church A church any ma
II empty prayer meeting means he be a
tually dead church. Hear IT. We down Fl
Hear IT! The spiritual success realizes
ry church is to be decided bv Never g
r its members will regularly church
le, as did the 6rst church in the put all
chamber Of Jerusalem. to uray 10 get d.
earnestly week by week for and ten
OF the power of the teach n
host. members
lcentrate Church Forces. enephero