The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
 DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
BY THE TALmAGE, D.

DEWITT TALmAGE, ID. D.
 some of those rooms the men and the women who were starving would not touch his food because their neighbors were worse off than they. Tt ain't that I'm above being helped" said one gaunt, haggared man, "but I've got enough ahead to keep me and mine In bread for one l then I'll take help and thank you. But there's worse off than we are now, and 1 they must be helped first" At last tho l young man returned to the landlady who l had directed him among the starving and | bluntly said, When did you eat any thing last2' "Oh, had something to eat day before yesterday. You know they cannot pay their rents now, and nave 1 to keep them' But you never asked me for bread. Why not?" Because" said the grave woman T know of some 1 of them upstairs who have not had morsel of food for three days, and want ed you to help them first" Wherever that young man went during that London dock strike he found starving men and women, ] thinking not so much for themselves as for others. Thus may we breathe forth our prayers, May we pray for others. Many we plead for others. Like Paul, may we be able to say, 70 God, for thy honor and glory may live and may 1 die." Let us fill the six water pots to | the Drim when we lift up our petitions to | God
 Amplify Your Prayer.
 Amplifying your prayers. Make them | big enough to take in the necessities of | the whole human race. But do more than { that. After you have prayed thus go | forth with the confidence that God will answer your prayers upon big scale. | The trouble with great many of us is that we pray big and then plan small. We lay out our designs for St Peters or a Milan or 8 Seville cathedral. Then we materialize our designs into mortar and brick by building a little meeting | house or village church or roof1ess barn or hencoop.
 One of the small cities of England l wished to build large cathedral. The ,itizens came to a famous London archi- | tect and asked him to design one which would cost $1000,O00 After the elaborate | design had been completed the commit | tee came back and asked the architect if he would cut down his design and build instead a church worth S75000. With that | tho sarcastic architect said, Gentlemen, cannot you make it 90 shillings more so we can throw in fine spire?' Thus some of us in our prayers have been petition l ing God for a St. Peters cathedral We have laid out our prayers upon the most l elaborate scale. We have asked for the
 
 ed for the emancipation of the human race from the tyranny of sin. We have | asked for everything we ought to have asked for. But when 1t comes to filling | up the water pots to the brim we say: What is the use? If we can get God to answer our prayers thimbleful. that Is all we have a right to expect" We ask for a fine cathedral: then we are satisfied to plan for a village meeting Or nj friends you have no right to ask God for big things unless you at the same time go forward in triumphant faith, planning to work out your prayers, expecting God to answer your petitions In due time He Got the Funds.
 'grhe great trouble with some people," said famous speaker I once heard. 'ls this: They ask God for certain bless ing; they declare that they make their pe- titions in good faith; then after they arise from their knees they never expect Gfod to answer their prayers. Now, w'Ien 1 was in the army l ran of money. l had to have 0 certain amount to meet necessity expenses. So I wrote home to my father and told him my needs. I told him what I wanted. I knew he would send me that money because what wanted was right to have, and my father was financially able to meet my wants. So l wrote to my father to send my money to certain postoffice, as I expected to be there in about three weeks Upon the faith which I had in my father l went ahead and supplied my necessities and when I arrived at the postoffce I got my money as I expected. Now, that Is the way we should honor God. We should be- lieve in him We should ask big things of him. And then we should go forth In simple faith. expecting that he will an- swer our prayers" No man ever spoke truer words than these.
 The more I pondered upon this part of my subject the more l remembered that the greatest workers for Jesus Christ have been men who had no financial capl- tai save their faith. They lived in one sense up to the last cent Of their income. They prayed for big things and then hay ing deliberately and calmly made up their minds that God wanted them to un- dertake big things, they went ahead and built their hospitals and started their re- formatory movements, and their money came when 1t was needed. as the mama of the wilderness came day by day to