Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-12
You Must Haze Faith in Your
Prayers to Have Them Answered


ing to me through your prejudices. and
/ which Of you are listening because you
want to get nearer to God. / am stu
| dent ofefaces, / know them like a jeweler
knows the faces OF watches
/ Why. | can look into your faces and
tell what sort OF lives you live II you
are devoting your time and thoughts 70
/ society. your countenance will show H. N
you pray. can see that.
Religion shown IN Coantennnce.
| Two famous men walked the streets OF
London one day. One was william Pen.
nyfather, the great phlanthropist and de-
Vout Christian OF England, and the other
was Radcliffe, the famous infidel and At
| torney. Pennyfather said 70 Radcliffe
J that religion could he seen I'm n mans
face and Radcliffe jeered the idea. pen
nyfather was too modest 20 offer himself
as an example, but Just then a poor mem
, dicant, a street beggar, approached ma
Radcliffe said: wen try Il on that fell
low" As the mendicant reached them
he looked into the hard face OF the I'm.
fidel lawyer, heavily lined with his work
over cases and with his sneers at religion.
and turned away. Then he looked into the
mild and gentle face OF Pennyfather. and
IN your face, please give me penny
hadcllffe was staggered. There must lie
something In that" he muttered as no
walked away. That man didn't know
either OF US. and he didn't know what we
had been talking about"
We haven't had r. genuine revival since
] Io''' Ihere have been REVEALS In differ
'ht o'ties' hut we haven't had a sweeping
IcFlNai throughout the country since that
In l5i-s-9. That revival started IN the
( you Methodistsi The Lord help youl You
are trying TO ape other society churches
and have lost your religion. The Pros
byterians have taken your Amen" And
God doesn't seem TO be able to get 10 the
poeketbooks OF you people When you
Methodists and Presbyterians are bap-
uSed they put the water on your head.
ana the water doesn't get to your pocket
DOCKS. When you Baptists are biptized
you change your brooches, so your
pocketbooks arc not baptized. I don't
know where you women keen your
purses know where Nell keeps hers
prolonged laughter).
BiwEest Revival started ny Three.
That revival started with three men on
their knees In New York. II spread 10
Boston and Chicago and Cincinnati and
Pittsburgh and 81. Louis and San Fran
cisco, and II jumped the ocean TO Europe
and Australia and Millions were con-
verted. We have had little revivals-locai
revivals-since then, but not a religious
landslide.
l don't care whether you read your
prayers out OF q book or whether YOU
lust say them, 30 long as you mean
them. A man can read his prayers and
20 TO heaven, or he may just say his
prayers and go to hell. We've got to
face conditions When read find
that all the sanity men who have done
things from Pentecost until today have
known how TO pray.
Some pray. '"rhy will be done" then
so out and do something to block Gods
will and keep His kingdom from coming.
Matthew says, But when thou pray
eat. enter into thy closet. and when thou
hast shut thy door. pray TO thy Father.
which Ia in secret. and thy Father which
seeth in secret shall reward thee openly"
All Must Have n secret Religion.
They say that the roots OF tho trees
reach out for many yards around--the
secret source of their outward strength.
IL you have no secret religion you'll have
no public religion
AT the Chicago Young Mems Christian
association used to have TO get minis
tiers for the noon meetings. and got to
know DR.. Armstrong. One day he told
ms OF q call he had Tnade TO collect for
mission work. when he rang at the door
II was opened by little girl. Ho asked
for her mother and she asked, Are
you sick9" He said that he wasn't, and
she asked Are you hurt2" Again he
said no. Then she asked II he knew OF
3 81 trtt
no, she said. "Then you can't see
mamma. for she prays from to 10
o'clock" Then. he said, he knew why
that home was so bright; knew why her
two sons were In the theological semi
nary and her Girl was q missionary. All
he'll can't tear a boy or girl away from
mother like that.
A friend told me OF meetings In which.
when people were asked to name per-
sons for whom they wished prayers
made. an old lady always jumped up
and asked prayers for John" She was
asked why she always was 80 anxious
about him. and she said that all of the
other members OF her family were
saved. and that from the time she first
took John in her arms and kissed him
she had prayed every day that he might
be saved. too. She said she was sure
that God would save him some day. She
was rewarded when John Morrow. cir
cult court judge. came down the aisle
and accepted Jesus Christ as his personal
1 Savior. Go homo and pray for your
husband or wives. or sons or daughters.
and we shall have a great revival.
Say. pray In secret, wives, that your
husbands win hit the trail.
Say. pray In secret, husbands, that
your wives will hit the trail.
Why. do you know that II you both
pray In secret for one another, you are
both likely TO meet here face TO face and
so TO Jesus togetherf