Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-09-23


for God. Some people are so narrow
they could lie down ON a crack with
all their clothes on. Sam Jones says
some people are so narrow fly could
sit on the bridge of their nose and
kick them ir one eye and tickle them
in the other.
/ The Love Life
Then shall all men know we are
my disciples when ye nave love one
1 for another DO yoG love this town
so you could stay up half the night
and pray for it2 Gods way is way
/ of love. There are scores Of people
/ in Niles dying for a little bit of love
/ How quickly His spirit will come
when our hearts get fllcd with the
/ spirit of love.
The Prayer Life
Gods way is a way of prayer.
! There is one desire in my heart above
/ everything else THAI is that God will
pour out mighty spirit Of prayer
upon us. Prcachiar viii do some
things, but not everything. Personal
work viii do some .hjugs but not
everything. sineing viii De some
! things but not eve 1"E Bar cau
you tell me anytha rayor Will NJ.
/ do?
When We were Neaau ont B ioWa.
a man arose, ta6e 4 uaUe U8
Eddy, in the audience al said, Il
have been praying twenty years for
this meeting. We prayed you here,
Brother Stephens. We have been pray.
! ing for two years every week wife
and | and dear old Mrs Palmer !
was never in more wicked town in
on friendly terms and they said, oh
yes, they got on VOL together But
! learned afterwarj that when the
Methodists had a revival the Baptists
would go down and look in the win
dows to see how many were there.
Then the Baptists decided to have a
| revival. and the Methodists would go
down and look IN the windows and
see how many the Baptists had. And
they called that getting on we'll to.
gether. They could hardly get enough
people to teach in Sunday school
was about ready to pack up my trunk
and go when old Mrs Palmer Weakened
up and got to praying for the people
next door They we're inhdels and
never went inside of a church. But
the dear ald~ladv prayed them into
the church. Then she began praying
for next door to them, and then for
the people next door to them, and so
on until she had prayed all over that
town. And when she got up off her
knees the sun had risen and she told
me she felt as rested as though she
had been in bed all night,
"And then one night man stood up
in the tabernacle and said, "My life
Is not right and | owe this town an
apology. He dropped on his knees and
began to sob. Then a woman arose
and went across the tabernacle to
another woman and they threw their
arms around each other, and kissed
each other, and cried together
learned afterward that they belonged
to the same church and hadn't talked
with each other for two years. Now
there was just one door to that
church and when they went out
| through that door one woman sud
denly became an astronomer, and the
other woman suddenly became a
| geologist. But now one woman said
I am to blame and the other woman
said, NO, you are not, am to blame,
and | sat down. And do you know
there wasn't an unsaYcd person in
| that tabernacle that didn't come to
the Lord Jesus Christ? Before we
closed the service more than half the
/ people in that town came Christ
simply because one old man and one
old woman prayed Six or seven earnest
Christians wrote down on the boards
the names of a hundred people in
Berrien Springs, and prayed for them
until they gave their hearts to God.
How quickly God will work when You
begin to pray. Wife. is that husband
unsayed? Mother Is that boy breaking
your heart? Yo0 begin 10 pray and
just as sure a. stand here toD'eht
God will hear and wt save him Ju
as He heard my mother prayers for
me and saved ws a woman ON b
knees said, COO VIII newer let Tl
go until my dau ters are saved She
had two daughters They were ia So
ciety She had pushed chem in so
ciety Then she went to the girls and
said, Girls 4 want YOU to forgive me
| | pushed you ONT in society and have
] not prayed before you. But from this
on am going 10 be different woman,
We win have family prayer in our
home. | promised God | am going to
spend the night in prayer for you
girls. The girls left They turned up
their lips and scorned their mother.
At twelve O'Clock, she said, q heard
this woman give this testimony the
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