Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-14

/ for God to give victory to the Cont
| nentals and that is why we have our lib
| erty and freedom now.
Lincoln turned the key in the White
| House door and he prayed all night witt
| Bishop Simpson. l prayed down in OceaT
| Grove last summer and two women came
| to me and said: I'VE want to meet you
we are Bishop Simpsons daughters.
Bishop Simpson prayed all night with
Lincoln, asking God to preserve the vic
| tory. of this country
knor-his prayers are heard and fell
in Scotland today and the queen feared
| them more than she did an invading
army.
Stonewan Jackson prayed in every
| thing he, did and he was known to say
| "Oh, God, let this horrible war quickly
come to an end that we may all return
home and engage in the only work thai
is worth while and that is the salvation
| of men,"
George Muller prayed and his prayer:
controlled over eight million dollars. H,
supported thousands of orphan children
| fed. clothed and educated them and new
er asked for a dollar.
| Commodore Vanderbilt, when he lay
dying, said: Send for the gardener; h,
| knows how to pray" So we all wan
SOMEBODY around when we are biddinl
| good to this old world.
These men 1 have named were not
feeble men, the world has crowned them
as great, and they were great men, every
one of them.
! Prayer is the swiftest thing in the
universe, goes from New York to Phila-
delphia; Philadelphia to Pittsburg
Pittsburg to st. Louis. st. Louis tc
| Cincinnati, Chicago, Portland Frisco,
New Orleans, Los Angeles, around the
world, on this wonderful arrow of light
| tipped with fire and the flame of love
and winged with faith. II goes around
the world to bring men and women tc
salvation, and to Jesus Christ.
IL know not where his islands lift their
| tufted palms in air,
But this l know, 1 cannot drift beyond
His love and care"
God will answer prayer heard DR.
Read tell how when they were sur
rounded by the Boxer troops, assisted
| by the imperial troops in the great
Chinese rebellion, they gathered the
! Christian young men and women &c
pray. And the Chinese waited until the
wind would blow and carry the flames
| over the house in which the British
| were, which was saturated with oil
| They waited to see the fire and the
| flames shoot up and the smoke begin
to curl over, and they called those Cody
men and women, and they fell on their
knees and they said:
"Oh, God, we are helpless, we pray"
and while they prayed the wind came
up from the sea and it started to rain.
and it rained, and rained. and rained,
and rained without ceasing for nearly
three weeks. until everything was soaked
and saturated. The lowlands were COW
cred and the rivers leaped their banks
The armies were debating whether
they would start, when one evening the
general of the United States army said
Tomorrow morning the gentlemen start
for Pekin." so they forded the stream
and on they went. Nothing but the an
swer of God to their prayers.
In the th.rty-seven years of war be-
tween Spain and the Dutch they sur
rounded the city of Leyden. The people
there were starving and seven or eight
Dutch ships came up loaded to the
waters edge with provisions. But 1t
was several miles from where they could
come, over to the city, and they offered
Prince William of Orange a fabulous
sum if he would surrender They could
not buy him. Although they offered
TO put him in line to the Spanish throne.
he would not yield
And then what happened? They
prayed, and God blew the winds and He
picked up the North sea in the winds,
and hurricanes blew until the waters
rolled over every barrier, eighteen feet
deep over the lowlands.
They drove the Spaniards that were
encamped out of the lowlands and they
fled for their lives. The Dutch ships
came up against the walls and the peo-
pie came up and took the provisions
off and carried them from the hold and
stored them in the fort, and then the
wind shifted and blew back the waters
of the North sea and the North sea
has never crossed that boundary from
that day to this.
That was Gods answer to their pray
ers. Had it not been for Gods answer
the red rag of Spain would be flying
over Holland today.
/ preached in Minnesota years and
years ago, and the grasshOppers inva-
ded the state, and they became so dense
and so thick thatthe sun was yelled
for hours. And the people were starv-
ing for all the green things were being
eaten. They ate the vegetation out of