River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-10-26

lluue the quest ny CftllLAIS ~ thS Ho"''~
of your friend, but even when you
reach the door you do not possess the
gift Then you knock and are ad-
mitted and receive the reward of per-
severing prayer. You asked, sought.
knocked and obtained. In modern
terms you prayed through This
does not exclude eiaculatory prayer
such as that of Nehemiah who in an
emergency, lifted his heart to God
with earnest desire. The two go to-
gether as will be clearly seen by
comparison of Nehemiah / :5-11 with
Nehemiah "a
For faithful perseverlng prayer
there is personal and pressing need.
A recent writer says: There Is an
awakening in knowledge and general
interest among The people but there is
no corresponding awakening to COO
and His claims The cry among the
spiritual of all lands is for rain. They
recognize the drought. There may be
a divergence of view as to the cause
or causes, but there is agreement as
TO the fact of great need. Many
churches are held together by custom
or responsibility. The stream OF d.
vine life and joy is not courslng
through our congregations"
This need is not the supreme ilcen-
tive to perseyering prayer; there is
stronger incentive than this, namely,
that our Lord wants us to pray. This
fact constitutes a call to prayer. Con-
slider this until you feel its drawing
power. Jesus Christ, the Captain OF
our salvation, looking over the field
Of battle, seeing the spiritual forces
that oppose, and knowing, as He
alone can know, the value of inter-
cession, bids rs pray perseveringly.
ASK and We shall receive, seek and
we shall find knock and 1T shall be
opened unto you" We may not have
vivid sense of the worlds need. We
may not know the philosophy of
prayer or the process by which forces
are set in operation in answer TO
prayer, but this much we may know
and believe-He wants us TO pray.
Not in feeling, or moods, or DISPOSE
tions must we find the impulse to
pray, but in the counsel and call of
the great Commander who says: ASK
and we shall receive, seek and We
shall find, knock and it shall be
opened unto YOU"
The chief hindrance TO prayer is
unbelief. OF us, as of Israel, it may
be said "They could not enter in be-
cause of dstrust" The simplicity of
prayer confounds the worldy-wise,
and as another has said: Because it
offers or seems to offer way out of
difficulties which appears to be too
easy, we are apt to discount IT'S
operations and TO regard it as mainly
q theoretical proposition. But let the
-skeptic sneer and the worldly-wise
scott and the doubter doubt or deny
the power of prayer, the child of
God must know on the authority or
His Lord that he is called TO a life of
persevering prayer. Christ, who is the
Wisdom of God and the Power of
God has said: ASK and We shall re-
ceive, seek and We shall find knock
and 1t shall be opened unto YOU"
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wrote the following words concerning
prayer: 1.-THE honor to which God
calls us as intercessors is simply in
conceivable. All Heaven is waiting
for the prayers of His church to bring
down the blessings that are stored up
there for us, and that God is longing
to bestOw. If ministers and Chris
- 1toxn
that God has actually made the COM
ing of His kingdom and the pouring
down of blessing dependent on our
faithfulness in prayer, they surely
would begin to feel that prayer is, in
very dced, the highest expression of
our allegiance to God, and the chief
power that we can exercise in bring
ing Christ's salvation to men,"
There is an eye that never sleeps
Beneath the wing of night;
There is en- ear that never shuts,
When sink the beams of light
There is an arm that never tires,
When human strength gives way;
There is a love that never fails,
When earthly loves decay.
That eye is fixed on seraph throngs;
That ear is filled with angels songs;
That arm upholds the world on high;
That love is throned beyond the sky.
But there's a power which men can WELD
WELD
When mortal aid is vain.
That eye, that arm. that love to reach.
That listening ear to gain;
That power is prayer, which scars on
high,
On the Adjoining Of Women.
Whose adjoining let it not be that