The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-12

and heard them say: "I have wander
ed far away from God Tut now am
coming home"
have seen men climb on the roof,
take out the windows, rip off the
boards, go to the drygoods stores and
get boxes and put them against the
| tabernacle so they could see in and
hear, and it transformed the whole
part of the country for Jesus Christ.
And how God will bless US if we will
do his will.
went to town in Iowa, and l
saw the preacher there in this audi
preachers together and the Presbyte-
rian said: 81 have women in my
church and not one of their husbands
are there"
And the Methodist and the Baptist
told me the same.
| 1 said, meet in the tabernacle
and we will just pray for those men,
They met in the tabernacle and
every morning we prayed for those
men, some of whom held prominen;
positions in business, and in politics
! And some of these men were prayed
into the kingdom of God by these
women. Prayed by the power of God
Over in Scotland some years age
they had a long, hot dry spell and
everything was whitening, and they
called for fasting and prayer, and
they were going up to church to pray
that God would send rain and one oil
| the elders met little girl tagging 3
umbrella and he said: 'Lassie, where
are you going?"
| She said, 81 am goin' to church tc
pray for God to make the rain and
dinna want to get wet when 1t be
gun to rain" Bless her little heart.
There was Hannah. She had nc
child She didn't believe in Birth
Control and neither do I, or any
other poppy-cock stuff that is going
around nowadays. And Hannar
prayed God and God heard her pray
er and she became the mother of e
baby, Samuel.
] God Fulfilled
Promise to Jacob.
And there was Jacob he prayed
and he reminded God of the prom
ise and he said to him, MAKE my
seed as the sands of the sea-shore,
and God fulfilled his promise.
I And there was Nehemiah. He
prayed and God gave him power anC
he went back with company of PEG
pie and in So days he rebuilt the wall:
of Jerusalem.
Peter was in prison and his pray
err was made without ever seeing the
church of God oh, what a paraly
sis the lack of prayer has made to the
church. If the prayer of the church
of the first century had been as skep
teal as we seem to be today, there
would have been no record of thi:
story.
But they met and prayed and Goo
in response to their prayers shool
the old prison bars open and Pete
walked out and went to his own.
4 Elijah prayed He was a mar
subject to passion and he prayed
that it might not rain and for three
years and six months there was no
a drop of rain or dew fell on thu
earth. Then he prayed and Got
opened the Heavens and poured then
down.
So prayer has power over devils
Prayer has power over Nature, ovei
the troubles of the world and dis
ease Prayer is almost a universe
habit. Great men pray rich mel
pray, poor men pray, bad men pray
good men pray, good women pra>
bad women pray, vrtuous womer
pray, prostitutes pray.
An aetheist in railroad wrecI
said: my God what is this?"
In a moment he forgot that ht
was a professional agnostic and Sc
the instincts of the soul always come
to it. In time of sickness or in tins
of trouble Man is invariably a re
ligious animal" says the old proverb
i don't know whether that is a gooe
definition but l think it is.
/ Daniel prayed with his window
open, turned to Jerusalem three times
day. Martin Luther prayed his wa.
through mountains of difficulties anC
blessed this old world with refor
nation that came in response to his
prayers.
i Washington when the snow was III
to his arm-pits at Valley Forge prayed
for God to give victory to the Cont
nentals and that is why we have oul
Liberty and freedom now.
Lincoln turned the key in the White
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