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While
ignorant
he learner
snggkaitiye, little
tire
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CARET.
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low he
tied to preach,
cached to cratch
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it to
in' dependence on
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to
caught
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Christ,
vat ton,
Happily, he had something better
than tho dmrch to preach to these
awakened sinners, and was animated
with a higher idea than simply catch
ing them for the church. As before,
he had tuaguiffed and exalted the
church. He now rejoiced to magnify
the Saviour and exalt Him. No
longer preaching in reference to a
visible organisation, ‘\Lo, the King
doms / be began to preach “Heboid
tins Lamb of God,” aud to cry before
Christ as tjicy cried before Joseph
in Egypt,. “Bow the knee.” The
consequence was that lie who afore
time had toiled all (the night of
nature ami taken nothing, now in
tliia morning light of grace was
blessed with abundant success.
Here wo come upon our main point
bow to secure this success. The
answer is that to catch men fur
Christ, a threefold process is nec
essary. It is not enough to launch
out into the deep, or to venture on
God—to lay hold on God, by faith,
ami in addition to let down the net,
or, by means of preaching adapted
to convict and awaken, to shut up
men to Christ as their oaly hope;
but “last, not least/ says Mr. fias-
Uiu, “w« should draw t* our ueteJ*
now suggestive] It is to be ex
pected that preaching adapted to
impress, certainly will impress in
some degree; and from such preach
ing, he says, t*we may be sure very
many go away enlightened, thought-
Ail, serious; but if these impressions
are not nourished by some subse
quent and appropriate means, they
will not, generally tqieakittg, ripen to
the good result we desire.”
llow true is this! How obvious
that after the letting down, there
| needs to be a sultscqiieut and ]>er-
1 lisps, very diftienlt .process of draw ing
i in; and just at this point, a little
I of what Mr.
vrruirci!-
m
rfeasE=sSSsr-5
laying hold of the net delicately, Ih
the exquisite, khl glove stylo, instead
of feeling the love of souls as a
“passion,” giving one’s self np jto
it ill glorious self-abandonment, and
putting forth the IWe, boM, jaffe
longed effort demanded by cimifit-
stanees for brhigbig the convicted
and inquiring to JHms!
There is reason to believe tiret
many souls have been lost beoansC,
owing to the fear of being reproach#*!
as Metlredtotieal and fanatical, or Oh
favoring “new measures,” golden
opportunities have not been Wisely
improved. No doubt a great deal
of machinery, very objectionable, mid
worse than worthless, has lieen em
ployed in revivals; bat while re
“prove nil thing*/ lei us “hold fait
that which is good/ ami not cant
away the good with the bad.
A word now, in conclusion, abofit
the “aaxioas seat,’! as a thiag which
may be very *»*mire*ble, in a time
of revival, in the work of “drawing
in,* though, of ('curse, not essential.
It may be safely assumed that there
is much to be said in favor of what
has been so widely ami peroiat.-ntlv
used. Whenever g revival is in pro
gress it is ieK that merely casting
the met is- but a Small port of the
work to km done. There is a gt-maud
that preaching should be firikMfl
immediately by an earnest, direct
effort to bring the awakened to n
decision ; aud it Is felt that without
this effort, there is great dani
that what has been gained
way of impression will be tost.
Well, what further shall be done ?
As tliere is need of some sort of
nuieliinery, what shall it be t Khali
the anxious be asked to rise 7 T)hr
objection to this ii that it require*
a hard effort, besides exposing them
to tlie gaze of the rongregatioa.
which long ex 1
to be, wkeu rightly used, good and
tuiol^ertionuble, and which should
be no longer desptotrf, nor classed
with things which have brought
reproach on revivals,—The Interior.
Tbs Spirit s
Mgfe
hil-
the
— — r .-*h by [.putting. .. . _
away *Ut. alf'uUiraiS ’"V *• T «*
hcl|«.” "fThua atrimaal, £ Went I:®** “P** 1 * ** *
Ilia iaUlrit, Staclual kuow buw to O" 1 *”
.i,.... after they ure once enclosed in his
The'! ,wt A,ui ,,OWTor >' im|H>rtaiit that
rowded i a ,n ‘“‘ 8tvr should know liow to follow
up amf take advantage of impres
sions made by the preaching-of the
gospel! How plainly n great deal
depends ou tliis!
- v ?' j • V "'r-w-ik*- * tt / .
There arc doubtless many who
are effective as preachers, hut who
accomplish comparatively little, be
cause they stop short with casting
the net, aud peiliajis seldom, or
he]{»s.
(waying
God, a
rwardi
result waS iiKipalarity and a
house. II# was regarded a
successful! minister. But
found th:t; something mo
effective b: :teuiiK>rA : pre«Chit|g dra w-
iug crowd*, aud Uinkii)? so easy a
matter of pew rimts and all exter
nals is accessary to secure the spirit
ual welfare of Qu a aud the title pros
perity of a cougregatiou. 'People
Wight calls “revival Shall they, then, be requested h»
serviceable. ( remain in their sejats lor “an afjqr
fishenuan that meeting T
(that it aeuds away
est of the evening
P«'t*Liii[w a majunty
cction to thisi is
before the iutef
has culmiti.it
who would
a very
,0 soon
than
with attention, gdoiired j “‘‘ver, make any effort U> drow it in;
’ hennl him
-|iud praistxl him, bnt “remiitted in
*tbeir wocilliness and nngodliness.”
“Toiling liaixl he caught nothing,”
and had ihc sense 'of some great
want { .'. j.
- “Dissatisfied wifh empty
ity and fruitless tcrfl/ he
l*gan to ;ry
»e be
He
the thing
Chnrcli/*
eateh men
men wen
lotting of
take on :
thing c
to try
about p
the Cbnreb, and thus Nbej
€hurc
this sort of preaching to
form of godtin#«8, and
apparently indifferent in reganl to
results; indolently leaxHug results fo
God! Imagine a fisherman who
should think of nothing but casting
bis net, and leave it t« God to do
the rest; expecting success as possi
ble without any . further effort or
care on hi4 part. Groundless ex-
ly remniu ami be;heucfitUHl by
maiuiug.
Tlie following ist believed to be a
more cutcdkmt w*y and the best
ever defised : Tlie sermon or exhor
tat ion ended, a hymn is given out,
e. g., “Come to J#miml* The w hole
cougrcpition rise ami sing ; the anx-
ti> come forward
and if i-hri*tiaua
i|npcuiteut frietMls
“eoiuu,” ujhI go
ions arc requested
* during the singitig
seek out their
aud say to them,
opular-
ys: u t
, ^.ud
as “the
hiugf Have we not in this an cxplaua
poet at ions
'
mg to
Aud
ght by;
forward with them, what is there
wrong or unworthy in thatl As
all uiv standing, couiplinnoc witii
the invitation is easy.
The singing iirocwds, and the
solemnity increases. Borne feel that
the time luu* coim> for them to set
with reference th nalvution. One
yields, then anot)ier, aud another;
ini
to say boas ti ugly, “We luife A brar
by coming forwn they say, “Pray
for ns.”
The singing ended,prayer follows;
tlicn perhaps a few words of oihor-
tion of the i»oor success of many
ministers! They fail not so much
as preachers, as in hnikiug alter and
gathering up results; and the com-
imrative small results of their labor jtation from one ijnd another; then
are to be attributed, ^Hjvlnqw, ill a j rwlinpa a concln(ting prayer. Now
ham to o^r father. The temple of! great degret^, to the honor they have j in nil this what i* theVe to be ccn-
the Ixml sre—without aix- dogs.”-ever felt of anything apjM^ring like sum! f What is j there inconsistent
But this distinctive church teaching “machinery’' in the work of bringing
made his |»eople partisans, ready to men fo Christ, esjsocially machinery
compass sea and laud to nluke one that has been widely used by sen
proselyte, iirnf, umde himself narrow ' satiwi^l, revival pnsichers : and it,
’ result was may be tlwit, able and orthodox ns
and exclusive. Its tiest
fore* without Iffe, body witbbnf Spivi
ik ’ Men were made churchmen, not
Chrtatfeiaeu; eaagbt in fho church
net, ttot the Gdspol net;; gfciard to
tbc^erfermtl' visible church, hot gtb^*
ed to OMK 'itot saved; *Vitk all
d-
"ipn
dug
by
Uiulf
ii*.
their
[MrdltJon. 1
1 B»ft as
eipies af
length
to
came
their night of toil, so at
light df the *
darkened
a tiew creature in Christ
.Jeans, and Immediately the {>& pass
ed away aud all things became dew.
‘OfaTVtdlous Mo me w:is fW' light
into Which I ball been brought; but
f still that I f tlhd not
sueemjt before.”
Pun of gratUtide *ud 1r
began to* jfreach with
purred Startling lifs hear*
ing out to his pulpit, “t? 1
last week, T Should MaVe
Gouvinoed of roiit by na
tieu by gnuv, and the ft
' *
ir-
-tr
cesHtty of regeneration, he Hi
at last into possession of the
and as, aeeordiug to ‘
niaud of Christ, lie tod
iftto the!deep, and to hto
it down, hto amazed
^gan to fiurt thqt they
tofoWt Snd behind, enclosed
«ud to a^k^witli sotemd
fttt^.tijrhatr' will boeomQ of j
should die as wc now are ijj
•...fit •
cry-
died
lost.”
nfe
he h» ? come
they ai-e, they might learu of some
of the least of their Methodist breth
t en as to tlie most effective way of
laying hold on nuni awakened under
the Gospel, oud pressing them into
the kingdom of God. ,j,p;
, * There are, iierhopa, those who are
duqmsed to irnss ove^i this subject
lightly and fiip{H»tly as one of no
cottsequenoe. But bt»w obviously to
it w orthy of the most earnest at ten-
tion of those w ho are set to watch
for souls! How unhappy for them
to toil because of not nnderstuiulioir
well that which comes lust in the
worki,of gaining meu to Christ!
How pitiable a thing to be helpless
after letting d#>wn ttyi nob—not to
know how. to? proeded; Anrther—not
to understand that there to a way
of applying to ^wakened men, as to
fishes cnelooed try ing tf break away,
a kiud of fonee, or
which they can with
and which'; may be the very thing
needed to bring them |to a decision
iu favor of Christ! - HW very pitia
ble, m a time Of revival, wlien many
aredeeplj itPi>resse4 K to bo tUinkipg
onjy of the proprieties, aud the cob
with the order which must ever be
maintained in tlfe house of Grid t
There to in it no excess; no “Con
tinning of the meeting for Into the
night;” no “urging of boys, girls,
and women to Stood np and speak
ieolt.y resist,
in large mid mhc#d assemblie* f no
umluc excitement; no outer}- or con
fusion. Grant tltnt what would be
jusflr offensive to jieople of culture
sitooM not be conn tenanted in re-
yH»l meetings siny more than in
K othere. But in tliis ose of the anx
ious-seat, what in there to which tlie
most oaltivoted uun with any reason
(What dm bo more appro
priate than the invitation t What
more appropriate than compliance
with it f ,r«|| pi l *fi # *M9
Trf ii! tbougli fo# so doing you
are Culled “Methodist,” a name which
in thesij times to only a synonym
for power and success. It may at
first cost you foitfc, courage, a sum
inditing of all jioor strength j but
fisher* of men, when the not to full,
must expect to be taxed to the
nfljlflift* There to doubtless immense
power in iL^It to .a means of ap
pealing h» tl»o lpost direct manner
to the awakened,, and pressing them
«d at the same time power
Ii says eoruoafe
mmgm
tiured sensibilities, and u*e danger
of offending thu' iaatsa qf people who,
tboagU refiued, bxoi>vi Imp a. desti
tute of aU daep rGtorfuua eamaafe
ness; nod to bp in cons< qm ueo ndt
self.foi'getful but sett-odnseious, tim
id, reamved, formal, uncomfortable y.
gently, and at
fully, to act at
ly, temfciiy,. “Now to the accepted
time; delay to dangerous | to-morrow
It way be too late.” TUc*e can be
bo doubt that l|h has helped mate,
rialiy in securing right decisions in
umltitudes of instances. Thousands,
in going to the suxious-seat, have
in effect token the first step in the
way ©f life. It is ou©'of the things
• Under the figure of anointing, we
shall endeavor to set forth the work
of the Spirit,.in tlie aalvatiou of
God'* people. It to a Bible illustra
tion, aud therefore must have some
thing appropriate hi it. And if we
notice the various uses to which the
aiHiiuting oil, in ancient times, was
applied, we will see at once the
IxiHuty and fitness of the figure.
I. The sick and woauded were
auoiutiHl in order to lieaUng. In
that beantifal paralde of the good
Bumuntan, where the pilgrim stran
ger stoopctl by the way to lift op the
braised and mangled form of an
unfortunate man, he anointed hto
wounds with oil, and then kindly
hprr him to an inn tp be eared for.
Aim) in the instruct iof of the iaspired
Apostle James to the nick, he enjoins,
that if any are sick, let them call
for the elders of the cboreh, sod let
them pray over him, anointing him
with oil, hi the name of the Lord.
And under the direction of the
blessed Saviour himself, we are told
by Mark that those whom Us sent
forth, two a^to two, anointed with
oil many that were sick, and healed
them. Nor has this custom passed
away. The Orientals Rtjll believe
in the huh it ary prejH-rt ies of oil,
and under this impression tliey anoint
the nick and apply oil to wounds,
as did tlie ancient Jews.
how in this custom we see ills*
-» • * ^ -- *
(rated the healing iufiuenci-s of God’s
B|iirit. It Is Hto to heal the sin-
sick soul and cure the wounded
heart. Hto presence to sanitary.
Ilis touch to health and soundness.
By nature, the whole head is sick
stud the whole heart to IhiuL There
to no spiritual health in us. From
the aowus of our heads to the sole*
of our ‘feet, tliere to nothing but
wouudsaud bniua** and putrefyisg
•urea Sin has disoreU^red all. And
from Kueh a dist-imed condition the
Biiirit of God delivers hto people,
lie purifies the soul from the poison
of sin; He restores to order its
deruiigid fseultie*; He regulates the
{tower of conscience, controls the
oetiou of the will, quickens the
moral Kcmiibilitie*, invigorates all
the energies of the soul, <um1 restore*
to a healthy tone the a hole spirit.ml
being. *
It to true that tlie balm of health
ami healing was provided by One
whose ;«i!e, marred foee dreplied
teai-s for siuner*, and afterward who
*bed Hto blood, but il to by the
Spirit that it to applied and rendered
efiicacioua. It is only when lie
anoiuts that the glow and vigor of
health returns, aud the lift' current
of the soul Hows free ami pure.
But the work of healing to a life
long work. The disease of sui in
never eutirely eradicated while the
believer dwells in tlie flesh. Again
and aguiu it breaks out in tlie soul
lik© old sores in the body, and
causes the child of God many a heart
l*aiu. OjM, imtienU may rejoice
over vanquished diseases that never
rvtarn to cause sickness or sorrow
any more. But the believer’s dis
ease of siu wears out only with hto
life; Ilk© a poisoned robs, it rliuga
to the soul, aud is laid aside ouly
with th© body. But the blessed
Spirit by hto continued presence
carrie* on the work of healing, under
hto aiioiatifit the disease to broken
and controlled, which otherwise
would cat into the soul like a cancer,
aud ding to it like memory to the
dauiaod, aud be its ruin and torment
forever.. , , . \. .
How wrell do many of God’s |ieople
know the soothing aud heating effects
of GoiFs Kpirit. like oil on a boru-
iog sore bos been the gracious
droppings of Hto influence ou the
woundwl heart. And w hen over-
coma by temptation and trial, you
have cast yourself down in Sorrow to
mow? oyer the ft ild work your sins
liavu made, und, like a sick aud fover
ed child weeping for its mother in the
night, you enn not see tlie form nor
hear the vole© you love, aud tilting
your Ugnds from out tho darkness
for some one to help and Irani, how
sweet ami soothing, like the worn
kisa and soothing baud of tire watch
ful mother on the brow of her iovgd
child, have boon the vole© and pres
ence of that blessed Spirit I
c * “WhothydtSMsmsU, and pains
Doth heal, sad thee reliare.” t j
And hew tenderly H© does bis
work I How well H© know© where
tire wound to, bow it was inflicted, j
and how painful to to. lie knows a
poor widow’s anxtooR thoughts for
hot children. He to toterested in a
little child’s tears. He fuels for a
imreot whom gray hetid to bowing
down with sorrow fo# a wayward
som lie feels deeply for the poor
faded mourner weeping over the
green grave of tairied |u\ e. Aud all
lito symiuahiee ore enlisted in tieholf
of the tried end teuipest-tosmd child
of God, whose liosom to oovered
with scars of sorrow, and hto heart
sore aad bleeding ie bis conflict
with sin. j* j i « ,h.
And how skillfol, Uxs ia His work.
He baa healed the worst of eases.
Hto gratia hands hotr* bound np
grief’s deepest won ads and healed
•into ugliest sore*. Surt-tU ii« has
stotoa into the riefui Ikmuhh of the
degraded and outcast, and into tire
lost and rained drear#* of felleu
dying hi tire streets, aud of
HBC¥I IB u imgCOft j
or expiating their gnilt on
And time ,o«mW foil me to tell
of all tire grwiou* work of beating
this preereo* HpMt dees. Aad how
many who mar rend what win have
written, can joyfully testify of the
work of this wuJlrouo healer, nod
myi
“When worn with rich atm. oft hsri thoa
Wkh health renewed sv face j
And whan to ria and renew renk.
Me rived mjr ayttl with gtare.”
[Tirniftos Instructor.
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1
— " 1 m are w i
Tear Own Wnpom
Martin l.utbi-r, in hto mouHatcry
•clI, rend how Auguftine grew in
grace, and Wjuw> a Kaint of God.
Bnthnsiastic as Dtvid, to cotM|ucr
the giant sin, he would fight with
the devil )n Ju*t tlie stay Augwstlne
did. He would pray re many times
a day; he would font as often and
a* severely} he would draw down
the blessings of heami by refhsing
the blessing* of earth. Bnt some-
bow GoliaU drove David back dis
graced attd dtomarvd. Ilis soul »w
ovrrwlrelnred. Monasticiam was not
bis armor; Reclusion and aosterity
were not hto wrapops. God had
made him n man of latge heart, and
brood syni)iathies; a man of popular
eloquence and adaptation to society ;
sell wilh other
a man who mnat dwt
men, ami tret npon great masses,
and be acted njion by them in return.
These natural gifts Were the shep
herd's sling and the Smooth atone*
from the brook. But lie tried to
put on tire cumbrous helmet of setf-
starvation, the breast plate of nightly
vigils, tire greaves of voluntary
scourgings—nnd tiros, hampered by
his clwiusy armor to attack the
Goliah of his own itiwanl comip-
tion, bruudtolling Kiinfs sword of
m-closkni trom society, I ret no Chris
tian of onr day makeitbe same nils
take! Hie biography of that saint
of God, lh\ William Marsh, tells ns
how tunny times In the course of a
year he read the Bible through.
To him ft was a ldefend means of
grace. Bat here to W young Chris
tian jmw setting out upon the way
to heaven; he resolves to “mind
the same rule.* His time for devo
tion to neeensarily'lifetted, and he
harries through Mn Ntipwtotod ehsp-
ters for each day wrttti tha speeil of
a race horse ntohfoy to the \?*\\.
Like many who visit • foretgn land
hasten flrom place to place, and
speed ©a tire wings of rieaai froas
ope fomous city to another, and
com© back as ignorant as they went
away | »o «ddi S reader, nnder
the ordinary circumstances of life.
H© t treads te Study the Bible ; but
he ©ply akfcni Its stirfuce. He takes
Hoal’s armor, and because the king
of Israel ootid “«»t he thinks
that he can ton. M 'l' *
So with alt the means of grace
The precise rale* of tiirir employ
ment which proved a blessing to
tutetirer, may not be such to me. 1
hare no right to efebaraaTO myaelf
with fiaaPs armor. -I mast work
with my oWu tools. Bo la regard
•too ho work tot others.—Tto# Chris
tian at Work, *
In one of tlie paralfeM of oar Lord
he said, “The Hon at Mnn to as a
man taking a long jonrney, who left
hto house and gave authority to hto
sen ante, mmd to every men Are tcark."
Kver> man baa a work divinely
allotted and adjusted. This work
to preseut4wl in varioiai forms; bat
wbother in tire slia|ie ut the duties
of oonmton life, the secular concern*
of ever}- tiny, or the direct duties
of religion, it to really one iu spirit.
And as ever} man has hi* own work
asnigiiod him, so jnust be accept it
from God, and In it do all in hto
power to glorify his Father who to
hi heaven. It to a sad mistake to
look upon the work of tire church
as one for the minister, eider, or
deacon only. That wss not the plan
of Ure church which Christ set up
in the world. It was not tire apostles
and inspired men alone who entered
into this great work. Bead tire Acte
of the Apostles; read the Epistles of
those apostles, especially of Paul. No
tice how often he records tire names
of men aud s oared also, who were his
“ fellow-helpers.” Malt) ©if these
seem to have been in the common
walk* of life. But they were all
wurkers, they were all evangelists,
they were all witueaees for Christ
Wherever tirey went, wherever they
abode, tirey amde he gospel knowu.
That was the plan of operation in
the early church, and the church
now which most taitUfully carries it
out, will most please God. The
great draw back now to that this
primitive idea of nmvi-rv^ oonaecra
tion does not pervade the members
of our churches. Whore to the evi
dence that every' man and woman
within it, tlie oldest and the young
est, the richest and the poorest, the
most aeootnpltolied nml the least
M-couiplished has a work to do for
God t Ought not any one to be
uKhamed to belong to any part of
the Christian chunk, and to be doing
uo w ork iu it. They ntny think they
have no time, bnt it is a vain pica.
They find time for other matters.
How many find time enongii for
things which do them no good, often
much harm. How easily they might
find time for religious Services, that,
if performed heartily onto the Lord,
would refresh and strengthen them
for the toil and burdens of life. A
lste writer has most ap;
asked, “Do you not think that when
Paul was working with Uto hands
to xapply his wants, be would be
strengthened for tlie task by the
recollection that the night before,
under cover of darkness, he found
hto way to some ©Urure street in
tire city, ami showed to a multitude
of Kiuners the wray of salvation by
Christ, and by the nnticipatiou that
this night again, when the people
tost
iparv me trom such
It will frighten the
and I feel
others
I con
“You
pr
people.”
“It to my dying
that you most do it. Lot
take warning by my death,
not excuse you.”
So Father M > at hto funeral,
after he bod finished the sermon,
came down from the pulpit, and/j
approachiug the coffin, laid the tip©^
of Uto fingers ou then* marble lips,
and with tears streaming from hfeij
eyes, stated the man’s dying request, j
and pronounced tire words:
“This ©oul is muijsp foe
hell!”
O, my reader, whether Christian
or not, be admonished;
If your peace is not made with
ilrer that
soul is
T--
follow ing that infidel’*, and will ere
long be res led. * Your lip© can anore*
ia prayer now. The time may eonre
when this the greatest of oil earthly
privileges, will be ta vafo*
tion brother, remember that
the seals of year
rntm
to hell; and a© small share of re-
spowsibUity lies at yflar door. May
God help ns to feel the importance
of that MUM’S
«■
A lew Urn of
came together to hear him, lie should
preach among them the unsearcha
ble riches of Christ V'—Central Vres-
byterUtn.
Tho Dying Infidel'* Sermon.
Two
must be
■ of religion demauds
of God demand*
boro ovate- If >
twice before yaa
hero good fire yon
been horn. Thoa©
die twice-—they die
they die au
who are bora t
ooee—for on tbte
hath no power—
Father M , of Massachusetts,
who reccutiy died in faith, was once
ralkMl t© the dying l*ed of an aged
infidel of hto acquaintTim
good idd man Imd lobg pfayed for
his friend, but liis entreaties had
ever been met by the infidel’s argu
ments ami scorn. As he approached
the bed he saw that hto mind vw
in agony. The man confessed him
self ft sinner, and thst he was not
prepared to meet death.
Father M —r* a*k<*I him if he
had prayed.
«yo, I can’t pray'. I have con
tumidly refused mercy, aud it is now
refused me. I have tried to pray,
bat my Up© won’t move/
“Are yon williug that I should
pray for you, then, and let your
heart’s desire go up with my words !*
“No, you can not pray for me;
others have tried ft, tut could »©t.
You may kneel, fiat It would be
useless.”
Aud tho aged .mm, kneeled ot
tire bedside of the ivfpoized sinner.
Those Ups had daily moved iu prayer
_nv.- Ye fo* Waif 1 «#"!•
The oatuu. 1 had daily broughtIhf name of *m
The nature m*rs before God’s throne; but, strange
One young man joined Us, whose
•tor}' 1 mast telL He had an nnsual
degree of iutelligenoe, possessed a
fair education, aud wras imrtieolariy
versed in history. Borne months be
fore the revolution being in tire prov
ince of Galicia, he come upon Ueuau’s
“Life of Jesus.” lie admired the
subtle eloquence of the writer, aud
the caviling spirit of the book. Car
ried away by the style and a subject
treated so mack in harmony w ith hto
own incredulous mind, he determined
to propagate the doctrines it espous
ed. To prepare himself the more fally
for his new npostleahip he thought
it but fair to verify- certain citation*
w hich he found at the foot of each
page. They were references to the
Bible. He applied to a village enrate
for the Book of Books, but thst
gentleman did not possess a copy.
Several others sought on the same
errand rewarded bto pains in the
same wray. At tout his interest fed
him to the capital, and there be wss
enabled to procure Seio’s version
(Catholic), with tlie notes of the
church, in several tomes, at the priee
of £5 ($25). H« bate home bis {wise,
ami began to look up the citations
of Ben an.' As he rand tire passages
referred to, be became singularly
drawn to tire context, and so from
one chapter to another, till in fine he
perused tire entire work. He bad
thus occupied many days and, as he
told ns, many night* too, devouring
tlie wonderful doctrine that giveth
life, till he could say from liis heart,
I/ord, be Thou my tfeiclier, my guide,
iny nil.* When the revolution t came,
Ire attended the eariy service* in- a
simple hall, rooeivid tire liglit, ahd
rejoiced in believing. Thus God
caused the “wrath Of man to praise
Him.” Renan awl the Spaniards wil 1
mrver |^> nkmg nrdi-in-srm. \VTp»t‘
Valera, in 1509, published iu the
preface of liis “Dos Tratados,” ist»o
longer prophecy, it ia history: “I
testify of my nation teat they have
a seal of God, though ft be not ae-
oarding to knowledge- Few Span
iards will be found who are Atheists
ie must be
are not boru
jouae, It had
yon had trevor
once only,
tem|K>ral, ftnd
Bnt those
eon dfe but
•eoood death
t*'-
ItoligioH to not an
dexterity and skill,
Em matter of
a new uatnre.
to soy, all hto focultfo* of speech
seem pnralyred now., Morey was a
word he could not speak, and fur
the first time pr^yqr, was impos*
aibl©.,’,^.... > *i’
“Now.” said tire infidel, as Father
M — rose fi-oui hto kno^, “I wont good deeds, like
tu preach at my own funeral. When
you have dosed tire jOtl^r parts of
or'
cam© to onr notice through a French
serriee which we lad established,
and entered our theological school
at once. To-day he is prsaokiug tire
Gospel to hto ttmuttynrea, with rare
logic and power, as one of onr
evangelists in Madrid—Hr. Cor. if
X. r. Evangeliet. , j V*:
.ti. L
B&auTuruL Twoi ght^—Unro to
bat n breath of air fred a bent«f tire
heart between this world and tire
next. And in the brief interval of a
painful ami awftil suspense, while w©
feel that death to with fee, that we
ore powerless, and he afl powerihl,
and the lostfointpulsation hereto
but the prelude of endless life here
after, we feel iu the uihfet of stun
uiiig colaluity about to befall us,
that earth has no compensating good
But
the service, l want you to com©
down from tire pulpit and place
your two forefingers qu my Ups, and
sav, “2*m seni it valid for hell !*
to the severity of our loss,
there is no grief without some Ire-
neficeut provisions to soften its inton*
si ties. When the good and the
lovely die, aud the memory of their
^ moon beams on
the stormy sea, lights U P <***
ened hearts, and lends to the sur
roundings a beauty * » s®f> 80 sweet,
that we would not, if we could,
the darkness that environs
dispel
us.
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