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IO THE PLACE OF PRA ZATION OI By Kai In all of our Lord's mil which he laid greater sti by precept and example power. He placed in disciples this dynamic wl is to the spiritual worl mysterious force that e An electrician studies for how to control the won* the machinery hall at on and see how the various the mere pressing of a t guided by an intelligent machinery. Wonderful, read and heard that pra and that any child of Go< we believe it, and have 1 that the electrician must ness, and it is equally t learn by practice and i should be the business of a side issue, picked up else is demanding one's t had to earn their living "Come ye apart and pr; life, a crowded life, and secret of its success? H< for themselves; he taug the great duty of inte therefore the Lord of tl forth laborers into the laborers went forth, look to those at home "Rret laborers whom we send than Paul did those of fellow-helpers to the trul Oh, if we could only 1 and to pray! If we woul would so learn to feel guidance of his Spirit tha to us real communion, a sometimes with earnect I one word, but just with small voice to whisper to that is hindering the a secure the desired blessi the light of the Spirit w we would but lay that, t what a magnetic current ours, and how we would And how this spirit forc< US into th#? snirit wnrM finds its receiving station as near-by points, so w< upon the spirit atmospht were asking God to reac travels, as lightning flas and courage, could be disheartened worker hen are so white to the harve THE PRESBYTERI/ YER IN THE EVANGELIf THE WORLD. tc M. Hunt. nistry there was nothing upon ress than upon prayer. Both , he taught us its wonderful the hands of his weakest liich, to use a common simile, d the same silent, powerful, lectricity is in the physical. months and years and learns Jerful electric current. Take e of our great World's Fairs, ; machines are all started by mtton; how one man's hand, brain, can control this vast is it not? And we have often yer is as wonderful a force, 1 can wield this force; but do ive really tried it? It is true take time to learn his busi rue inat tne ^nristian must experience, and that prayer every Christian, and not just and practiced when nothing ime. Christ and his disciples ;, and yet he says to them, ty." Surely his was a busy yet was not prayer one great ; taught his followers to pray ht them the great privilege, rcessory prayer. "Pray- ye le harvest that he will send harvest." And when these how, in that day, they cried hren, pray for us." Do our forth need our prayers less his friends who thus were th? learn to stop saying prayers, d let the Master teach us, and his presence, to realize the t prayer would come to mean real waiting before the Lord, pleadings, sometimes without a heart 1ict<?riincr fnr - ..^W4l(ilg 1U1 I. AIV. O Lilly ' us what there is in our lives biding in him necessary to ng! Then, when we see by hat is wrong in our lives, if >y his help, on the altar?oh, would run from his heart to I learn to plead with power! ; would go straight out from , and as wireless telegraphy is in far-distant lands as well ould this prayer force focus :re of some soul or souls we h. and as ouirHv n?s tlirkiierVi+ _ -J J ? fc"VMb,lv hes, by our prayer, strength carried to some tried and : or in the distant fields that st; conviction and conversion > v iN OF THE SOUTH. * r could be brought to some of darkness and the shadow of 6 uttermost parts of the earth. Dc me tell you what I have seen Sabbath afternoon prayer mee Virginia towns, during a ser meetings, a minister, at the close five o'clock, requested that any j who desired prayer for some love No names were called, but in church one after another arose, sister stand, and I knew why. man in that family who had om tne cnurch, but had been persua< that Christ was not divine. In neglect of the means of grace ha< That young man was then Carolina. On Tuesday morning a letter written on Sunday nig stated that the young man was si with some drummers about five evening, when he suddenly fe uncomfortable. He went to get could not settle down; and sudd( ered with a conviction of sin. ] and said, "Tell me where I car minister." Receiving directions, found a minister in his study. H what's the matter with me; I mui I am very miserable, and I am sin." The reply was, "Young ma mother?" "I certainly have." things before. Some one is wr you. Let us pray with them." footstool of grace, the burden of ' Gordon, in his "Quiet Talk' similar instances. Get that boo want real help in your prayer-li times that the Bible does not sp< of prayer, as well as of the fooli but it doe?, I suppose, when i things can only be discerned spir are foolishness to the natural ma, tians doubt the leadings of the prayer, and speak of the belief fanaticism. Is that not becaus failed to listen for the voice of th on to know the Lord by obeyinj tions? Let me tell you the exp< mine, a most earnest, prayer Christian. She had the habit of a day. The midday prayer was a one, or a waiting on God. She t< she did not utter a word when si for God's Spirit to tell her some do. In this way she practiced ob< was visiting a city once and sts taking the usual streets to the f she passed a street she felt imp< She had never done so before an* tion, going past the corner; b stronger and she said to herself, me for anything?" She thrne* getting into a shabby part of the July 7, 1909. the souls sitting in leath here or in the ) we doubt this? Let myself: In a little ting in one of our ies of very solemn of the meeting, about persons in the church d one would stand up. various parts of the I saw a mother and a There was a young WV. 1/vvu a IIICIIIUCI U1 ded by a Jewish rabbi tellectual doubts and d led to wrong living, traveling in North that mother received Jit after service. It tting on a hotel porch : o'clock on Sunday It very restless and a novel to read, but mly he. was overpowHe went to the clerk l find a Presbyterian he went at once and e said, "I don't know st be going crazy, but deeply convicted of n, have you a praying "Yes, I've seen such estling with God for And there, at the his sin rolled away. ? on Prayer," gives >k and read it if you ife. I wonder some:ak of the foolishness ishness of preaching; t says that spiritual itually, and that they i. I have seen ChrisSpirit in answer to in such leadings as e that Christian has e Spirit and to follow j the Spirit's suggessrience of a friend of ful?yes, prayer-full r praying three times lways an intercessory Did me that oftentime le prayed, but waited thing lo do or not to eying the Spirit. She irted to see a friend, riend's house, but as -11 . J . - '* euea 10 go tnat way. d resisted the inclinaut the feeling grew "Is the Lord leading d and found herself town. She passed an '