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August 25, 1909.
ignore the fact, and its <
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tile i5.(hh) Cubans at Tam
French in New Orleans,
is just the beginning of an
within our gates,*' which
growing resources. The
largeri work is the Mounta
t hurch is becoming keen!
the purest Anglo-Saxon :
>e*jnci111v mc v^uximiiciee
to the Church to awaken
anthropy in giving our <
schools and colleges.
The Department of Ch
ing its claims upon us z
our office are application:
ing the Committee for lot
churches. It was this dei
Assembly to authorize tin
aiding in the erection ol
as loans for this purpose.
The growth of the wo
unprecedented increase ii
eral years the Southern I'
leading in its net increase
aggressive Home Missioi
gratifying prosperity wit
future call for renewed zi
view of the needs and pr
seinhly is now calling fi
prosecution. Will pastoi
Church? W ill friends r;
port ?
The month of Septentl
the Asseinhly for the co
will depend largely the fu
the larger growth of the
Cod inspire the effort.
A SERMON WITHOl
Who was the preacher
preach without speaking!
II is name was Lazartt:
hundred years ago.
There was a great gatl
that year, in the month <
salem. At Ilethany, a mi.
rus. About six weeks 1
sick and died. Four day:
Jesus spake three words a
In the gathering,?a n
rusalem were many enen
brand him as an impostor
crowds assembled, the v
mouth that Lazarus had 1
Jesus. Is it true? Such
ceivcr. He can be no oth
Crowds of them went t
Lazarus, moving around
There was no need for
presence was all sufficient
The lesson is not of th
of the present. Lazarus
THE PRESBYTERI/
:onsequent obligation. Our
Italians at Birmingham, for
pa, the Mexicans in Ef Paso,
and Bohemians in Virginia,
i obligation to "The stranger
will doubtless tax even our
second feature of our enineer.
The conscience of the
y alive to our past neglect of
stock of our country. Confeels
constrained to appeal
to larger enterprise of philown
kith and kin Christian
ureh Erection is now press
is never before. On file in
> amounting to $50,000. askms
to assist in building new
mand which induced the last
; raising of a special fund for
t new churches, to be used
rk has been manifest in the
1 our membership. For sevresbyterian
Church has been
, which is due largely to our
1 activity. Does not this
h its larger outlook for the
sal and greater activity? In
ospects of the work the As>r
$1.00 per member for its
s press its claims upon the
ally as one man to its supber
is the- time assigned by
llcction. I'pon the response
ture success of the work and
Linircn. .May tne spirit ot
JT MOVING THE LIPS.
? Wonderful that he could
How did he do it?
s. 1 le lived about nineteen
tering of Jews appointed for
r?f April in the city of Jerule
or two distant, lived Lazatefore
this gathering he fell
s he lay in the grave. Then
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nil raised in in irom tne dead,
lillion men or more,?at Jelies
of our Lord who would
or deceiver. But when the
irord passed from mouth to
>een raised from the dead by
can not be the work of a deer
than the Son of God.
o tsetnany. there they sawin
full health and full vigor,
him to utter a word. His
le past alone. It is a lesson
was raised from the grave.
>
tN OF THE SOUTH.
In every city are hundreds ol
sin. and who have been raise
same Iloly Spirit.
They can not all preach,
walk as to testifv to the no1
Redeemer.
But suppose that Lazarus
fused this testimony?
THE EFFECTU/
By the Late Rev. Thcod
Does even* prayer have p<
means; for we arc told that
if we ask amiss. But there is
availeth much.'' In the Revi:
is rendered "the supplication
eth much in its working." Tr
deeper and stronger thing t
of devout words: it is a believ
with God. Phillips Brooks con
"a true wish sent Godward."
giving, confession of mm. and
favors ascend to the throne,
cious blessings are brought t
pull of our prayers may in
throne, but?like the pull on
a boat?it may draw us into
God. and into fuller harmony
(i i This is the first characl
er. "Delight thyself in the Be
the desires of thy heart."
born of selfishness and are tc
command. The indispensabh
ing is a right spirit toward
When a soul feels such an <
ward God that it delights in ;
glory advanced, it may con fid
G if t Ki?n flia ? f r?c * ( !a< 1 a n<
V /? UIVII lliv UVOUVO ui v IV.HI tun
ble and submissive soul will :
to them who love to let hii
find their happiness in the cli
with the will of God.
Two of Christ's disciples, J
him and made the astoundin
place one of them on his rig
left hand when he set up 1
Jerusalem! As long as the
sought only their own glon
them the askings of their a
ward, when their hearts had b
Spirit, and they had become
iU.t it 1 -X _ 1
mat lut) wfic in coiupicic n
not afraid to pour out their
was the man to tell us that *
righteous man availeth mu<
that "whatsoever we ask, we
we keep his commandments,
are pleasing in his sight." As
tians found their supreme jo;
received the desires of the!
prays for a revival in order I
self by counting converts, the
ly give him many converts t<
(2) The second trait of el
9
f men who were dead in
d to spiritual life by the
They can all so live and
wer and the love of the
had hid himself and ren.
PRAYER.
ore L. Cuyler. D.D.
3\ver with God? Ilv no
we shall receive nothing'
an "effectual prayer that
seil Version the passage
of a righteous man avail
Lue prayer is an infinitely
ban the.mere repetition
ing soul's direct converse
idensed it into five words,
l>y it adoration, thankspetition
for mercies and
and by means of it prelown
from heaven. The
jt move the everlasting
a line from the bow of
closer fellowship with
with His holy will.
e:istic of successful prav>rd,
and be shall give thee
Too many prayers are
much like dictation or
; quality of all right askour
Heavenlv Father.
Mitire submissiveness to>eeing
him reign. and his
lently pour out its desire :
.1 the desires of that humlgree.
Cod loves to give
n, have his way. They
lime of their own desires
[ames and John, came to
g request that he would
[lit and the other 011 his
lis royal government at
se self-seeking disciples
r, Christ could not give
lum t-fw- 1 ftnr.
een baptized by the Holy
so consecrated to Christ
lime with him. they were
deepest desires. James
the effectual prayer of a
:hand John declared
receive of him. because
and do those things that
soon as these two Chris
y in serving Christ, they
r hearts. If a minister
that he may glorify himLord
does not common3
count.
rfectual prayer is that it