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August 25, 1909. ignore the fact, and its < \ 1: : : 4i. _ 1 .\I1SMIMIS iur II1C Ij.OOO J 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 i _ _ it* r . * 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