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September x, 1909. Contri THE 1 Wide is the field, but the hi For lack of assistance fro come e er me neat or trie i And gather the sheaves fc Bright o'er the field the su Work is abundant but lab< Why all this languor, and wl Awake! for the Master is ci PRAYER AND TI By Rev. B In the Westminster Ass< members kept little books, ments to be answered, or h< In that renowned body thei had heen heard and rvf wli he was not large, nor was But again and again, he s with addresses so marveloi genuity, so convincing ir aneous history thrilled wi charged that he had gath side sources, that he had thoughts from other brain the secret of his skill and s concluded, he was asked f book, and when the well-w instead of arguments and they found such expression safe us light this day"; " thine assistance"; "O Lord thy servants"; "O Christ, thine own cause." That w; Fact of E Here is a fact of Christ thoughtful consideration a sique and commanding pres ventions and machinery ar< atmosphere is putrescent w are bewildered by doubts wretched sources for help questions. Here is a soul the prayer for help and gracious answer in spiritu by the Spirit of God bear as it is in Jesus. This is The dispensation of inspii no lonerer insnires men. as as to render them the inf spiration ceased when the 1 ment. was written; but tl illumination is coterminoi And the dispensation of tl assurance of the continuan Two-Fold It is a personal privileg< or the doubter, or the per illumination, and guidance C *. ! 1 opiru is promiscu 10 con guide such to the truth wl THE PRESBYTERI buted , ; i n a t t arvest is spoiling, m you and from me. loonday be falling, ir eternity. nlight is streaming, >rers are few; tiy all this dreaming? tiling for you. ?John Richard Moreland. IE HOLY SPIRIT, t. L. Benn. embly, it is related that the in which they noted argu ?aas oi speeches to be made, re was a man of whom little 10m little was expected, for his presence commanding, itartled those erudite sages as in power, so adroit in ini logic, that contemporth his influence. Some ered his help from outfilled his book with s, and that this was indeed iuccess. When the sessions or a glimpse into the little orn volume was opened, lo, I reasons and illustrations, s as tnese: u Lord, vouch'O Divine Master, give us 1, glorify thyself through us defend against all enemies %s all. Ixperience. ian experience. It invites t a time when the fine phyence are idolized ;when con5 unduly stressed ; when the rith skepticism ; when many and persist in turning to and light on perplexing which turned to God with guidance, and here is the al illumination and insight ing testimony to the truth the mission of the Spirit. ration is gone. The Spirit he did Isaiah and Paul, so allible organs of God. Inast word of the New Testate dispensation of spiritual is with that of the Spirit, le Spirit is indeed the only tee of spiritual religion. Privilege. ; accorded the truth-seeker, plexed to pray for spiritual into the truth. The Holy vince of sin and error and lich Jesus taught for salva AN OF THE SOUTH. tion. "He shall guide you into not said that the Spirit will guid truth; for philosophic and scien tained bv the intellectual oroces comparison, judgment and ind here, to one who humbly and edges God at every step in the ual help comes. Copernicus am who have made such splendid scientific knowledge of the woi and were- certainly guided by the promise relates particularl; truth for personal salvation. 1 the Spirit. He constitutes the nection, between the distressed truth of Christ. The darkness and the blinding mist of doui Spirit's enlightening influence soul to the act of faith in Christ' promise of hope. And such me wards and Spencer and Martyn who passed through seasons of ed this experience of divine tri themselves to God, and the Hoi the truth which, "like the sun diffused light and life." "Holy Ghost, with ligl Shine upon this heart c Chase the shades of n: Turn mv darkness into It is the Christian's privileg< others. By prayer one can a which are distant, even in far o if one were there. Prayer pu the Holy Spirit who is ommipre is exerted upon mankind, so tha at the objective point of pra give light on the printed page as it, or give gracious eloquence to er, or make it easier for some s< of Christ, or open prison doors step out into the glorious spi gospel. Living under the disp it is one's privilege to expect and for others, all that Jesus pr< Advocate and Comforter. It is know what soul, whether near for the prayerful solicitude of silent appeal? "Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by Than this world dreams of. Rise like a fountain for me, ni Holding the H' The spiritual heights attaine by no less a means. There Conventions and Conferences < siasm ; revival meetings quicker but by prayer comes the powe heights and retain the vision. Adam bmith that, with the ass once climbed the heights of We the glorious valley of Zermatt. laborious climbing they reach* the exhiliration of his achieve * 5 > all the truth." It is le into every species of tific truth must be obses of observation and uction; and yet, even prayerfully acknowlpath of inquiry, spiritd Newton and Kepler, contributions to the Id were praying men, the Holy Spirit. But y and directly to the rhis is the mission of tie, and bond of consoul of man and the of unbelief breaks up bt scatters under the and empowering the s person and work and n as Brainerd and Ed i, and scores of others spiritual gloom reachith when they betook [y Spirit led them into i in its glory sweetly tit divine, >f mine; ight away, > dav." e to pray likewise for s really touch hearts ff Africa and India, as ts one in touch with sent and whose power t one may be "present yer." Thus one may i some Hottentot reads the teacher or preachoul to accept the story that the captive mayritual freedom of the ensation of the SnJ-'t, and claim for oneself, Dmised in behalf of the > not permitted one to or remote, is tarrying God's people with the prayer rherefore let thy voice ight and day." eights. d by prayer are held can be no substitute, enliven one's enthui one's fervor and zeal; r to hold the spiritual It is related by George iistance of a guide, he :ishorn which overlook After hours spent in ed the summit. In ment he leaped upon