ANSWERED PRAYERS.
In the fifteenth chapter of John and the seventh verse, we find who
have their prayers answered--“If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in
you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Now in
the fourth chapter of James, in the third verse, we find some spoken of
whose prayers were not answered: “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye
ask amiss.” There are a great many prayers not answered because there
is not the right motive; we have not complied with the Word of God; we
ask amiss. It is a good thing that our prayers are not answered when we
ask amiss.
If our prayers are not answered, it may be that we have prayed
without the right motive; or that we have not prayed according to the
Scriptures. So let us not be discouraged, or give up praying, although
our prayers are not answered in the way we want them.
A man once went to George Muller and said he wanted him to pray for
a certain thing. The man stated that he had asked God a great many
times to grant him his request, but He had not seen fit to do it. Mr.
Muller took out his note-book, and showed the man the name of a person
for whom, he said, he had prayed for twenty-four years. The prayer,
Mr. Muller added, was not answered yet; but the Lord had given him
assurance that that person was going to be converted, and his faith
rested there.
We sometimes find that our prayers are answered right away while we
are praying; at other times the answer is delayed. But especially
when men pray for mercy, how quickly the answer comes! Look at Paul,
when he cried, “O Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?” The answer
came at once. Then the publican who went up to the temple to pray--he
got an immediate answer. The thief on the cross prayed, “Lord,
remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom!” and the answer came
immediately--then and there. There are many cases of a similar kind in
the Bible, but there are also others who prayed long and often. The
Lord delights in hearing His children make their requests known unto
Him--telling their troubles all out to Him; and then we should wait for
His time. We do not know when that is.
There was a mother in Connecticut who had a son in the army, and it
almost broke her heart when he left, because he was not a Christian.
Day after day she lifted up her voice in prayer for her boy. She
afterward learned that he had been taken to the hospital, and there
died, but she could not find out anything about how he had died. Years
passed, and one day a friend came to see some member of the family on
business. There was a picture of the soldier boy upon the wall. He
looked at it, and said, “Did you know that young man?” The mother said,
“That young man was my son. He died in the late war.” The man replied,
“I knew him very well; he was in my company.” The mother then asked,
“Do you know anything about his end?” The man said, “I was in the
hospital, and he died a most peaceful death, triumphant in the faith.”
The mother had given up hope of ever hearing of her boy; but before she
went hence she had the satisfaction of knowing that her prayers had
prevailed with God.
I think we shall find a great many of our prayers that we thought
unanswered answered when we get to heaven. If it is the true prayer
of faith, God will not disappoint us. Let us not doubt God. On
one occasion, at a meeting I attended, a gentleman pointed out an
individual and said, “Do you see that man over there? That is one
of the leaders of an infidel club.” I sat down beside him, when the
infidel said, “I am not a Christian. You have been humbugging these
people long enough, and making some of these old women believe that you
get answers to prayer. Try it on me.” I prayed, and when I got up, the
infidel said with a good deal of sarcasm, “I am not converted; God has
not answered your prayer!” I said, “But you may be converted yet.” Some
time afterwards I received a letter from a friend, stating that he had
been converted and was at work in the meetings.
Jeremiah prayed, and said: “Ah, Lord God! Behold Thou hast made the
heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched-out Arm, and
there is nothing too hard for Thee.” Nothing is too hard for God;
that is a good thing to take for a motto. I believe this is a time of
great blessing in the world, and we may expect great things. While the
blessing is falling all around, let us arise and share in it. God has
said, “Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and
mighty things which thou knowest not.” Now let us call on the Lord; and
let us pray that it may be done for Christ’s sake--not our own.
At a Christian convention a number of years ago, a leading man got up
and spoke--his subject being “For Christ’s Sake”--and he threw new
light upon that passage. I had never seen it in that way before. When
the war broke out the gentleman’s only son had enlisted, and he never
saw a company of soldiers but his heart went right out after them.
They started a Soldiers’ Home in the city where that gentleman lived,
and he gladly went on the committee, and acted as President. Some time
afterward he said to his wife, “I have given so much time to these
soldiers that I have neglected my business,” and he went down to his
office with the fixed determination that he would not be disturbed by
any soldiers that day. The door opened soon after, and he saw a soldier
entering. He never minded him, but kept on writing; and the poor fellow
stood for some time. At last the soldier put down an old soiled piece
of paper on which there was writing. The gentleman observed that it
was the handwriting of his son, and he seized the letter at once and
read it. It was something to this effect: “Dear father, this young
man belongs to my company. He has lost his health in defense of his
country, and he is on his way home to his mother to die. Treat him
kindly for Charlie’s sake.” The gentleman at once dropped his work and
took the soldier to his house, where he was kindly cared for until
he was able to be sent home to his mother; then he took him to the
station, and sent him home with a “God bless you, for Charlie’s sake!”
Let our prayers, then, be for Christ’s sake. If we want our sons and
daughters converted, let us pray that it be done for Christ’s sake.
If that is the motive, our prayers will be answered. If God gave up
Christ for the world, what will He not give us? If He gave Christ to
the murderers and blasphemers, and the rebels of a world lying in
wickedness and sin, what would He not give to those who go to Him for
Christ’s sake? Let our prayer be that God may advance His work, not for
our glory--not for our sake--but for the sake of His beloved Son whom
He hath sent.
So let us remember that when we pray we ought to expect an answer.
Let us be looking for it. I remember at the close of a meeting in one
of our Southern cities near the close of the war, a man came up to
me weeping and trembling. I thought something I had said had aroused
him, and I began to question him as to what it was. I found, however,
that he could not tell a word of what I had said. “My friend,” said I,
“what is the trouble?” He put his hand into his pocket, and brought out
a letter, all soiled, as if his tears had fallen on it. “I got that
letter,” he said, “from my sister last night. She tells me that every
night she goes on her knees and prays to God for me. I think I am the
worst man in all the Army of the Cumberland. I have been perfectly
wretched to-day.” That sister was six hundred miles away, but she had
brought her brother to his knees in answer to her earnest, believing
prayer. It was a hard case, but God heard and answered the prayer of
this Godly sister, so that the man was as clay in the hands of the
potter. He was soon brought into the Kingdom of God--all through his
sister’s prayers.
I went off some thirty miles to another place, where I told this story.
A young man, a lieutenant in the army, sprang to his feet and said,
“That reminds me of the last letter I got from my mother. She told me
that every night as the sun went down she prayed for me. She begged
of me, when I got her letter, to go away alone, and yield myself to
God. I put the letter in my pocket, thinking there would be plenty of
time.” He went on to say that the next news that came from home was
that that mother was gone. He went out into the woods alone, and cried
to his mother’s God to have mercy upon him. As he stood in the meeting
with his face shining, that lieutenant said: “My mother’s prayers are
answered; and my only regret is that she did not live to know it; but I
will meet her by-and-by.” So, though we may not live to see the answer
to our prayers, if we cry mightily to God, the answer will come.
In Scotland, a good many years ago, there lived a man with his wife and
three children--two girls and a boy. He was in the habit of getting
drunk, and thus losing his situation. At last, he said he would take
Johnnie, and go off to America, where he would be away from his old
associates, and where he could commence life over again. He took the
little fellow, seven years old, and went away. Soon after he arrived
in America, he went into a saloon and got drunk. He got separated from
his boy in the streets, and he has never been seen by his friends
since. The little fellow was placed in an institution, and afterward
apprenticed in Massachusetts. After he had been there some time, he
became discontented, and went off to sea; finally, he came to Chicago
to work on the lakes. He had been a roving spirit, had gone over sea
and land, and now he was in Chicago. When the vessel came into port,
one time, he was invited to a Gospel meeting. The joyful sound of the
Gospel reached him, and he became a Christian.
After he had been a Christian a little while, he became very anxious to
find his mother. He wrote to different places in Scotland, but could
not find out where she was. One day he read in the Psalms--“No good
thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.” He closed his
Bible, got down on his knees, and said: “O God, I have been trying to
walk uprightly for months past; help me to find my mother.” It came
into his mind to write back to the place in Massachusetts from which he
had run away years before. It turned out that a letter from Scotland
had been waiting for him there for seven years. He wrote at once to
the place in Scotland, and found that his mother was still living; the
answer came back immediately. I would like you to have seen him when he
got that letter. He brought it to me; and the tears flowed so that he
could scarcely read it. His sister had written on behalf of the mother;
she had been so overcome by the tidings of her long-lost boy that she
could not write.
The sister said that all the nineteen years he had been away, his
mother had prayed to God day and night that he might be saved, and that
she might live to know what had become of him, and see him once more.
Now, said the sister, she was so overjoyed, not only that he was alive,
but that he had become a Christian. It was not long before the mother
and sisters came out to Chicago to meet him.
I mention this incident to show how God answers prayer. This mother
cried to God for nineteen long years. It must have seemed to her
sometimes as though God did not mean to give her the desire of her
heart; but she kept praying, and at last the answer came.
The following personal testimony was publicly given at one of our
meetings lately held in London, and may serve to help and encourage
readers of these pages.
A PRAYER-MEETING TESTIMONY.
“I want you to understand, my friends, that what I state is not what I
did, but what God did. _God only could have done it!_ I had given it
up as a bad job, long before. But it is of God’s great mercy that I am
standing here to-night, to tell you that Christ is able to save _to the
uttermost_ all that come to God through Him.
“The reading of those ‘requests’ [for the salvation of inebriates]
touched me very deeply indeed. They seemed to be an echo of many a
request for prayer which has been made for me. And, from my knowledge
of society generally, and of human nature, I know that in a very great
number of families there is need of some such request.
“Therefore if what I may tell you will cheer any Christian heart,
encourage any Godly father and mother to go on praying for their sons,
or assist any man or woman who has felt himself or herself beyond the
reach of hope, I shall thank God for it.
“I had very good opportunities. My parents loved the Lord Jesus, and
did their best to train me up in the right path; and for some time
I thought myself that I should be a Christian. But I got away from
Christ, and turned further and further away from God and all good
influences.
“It was at a public school where I first learned to drink. Many a time
at seventeen I drank to excess, but I had an amount of self-respect
that kept me from going thoroughly to the bad till I was about
twenty-three; but from then till I was twenty-six, I went steadily down
hill. At Cambridge I went on further and further in drinking, until I
lost all self-respect, and voluntarily chose the worst of companions.
“I strayed further and further from God, until my friends, those who
were Christians and those who were not, considered, and told me that
there was very little hope for me. I had been pleaded with by all sorts
of people, but I ‘hated reproof.’ I hated everything that savored of
religion, and I sneered at every bit of good advice, or any kind word
offered me in that way.
“My father and mother both died without seeing me brought to the Lord.
They prayed for me all the time they lived, and at the very last my
mother asked me if I would not follow her to be with her in heaven.
To quiet and soothe her, I said I would. But I did not mean it; and I
thought, when she had passed away, that she knew now my real feelings.
After her death I went from bad to worse, and plunged deeper and deeper
into vice. Drink got a stronger hold of me, and I went lower and lower
down. I was never ‘in the gutter,’ in the acceptation in which that
term is generally understood; but I was as low in my soul as any man
who lives in one of the common lodging-houses.
“I went from Cambridge first to a town in the north, where I was
articled to a solicitor; and then to London. While I was in the north,
Messrs. Moody and Sankey came to the town I lived in; and an aunt of
mine, who was still praying for me after my mother’s death, came and
said to me, ‘I have a favor to ask of you.’ She had been very kind to
me, and I knew what she wanted. She said, ‘It is to go and hear Messrs.
Moody and Sankey.’ ‘Very good,’ I said; ‘it is a bargain. I will go
and hear the men; but you are never to ask me again. You will promise
that?’ ‘Yes,’ she said, ‘I do.’ I went, and kept, as I thought, most
religiously my share of the bargain.
“I waited until the sermon was over, and I saw Mr. Moody coming down
from the pulpit. Earnest prayer had been offered for me, and there
had been an understanding between my aunt and him that the sermon
should apply to me, and that he would come and speak to me immediately
afterward. We met Mr. Moody in the aisle, and I thought that I had done
a very clever thing when I walked round my aunt, before Mr. Moody could
address me, and out of the building.
“I wandered further from God after that; and I do not think that I
bent my knees in prayer for between two and three years. I went to
London, and things grew worse and worse. At times I tried to pull up.
I made any number of resolutions. I promised myself and my friends not
to touch the drink. I kept my resolutions for some days, and, on one
occasion, for six months; but the temptation came with stronger force
than ever, and swept me further and further from the pathway of virtue.
When in London I neglected my business and everything I ought to have
done, and sank deeper into sin.
“One of my boon companions said to me, ‘If you don’t pull up, you will
kill yourself.’ ‘How is that?’ I asked. ‘You are killing yourself, for
you can’t drink so much as you used to.’ ‘Well,’ I replied, ‘I can’t
help it, then.’ I got to such a state that I did not think there was
any possible help for me.
“The recital of these things pains me; and as I relate them, God forbid
that I should feel anything but shame. I am telling you these things
because we have a Savior; and if the Lord Jesus Christ saved even me,
He is able also to save you.
“Affairs went on in this manner until, at last, I lost all control over
myself.
“I had been drinking and playing billiards one day, and in the evening
I returned to my lodgings. I thought that I would sit there awhile,
and then go out again, as usual. Before going out, I began to think,
and the thought struck me, ‘How will all this end?’ ‘Oh,’ I thought to
myself, ‘what is the use of that? I know how it will end--in my eternal
destruction, body and soul!’ I felt I was killing myself--my body;
and I knew too well what would be the result to my soul. I thought
it impossible for me to be saved. But the thought came to me very
strongly, ‘Is there any way of escape?’ ‘No,’ I said; ‘I have made any
number of resolutions. I have done all I could to keep clear of drink,
but I can’t. It is impossible.’
“Just at that moment the words came into my mind, from God’s own
Word--words that I had not remembered since I was a boy: ‘With men
this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.’ And then I
saw, in a flash, that what I had just admitted, as I had done hundreds
of times before, to be an impossibility, was the one thing that God
had pledged Himself to do, if I would go to Him. All the difficulties
came up in my way--my companions, my surroundings of all sorts, and my
temptations; but I just looked up and thought, ‘It is possible with
God.’
“I went down on my knees there and then, in my room, and began to
ask God to do the impossible. As soon as I prayed to Him, with very
stammering utterance--I had not prayed for nearly three years--I
thought, ‘Now, then, God will help me.’ I took hold of His truth, I
don’t know how. It was nine days before I knew how, and before I had
any assurance, or peace and rest, to my soul. I got up, there and then,
with the hope that God would save me. I took it to be the truth, and I
ultimately proved it; for which I praise God.
“I thought the best thing I could do would be to go and get somebody
to talk to me about my soul, and tell me how to be saved; for I was a
perfect heathen, though I had been brought up so well. I went out and
hunted about London; and it shows how little I knew of religious people
and places of worship, that I could not find a Wesleyan chapel. My
mother and father were Wesleyans, and I thought I would find a place
belonging to their denomination; but I could not. I searched an hour
and a half; and that night I was in the most utter, abject misery of
body and soul any man can think of or conceive.
“I came home to my lodgings and went upstairs, and thought to myself,
‘I will not go to bed till I am saved.’ But I was so ill from
drinking--I had not had my usual amount of food in the evening; and the
reaction was so tremendous, that I felt I must go to bed (although I
dared not), or I should be in a very serious condition in the morning.
“I knew how I should be in the morning, thinking, ‘what a fool I was
last night!’ when I would wake up moderately fresh, and go off to
drink again, as I had often done. But again I thought, ‘God can do the
impossible. He will do that which I cannot do myself.’ And I prayed to
the Lord to let me wake up in much the same condition as that in which
I went to bed, feeling the weight of my sins and my misery. Then I
went to sleep. The first thing in the morning, as soon as I remembered
where I was, I thought, ‘Has the conviction left me?’ No; I was more
miserable than before, and--it seemed strange, though it was natural--I
got up, and thanked the Lord because He had kept me anxious about my
soul.
“Have you ever felt like that? Perhaps after some meeting or
conversation with some Christian, or reading the Word of God, you have
gone to your room miserable and ‘almost persuaded.’
“I went on for eight or nine days seeking the Lord. On the Saturday
morning I had to go and tell the clerks. That was hard. I did it with
the tears running down my cheeks. A man does not like to cry before
other men. Anyway, I told them I wanted to become, and meant to
become, a Christian. The Lord helped me with that promise, ‘With God
all things are possible.’
“A sceptic dropped his head, and said nothing. Another fellow, with
whom I played billiards, said, ‘I wish I had the pluck to say so
myself!’ My words were received in a different way from what I thought
they would be. But the very man who had told me that I was killing
myself with drink, spent an hour and a half trying to get me to drink,
saying, that I ‘had the blues, and was out of sorts; and that a glass
of brandy or whisky would do me good.’ He tried to get me to drink; and
I turned upon him at last, and said, ‘You remember what you said to me;
I am trying to get away from drink, and not to touch it again.’ When I
think of that I am reminded of the words of God Himself: ‘The tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel.’
“And now the Lord drew me on until the little thread became a cable,
by which my soul could swing. He drew me nearer; until I found that He
was my Savior. Truly He is ‘able to save to the uttermost all that come
unto God by Him.’
“I must not forget to tell you that I went down before God in my
misery, my helplessness, and my sin, and owned to Him that it was
impossible that I should be saved; that it was impossible for me to
keep clear of drink; but from that night to this moment, I have never
had the slightest desire for drink.
“It was a hard struggle indeed to give up smoking. But God in His
great wisdom, knew that I must have come to grief if I had to fight
single-handed against the overwhelming desire I had for drink; and He
took that desire, too, clean away. From that day to this the Lord has
kept me away from drink, and made me hate it most bitterly. I simply
said that I had not any strength; nor have I now; but it is the Lord
Jesus who ‘is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto
God by Him.’
“If there is any one hearing me who has given up all hope, come to the
Savior! That is His name, for ‘He shall save His people from their
sins.’ Wherever I have gone, since then, I have found Him to be my
Savior. God forbid that I should glory! It would be glorying in my
shame. It is to my shame that I speak thus of myself; but oh, the
Savior is able to save, and He will save!
“Christian friends, continue to pray. You may go to heaven before your
sons are brought home. My parents did; and my sisters prayed for me for
years and years. But now I can help others on their way to Zion. Praise
the Lord for all His mercy to me!
“Remember, ‘with God all things are possible.’ And then you may say
like St. Paul, ‘I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth
me.’”
“Look Up.”
“O soul most desolate, look up! For thee
One faithful voice doth promise sure relief.
Whate’er thy sin, whate’er thy sorrow be,
Tell all to Jesus. He looketh where
The weary-hearted weep, and draweth near
To listen fondly to the half-formed prayer,
Or read the silent pleading of a tear.
Lose not thy privilege, O silent soul;
Pour out thy sorrow at thy Savior’s feet.
What outcast spurns the hand that gives the dole?
Oh, let Him hear thy voice; to Him thy voice is sweet.”
_A. S._
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various Lectures on the Life of Daniel.
Tinted covers, 20c.; cloth, 40c.
A small book; but big as regards the truth it contains. Every worker
in the Lord’s vineyard would be helped by reading it.--_Railway
Signal._
=The Way and The Word.= By D. L. MOODY. Forty-fifth Thousand.
Paper, 15c.; cloth, 25c.
This little work contains a very clear statement on the important
subject, _Regeneration_, to which is added Mr. Moody’s valuable hints
on Bible Reading.
Mr. Moody has used this book by the thousand, placing them in the
hands of young converts at the close of his meetings.
=The Second Coming of Christ.= By D. L. MOODY. Fortieth Thousand.
Tinted covers, 10c.
“The moment a man takes hold of the truth that Jesus is coming back
again to receive His followers to Himself, this world loses its
hold upon him. Gas stocks and water stocks, and stocks in banks and
railroads, are of very much less consequence to him then. His heart is
free, and he looks for the blessed appearing of the Lord, who at His
coming, will take him into His blessed Kingdom.”--_Extract._
=How to Conduct Inquiry Meetings.= By D. L. MOODY, and =The Use of the
Bible in Inquiry Meetings=. By D. W. WHITTLE.
40 pages and cover. Price 15c.
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HELPS IN BIBLE STUDY.
=Notes and Suggestions for Bible Readings.= _Seventeenth thousand._
Compiled by S. R. BRIGGS and J. H. ELLIOTT. Acknowledged to be the
very best help for Bible readings in print. Containing, in addition to
twelve introductory chapters on plans and methods of Bible study and
Bible readings, over six hundred outlines of Bible readings by many of
the most eminent Bible students of the day.
Large 12mo, 262 pages, with complete index, cloth, fine library style,
$1.00; Flexible cloth, travelers’ edition, 75c; Cheap edition, paper
covers, 50c.
This is a book which every Bible student should possess. Those who
conduct Bible readings will find it most suggestive.--_Christian
Progress._
=Symbols and Systems in Bible Readings.= By Rev. W. F. CRAFTS.
Giving a plan of Bible reading, with fifty verses definitely assigned
for each day, the Bible being arranged with much labor in the order of
its events. The entire symbolism of the Bible also explained concisely
and clearly. 100 hints upon Bible markings and Bible readings are
added.
A year of work upon such a system would yield rich harvests of Bible
knowledge and spiritual experience.--_S. S. World._
=The True Tabernacle.= A series of lectures on the Jewish Tabernacle
and its typical signification. By GEORGE C. NEEDHAM. Illustrated,
cloth, neat, 75c.
=“C. H. M.’s” Notes.= By C. H. MCINTOSH. Genesis, 75c; Exodus, 75c;
Leviticus, 75c; Numbers, 75c; Deuteronomy, 2 vols., each, 75c.
The notes breathe a very sweet and reverential spirit, and the author
shows wonderful insight into the heart of truths.--_Evangelist._
Mr. D. L. Moody says of these books: “They have been to me a very key
to the Scriptures.”
Major D. W. Whittle says: “Under God they have blessed me more than
any books, outside of the Bible itself, that I have ever read, and
have led me to a love of the Bible that is proving an unfailing source
of profit.”
=Life and Times of David, King of Israel=; or, The Life of Faith
Exemplified. By “C. H. M.” Third edition, revised. 12mo, 200 pp.
Cloth, 60c.
=The Gospel According to Moses=, as seen in the Tabernacle and its
Various Services. By GEORGE ROGERS. New edition, enlarged 16mo, 124
pp. Paper, 50c; Cloth, 75c.
No preacher or teacher should be ignorant of the truth which this
small volume very simply but forcibly enunciates.--_The Record._
=Outline of the Books of the Bible.= By Rev. J. H. BROOKES, D. D.
Invaluable to the young student of the Bible as a “First Lessons” in
the study of the Bible. 180 pp., cloth, 50c; Paper covers, 25c.
=Ruth, the Moabitess=; or, Gleanings in the Book of Ruth. By HENRY
MOOREHOUSE. A characteristic series of Bible readings, full of
suggestions and instruction.
Neat 16mo, paper covers, 20c; cloth, gilt stamped, 40c.
Contains many fresh and original remarks, all tending to
practical usefulness; a capital bit of commenting on a favorite
book.--_Spurgeon’s Sword and Trowel._
=Bible Readings.= By HENRY MOOREHOUSE. A series of eleven sermons of
comment and exposition, by one pre-eminently the man of one book--an
incessant, intense, prayerful student of the Bible.
Neat, 16mo, paper covers, 30c; cloth, gilt stamped, 60c.
=Current Discussions in Theology.= By the Professors of Chicago
Theological Seminary. Vol. I, cloth, 12mo, 248 pp., $1.00; paper
covers, 50c. Vol. II, 328 pp., cloth, $1.50.
There is nothing in our language of this kind. The American student
has had to choose between the exhaustive and unremitting labors which
are the price of first-hand knowledge, and reviews which rarely fail
of being colored with partiality or prejudice. The volume before us is
a helpful, fair and trustworthy statement of the present position and
recent movements of theology.--_The Independent._
It may be safely said that from no one book in the English language
can ministers gather so much recent information concerning the topics
treated.--_Presbyterian Witness._
=The Date of Our Gospels.= A critical argument and examination of
evidences, particularly regarding their authenticity and authorship.
By SAMUEL IVES CURTISS, D. D., Union Park Theological Seminary,
Chicago.
Sq. 16mo, neat, flexible cloth, 50c; paper edition, 25c.
The argument is winnowed of superfluous words, and presents a luminous
and brief case.--_New York Independent._
=A New Catechism.= By Rev. J. T HYDE. A manual of instruction for
students and other thoughtful inquirers.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.00.
AIDS IN CHRISTIAN WORK.
=Children’s Meetings and How to Conduct Them.= By LUCY J. RIDER and
NELLIE M. CARMAN. Introduction by Rev. J. H. VINCENT, D. D. Contains
contributions from over forty well-known workers among children, and
gives the cream of their experience. The outline lessons (over sixty
in number), diagrams, and music will especially commend it to the
thoughtful teacher. Pp. 208, cloth, net $1.00.
It is a good book, that suggests something in addition to that which
it conveys.--_Journal and Messenger._
The volume will be heartily welcomed by many having this most
important part of the religious instruction of the young in
hand.--_Zion’s Herald._
=Secret Power=; or, the Secret of Success in Christian Life and
Christian Work. By D. L. MOODY. _Fifty-fifth thousand._ 12mo volume,
116 pp., rich gilt and black stamp, cloth, 60c; cheap edition, paper
cover, 30c.
Every page is full of stimulating thought for Christian
workers.--_Christian Commonwealth._
=The Work of Preaching Christ.= By Bishop CHARLES PETTITT MCILVAINE. A
revised edition of an important little work. Paper covers, 15c.
=The Prayer Meeting and Its Improvement.= By Rev. LEWIS O. THOMPSON,
with introduction by Rev. A. E. KITTREDGE, D. D. Sixth edition.
Revised. An attractive volume. 12mo, pp. 256, $1.25.
A valuable, because a very suggestive book.--_S. S. Times._
* * * “This is so good a book that we wish we could afford to give a
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a telling manner, and, as his pages are full of fire and gunpowder,
we hope certain old, worn-out things among us will be exploded, and
good things set on fire. A brother who has this book handy will be
helped to lead lively meetings, conducting them in varied ways, and
expatiating on different topics, so as to keep up freshness, and avoid
monotony and dullness.”--_C. H. Spurgeon._
=Revivals=; Their Place and Power. By Rev. HERRICK JOHNSON, D. D.
Cloth, flexible, 25c.
An admirable discussion of the subject.--_Interior._
We know of no publication that covers the ground so briefly and
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=To the Work! To the Work!= By D. L. MOODY. Exhortations to
Christians. Paper covers, 30c; Cloth boards, gilt dies, 60c. Just
published.
This new work by Mr. Moody, is in the line of his most successful
efforts, that of stirring Christians to active, personal, aggressive
work for the Master. Mr. Moody has frequently been heard to say that
it was much better to set 100 men to work than to do the work of 100
men. This little volume will, we confidently believe, be a means of
inspiring not hundreds but _thousands_ to more efficient effort in
Christian life.
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=Pre-Millennial Essays.= A series of papers on prophetical subjects by
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Those who desire to have, within the compass of a single volume, all
that is necessary to an intelligent consideration of the subject, will
find it here in a very readable form. It is certainly the ablest work
that has appeared on the pre-millennial side.--_Canada Presbyterian._
The best treatment of this subject from the pre-millennial side that
has ever been published.--_The Standard._
It is pious, elaborate and fraternal. We are pleased with the
forcible, yet candid style of argumentation.--_Zion’s Herald._
=Maranatha=; or, the Lord Cometh. By Rev. J. H. BROOKES, D. D. Pp.
445, cloth, $1.25; paper, 50c.
=Present Truth=; being the Testimony of the Holy Ghost on the Second
Coming of the Lord, the Divinity of Christ, and the Personality of the
Holy Ghost. By Rev. J. H. BROOKES, D. D. 250 pp., fine cloth, 75c.
Cheap edition, paper cover, 25c.
=Second Coming of Christ.= By Rev. J. H. BROOKES, D. D. Price, 15c.
=The Blessed Hope=; or, The Glorious Coming of the Lord. By WILLIS
LORD, D. D. New and cheaper edition. A practical treatise; a volume
well adapted to lead to a more joyous Christian life. 250 pp., cloth,
$1.00. Cheap edition, for circulation, paper covers only, 25c.
=Second Coming of Christ.= By GEORGE MULLER, of Bristol, Eng. A neat
little tract of 32 pages, suitable for circulation. Per dozen, 40c;
100 copies, $2.50.
=Jesus Is Coming.= By W. E. B. A most popular hand book. _Sixteenth
thousand._ Giving seven arguments in favor of the pre-millennial
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Revelation, and between the Church and the Kingdom--and containing a
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50c; paper covers, 15c.
=Twenty Reasons for Believing= that the Second Coming of the Lord is
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=Epiphainia.= A study in Prophecy. By E. J. EDGREN, Professor of
Biblical Interpretation in the Morgan Park Theological Seminary. 16mo,
112 pp., cloth, neat, 75c.
Dr. Edgren writes as one who both loves and reveres the Sacred Word.
He has altogether made a book creditable in a literary not less than
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=Waiting for the Morning=, and Other Poems. By the author of “Twenty
Reasons for Believing the Coming of the Lord is Near.” Sq. 16mo, pp.
54, red line, cloth, elegant, 50c. Cheap edition, paper covers, neat,
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=The Second Coming of Christ.= By D. L. MOODY. Revised. _Forty-second
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=Grace and Truth= Under Twelve Different Aspects. By W. P. MACKAY, M.
A. _Forty-eighth thousand_ of American edition. The English edition
has reached a sale of over two hundred thousand, besides being
translated into German, Spanish, Swedish, Arabic, Italian, Dutch,
Gaelic and Welsh. 12mo, pp. 282, paper, 35c; cloth, fine, 75c.
Mr. Moody says of this work: “I know of no book in print better
adapted to aid in the work of him who would be a winner of souls, or
to place in the hands of the unconverted.”
=My Inquiry Meeting=; or Plain Truths for Anxious Souls. By ROBERT
BOYD, D. D. Being the experience of a pastor during many years of
personal dealing with anxious and careless souls. Pp. 64, 15c.
For simplicity, clearness, and force of statement we have met with
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service a pastor could render to Sunday-school teachers, and other
guides of souls, than to secure their reading of these pages. Nor
could inquirers have any better help in their search for truth.--_The
Interior._
=Glad Tidings.= By ROBERT BOYD, D. D. A book for inquirers. 12mo, pp.
100, cloth, neat, 50c. Cheap edition, for circulation, 25c.
This book has been used largely in connection with the great revival
meetings both in Great Britain and this land.
=The Soul and Its Difficulties.= By H. W. SOLTAU. Paper, pp. 108, 8c.
=How to Be Saved=; or, the Sinner Directed to the Saviour. By J. H.
BROOKES, D. D. Pp. 120, paper cover, 25c; cloth, 50c.
=The Way to God and How to Find It.= By D. L. MOODY. _Fifty-fifth
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The way of salvation is made as clear as simple language and forcible,
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of God, and in profound earnestness--while in simplicity, directness
of appeal and originality it is superior. It is a great matter to
send such a work, so full of Christ, all over the churches, where
it may, by the work of the Spirit, arrest the careless and move the
ungodly.--_Lutheran Observer._
=God’s Way of Salvation.= By ALEXANDER MARSHALL. A brief statement of
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and covers, 5c. Per hundred. $2.50.
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“It contains the clearest statements and illustrations on the subject
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=Welcome to Jesus.= By Rev. C. H. SPURGEON. A series of 4 page
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forth this little volume is to encourage God’s children to seek
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=The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life.= By HANNAH WHITALL SMITH;
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A book we unhesitatingly recommend. We have not for years read a book
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Worthy of universal circulation.--_Christian Union._
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This book has been prepared in the midst of evangelistic work, to
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=Gems from Northfield.= A Record of the Best Thoughts exchanged at the
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12mo, pp. 116. Price $1.00.
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32mo, cloth, black and gold stamp, 25c; per dozen, $2.50.
=The Practice of the Presence of God.= By “Brother LAWRENCE.”
Being a small collection of remarkable letters and “conversations” of
a monk.
Pp. 64, 24mo, paper cover, 10c; per dozen, 75c.
=Grace Sufficient.= By Rev. HENRY ROISSY. An extremely helpful work
for the closet, with counsel and comfort for the Way of Life. Pp. 265,
cloth, $1.25.
=Clifton Springs Bible Readings.= Containing the Bible Readings and
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Sq. 16mo, 144 pp., cloth, fine, 50c; paper covers, 25c.
=The Scarlet Line.= A most suggestive tract upon Joshua II and VI,
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the Antitype of the New.
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How to Enter into the Life.
Difficulties Concerning Consecration.
Difficulties Concerning Guidance.
Difficulties Concerning Faith.
Faith: What it is.
Is God in Everything?
The Joy of Obedience.
Practical Results.
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