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Show UTAH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. M.i.i.itr.t RELIGIOUS LIFE. efficiency of prayer. hey i . Fid:'! Is U i m ( iquet is is i; OI petition "an offering up ioi mercies, or, for tl ings ngiee-abieur deriae toGod to ids will, in the name of Cinist, by the help of his spirit, with confession of our sais. and thankful acknowledgement of his nitrides. Nothing can be more e rational or consistent than the of this duty. It is a divine injunction that men should always Tram and not faint. Luke XYI1I: It is highly piopei e should acknowledge the obligations we are under to the Divine Being, and supplicate His throne loi the blessings w e stand in need of. It is to our peace and felicity, the is and happy means of our carrying on and enjoying fellowship with Hod. It has an influence on our temper and conduct, and evidences cur subjection and obedience to God. Prayer is a great privilege and an important duty. The grace cf God is only received and maintained in the heart by prayer. We cease to live spiritually the moment we cease to pray. Tim object of prayer is God alone through Jesus Christ as the Mediator. Faith is an essential element He that cometh of true prayer. to God must believe that He is, and that He is a Re warder of them that Without diligently seek him. faith it is imposible to please Him. All Gods promises are yea and His moral amen in Christ Jesus. and His promises, are perfections, so many pledges that He will keep covenant with His people in this matter. Ciuist says (Mark XI: 24); What things soever ye desire, when ye piay, believe that ye re- -( eive them, and ye Mia 11 have them. James I: 6 and?. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering, for he that wavereth is like a wave of the c wind and tossed. For let not that man think he shall icceive anything of the Lord." Is prayer a positive power in man's relations with Godt Rev. This A. J. Pierson, I). I)., says: question i, in some respects, the mo&t vital, practical question, of our life the religious touching of miracles The may be age day. past: supernatural signs may be no in the forms in ""TOimht longer c ft manastonished which they once kind; There may be no more need of public and popular attestation and authentication of Christianity, such as war demanded at the outset for the perpetual establishment cf its august claims. But if a human soul may hav e personal communion and contact with an unseen and spiiituai God; if blessings and benefits may be obtained directly from our Heavenly Father, which no effort of our own can secure, and no mediation, of ourHlow-irmcan procure; if I may, unmistakably, discern divine interposition in the affairs of my own life, and recognize the invisible hand by unerring tokens of Gds guarding, guiding, governing presence -- then I have a perpetual miracle in my own life, a permanent proof of the supernatural, which convinces and overwhelms my own mind. And every praying soul may have the ex-cn- ise . es-sei- nial tt1 niinrrnnriifn j fiiirTTTiMr'iniBTftiTi piestior, which tni Uj us the w Ivde any stun a ts In others, was re diffmiAy attending the-- subject, the make cut a lit t of all Lis own assofollowing L 0 lie red in icily: First. ciates then ivlug within rach of A flavor granted to prayer may be hi influence. For the conversion mon-- apt on that very account to of these he determined to labor as a prodtuv good flVct on the person he Lad opportunity, and lake v daiobliged. It may hold in the divine ly. On his list v. ei e one hundred bounty, what experience has raised and sixteen names, among whom into a proverb in iim 'ollation of veto skeptics, drunkards, and orii-e- r human benefits that what B obindividuals Hi tie likGv to be tained without asking is oftentimes reached by Christian influence as leceired without gratitude. any other men in the legion. Second R imvtf be (cnsistem Within two yeais from the period with the wisdom cf the Deity to of the old man's conversion, one withhold His favors till they lie hundred of these individuals had a Hied f'.r, as an expedient to en- made a profession of religion. This devotion in His rational account is not exaggerated; the old courage creation, in order thereby to keep man is living, and theiearea thousup and circulate a knowledge and and living witnesses to this :eDi-- m sense of their dependence on him. on y . Bill I ca 1 Mu sf u m Third. Prayer has a natural tendency to anmnd the petitioner hima neglect torenewand semi self; it composes the mind, humbles us a long list of subscribers. ujj uiiuei a conviction of what we are, and under the gracious influence of the Divine Spirit, assimilates us into the divine image BELLS. Let it suffice, therefore, to say, that, though we are certain that Ic Shane Bell Fonndrj God cannot be operated on, or Maufscture those celebrat-llllggSee moved as a may; BELLS and Chime for that though we cannot inform Him C hurdles, Tcwer Clock &c., &c., of anything He does not know, Prices and Catalogues sent tree. Addres nor add anything to His essential II. McSha5E 6c Co., Baltimore, Md. and glorious perfections, by any service of ours: yet we should reClinton Menecly. member mat He lias appointed this N. Y U, S, A, as a means to accomplish an end; Manufacture a superior quality of that He has commanded us to enGreatest BEL1 s Oldest workmen gage in this important duty. Pxay trade Special atI Thess. Y: 17. expericrcr. Larger without ceasing, .SWrno? C and lurch tention given to That He has promised His Spirit to Bells. Illustrated mailed free, catalogue help us in it, Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we BUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY. know not what we should pray for or Jb ilMf ff Mjr asm til hi n L 2 li (iinv, ior 4 ifiiiwtunSf is we ought; but the Spirit itself fa mu Ro rie 4 oui t iioiinCM, t 6 maketh inrerceesion for us, hotter ( U J It mans YIII: 20. That the Bible s Tint abounds with numerous answers to :i( INNA0 t It Ml t ill K f prayer; and that the promise still relates to all who pray, that answers shall he given: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be r popular Weekly newspaper O devoted 10 science, mechanic, flgirieenng, Matt. VII: I. sry indentions end patent ev pub! shed. opened unto you, iDnstrated with fcpnc.d ngs'ncgs- This numb or Confess your faults one to anothtmolication, funsidbea a most Voidable encyclopedia information which no person puould be without. .The h wonnliim of the Scefntific 4 rigan is er, and pray one for another; the fts euvral .ton nearly equals that oi ail otiiex papers cf Hs claes comb,ne(L trice gJUftytar. &jtM&cwuntrub--k 1 GO.. MUXihi effectual fervent prayer of a rightClubs. Fold by ail ctYvedealers No. Broadway W. V. Murm St Co. hnvo$ also box James eous man avvileth much, ira n pai ft hsd ATFNTh Years9 pmavcaje- V: 16. All true prayer is sure to ji J iuM.!iiftiiiiiwiiiiiii fore 'ne Pnteuh OtF e and hftve nt spared moe than One Thousand aprdicaHcja for be answered. It cannot be otherIn tuo iimd States artl foreign Copy comtnes. Caveats, wise and maintain His veracity. He a other p&pera r.pbts, AsigcnietRh. xho Kilts r. to inventors lor eecanng th)r has unequivocally and unalterably Urded States. Canaaa cLng'and, Frarjce. niutne othei and foreign prewrd Germany at abort notice end on rc.inalHe terms. committed himself to this course. Information os to obtain, nff natents cnorfnHj oi pven without charge. A pi oper request, offered in faith, Pi tents obtained throrgh If.unn iron sent Ameman the bcxeciiic in o no aro ied At j eu b notice istteil tiffidertood Dyad Toe aevantage is as sure of an answer as the rising na'ens. neronswr o vs'h to d po10 A CO , Ofece ogila liiQ Aschhfa:. MUN sun is sure. God 361Address of Broadway, Is ew ork. will answer in His own way, in His own time, by III 3 own chosan LONS LOANS. methods (and who would have it He at but answer will, otherwise?); sie&i 4a iPPtD the moment or in after life; in time Ss kepi top Fzrcona! go long ae esy far trst Honest poor or mn oj or in eternity; directly in form or rtevnip rnodoTato means oan Rend 6 cents for particulars T Guioitu, M&o&gvr in spirit. Prayer once offered by a mn fsimos, etc. AdlrcoS I'faPafVATT. Off o. sanctified heart, in humble faith, and the answer is as certain to follow as if the event bad .already ISLAND OftfE passed into history. 5 es 5rr jftfl d fellow-creatur- Sell mi 1 "V " t f Etc, XJSiEl.lUjk'XEllFr'Sr, Prescriptions Carefully Prepared by Competent Druggists at ail Hoiu3, Day and Night. ( Orders by mail filled witli Proiiiptness, At Eastern Prices. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 144 Auerbacli & 145 Bx-- efi? o EAST TEMPLE STREET, SALT LAKE CITY. 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Oihllts .VDMiirLI,iEOl Philosophy of JSOOI 1'FPLIES, the Flan of .Salvation giv es an acSchool count of a man of Ms UvU usintancp BIRTHDAY AND CHRISTMAS CARDS. who had been a notorious and pio-fa- ne atheist. By the persuasion of CHILDREN'S GAMES ANI) BOOKS. BESIDES A COMPLETE had who relatives, long pious LINE OF BOOKS AND STATIONARY piayud for his conversion, to was induced to attend a series of religCorrespondence solicited. Orders promptly filled. ious meetings, where he was brought & Co. Fairocle No 0167). CMS- to see his condition as asirner, and Sait Lake Citv, to exercise saving faith m the Lord AD of vr sn orrs ccerted from the Jesus Christ. Old things having f ;juq.LBSfe " ti epdution and Lsrei,t rei't uqi Anicti.an m bo now passed away, and oil things t'OfltJU lAtA (tOLllUVU SSLAHD j nf ( PuatC'i Si t5ic It has been objected, that if what heron e new, the change was so ni thieiuietrriUv Uaci C n ten r c be n ' Hmr s a ra was obvious uv is kssi hv ! it g we request befit ferns, we snail strikingly r 'trn nr v.rl th.j iocnf li, .n enmnanv ampaM ljmmtr" arm an have it without praying. But It is to ail who knew him. He immedithem to tne farm Send torcatalocru'N fttc by v z & DcGoit. ucl.. NATIVE , TliUQKEE a, id RED WOOD SHINGLES, answered, that it may be agreeable ately sought reconciliation with hisi Address, Swage Parm'l thc-i-r forgiveness, to perfect wisdom to grant that to enemies, asked & them benefit to tried and not by leading our prayers which it would C G OL. S A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF MOULDINGS. have been agreeable to the ame them to Chiist. He began to visit 1S.V t. Opened Feb. 4, . , wisdom to liavegLeu us without from house to house, lutioring and inon Iran- lws taulit, includAll tUr and fun!, his with neighbors, praying for. But whatyirtue, may praying Khptori'- and Bool-k- r epmg, at the mode-rrtbe asked, is tiu-r- e in prayer, which viting them to attend religious wer ing ; ;te 'f Sit its rer term. NAILS, WINDOW GLASS, SASHAVEJGTS and SASH-CORwould make a favor consistent ship on the Sabbath. When conLa Pro-- , wjcr's will i.ir.Jo be so for classes i alnays on hand. with wisdom, which would not verted, one of his first acts, al- Frencb, Lr.ti i and Phonogiaphy. T TT v r 211 Sou!' Temple St., between First and Second West Sti. yOfVf'e and Yard. lmv- lien so without iti To this though he had heard cot king of ii UiJ.iv.iij ii iiupai n Sunday and Day Howard Cards. 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