and shaking hands holding
poison, and maniacs behind the bars glaring with wild eye-balls through
dishevelled hair! And he leaps from the couch with the cry, "O the pity
of it all!" And he can not be still, he can not be idle, but is
constrained to do his utmost by word and pen to save a sinking,
gurgling, drowning humanity.

WHEN IT IS ALL OVER.

But one day it will all be over. Soon we shall all have preached our
last sermon and prayed our last prayer and spoken our last word. Our
lives will soon have passed into history. That blessed hour will soon
be here in which we shall "lay down the silver trumpet of ministry and
take up the golden harp of praise." Hallelujah, it is coming! it is
coming! Praise the Lord!

CHAPTER IX.

PRAYERFULNESS.

DELIGHT IN PRAYER.

The precious grace of entire sanctification brings to the heart a
prayerful spirit. Prayer becomes the normal occupation of the soul. One
is surprised to discover that while it was formerly difficult, if not
irksome, to pray at times, now one prays because it is delightful and
easy.

DE RENTY.

Many of us have been surprised to read in the biographies of pious men
and women that they frequently spent hours in prayer. But the
sanctified man understands all that now. He can readily believe that De
Renty heard not the voice of his servant, so intent was he gazing into
the Father's face. He does not doubt that Whitefield in his college
room was "prostrate upon the floor many days, praying for the baptism
with the Holy Ghost."

J.W. REDFIELD.

The writer remembers of reading when just a child the thrilling life of
John Wesley Redfield. There was nothing which struck the boy-reader
with greater force than the prayerfulness of the man. It awed him, and
made him long to enjoy such an experience as would make prayer so
delightful. In the golden experience of sanctification he found that
prayer was delightsome and blessed. Such is the uniform testimony of
all who have been cleansed from depravity and anointed with the Holy
Ghost.

PRAYER HAS ITS ANSWER.

God means true prayer to have audience. We can not understand how God
can vouchsafe to us such tremendous effects as He asserts shall follow
prayer. We can not defend prayer philosophically; but either "he that
asketh receiveth," or the Bible is misleading and untrustworthy.

TRUE PRAYER.

But what is "true prayer"? In the first place, it is prayer which says,
"Thy will be done." If we pray se