THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S thing as a clean room where tobacco is used. Said a gentleman to a friend, “ I had a smoking clergyman at my house for some weeks. He smoked in the room which he used as a study; he has been away from us now five months. We have done everything in our power to cleanse that room; but on a damp day, when the air is heavy, the smell of old tobacco smoke is distinctly perceptible there,” How would Paul and Peter and John look, standing up now among the peo ple in the house of God, with quids of tobacco in their mouth, with its juices defiling their lips, spitting the stuff in every direction; spending ten or twenty dollars every year on this be setting, enslaving sin, and preaching the doctrine of self-denial, crucifixion of the flesh, pecuniary economy and lib eral support of the Lord’s treasury?-^; Safeguard.
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PRAYER OMNIPOTENCY There is a kind of omnipotency in prayer, as having, an interest and prevalency with God’s omnipotency. It hath loosed iron chains (Acts 16:25, 26); it hath opened iron gates (Acts 12:5-10); it hath unlocked the win dows of heaven (1 Kings 18:41); it hath broken the bars of death (John 11:40, 43). Satan hath three titles given in the Scriptures, setting forth his malignity against the church of God: a dragon, to note his malice; a serpent to,note his subtlety; and a lion, to note his strength. But none of all these can stand before prayer. The greatest malice of Haman sinks under the prayer of Esther; the deepest pol icy, the counsel of Ahithophel, withers before the prayer of David; the largest army, a host of a thousand Ethiopians, run away like cowards before the prayer of Asa.- : Edward Reynolds.
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