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The Fundamentals. Christ, and pleads the assurance of the immutable Promiser, he presented every petition. He was an unwearied interces sor. No delay discouraged him. This is seen particularly in the case of individuals for whose conversion or special guid ance into the paths of full obedience he prayed. On his prayer list were the names of some for whom he had besought God daily by name, for from one to ten years before the answer was given. There were two parties, for whose reconciliation to God he prayed, day by day, for over sixty years, and who had not at the time of his death, turned unto God; but he said, I have not a doubt that I shall meet them both in heaven, for my Heavenly Father would not lay upon my heart 2- burden of prayer for them for over three score years, if He had not concerning them purposes of mercy.” This is a sufficient example of his almost unparalleled per severance and importunity m intercession. However long the delay, he held on, as with both hands clasping the very horns of the altar; and his childlike spirit reasoned simply but confidently that the very fact of his own spirit being so long drawn out in prayer for one object, and of the Lord’s enabling him so to continue patiently and believingly to wait on Him for the blessing, was a promise and prophecy of the answer; and so he waited on, so assured of the ultimate result that he praised God in advance, as having already received that for which he asked. One of the parties for whom for so many years he had unceasingly prayed, shortly after his departure, died in faith, having received the promises and embraced them and con fessed Jesus as his Lord. THE PRIVILEGE OF ALL. Mr. Muller frequently in his Journal and reports warned his fellow disciples not to regard him as a miracle worker, or his experience as so exceptional as to have little applica tion to the ordinary spheres of life and service. With patient
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