An African's Prayer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 33.

An African's Prayer.

AT the gathering of the bishops of the Church of England, in London, J. T. Haley, bishop of Hayti, a full-blooded African, preached, by request of Dean Stanley, in Westminster Abbey. His text was Matt. 20:21: "And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom." He closed his discourse in these prayerful words: "O thou Saviour Christ, Son of the living God, who when thou wast spurned by the Jews of the race of Shem, and who, when delivered up without cause by the Romans of the race of Japheth, on the day of the crucifixion hadst the ponderous cross borne to Golgotha's summit on the stalwart shoulder of Simon, the Cyrenian, of the race of Ham—I pray thee, O precious Saviour, remember that despised, dejected, and forlorn race, whose son thus bore thy cross, when thou shalt come in the power and majesty of thy eternal kingdom to distribute thy crowns of everlasting glory! And give to me, then, not a place at thy right hand, nor at thy left, but only the place of a gate-keeper at the entrance of the holy city, the New Jerusalem, that I may behold my redeemed brethren, the saved of the Lord, entering therein to be partakers with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, of thy glorious and everlasting kingdom."—Sel.