All Men Shall One Day Pray
ALL men shall one day pray: not a form of lip-service merely, but a heart-felt, genuine prayer. We see the mass of the world, haughty, proud, wicked, and ridiculing the idea of serving God or living religion; yet they shall one day pray. When that time comes, however, things will not be as they are now: the tables will be turned completely. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. Isa. ii, 11. A few are wise, and pray now, directing their petitions to the Sanctuary while yet they may be accepted: the rest are waiting till an involuntary prayer shall be wrung from them by the terrors of the great day. A few choose now to fall upon that Stone, upon which, if a man fall he shall be broken: the rest are waiting till it shall fall on them and grind them to powder. But the prayer of those who are compelled to pray at last, will not be like the prayer of the righteous now, based upon a hope in God's mercy, and accompanied with the blessed assurance of acceptance and pardon; but their voice will be the voice of despair: "Rocks and mountains fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb!"