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The American Council of Christian Churches is a Fundamentalist multi-denominational organization whose purposes are to provide information, encouragement, and assistance to Bible-believing churches, fellowships and individuals; to preserve our Christian heritage through exposure of, opposition to, and separation from doctrinal impurity and compromise in current religious trends and movements; to protect churches from religious and political restrictions, subtle or obvious, that would hinder their ministries for God; to promote obedience to the inerrant Word of God.

Event Date: October 20-22, 2009 Location: Toronto Free Presbyterian Church Toronto Canada Dr. Larry Saunders, Senior Pastor Theme: TAKING HEED Speakers: Rev. John Hutcheson, Taylors, S.C. Dr. Bob Jones III, Greenville, S.C. Dr. Roland McCune, Bonita Springs, FL Dr. Frank McClelland, Toronto, Canada Rev. Mark Franklin, Hardingville, N.J. Rev. Jerry Johnson, Easthampton, MA Dr. Richard Harris, Pennsburg, PA Dr. James Fields, Kingsport, TN

Special Notice: The Executive Secretary of the American Council of Christian Churches, Dr. Ralph G. Colas, is available for speaking engagements and mini-conferences to present the ministry of the ACCC, issues of separation, current trends on the world-wide religious scene and to bring encouragement to the churches. For more information, contact the ACCC office at (610) 865-3009. Current Schedule for Dr. Ralph Colas: April 12, 2009 Emmanuel Baptist Church, Millville, PA May 3, 2009 Evangelical Methodist Church, Youngstown, PA May 10, 2009 Evangelical Methodist Church, Darlington, MD May 17, 2009 Parsippany Baptist Church, Parsippany, N.J. July 12, 2009 Evangelical Methodist Church, Lancaster, PA August 26-September 2, Central Committee Meeting of the World Council of Churches, Geneva Switzerland October 20-22, 2009 68Th Annual Convention of the ACCC, Free Presbyterian Church, Toronto, Canada

Spurgeon's Evening · July 2

"Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit." — Psalm 28:1

A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and His ability to aid, we shall see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but our Rock attends to our cries. "Be not silent to me." Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will--they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little of God's silence. God's voice is often so terrible that it shakes the wilderness; but His silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant. When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief, He will not long deny us a hearing. What a dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become for ever silent to our prayers? "Lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit." Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our agitated minds, for He never can find it in His heart to permit His own elect to perish.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification.