The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1858-03-25
Religious Revivals-The True
and the False.

n
N. Y" preached, few days since, on
the subject of "Revivals--lhe True and
the False;" an account Of which we alb.
stract from the N. Y. Tribune:
His text was selected from Hosea,
XIV, Al.
81 will heal their backsIiding, will
love them freely; for mine anger is turn.
ed away from him. | will be as the dew
unit Israel; he shall grow as the lilly, ,
and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. HiA
bra3ches shall spread, and his beau
shall be as the olive tree, and his sp
as Lebanon. They that dwell undeI
shatow shall return; they shall reI
the orn, and grow as the vine; Tie 81
Thereof shall be as the wine oflIebanon.
lfyou are accustomed to read the pa.
Persgou will have seen during the past
few Weeks, thst there is sJme stir at the
preset time in the relig' Jus community;
not amerely sectional, excitement, but a
movement national in its ex ent and en-
bracBig nearly every religious denomina-
lion IN is operation. That such a move
ment may be healthy indication of re-
ligioIs progress don't take upon my
self y deny, Yet we must remember
that our past experience of such excitAh
ment$ Ropularly entitled religious re
walls, ARE as frequently injurious as Zen
efcial Such revivals as prevailed inn
our Safe. some years ago, under SUCH /
men IS lphn MolIit, Burchard, KnapRk
and otAerS have been invariably injurious
These REVEALS are generally got by rule;
the plans re all laid beforehand, by GER
tain leader, the campaign agreed upon,
and then he wires are pulled, Just as
politicians ret up their party excitements.
The reviyas which grew out of the Mil
ierite excitement were generally perni{
cious in thr effects. A great cause Of
such exciMents is found in slavish fearsS
Wherever fear enters into a revival wei
shall Away regard such revival as very
suspicious nd shall all be looking rward
for the sadresults which inevitably how
from it,
1t is geneilly the very worst class olSo-
cety that ale wrought upon By sl!!sGJA1. a.
tiyes as fer; those who have no fear Of
God and p belief in religion-who, at
such times, go to church to scof, but, be-
ing in the fidst of strong excitement, be-
come excit& in turn. and fancy that they
! have rot rdUion. hut the Aush soon mac. .
ses away, fd they become worse tta
before. TR soundest CONVERSION is
which is bal I'd upon calm earS leo
| believe IN
our back
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sectarian b
wehtson 10 -
Of the sensepl dePendehg,v
financial revision had
/ the understandings ol mo-
I ltai stassaaon OF traSe haa g
chant and mechanic az sef
helplessness, and hadNurn4t
their idols OF goid ana slyeflo
livin3~tidd' II has alsoglfen
time to- Alat TO the cspern
souls, A Rs no galTaylng
that tB natlSnwas last skklng
depthf OF Ma'erlai'sl ere F feVlFa
Rall1ofleoislation. the rulgrs knd l;udaa
Of ~ people--were corrlptkApd sibt
Ebovbnd belief .If ever thdre ke a nsti
wLnb needed thorough religious awaE'
ayho this surely did. Ii was time fbe
oation went down on its knees before God
7 From this revival he had somB bopes Of
GOOD, still he could not forget how promo.
We were in times of PROSPERITY to forod
the uses Of adyersity. 1t was lgeneralIv
acknowledged fact that wherevefmen acl