The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-28
CITY.
Foolish Objections to Revivals


one day, but that one day changed the moral
face of the globe. Luther's Reformation work
was comprised within few years Europe
and the world feel it to this hour. The men,
orable revival of 1857 began with few pray
ing hearts in New York--it cnlminated in a
few weeks: it's outward phenomena ceased in
a twelvemonth The influence spread across
the seas, and around the globe. Did the re-
suits end with the end of the Excitement
Have its converts all gone back to unbeiief
and ungodliness? No! That revival mas us
enduring monuments in nearly every church
on this continent Its history will blaze on !
ono of the brightest pages of Gods record |
books which shall be opened on the Day OF
Judgment.
Reveals are temporary in duration. This
is partly to be accounted for through God S
sovereignty, and partly through human i'm
perfection. Reyiyals are commonly short
lived, and they often are attended with a few
excuses and false conversions But would
any sane man object to copious rain because
it did not continue to rain forever2 Would
he object TO it either because it had swelled
few streams into freshet and carried off
few mill-dams and bridges? Shall we do
away with steam power simply because the
boiler of the st. John. exploded and blew
a dozen human beings into eternity? Rev- |
gers but they are only such as belong to the !
constitution OF imperfect human nature. |
They are in accordance with the Divine plan.
They are in harmony with Church agency in !
the best days of the Church history.
And to-day the vital necessity of our land
is general revival. What the thirsty Church
needs is spiritual shower Of the grandest !
magnitude down-pouring of the .'power
from on high. May God send it, and send (.
il soonl Fit does not come, then comes the
famine. Whoever is working with God faith ,
fully. works for arevival. Whoever is pray
ing as Elijah prayed on Mount Carmel, will !
quicken the coming of the rain.
And the Christian who negects his duty Z
practically votes against a revival He who I
Is more busy making money than in doing
good. Is opposing the advent of Christ into
our Churches. When | see a vacant seat in ,
the prayer meeting. or an empty pew on an (
unpleasant Sabbath, | say to myself There
is vote against revival When | see a
Sunday school class left without teacher. |
say There IS vote against revival When
hear of Church members quitting their
places Of prayer for the opera-hou or the +
ballroom, count up so many votes against /
God coming among US. Drinking usages
hinder reviyals. Injustice to Gods poor and 4
to his oppressed negro children binders revi-
haiS. tUHOuStsttnf Au1lStlAnS are lNSt
many dams TO obstruct the rivers of saliva
ton.
Brethren ofthe American Church, we can
have a revival if we heartily wish it. Only /
let us bring the tthes" Of hard work and
abundant PRAYER into God "storehouse.n /
and be will open the heavens and pour US out I
a blessing that there is not room enough to
receive There shall he ''the sound of an
abundance of in."-Rer. r. L. Csyier.
Ea5~ Some of the far-reaching effects OF
our war upon eminent men abroad, in their /
private interests are worth noticing. Prof /
Blaikle says ofthe late Isaac Taylor, in Good /
Words, that the mechanical genius of that |
eminent thinker was such that he took out a
patent for printing patterns on calico. Many
{ long journey did he take in its interest be /
tween Stanford Rivers and Manchester, and !
many a comfortess sojourn did he pass in the I
latter place at the very time when he was in
cubating on some of his ablest works. About I
the time of one Of my visits to Stamford Riv- I
ers the American war had dried up the last /
streamlet Of return that this invention Weld |
ed. 1t was our fortune to enjoy a most |
pleasant call, year since, upon DIR. Merle d /
Aubigne at Geneva. He had placed in the |
hands Of brother at New Orleans. before |
the var. some two thousand francs, being pro-
StclS VI MS liiStOif VI thC hcttt IL
had been loaned upon building. which I'M |
fortunately belonged to a New Orleans rebel /
and was taken BY Gen. Butler, on capturing |
the city for military use. Two years and !
more the historian had been deprived of the |
income-no small part of the moderate sup |
port of his family-ior he is no longer pastor |
of the church OF the Oratolfs. We did some /
thing and most gladly,-to bring the case to
the notice Of Gen. Banks, then commanding |
at New 0aleans; but fear. as he was soon !
succeeded bv Gen. Candy, thatthe American |
war is still felt in the estimabe and pleasant |
family at neva.-Religious -Ne'cs Letter.
The jews AND CHINESE or CALIFORNIA
The Jews. true to their affinity for the pre-
cious metals, have been attracted in unusually /
large nubers to the Pacific coast. They are, |
perhaps, 10000 strong in San Francisco. /
They have two splendid synagogues--one |
worth $4,000. and the other Sl740e0 |
They are desperately opposed to Christianity, |
but do not expect TO make prose ytes outside /
of their own nation.
The Chinese heather idolaters constitute |
sne tenth part of the population of California,
aud probably onefourtil part of the popula- |
ton Of san Francisco. You meet them at
every turn with their spring pole on their !
shoulder and basket attached to each end. |
Every Chinaman is called John hy the /
people. and accepts his English name as a
matter of course. They are an inoffensive
people, mind their business, are shrewi, and
anxious TO make money. The Yankees
will not wosk diggings that do not yield
- per day. \ Chnaman will grow rich on
a. per d:y. Tie result is the Chinese ere
procuring and working great many placer
Glggings which have been abandoned by tho
American. They have two heather temples
in the city of San Francisco. Ofcourse, they
will not make preseytes Of Americans. bnt
the possibility that they may vet overrun the
Pacihe coast raises some very grave questions
for Americans
NUMBER op MISSIONARY SocfErIEs IL THE
WORLD. Rev. W /. Gage writes from Ger
many that DIR. Grundemann, ofGotha, WHO'S
10 spend several years in the prepartion of an
Atlas Of Missions, reports the whole number
of Missionary Societies in the world at eighty
five. These are of all degrees of magnitude
from that of the American Board and the
British Wesleyan Society, down to those which
support a single missionary. The number of
British Societies istwenty-two, of American,
twenty. of German, thirteen-mostly small of
Dutch. nine-mostly among their own pos
sessions in the Pacific; of Scandinavians,
seven; of French, one; and of Colonial, seven
In the magnitude of operations, the United
States stand second only to England The
Oldest Society is an English one, that for the
propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
founded ifol
HE PRESBYTERIAN CHrRCH.-The hope of
union OF the Presbyterian Church North
and South--at least for the presents gone.
The PRESBYTERIAN General Assembly of tho |