Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-04-30

. ed at fremont Temple, bv Rev. j. d.
Fulton:
THE MAN Is BEFORE Us.
Here then is the man equipped and
ready for work. Hitherto he has bee,
confined to the principal towns and the
principal villages of Jefferson, Lewis
Oswego aud Cayuga Counties. In
these meetings he had seen God. lie
had seen the ploaghshare of truth go in
beam deep. He had witnessed such
marvellous revelations of Gods power
as rendered him utterly fearless. lie
had seen men during prayer complete.
~ broken They had fallen down as
dead, and obtained life only by yiald.
ing TO Christ. lie had seen the devil
utterly beaten by the Christ he preach
ed, aud sent howling down to hell to
report among the damned the trophies
won for the Redeemer. lie has seen
uhlvcrsaiism threaten him with mobs,
with arrests. and vet he had seen God
take care OF him. lie had seen God, in
answer to PRAYER, disperse a mob at
Rochester. y. Y, with belching thun-
der and with iorked lightning, until the
hosts OF Baal had fed for refuge to their
hiding-placcs and left him master of the
field. He had seen man that stood
across the track OF the meeting, taken
IN hand BY the power of tod, compell-
ell 10 20 on his hands aud feet like a dog.
and had seen him 20 howling out OF the
prayer-roon in that condition, and go
| into the corner of a fence to crv like a
wounded cur. in the midst OF his terri
bic agony. lie had known thata Uni
versalist minister had been rendered
specchlcss FOR more than year in an
swcr To the PRAYER that God would con-
! vert him or stop his mouth. From
amidst such scenes, where after passing
! all night in prayer, he had seen meet
ing begin in weakness, increase in pow
or until all the devils in a community
were stirred up, when the church would
lay hold OF the horns OF the alter, aud
/ pray on with him until God came and
Oroke out IN terrible scalhing, wither-
/ ing power towards sinners, and in low
ing, helping and saving power to the re-
| peniant, al which line the stream OF
salvation would flow iull-banked and
would sweep every thing before il.
Such man to-day is wanted as a
/ leader in this great onset against the
/ powers ci wickedncss.
HE WAS LITERALLY FEARLESS.
Compromised doubt il he could
| spell the word. lie knew not tear. lie
| began his campaigns where evangclists
now leave Iheml and when Universal
/ ism, Unitarianism, iutideltv, whiskcv
aud the devil combined their forces and
made AN united and aggressive attack
all along their line, then that eye OF his
would open like the gates OF "A palace,
and lac would 20 forth in the might OF
God. -Etna, in an eruption, with red.
hot lava pouring down every side oi lie
fiery cone. burning Iompcii, and threat
cnlng to fill up the Mediterranean, WAS
not more terrible. 1t is impossible To
follow him 10 Baltimore. to Boston, to
New York, TO Broukly II, 10 Chicago. 10
81. Louis, 10 San Francisco And Il thou-
- -.nd lesser places. aud describe 1ini.
['hc volume that might bc written Of
Ss1iin would contain wonders, which
Dickens j. needed TO describe, and such
deeds ot chiyalry as Sir Walter Scott
alone could portray. Time will Iail me.
Let me speak OF the tnau a. knew him.
Storie. in unconntcd numbers preiudi-
cial 10 him ! had heard from boyhood
up. | was familiar with all that wa,
said about his cUyetOusness, about his
cosrscncss, about his impoliteuess, ~
conducting. meeting, about his Terri
bic sava ageness towards his euemic. be-
fore lie came 10 help in fremont Tenn
pie. | shall always IcjoIcc Tor my OPP
portunity OF knowing the man.
WHERE WERE THE HIDISGs or HIS POWER?
In this: He Travelled with God in
PRAYER. He kept with God. Hour
after hour he would lit III his chair with
the Bible on his knees. or else on his
knees with the Bible before him, and
would read those portions ot Scripture
over and over which showed how God
swept away difficulties. The falling Of
the walls Of Jericho the march OF I,rae.
through the Red sea; the successes of
Gideon; the triumphs OF jonathan, and
OF David, and OF Daniel. and Eljan, and
Of Paul, aud Of Peter, aud OF the church
e.; in these were the sirdings of his
strength lie believed III God. lie did
not manage. He pushed out from shore,
launched his bark on the stream of pray
er, and Kept in the very centre OF the
current, as Dies the pilot going down
the lie Chen rapids. You could not
turn him aside. lie WAS never afraid.
lie never tried 10 iix things. lie waited
on God, aud preached mary ellously
well. lie would do what was necessary
to be done without consulting with
flesh aud blood. have seen him in the
presence o. the most refined and cultur-
ed utt,r passages which must have
ranked in their memories like barbed
| arrows, as much as 10 say who cares for
rebels against God, while in presence of
the poor and sorrowins soul he had the
tenderness of a loving, cooling mother.
His truthfulness was marvellous. He
would not be untrue to God for the sake
the favor of men. He cared in those
| days nothing about men. God filled
him full. and there was room for no
other guest in his inn. He gloried in
Jesus Christ he hated all that array
ed themselves against Him. His ten.
dcrness was so surprising. 'Plav gent
| w." said the battle SCARED soldier.
He asked that his tavorite revival songs
be sung very softly. His gentleness OF
spirit was one of his marked and best
| developed characteristics.
he hated the devil. He believed in
| his personality. l never saw such hate;
| | never heard such language as he used
when he described that king of hell
prowling in the congregation Tor souls.
His sermon Oh Sbiritualism begins
| with the appearance oI the ueV1i III the
garden, and goes on down the ages de-
scribing his Vaccinations with Job, with
Saul, with Ananias and Saphira, and
coming down to these last times, when
the stories he related eclipsed all other
stories related by Spiri.ualists, and
changed house of prayerinto burning
hell, where damned souls writhed in un-
utel able torture, so that when he had fin
ished, and looked down upon the secth-
ing mass, almost biting their tongues
in agony, said, "This is hell, and all
who are tired of it and want salvation,
rise up and call on God" Over thou
sand poplc leaped 10 their feet, some of
them holding up both hands and crying
for deliverance. His preaching reused
the conscience. After hearing such
sermon, one could understand how whom
he preached on temperance in Baltimore,
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