The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-24

thought that I was a lightning rod
which every storm that passed in
the summer would hit; and if I was
not struck it was by God 8 mercy
Twas told to come to Jesus just as
] was, but at the same time / was
charged to be reconciled to God; to
lay down my weapons of rebellion.
l didn't know of any weapons that
I had. I didn't have any Christ,
and didn't know how to get one. ]
had vague impression that if ]
got the right way, as in puzzle,
if I could gst the right rings all
right, I would be blest, but I could
not get the ':knack," the art, and
couldn't get to Jesus in any frame
of mind that 1 tried, and discour-
aged and responding I felt that the
reason was the soverei gnty of the
Most High and all for the best. I
never got to think that Christ was
to me just what a mother is to a
child, and that he was a person to
go to when one was in need; that
one could go to him as law giver
just as you would go to a lawyer if
You were in trouble on earth. /
never thought of His delicacy, His
mildness, His gentleness, and if I
can say it without being misunder
stood, I never had toward Him the
feeling I have toward a gentleman
who is always regardful and sym
pathetic, not domineering, not OBJ
trusive. I never got an idea in all
my early life that God was a gentle
man. I remember when it came
and shall remember it after the
grave, when I felt that there was
an inviting character in God that
drew the sinful man away from his
sin, and seemed to say quietly and
sweetly, come to Me always, you
can't get along without Me; you
need Me in this great business of
life which I know all about. The
God L preach is He who lifts men
up who have stumbled by the way,
who is gentle, helpful, as the atmos
phere presses down on us and
about us; potent, yet invisible; SO
the great feeding spirit of God
presses down around us. Go to
Him in your sin and out of your
sin. He is a Father and wants to
do Fathers work for you.
tALLIoPEs AND EOLIAN HARPs.
Brother White in stiff Presby-
terrain way queried whether they
didn't want big revival once in
while in 8 the church to stir up.
things-would not a sMoody-the
great -revivalist who is turning
Scotland upside down-be of serv
ice? afag sfsa ia
Mr.. Beecher answered: Io;5
Use everything Moody and anti
Moody. All that will do good.
Now Moody is built five feet one
way and fifteen feet the other. He
is an enormous engine, and can
make more steam in one hour than
you speaking to Brother White)
can make in a week, and he ham
mers his way through. He is good
in his way; but there is use fer
dew as well as for ram storms.
Now, those calliopes and the do
caH-ye ups that steam around the
bay screeching and making such
tremendous music are powerful
things; but because my Eolian
harp, by which I sit at twilight and
listen to those strange, low weird
tunes that come through it, does
not screech and Sellow like the
steam music mschine, am I to kick
it aside in aangera No; there isi
work for the harp, the fiddle, the
bassoon. and the horn. God works
in every way. The great pumps
out.at Ridgeood reservoir pump
with agreat giant black engine
thousands of gallons a minute, and
we look at them rise up and go
down and say, sWhew! there
power for youp' But in the mead
ow on the hill side, in the grass
stalks, there is more pumping done
in one night than they can do in a
week, and there is no, coal or fire. |
So all the forces of nature make no
observation, and Gods kingdom
comes without observation.