Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-30
3tligISAs department.
FRUITS OF THE REVIVAL.

that they were not characterized for
their elegance or their devotional spirit.
They will be pleased to read the follow
ing, which was delivered with great
earnestness and feeling, in one of the
Moody meetings recently.
Whatever can do in speaking will
be by telling my story as briefly and as
plainly | can. l never doubted the ex-
istence of God. Since came to observe
things, the rising and the setting sun,
and the sea and the sky and all the
marvel of the seasons, have been proof to
me that there must be a Supreme Being
that was the cause of all life and the
source of all truth. but as for any de
pendence upon that Being, any commun-
ion with Him. and trusting Him | was
as absolutely indifferent as savage or
pagan. But while living in this world
many years and living like the world,
my father and my mother and my wife
and my sisters and many friends were
pouring their prayers into heaven and
pleading there for me. and their prayers
were heard and | became intellectually
convinced that there was nothing to a
human being of such concern to him as
the welfare of his own soul. l knew
well enough that [ had had evil and
good put before me, and that l had de-
liberately chosen the evil, and that there
stood against me sum Of sin. There
it stood the fact could not be denied;
no shoddy metaphysics, no fancy logic,
no trick of reason could delude me with
the idea that | could forgive my own
sin. was too sensible for that, and |
anxiously looked into the Bible for help,
and found that if that book didn't un-
derstand anything else in the world it
understood the nature and the condition
and the wants of my ssul with an unerr-
ing accuracy. | saw l wanted a new
nature if any man did, ana fo-ad that
| and all other men could accept the
plan of salvation provided by the wis
dom and the love of God, and obtain a
new heart and live in Him and for Him,
or | and all other men could reject that
,Io, an1 mo ooulJ have an, old ,o1,.o,
and live without Him here and for here
after. l chose deliberately to give my
self up to that Saviour who by the
passion of the cross had given Himself
to death for me- 1 chose. | say, to do
this, but determined at first to do it
all alone by myself, very quietly in the
silence of my own chamber, with no one
but Almighty God as my confdant. One
Sunday evening altogether beyond any
arrangement of mine, without the slight.
est intention of so doing. and now il
seems to me guided by the hand of the
Power above me, was led into the Tab.
ernacle. | don't know how Mr.. Moody
knew was there, but he did. | never
spoke to him in my life till this noon
and yet he evidently got up that sermon
expressly for me, because every sentenc,
. in it, like rife shot, went to my heart
it was that sermon upon the Precious
WILL and the main scene was Whose
ever will confess me before men, hin
will l confess before my Father in Heav
en- All, those words Confess befor
men rang in my ears, they seemed lik
} a bolt coming from the skies with tn
- light of the throne upon them. and di,
confess before men. told my stOr
." with the weakest knees l ever had i
" my life, but there came to me that con
sciousness, which is the only test @
spiritual knowledge, that Pardon an
. help from God had come to me; and
= stand here these few minutes in the Ger
tire of this city as one of the later vii
: nesses, and my testimony like all tn
martyrs and all the believers that i
.l song and prayer have told of the vi
speakable worth of salvation, is but or
! moro witness. There are men her
many of them, that know me. The
~ know what l say now to be true, that
n have shared in this city | love as man
- social and as many public occasions ;
nd any man in it. On land and on sea
1t have mingled in scenes of festivities an
let Boston has no pleasure, not a plea
70 ure untasted by me. | know it throug
:" and through. l have sampled tn
ny worlds goods in all their variety. and
ye have sampled the promises of my Faith
ny in Heaven. | tell you. with the soler
mo- nifty of this hour upon me, that crow
L:o ed life of what is called enjoyment, col
~ u' pacted into one glowing whole, aged
g fore two weeks of that peace viii
"a comes with prayer and certainty that n
poo feet are on the Rock of Ages.
'bo Oh, may God help me to touch SOL
az heart here today. In very few yea
~ a very few years. my friends, we sh;
20 30 be standing upon the border of t
~ shoreless sea. and then with the chill
-; death upon our faces we must eth
~ - hear the condemnation, He that is u
~ just. let him be unjust STILL or, havi
~; ~ touched the hem of his garment,
= shall look beyond and see the beckon
~ hand and the shining face and hear t
"n beloved voice welcoming us with the
'a;r words. Come unto me ye blessed of l
IN Father, inherit the kingdom prepar
-. for you from the foundation of I
" world"
rod A. Al 1911 L.. .