Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29
A Tunker Revival.
IN AUGUSTA-CROWDED AUDIENCES /
HIS SERMONS.
&C., &C., sc.

| Reported for the Staunton VINDIcAToR.l
| Large congregations have been attract
ed every night, for the last month to Bar
rem Ridge or the Brick Church, near New
Hope, to hear the sermons of Rev. C. G..
Lint, Bishop of the Thinker Church
Mr.. Limits manner is extremely prepo-
sessing. He is physically, and mentally
| too, for that matter, a powerful man his
hair is combed straight back. but is with
out the characteristic part in the mid
die, his eye beautifully black, clear, soft,
penetrating; his whiskers, it strikes us,
are trimmed fashionably, with an express
sion of countenance honest and genial, his
face is handsome as tits manly. It is but
to repeat the popular expression to say,
that no man has, in this vicinity. elected
more universal commentator or attract
ed such multitudes of delighted auditors.
This eminent divine is a Pennsy lvanian,
was educated in some other church, but
elected, in his maturer years. the Tun
ker, learned the blacksmith trade, and still
loves as he says, the musical ring of the
anvil. Mr.. Lint has a clear, silvery voice :;
his logic is, sometimes, overwhelming and
his arguments are driven home as with a
sledge hammer. It is astonishing, the
eager crowds that have flocked to hear
this man preach. Last Thursday evening
it was with difficulty that your reporter
could get seat in the Brick Church, one of
the most capacious houses of worship in the
county. Every place in the vast auditori-
UNI was occupied by some anxious listener,
judging from the respectful, marked atten-
tion given. The speaker quoted as his
text, st. Mathew, 10Th Fl, %, %: in which
Peter tells the Saviour he shall not go up
to Jerusalem to be slain, and Christ re-
plies ''Get thee behind me Satan.',
"This was the language" he said ''of our
Saviour to his Apostle Peter. to him to
whom, after time Christ said "Thou art
Peter, and upon this Rock build my
Church. Christ having asked his Apostle,
"Who am I,"and Peter answering, ''Thou
art Christi" he changed the subject and
said L must go to Jerusalem" Observe, my
friends, the language 81 mast go,'' 1t is
unavoidable, land where go, must suf-
fer, suffer at the hands OF the Elders of
the people, at the hands Of those who, are
looked upon as leaders, Chief Priests,
those round whom are thrown robes sacer-
dotal; those from whom it might
be presumed no harm could come every
people of the Jewish nation will be repre-
scented at Jerusalem whittier L must go
toabe killed. The Apostle did not under
stand the words, but Christ said II must
go, not only to be smitten, reviled, scorn-
ed, but killed-killed at the hands of my
countrymen, but after three days l will
rise again. must pass through this be-
cause Of you.'' Who ordained him to this
His Father. This man must suffer and
die for the remission of sins-1ie that men
might live. Suffer as we may, fall where
we will, my friends, he has suffered and
fallen and can sympathise with us. What
a consolation it must be to the Christian,
whatever the physical agonies of his dy-
ing moments, totknow that Christ, who
has gone before, suffered and died for
him.
Peter, you remember, reasoned with
Christ, saying, ''Loru, thou shalt neither
suffer nor die" What supreme folly
This thought is suggested: Man IS judgment
should not stand between himself and
Gods. If it does, tell you we are in dan
ger. We should not oppose our personal
feeling to Gods declaration. 1t was sheer
presumption in Peter to say, ''Thou shalt
not" But this apostle, as apprehend,
was like great many fast men we have
nowadays. and spoke without thinking
what he said. Mans judgement. what
ever it may be, when God speaks, should
not be found in opposition. In all things
we must submit, whatever our ideas-that
is, if we wish to be benefited.
You remember, Peter was not very
ready disciple; he wanted to have every
thing this way, and that way, and especi-
ally his own way. So it is with us, SO with
children, and sometimes old folks, too; but
that won't dove must submit to just
what God says. Now then, when God
speaks we must obey. Suppose Peters
proposition had been accepted. Suppose
the Lord hadn't gone to Jerusalem. Why,
there would be fearful vacuum in this
grand plan of redemption. We, tonight,
would be estranged and without re-
deemer, without that sweet fellowship.
Tonight all would be dark and gloomy
we would be without life and happiness,
without hope. But see, God speaks now
!. to all of us in language that carries upon
it's bosom your eternal interests. None
are excluded; his words penetrate every
heart.-They have penetrated every
heart.''
Then, after a parenthetical disquisition
touching the character of the impulse by
which men ought to be Influenced, the
speaker charged his voice with a tremor
that startled every auditor. and exclaimed,
"God has said, 'You are doomed to die. ,
You must die; it is too manifest, we don't
think about these things. Some one from
among you has gone to eternity every day
since it has been my pleasure to be in your
midst. You are in danger of dying in
your sins. It savors not of the things of
God that you are standing still. only
want men to know that if they stand still
they die. Some people think if they do
nothing against God that it is all right;
but doing nothing, I tell you, is death
Doing nothing! You must get new prln-
ciples; must feel the new life; must
be born again." Mr.. Lint then describ-
ed in fascinating manner the beauties of
the new birth.
Some people try to change the heart
intellect, my friends; the medium between