The New York herald., 1879-02-03

turn the world upside down. The world is wrong
side up and the religion of Christ is intended to make
wrong things right. We must be turned upside
down till all that is wrong gets out of us and we are
made pure. have noticed that when a revival be-
gins the preacher gets to be in earnest and the
people pray earnestly somebody always stands in the
way. Somebody cries out against the work Not
only outside of the Church sinners and those who
are by nature devils, but also in the Church
there are those who criticise prayers and
efforts and cry down the work. of Christ
They don't amount to anything. A great. tr
umphant army marches along the highway. Ont of
snarling and barking and growing. Shall the army
retreat No. They laugh and pass on. SO 1T
seems to me all this opposition should have no effect
on the Church To doubt is disloyalty; to falter is
sin. pity the soul from the depths of my sympa-
thetc being who seeks to lay straw in the way of
and because somebody else is getting warmer and
more like Christ they are disturbed: Blessed be
God. they sometimes get so disturbed that they
are turned upside down.
THE MISSION OF RELIGION.
Religion is intended to turn the world upside
down. Men of dignity and scholarly attainnients
naturally go to the top. and the poor and owly
put underneath. But the Gospel comes along and
changes all this study christ's first teachings
alted. The. worlds theories of position
turned tu upside down. The soul that said,
down. Cornelius is cited. No better morality is
needed than his. yet conversion ana baptism were
Notions notions Of morality moral T are % turned upside dow DOWN
We must be revolutlonized IL we are to
become wholly Christs. by the renew
ing grace Of God people may be totally
changed. God said He would have healed Babylon,
but she is not healed. He would have purged Jeru-
salem, but she would not be purged. We must be
awakened to a sense of our need before can be
saved Ezekiel with reference to his salvation cried
and howled and smote his thigh. Homer uses
the same description. When human soul recog-
nzes its danger It is natural for it to seek salvation
1t is in agony until salvation is found. and with
strong cryngs out the way of truth is sought When
souls were converted of old it charged that the
world was turned upside down, and thank God. it
true.
The great host Of sinners is marching down to
eternal death. Christ calls "Hat?" Let every sinner
stand still and turn toward salvation Sinners must
realize that the must be- saved and Christians must
realize that they must retain salvation. Suppose
Niagara stopped STILL that drop of water should
move, what a radical change there would be- II the
Atlantic Ocean should be set fire and blaze up all
over its surface what radical change there would
be- So is there change in the sinner who repents.
clay and set on the rock of ages, what
wonderful change! From the pit Of the lost
and damned come the howls Of the lost and the
screams of the damned. LOST lost! they shrek.
How terrible! Let me turn away to the glorious
heaven above with it's peary gates, with its twelve
manner of fruit. What change! Let the sinner
seek this change Let him turn from his fate to the
home his father offers. We must be stirred up.
turned upside down, will be brought into
q decent and noble life. I'd like to the whole
community turned upside down. I'd like to hear
the shouts of salvation going up from the sidewalks
from the street cars from the whole city Oh, that
the change would come the whole world, and that
all might be turned upside down. So should all be