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
down till ali that is wrong gets out of and
made pure have noticed that when revival be-
gins and the preacher gets to be IN earnest ana the
way. Somebody cries out against the work. Not
only outside of the Church sinners and those who
there are those who criticise prayers and
efforts and cry down the work Of Christ
TSey PH 'ay aegt amosnt tn anything 0' great
umphant army marches along the highway. out or
some farmers yard comes little whfet % % OF dog.
retreat No. They laugh and pass on. So 1T
to me all this opposition should have no effect
the Church. To doubt is disloyalty; to fater is
sin. pity tho soul from the depths of my sympa-
thetc being who seeks to lay straw in the way OF
ana because somebody else is getting warmer and
more like Christ they disturbed. Blessed be
God, they sometimes get so disturbed that they TOO
are turned upside down.
THE MISSION OF RELIGION.
Religion is intended to turn the world upside
down. Men of dignity and scholarly attainnents
naturally go to the top. and the poor and owly
put underneath. But the Gospel comes along and
changes all this. study Chrst's first teachings
alted The worlds theories of position
turned upside down; The soul that said,
down. Cornelius is cited. No better morality is
needed than his, yet conversion ana baptism were
needed to make him a Christian The worlds
become wholly Christ's. 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 sense of our need before can be
saved Ezekiel with reference to his salvation, cried
and howled and smote his thigh. Homer
the same description. When human soul recog-
nzes its danger 1t is natural for 1t to seek salvation
1t is in agony until salvation is found, and with
strong cryngs out the way of truth is sought When
souls converted of old it charged that the
world 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 radical change there would be- II the
Atlantic Ocean should be set fire and blaze up all
be. So is there change in the sinner who repents.
Taken out of this horrible pit and the miry
clay and set 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 turn away to the glorious
heaven above with its pearly 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
a decent and noble life. I'd like to see 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
all might be turned upside down. So should all be
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