Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-01
REVIVAL RUCTION

REVIVAL RUCIlON
Whittle and McGranahan's Raid on the
Hosts Of Satan.
The House of Hope church was about two
thirds full last evening, when the choir opened
the meeting at 7:s0 by singing 1.-THE Gospel
Bells are Ringing" Mr.. Samuel Baldwin pre-
siding at the organ. Quite number Of the
singers seemed to be absent. and the absence Of
the cornet in leading the singing was notice.
able. . 81 ~ II .,
Major white then requested the audience
to rise and join il singing hymn No. So, "Will
Jesus find us Watching?"
ny this time tho number of the audience
had been augmented by late arrivals to q full
house.
Following the singing the opening prayer
by Or. Dana, of Plymouth church. The tenor
OF the reverend gentleman'as prayer was the
desire that God would fill thisl people with his
spirit and enable them to consecrate them.
selves more fully to his work; also that brother
Whittle might be filed with the same power to
the saving of many souls, that the seeming
indifference of many Christians might he
changed into working spirit for the good of
the cause.
Following the prayer came a fue quartet for
male voices. entitled. ''I'm On my journey up
lions bill" with Mr.. McGranahan and his
wife LIST tenor, Messrs. Moore and Wise I'd ten.
or. MIR. Fulton and DeLacey 1st bass A. E.
Clark and DR.. Boardman I'd bass. This was
rendered in very effective and pleasing man
ner.
Mr.. NJ. D. Edwards, Of tho Dayton avenue
Presbyterian church. then read the scripture
lesson from Matthew, 9Th chapter, the Beati-
tudes, LIST to 18th verses. This was followed
by prayer by G. Smith for a blessing upon the
meeting. ~ 5,sssTti -.
Mr.. McGranahan, assisted by Mrs. MEG.
then sang solo from the Gospel Hymns the
words taken from the scripture lesson, in the
verse. Let your light 80 shine before men,
that Others, seeing your good works. may glori-
fy your Father which is in heaven" This
hymn gave Mr.. MEG. an opportunity to dis
play his very fine and mellow voice, to the de.
light of the audience. 1t was rendered in a
very effective manner.
Major white then made the an.
nouncements for to-day and Sunday, as follows:
meeting for bible study at the Y. NJ. @. A.
| rooms at 80 to-day, conducted by tie Rev. 8.
G. Smith.
Meeting for men only at the Opera House
Sunday afternoon at O. clock. Tickets of adj
mission to this service may be obtained at any
of the book stores to-day and at the Y. NJ. O. A.
! rooms.
Evening services at House of Hope and First
Methodist church at the usual hour Mr.. Nc
"A meeting also at Clinton avenue NJ. E.
church in West St. Paul.
The speaker then began his discourse, his
text being taken from James, 2lst verse: "a
Qoer Of the Word.'' The apostle James was a
| man who desired Christians to show bv their
! life that they were children of God. A man
! must haze life to show life. If q man has
light. as in the song, it must shine, until
man realizes that he is lost, and looks to God
for help, or he can not
be saved. If We have received this
light in our souls we will be doors of the word:
IF it il MOI the ruling purpose of our hearts to
serve the Lord, we have good reason to doubt
our conversion"
A man once blessed God for free salvation,
He had been member of the church for twenty
years, and it hadn't cost him cent. The Lord
says: Except q man take up his cross and
follow me, he is not worthy me-" If any one
| here is thinking of coming to Christ, count the
cost first and then decide, but count the cost
on both sides. Those servants of God who
have been set before us as examples have been
working and fighting Christians.
The examples of faith in Heb. 18th were all
OF this character. Abel. Noah, Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Joseph. Joshua. Moses, David and
\ Daniel. And so Paul. in the New Testament
was doer of the work, our Savior.
In Christ. God was working; see how busy,
everywhere and always Jesus was, preaching
to the multitudes and healing. them, all day
1
said, "As my Father hath sent you into the
world, ascend you into the world"
There is work for each member of the
church. Well, now, are we doors of the work?
1t IA not enough that we wish to be doors of
the work. Joshua says, Choose yc this day
How long halt ye between two opinions?'
We deceive ourselves by thinking that SO long
as we desire to be doors we are right. When
these truths are presented to men they in a
measure feel the truth Of them, bubthey do
| not aot You are commanded in Gods word to
Lord
| At Northampton, Mass, some time ago. the
deacons of the church were so anxious FIR
Coda blessing, and were so filled with q desire
for the authorizing of his spirit that they got
together and prayed all night for the blessing
the next Sabbath. The result was that over
6OO persons were converted by the sermon.
President Edwards preached the next day. o ".
minister was once called to attend a dying
man whom he never remembered to have seen
before. Asking him how and where he
had heard him preach, the man answered, II
never heard you preach, sir, but three years
ago. one dark night, was crossing the square
IN hurry, anxiously in search of certain
house, and met you and inquired the way
there. You told me. and added, I hope you
are as anxious to find your way to heaven as
you are to find this house, brother These
words brought conviction to my heart and led
me to find Christ, and want to bless you for
it before de-
man in st. Louis, we'll known as fash
1Onable and worldly man, was at revival meet
lag at the rink. After the meeting was over
and the usual inquiry meeting was in progress,
| be appeared troubled and was noticed to bow
! his head. One of the pastors addressed him,
and said he was glad to see him manifesting an
interest in religion. "Oh, 1 hope they don't
think am waiting for that, . said he, Il have
lost valuable ring here, and am waiting till
the crowd disperses to find it." 80 MANY are
ashamed to be thought seeking Jesus when they
| would put themselves in unpleasant situations
for some earthly object.
After very earnest appeal to all Christians
to be more faithful in this work. and to all who
had not yet fornd Christ to do so tonight. Mai.
Whittle closed his remarks with very feryent
prayer for Gods blessing upon the work lust
iRaugurated.
The choir then sang Pressing On during
which the ushers distributed two tracts
through the audience one addressed tn Chris.
tlans, the other 10 non-Drofessors. OF these
Major Whittle urged careful perasal. To al
low the further distribution the choir and
audience sang another hymn, well Work till
Jesus Comes" after which the benediction was
pronounced by Rev. Mr.. 8. N. Davis, of the
jackson street Methodist church, and the meet
ing closed.
Non. shrinking tiannels gerry cheap at LII East
Seventh street.
Sunday Diversion at River Falls.
Last Sunday afternoon, the quiet of the viii