The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

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but unmistakable, reason ia every case
is the low state Of religion in the heart.
Wide awake, useful and Consecrated peo-
pie are not afraid of revivAls, The man
who is dead ia afraid that his " sep
ulCher will be molestrd. The chief
agen's of the devil 10 opposing revivals
are unConvarted professors OF religion.
As soon as Gods spirit begins to work
nightly in the church, there are pro-
fessors Of religion who begin to gossip
against it. They run around with a pail
of water trying to put on the fire here
and to pu, it out there. D. they sue.
ceed2 When Chicago was on fire a man
with a garden watering.D t might as
well have gone out to eXtinguish it. You
see that during a revival the fre starts
in too many place and by the time Que
excited soul mas been dOused with cold
water there are fifty other souls on fire.
Oh, how much more blessed to help pull
the Lords chariot than for us to fling
our elves in front of the wheels, hoping
to block the progressl Did you ever
hear that there was once a Convention
Of ICebergs in the ArCtic2 1t seems
that towards summer the sun increased
in heat, and there was danger that all
the ice, fields be broken up, So the tall
eat, broadcast, coolest of the incbergs, the
King of the ArctiCs, took ais place at
the head of the Convention and called
the members to order; but the u in
Creasing in heat and the warn winds
continuing to blow from the South, the
icebergs began to gring against each
other and to move out. The first resolu.
ton passed by the Convention was to
abolish the sun for making such an ex-
element. But the sun refused to be
abolished. A few of the colder iCebergs
loated around as well as they could, try
ing to freez4 up again the Arctic, and get
everything quiet. But the sun got
warmer and warmer, and the King of
Ice began to perspire under the cold, and
many of the smaller members toppled
over and dropped, and cries Of "Order
0rderl" were of no avail. AS a great
monster of trigidity split into ten thous.
and flinders the cry was too much ex-
element. Where are We going tor
cried a thousand voices. And before
they knew it they had fpated into the
Cuff Stream, and there they melted and
hoated together in the great bosom of
the Atlantic Ocean. The warm sun is
the Eternal Spirit. The icebergs are the
frigid professors, The warm Gulf Stream
is the tide of glorious revival. The ocean
into which everything melts is the great
wide heart of a %pardoning and sympa
thizing God. l suppose that the chief
OBSTACLE in the way of revivals is an un.
converted ministry. There is no doubt
that many get into the Christian minis.
try Of all denominations who have never
been regenerated. Such persons are al
ways antagOnistiC to reViVa,s. How did
they get into the ministry? Some Of
them perhaps chose it. as a re- pectable
profession. Some as means Of liveli-
hood. Many by mistake, supposing they
we're really changed Of heart, when they
were not. There is no doubt that there
are honorable men in the ministry who
may have been mistaken, like Thomas
and Robert Hall, and many
who publicly told the Church
that they were not converted until many
years after they had been ordained to
holy orders, although at the time they
entered the ministry they were sincere,
Gracious God! How solemn is the
With the present ministry in
It's present temperature revivals can not
t g land. While the pews cry
mercy on n side the altar, the pull
must do the same on the other side
he altar. Ministers quarreling, minis
ers trying to pGll each other down, min.
slers struggling for ecclesiastical places,
minister's lethargic with whole congre
dying on their hands What a
peCtaClel The greatest want of the
is an aroused ministry. Then
re shall have aroused churches. The
aa4me will set the pews aa lme.
len like revivals in business, revivals
q art, revivals in intelligence, revivals
t railroad interest, and revivals in eV-
but in matters of the soul.
can prove by a demonstration tia
'ithout revivals this world will never be
inverted, and that in a hundred years
hristianity will be practically extin-
and it is a question of as.ound.
e arithmetic. There are in each gen.
ration at least 80 900 900 children. Now
id $4,000, 900 to the worlds population,
nd have less than 100, 900 in the earth
very year converted, and how long be-
IRE the world will be redeemed. Never;
.)solutely never. As long rs there are
.ore born into the world than into the
hurCh, never. What is to make the
.illenium possible ? Revivals, and moth ,
g but revivals. In time of war recruit.
K stations are opened, and drum and
lite are sounded and the fig hoisted,
I'd the more people fl )cking to an en-.
the better it is liked. 1t ia time
war now. All heaven on one side ,
Il he'll on the Otherbidel Every church
light to be a recruiting station, and the I
ore who crowd in for enlistment the I
etter. When in the time of war y, 900
oops were demanded, there was a great
ir. But the King of the Universe de.
ands at least eight billions more troops
ian are now enlisted, and we want the
ling done gradually, slowly, silently !
on are a wholesale dry goods merchant,
I'd | am a merchant on a smaller scale.
come in to buy goods, and l say, 81
ant a thousand yards of CLOTH" Do you
y, Thank you; l will be very glad to
ii you, but l cannot sell 80 much at
ice. Take twenty yards to-day, and
'enty yards tomorrow, and 30 on until
~ get the thousand. You will want
ore time to examine the goods and l
i'll want more time to inquire into your
edit. A thousand yards are too much
sell in n day" SO far from saying
at you would say, Eyes, step into the
room" and in ten minutes all
ould be fixed. The fact is men can't
ford to be fools in anything but religion.
nat very merchant who sold the 1000 :
Irds at n stroke on Saturday will sit Z
church on Sunday and stroke his +
,ard, and doubt whether it would be
liter to have a thousand souls strug ,
ing in through the course Of ten years 8
to bolt in at n service. We sing :
'out the good times coming and the :
redemption. How far do you I
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