The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-22

crv. "Come forth!" l verify believe
there are souls in this house who are
now dead in Sin, who In half an hour
will be alive forever. There was thrill
ling dream, glorious dream--you may
have heard Of 1t. Ezekiel closed ms
ewes and he saw two mountains and a
valley between the mountains. That
valley looked as though there had been
great battle there, and whole army
mad been slain and they had been left
unburied, and the hear of the land and
the vultures coming there, soon the
bones were exposed to the sun and they
looked like thousands OF snow drif all
through the valley. Frightful spectacle!
Bleaching skeletons of host But
Ezekiel stil kept his eyes shut, and 30
there were four currents OF wind that
blew upon that ttl4-6eld, aud where
those four currents of wind met the
bones began TO rattle, aud the foot came
to the ankle, and the hand to the wrist
and the Jaws clashed together, and the
spinal column gathered up the gang
lions and the nervous fibre, and all the
valley wriggled and writhed and thlob'
bed and rocked and rose up. There,
man coming to lfr; there, a hundred
men; there, a thousand, and all falling
into line, waiting fjr the shout OF their
Commander. Ten thousand bleached
skeletons springng up into ten thousand
warriors painting for the fray. l hope
that instead of being dream it may be
prophecy Of what We shall see here
tonight. Let this north wall be one OF
the mountains, and the south wall be
taken for another Of the mountains, and
let all the aisles and pews be the valley
between, for there are thousands here
tonight without one pulsation of spirit.
ual life. look off in one dlrecti lE, and
they are dead l look otf in another dl,
reCtion, and they are dead. Who will
bring them to life2 Who will rouse
them up? If l should halo at the top
of my voice could not awake them.
Wait a moment Listenl There is q
rustling. There is a gale from Heaven.
1t co L es 9from the north and from the
south and from the east and from the
west. 1t shuts us in. 1t blows upon the
slain. There a soul begins to move in
spiritual life; there ten souls; there a
score of souls; there a hundred souls.
The nostril throbbing in Divine respra'
ton, the hands lifted as though to take
hold of heaven, the tongue moving as
though in prayer and alteration. Life
immortal life-coming into the slain.
Ten men for God-ftty. hundred, a
regiment, an army for God. Oh, that
we could have such scene here to-
night! In Ezekiel's words and in almost
frenzy of prayer cry, Come from the
four winds, o, breath, and breathe upon
the slain !"
What, an amazing pity that any man
should 90 from this house unblessed,
when such large bles ing is offered |
them at less cost than you would pay
for pin-"without money and without
price" I have driven down to night
with the Lords ambulance TO the battle
field where your soul lies exposed to the
darkness and the storm, and want to
lift you in and drive off with you toward
heaven. Oh, Christians by your pray
ers help lift those wounded souls into
the ambulance, and forbid that any
should be left on the field, and that at
last eternal sorrow and remorse and de.
spair should come up around their souls,
like the bandit Phiistines to the field of
Gilboa, stripping the slain.