Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-08
THE HARRISON MEETING.


room, and was we'll filled. The meeting was
for prayer and testimony, and was a warm
Methodist meeting, and that is enough of
description for intelligent readers in this age
OF the world. At the close DIR. Marshall made
few remarks, urging upon Christians to
work for the success of the meetings the COM
ing week, followed by Mr.. Harrison in short
exhortation, after which an invitation was
given for any who wished for the prayers of
Christian people to manifest it, when quite
number arose. Not a meeting has been held
vet during this revival when some have not
asked for help.
The next meeting was in the room above, at
1880, being more in the character of regular
church service, but was also conducted as
revival service. The church was we'll filled,
although not SO crowded as heretofore, no
doubt on account of the services at other
churches, but the interest manifested was
fully up to the average. The services opened
with singing the hymn, followed by prayer by
Mr.. Harrison. Mr.. Clark then sang, "Have
You Any Room For Jesus" as a solo.
Hymn: ION Jordan's Stormy Banks Stand"
DR.. Marshall then preached short sermon
from the text:
We are iourneying unto the place of which
the Lord said, 81 will give it thee; come thou
with us and we will do thee good. Numbers,
x:29.
We are all journeying, we have no abiding
place. great philosopher has said, whence
came l? What am doing here? Where am
I going? So we may ask these questions.
We seek city not made with hands. [ can
think of no more important trnth than this:
''We are all journeying. We need in a journey
supplies; God fed his people in the wilder
ness with mama. So IN travelling to heaven,
we receive our supplies as we go. We shall
be fed by the way; God will supply all
your needs We also need protection in a
journey. God protected his people in the
wilderness. So in the heavenly journey, God
will protect us. We also need direction. God
guided his children by the pillar of cloud and
fire; so now he guides US, by his word and by
his spirit. We also need company. The
children of God in the wilderness had each
others company. So now we need company,
and we have it. We may not always have en-
tirely good companions. There were some
bad ones in the old time, SO now We have hypo-
critics, but that only proves that there are true
Christians. Here we have good company,
the best the world knows. 1.-THE salt OF the
earth" is the church still. We cannot stand
alone as well as with company. You want in
this journey the help of the church, and,
Christians, my experience is that, although
many good people are found outside, yet in
side of the church are better people. We are
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existence, but we are going to "place."
Heaven is local habitation. The scrip
ture speaks of heaven as "place;" king
dom, a ''city" But we must be fitted for
Heaven. We could not enjoy the company of
the blest II we were not fitted for it. What
would heaven be to us if we could not sing
| its songs, or enjoy its pleasures? We must
get heaven in the heart. Heaven is righteous
| ness and joy in the Holy Ghost. Idon't know
Ixph hot ic ond don't nor tEun
| hath not been nor hath it entered into the
heart of man to conceive what heave is. If we
get Heaven in our hearts here we shall not
worry about the place. What thought there
| is in the thought of rest. Heaven is rest.
Here we are troubled and weary. Over
| there is rest. There is nothing sure
here. Over there is safety and rest. The old
Indian chief driven west by the white man,
| reached the Mississippi and cut on tree
| "Alabama," which means "here is rest" but
the white man came, and the old chief crossed
| the river and cut again alabama, "but the
| white man came again, and SO the Indian
| went further, and further west land only when
he reached the 'happy hunting grounds y
did he find rest. So with us here there is no
| rest outside of the crest of the people Of
God.'' "Come with us and we will do thee
good" 1t is free invitation. All can go
on this journey. "It is tie kings highway.
i VIC dtC odiO I'll Lhio JO"hoy' AhO iiouo Lld y
| be there, as in Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress,
but they are chained, and cannot touch you,
| il you keep in the way. What will you do with
| this invitation? We come to you with this in
| vitation, will you 20 with us? This is God's
| time, and you will never have a better chance.
Have not some Of you friends on the other
shore, who are calling you to come. "Oh,
come with us, and we will do thee good.'
Mr.. Harrison then led in prayer and followed
I hryo faxr r1yc- In RI
was without power, but while attending
school at Wilbraham l received what call a
"baptism of fire." Shortly after was in Dr.
Cuyler's Sunday school, and at a prayer meet
| ing afterwards l got go happy felt i must
shout, or leave, or speak, and as a final COM
promise / spoke, and young man was CON-
verted while was speaking. II was new ex-
perience to me, but had just been So richly
| blessed that it was "God's power manifest"
That was my first soul, and God has given
me $500 since. A man in York, Pa, was con-
| victed by the Holy Ghost, and took the train
| for Oil City to try and get away from God,
| but God followed him, and the first thing he
| did when he got there was to buy ticket
home again. When he arrived there the
church where l was holding the meetings was
SO full the doors were locked, and SO he
crawled in under side gate and got in the
back way, and much to my astonisment arose
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exclaimed, 81 have got it, l have got ii, f"
To-day he is one OF the pillars of the church.
Oh, God grant that many may be able to say,
| 81 have got it." If we all do our duty, many
will say it.
AtlEthe conclusion of Mr.. Harrison's re.
marks the meeting was closed.
The Red Rock camp meeting will com.
mence on the Dist of June. Mr.. Harrison has
been engaged and will be present during the
| whole time. The meetings here will continue
until that time. The afternoon meeting, at
$3.50, opened by singing the hymns, "The Saw
ior Is Calling You, Sinner" followed by
"When Jesus Shall Gather the Nations"
| ''Lord, Care not for Riches" bringing in
the Sheaves," "Is There any Sad Heart that is
Heavy Laden" Mr.. Harrison then made a
short address:
Men often say to me, "You do too much;
you overwork yourself; you 60 beyond your
strength" But no one ever says, you do not
do your duty, and they never shall. Ever
since was 16 years old have been working
| for souls. One of our hymns says, awaiting
will not save me-" That is true. Some of
you have been waiting, waiting, waiting, for
years, and some OF you may wait too long.
should like to see greater manifestation
of power here.
Faith in Christ will save you. told one
young man I was talking with, who had been
great amusement seeker, that he would have
to give up many of these things. and he re-
marked, "I'm not thinking what l shall have
to give up, but what I'm to gain" That's it,
God takes us as paupers and makes us million
aires-heirs of heaven.
In Philadelphia one young man came to the
meetinp in an Indifferent shirt and was ar.