The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

Ap AlarmtIg State Of Lethargic
Indifference I'm tho Churches
of the Country.
Stir Yourselves, Ye People OF God
Loiter Not by the Way
side.
Be Up and Doing While it Is Day
for the Night Cometh, When
No Man Dan Work.
Waste Not the Time in wantonness N
Idle Dreaming Over Life's
Pleasures.


Pleasures.
BRooKTYS, Jan. IA series of revival
istic services is now In progress in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle and is exciting great inter
est % the public mind. The opening hymn
was:
Come Holy Spirit Heavenly Dove.
With all thy quickening powers"
After expounding appropriate passages OF
Scripture, DR.. rslmage preached on the sub
ject. Awakening" taking his text from
Malachi, iii l.
Behold will sand my messenger. and he shall
prepare the way before me; and the Lord. whom
ye seek, shall suddenly come TO this temple even
the messenger OF the covenant whom We delight
to behold. ne shall ne. saith the Lord of hostts
Sometimes said DR.. Talmsse, q ministers
subject is suggested by his artistic tastes
sometimes by the occurrences of the previous
week; sometimes by nearer who desired
some particular religious subject discussed.
Ny subject comes In no such way. 1t drops
straight from God into my heart. Give me
your prayerful aud intense listening.
want to show this morning, so far as God
may help me, that the gre Atest need of the
Church universal is a mighty awakening.
The OK in the pasture field looks aroand and
perhaps comes to the conclusion that all the
world is clover field. So we, standing in
the midst of lux urisnt religious advantages,
might think, perh APPS, that the earth is GOV
cred with the knowledge of God; but so far
from that, if this platform were the world.
so much of it as l now cover with my right
foot would represent all that is conquered
for Emanuel Or IL this whole Tabernacle
were the world, then one pew would repre-
sent so much of ii as the grace OF God has
already conquered. Oh. there is need of Q
radical changel Something must be done,
and shall show this morning that the great
est need of the Church is q great awakening
l learn this need in the first place from
the
GOODNESS IN THE MAJORITY OF CHURCH MEN.
BEERS.
Ii religious society have 1000 members,
500 of them are sound asleep. Ii IL have
500 members, 400 hundred are lethargic. II
the Christians can rally-that is, the pro
fessed Christians-for communion day, and
succeed in not dropping the wine-cup, how
many of them are satisfied If it be choice
between Christ and the world, the world
has it, You know it as well as do. II Q
religious meeting be on q certain night and
on that same night there be an extraordi-
nary operate entertainment, or social gath
ering. or literary club, or political meeting.
or Free Mason Society. or an odd Fellows
Association, you know which they 90 to.
God there fairly demonstrating that while
such professed Christians pretend to be Cd
His side, they are really on the other side
for there is point-blank issue between
Christ and the world, and the world has it.
You know very well whether you are pro-
| fsssed Christian or not; you know very well
that the dividing line between the Church
and the world to day is-like the equator OF
deltic or antarctic circle-an imaginary line,
and that there are men and women sworn oil
God who sit discussing infinitesimal CUES
tons; shall We dance? shall We play cards
shall we go to the theater? shall we attend
the opera?' while there are 500, O0o, 900 OF
| the race going down to darkness unwarned
taking a little religion with the tip end oil
their fingers, sauntaring on laziiy toward
the bar of Christ, until they come in front
of Gods swift revolving mill and find them
selves to be 1.-The chaff which the wind
driveth away
Oh how much dead wood we have in all
our churches
i THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
will make fearful thinning out anon,
professed Christians. / suppose it will b,
found on that day that there are hundred
of thousands of men who have their name
on the church books who really made relig
ion q second-rate or q third rate thing; liv
ing for themselves, unmindful of God ant
the salvation of the race and then tumble(
over the embankment where Judas wen
and Asian went, and where all those shall
20 who do not make religion the primordia
} thing-the first and the last matter of tn.
soul. Oh worldly professor of religion, vacil
} lating worldly professor idle professor
tremble before God to-day. Do you not know
that if you die as you are, all the commun
ion tables at which you have ever sat viii
lift up hands of blood, crying for your con
domination? And your neglected Bible ant
your prayerless pillow will cry: "Go down
60 down. You pretended to have religion
but you had none. Out of the seven days o
the week you gave not five hours to Christ
I You broke your sacrsmental oath. Go down
go down" And the ieriest and mighties
thuuderbolt of Gods indignation that is eve
forged will smite you into darkness. OH
would rather be the man in the last d.
who has never seen a church shan you VIII
profess to be 30 much and to do so much an
yet do nothing You shall perish in the va,
when Gods wrath is kindled bat Q little.
worldly professor of religion-and there ar
hundreds OF them here to day, am amin
!. at the mark-if you could day realize you
, true condition and your true position
before God. you would bit
: wiring your hands until the bore s cracked
you would utter cry that would send til
whole audience to their feet with o horro
May God wake you up, worldly professor {
religion, before you wake M In the barre
K and flaming dungeons of destroyed etc
J, nifty. When you look abroad and see letf
b argy among the professors OF religion almol
all the world over, do you not see that thel
- is need that the bugles and the symbo
= and the drums and the trumpets of all cart
E and Hea zen call upon the church to wake q
all those dormant professors OF religion
Awake. thou that sleepest, awake. an
Christ shall give thee life "a
Still further see need for
E. GREAT AWAKENING
In the fact that those OF Us who preach Il
d Gospel have so little enthusiasm and re
compared with what We ought to hav
~ Now, you see the gun kicks. | say We WI
NJ preach the Gospel have so little zeal and O
thusiasm for Christ compared with what '