Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04
THE GREAT REVIVAL.
G.. w. WILSON TURNS HIS ATTEN-
TION TO THE LAWYERS.
The Home Comes in for Its Share OF
Attenti0n---Dudes, Anarchists,
and HOOdlnmS.

afternoon lecture a heavy mist OF ram was
falling and not more than seventy-flve
people were present, but after the service
commenced people kept coming and it was
not many minutes until the room was well
filled. Mr.. Wilson gave notice that he
would lecture this afternoon, but he want
ed the members to speak and tell if they
were aware of any obstacles in their way
! to prevent their taking an active part i'll
this meeting. He said he felt that he did
not have the support of a very large pro-
portion Of the membership of the NJ. f.
church and some had told him that they
did not believe in the doctrine of sanctif-
cation which he had been preaching He
thought it remarkable that Methodists
should not believe in sanctifca-
Jion when 1t was one of
the cardinal principles Of primitive Meth
odism. Quite a number spoke and most Of
them seemed ready to engage earnestly in
the work. Mr.. Wilson said he did not
come to teach philosophy or muddy
physics" but Christ. He thought if the
church gets holiness that a great work
could be done here in Wichita. He had no
faith in their ability to convert thousand
sinners unless the church first received d
great blessing, He said: "How can you
preach to others what you have not got
YOURSELF" He told the people there was
no use to pray forever for a something.
'.The way to do was to ask for what you
wanted and then get it," Last night the
house was well filled Several ministers
were present, Revs. Akin, Woods, Delhi
Hodgson and Hoyt occupied places
|, IL IL. oil trN
want to get near the altar, and before the
back part of the house was near full chairs
were placed in the aisles and in the open
space around the altar. Some of the good
brethren came in and removed their over
coats and seated themselves with great de-
liberation. They seemed to say by their
actions if Mr. Wilson hits me tonight
there will be trouble in camp.
When Mr.. Wilson arose he first gave no
tice that there would be no service today
and then announced his text: ''How
long halt ye between two opinions? If the
Lord be God serve Him; if Baal, serve
him.
He said: ''There is period in every
mans life wnen he halts between two
opinions. The great question of whether he
viii serve God or not is presented to his
mind, then he is confronted with doubts.
A man will never reach the place in this
probationary state when he will not at
times halt in his opinions and doubt his
ability to perform his whole duty. You
will look back over your life and regret
your mistakes. You were perhaps profane
and your boy swears. You after time
find out that life is real and calls for manly
action on your part. You begin to regret
that you did not come to Jesus sooner and
obtain the benefits of His gospel You re-
spect religion and you expect to be con-
verted and you expect to be saved but
that will not save you. God help you, and
may You make your choice to serve
God and not BaaI. Many people in
this house have been thinking for years
that they will some time come to God
But you are no more fit for Heaven now
than you were the first time these notions
dawned upon your mind. You have de-
cided against your convictions that you
will not seek Christ now. 1t will injure
your business, or perhaps you have Ger
tain object which you want to accomplish
before you seek Jesus. When you have
accomplished the object in life for which
you have resisted the spirit you will be
still further from Jesus. j tell you tonight,
the very thing you put away Jesus to OBJ
tain, will in after years be a source of
misery to you. If the thing you wish to
accomplish is lawful seek God first and all
else will be addressed unto you, A good
woman once said / want sanctification, and
the devil told her she could not keep it,
that sanctifcation was all right for revival
times, but when you get home it wont do
1t wont work. She said, Il am saved
now Just as she arrived home, to her
own door, someone threw out pan of
dirty water, and it went all over her The
devil said: there now told you this thing
wouldn't work" Laughter She said,
Il am saved now" Then she told the girl
to put some meat to roast for dinner and
when she came TO see about the dinner the
meat was burned into crisp. The devil
said, "there now, / told you this thing
would never do, there comes John for his
dinner and he will raise storm"
She said, l am saved now"
John came in a great hurry and sat down
to dinner He said Mary what in the
world is the matter with this meat
Uaughter.) That woman looked as pleas
saved now, and l am going to pray for you
And John said, Mary we have lived to-
gether for eighteen years and never saw
you act like this before. She prayed for
John and he was converted. Amen, Bless
God a voice in the audience) What is
the matter with you, are you happy? Yes,
thank God, | am happy. What is the
matter with you, brother, have not heard
you for so long | thought you were dead.
Great laughter.) That is what we want.
a religion that is not left at the church
door.
Oh, yes, some of you will say | do not
want to be sanctitied How would that
look for me, a member of the great Nae
church Of Wichita? Me- lawyer. per-
haps. Some lady objected the other day TO
what l said about lawyers, and God knows
ii is hard for a lawyer TO be honest There
is not a judge or lawyer in this country
but tramples Christ's law under their feet
whenever they engage in this unholy di
vorce business. They are aiding to break
down the safeguards that Christ has
erected around the home and society. You
will all have to appear before = court
where human laws will not avail. But
will tell you that the lawyer who has the
grace of God in his heart can be honest.
God Almighty protects the homes in our
country am thankful for my christian,
home, and there was twelve of Us.
People do no want that
many in their families now
The home idea is dying out in this coun-
try. The family are not brought in to-
gether near the altar. Charley is away
under the gallery with another Syear-old
boy, and Ed comes into church later and
throws his ciuarerte away sr tha door and