The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27

who are the subjects Of revivals. Throw
all overheard because they are brough
into the kingdom Of God through grea
revivals, because there is a peck Of
chat, q quart of chat, pint of chaff
l say let them stay until the last day
the Lord will divide the chat from the
wheat.
Do not be afraid of . great revival
Oh, that such gales from Heaven might
sweep through all our churches! Oh
for such days as Richard Baxter saw in
England, and Robert McCheyne saw
| in Dundee! Oh, for such days as Jon
athan Edwards saw in Northampton
have often heard my father tell of the
fact that in the early part of this cent
ury revival broke out at Somerville,
n. j., and some people were very much
agitated about it. They said: ''Oh, you
are going to bring too many people into
the church at once;'' and they sent down
to New Brunswick to get John Living
ston to stop the revival. Well, there
was no better soul in all the world than
John Livingston. He went and looked
at the revival; they wanted him to stop
it. He stood in the pulpit on the Sab
bath, and looked over the solemn au-
ditory, and he said: This, brethren, is
in reality the work of God; beware how
you try to stop it!''
heavily on his staff-a very old man.
And he lifted that staff and took hold of
the small end of the staff, and began to
let it fall slowly through between the
finger and the thumb, and he said: ''Oh,
thou impenitent. thou art falling now
falling from life, falling away from
peace and Heaven, falling as certainly
as that cane is falling through my hand
falling certainly, though, perhaps,
falling slowly"
And the cane kept on falling through
John Livingston's hands. The religious
emotion in the audience was overpower-
ing. and men saw type Of their doom
as the cane kept falling and falling, W.
til the knob of the cane struck Mr..
Livingstons' hand, and he clasped it
stoutly and said:
''But the grace of God can stop you as
1 stopped this cane" and then there was
gladness all through the house at the
fact OF pardon and peace and salvation.
WELL said the people after the serv-
lee, II guess you had better send Liv-
,ngston home; he is making the revival
worse"
''Oh, for gales from Heaven to sweep
all the continents! The danger of the
Church of God is not in revivals.
Again, my subject impressed me with
the fact that Jesus was God and man
in the same being. Here He is in the
back part of the boat. Oh, how tired He
looks, what sad dreams He must have!
Look at His countenance. He must be
thinking Of the cross to come. Look at
Him, He is man-bone of our bone,
flesh of our flesh. Tired, He falls asleep:
He is a man. But then find Christ at
the PROV of the boat; hear Him say:
'Peace, be STILL" and 1 see the storm
kneeling at His feet, and the tempests
folding their wings In His presence; He
is God.
/ have sorrow and trouble, and want
sympathy, GO and kneel down at the
back part of the boat and say:
''Oh, Christ! Weary one of Gennesa-
ret, sympathize with all my sorrows.
man of Nazareth, man of the cross"
A man, man. But if l want to con-
quer my spiritual foes. if 1 want to get
the victory over sin, death and hell, l
come to the front of the boat, and
kneel down. and say: ''Oh. Lord Jesus
Christ, Thou who dost hush the tempest,
hush all my grief, hush all temptation.
hush all my SIM A man, man; God,
a God.
/ learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush tempest. 1t did
ruin. The disciples had given up the
idea of managing the ship; the crew
were entirely demoralized; yet Christ
rises, and He puts His foot on the storm.
and it crouches at His feet. o. yes,
Christ can hush the tempest. You have
had trouble. Perhaps it was the little
child taken away from you-the sweet
est child of the household. the one who
asked the most curious questions and
stood around you with the
greatest fondness, and the spade |
cut down through your bleeding |
heart. Perhaps it was an only son. and
your heart has ever since been like a |
desolated castle, the owls of the night |
hooting among the fallen arches of the |
crumbling stairways Perhaps it was
an aged mother. You always went to
her with your troubles. She was in
your home to welcome your children |
into life, and when they died she was
here to pity you; that old hand will do
you no more kindness; that white lock |
If hair you put away in the casket or in
he locket didn't look as it usually did |
brow in the home circle or in
he country chruch.
Or your property gone, you said: 81
lave so much bank stock, 1 have SO
many Government securities, have so
many houses. have so many farms-all
zone, all gone" Why. sir, all the
forms that ever trampled with theil
hunders, all the shipwrecks, have not
'een worse than this to you. Yet you
lave not been completely overthrown.
Why, Christ says: Il have that little
ne in my keeping. / can care for him
S we'll as you can, better than you can,
bereaved motherr flushing the tenn
est When your property Welt away,
rod said: There are treasures in
Ieaven, in banks that never break"
esus hushing the tempest. There
5 one storm into which we will have
o run. The moment when We let
o of this world and try to take
old of the next, we will want all the
race possible. Yonder see Christian
oul rocking on the surges Of death; NIL
ha rower of darkness seem laf n,It |