Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-12-27

skepticism about Jesus Christi He seems to
be sleeping They say; ave have captured
the Lord; He will never come forth again
upon the nation; Christ is captus ed forever.
His religion will never make any conquest
among men" But after while the Liou of
the tribe Of judah will rouse Himself and
come forth to shake nightly the nations
What's a spiders web to the aroused lion!
Give truth and error fair grapple and
truth will come off victor.
But there are great many good people
who get atfrighted in other respects; they
are alfrighted in our day about revivals
| They say: ooh! this is a strong religious
! gale; we are afraid the church of God is GO
ing to be upset, and there are going to be great
| many people brought into the church that
are going to be of no use TO it," and they are
affrighted whenever they see revival tax.
ing hold of the churches, As though a ship
Captain, with five thousand bushels Of wheat
for cargo, should say some day, coming
upon deck: 'Throw overheard all the car
go;n and the sailors should say:
"Why, Captain, what do you
mean? Throw over all the cargoT
''Oh," says the Captain, I'VE have peck Of
chaff that has got into this five thousand
bushels of wheat, and the only way to get rid
of the chaG is to throw all the wheat over
board" Now, that is great deal wiser than
the talk of great ANY Christians who
want to throw overheard all the thousands
and tens of thousands of souls who ore the
subjects of revivals. Throw all overheard
because they are brought into the kingdom
of God through great revivals, because there
is peck of chaf, aqUart Of chaff, q pint of
chatf say, let them stay until the last dav; 1.-The
Lord will divide the chatf from the wheat.
Do not be afraid of a great revival Oh, that
such gales from heaven might sweep through
all our churches! Oh, for such days as Rich.
ard Baxter saw in England, and Robert Nc
Cheyne saw in Dundeel Oh, for such DAYS
as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton
have often heard my father tell of the fact
that in the early part of this century
revival broke out at Somerville, N
j.; and some people were very much
lgitated about it. They said: "Oh. yoG
ire gong to bring too many people into the
church at once" and they sent down to New
Brunswick to get John livingston to stop tn
revival Well, there was no better soul in
Ill the world than John Livingston. Ii,
vent and looked at the revival; they wantea
him to stop it, He stood i'll the pulpit on tn,
sabbath, and looked over the solemn au i
tory, and he said; 'This brethren, is in
reality the work of God; beware how you
:ry to stop it." And he was an old man
leaning heavily upon his stalf-a very old
nan. And he lifted that staff, and took
hold OF the small end of tho staff, and began
to let it fall slowly through between the fin
ger and the thumb, and he said ''Oh, thou
npenitent thou art falling now-fallino
from life, falling away from peace an
heaven, falling as certainly as the cane is
falling through my hand-falling certainly,
though perhaps falling slowlym And the
cane kept on falling through John Lily
ingston's hand. The religious emotion in
the audience was overpowering, and
nen saw a type of their doom, as the
'ane kept falling and falling, until the
Inob of the cane struck Mr.. Livingstons
land, and he ciaspod 1t stoutly and said;
But the grace of Col can stop you as |
stopped that cane;" and then there was glad
ness all through the house at the fact of par
don and peace and salvation. "Well," said
the people after the service, "Iguess you had
better send Livingston home; he is making
the revival worse" Oh, for gales from
heaven to sweep all the continentsl The dan.
ger 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 n ed He looks; what sad
dreams He must have Look at His counte-
nance; He must be thinking of the cross TO
come. Look ro Him, He is man-bone oil
our bone, flesh Of our flesh. Tired, He falls
aseep He is man. BIT tl.4n find Chris
at the Prov of the boat; hear Him say
Peace, be STILL" and see the storm kneel-
ing at His feet, and the temptests folding
their Kings in His presence: He is God.
II have sorrow anu trouble and want
sympathy, | go and l<ncel down al the back
part Of the boat and say 'Oh, Christ weary
one Of Gennesaret, sympathize with all my
sorrows, man of Nazareth, man of the cross"
A man, man, But if | want to conquer
my spiritual foes, if want to get the victory
over sin, death and hell l come to the front
If the boat, and kneel down, and I say:
"Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, Thou who dost hush
the tempest, hush all my grief, hush all my
temptation, hush all my sinr' A man, a
nan; God, God,
l learn once moro from this subject that
Christ can hush tempest.
1t did seem as ii everything must go to
ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of
managing the ship; the crew were entirely
iemoralized; yet Christ rises and He puts
Ills foot ON the storm, and it crouches at His
teet. Oh, yes Christ can hush the tempest
You have had trouble. Perhaps It was the
little child taken away from you-the sweet
'st child of the household the one who asked
5he most curious questions, and stood around
YOU with the greatest fondness and the
'pade cut down through your bleeding neart.
Perhaps 1t was an only son, and your heart
has ever since been like deSolate castle, the
owls of the night hooting among the fallen
arches and the crumbling stairways. Per-
laps it was an aged mother. You always
vent to her with your troubles, She was in
four home to welcome your children into life.
md when they died she was there to pit,
you; that old hand win do you no more kind.
less; that white lock of hair you put away in
he casket or in the locket didn't look a.
t usually did when she brushed i,
tway from her wrinkled brow in the
uome circle or in the country church. Or
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