The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-19

That IN the early part of this century :.
revival broke out at Somerville. n. j..
and some people were very much agi-
tated about it. They said: ssOh, you
are going to bring too many people
into the church at once;n and they
sent down to New Brunswick to get
John Livingston 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 Sabbath, and looked
over the solemn auditory, and he said:
This, brethren, is i'll reality the work
OF God; beware how you try to stop
it. And he was an old man, leaning
heavily on his statf-a very old man.
And he lifted tkat staff, and took
hold of the small end of tie staff,
and began to let it fall slowly
through between the finger and
the thumb, and he said: sOh,
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 per-
haps falling slowlyr And the cane
kept on falling through John Living
ston's hand. The religious emotion in
the audience was overpowering, and
men saw type of their doom, as the
cane kept falling and falling, until the
knob of the cane struck Mr.. Living
ston's hand, and he clasped 1t stout1y
and said: But the grace Of God can
stop you as stopped that 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 service, IT guess you
had better send Livingston home; he
is making the revival WORSE Oh,
for gales from heaven to sweep al she
continentsl The danger of the church
Of God is not in rovivals.
GOD AND MAN IN ONE PERSON.
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 havel Look at his countenance;
He must be thinking of the cross to
come. Look at him, he is a man
bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh.
Tired, he falls asleep; he Is man.
But then / find Christ at the PROV of
the boat; hear him say: peace, be
STILL" and / see the storm kneeling at
his feet, and the tempests folding their
wings in his presence; he is God.
Ii / have sorrow and trouble, and
want sympathy, l go and kneel down
at 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 I want to con-
quer my spiritual foes, If want to
get the victory over sin, death, and
hell, / come to the front of 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 sinl"
A man, a man; God, God.
learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush tempest.
1t did seem as if everything must go
to 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.
Oh. yesl Christ can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble. Perhaps it
was the little child taken away from
you-the sweetest child of the house
hold, the one who asked the most GU
rious questions, and stood around you
with the greatest fondness, and the
spade cut down through your bleed
ing heart. Perhaps it was an only
son, and your heart has ever since
been like desolated castle. the owls
of the night hooting among the fallen
arches and 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
there to pity you; that old hand will
lock of hair you put away in the
casket or in the locket didn't look as
Il usually did when she brushed it
home circle or in the country church.
Or your property gone, you said: Il
have so much bank stock, ! have so
many government securities, | have
so many houses, l have so many
farms all gone, all gone" Why, sir,
all the storms that ever trampled with
their thunders, all the shipwrecks,
have not been worse than this TO you-
Yet you have not been completely
overthrown. Why2 Christ sayS:
have that little one in my keeping. ]
can care for him as we'll as you
can, better than you can, o
bereaved motherp flushing the
tempest. When your property went
away, God said: There are treasures
in heaven, in banks that never break. !"
Jesus hushing the tempest. There Is
one storm into which we will all have
to run. The moment when we
let go of this world and try to
take hold of the next, we will want
all the grace possible. Yonder see a
Christian soul rocking on the surges
of death; all the powers of darkness
seem let out against that soul-the
swsrling wave, the thunder of the sky,
the shrek of the wind, all seem 10
unite together; but that soul Is not
troubled; there is no signing, there
are no tears; plenty of tears in the
room at the departure, but he weeps
no tears-calm, satisfied and peace
full; all is WELL By the fash of the
storm you see the harbor i,ast ahead,
and you are making for that harbor.
All shall be well, Jesus being ocI
guide.
Into the harbor OF heaven now we giiaes
We're home at last, home at last
Softly we DRIFT on the bright, siN'ry tide.
We're home at last
Glory to Godl all our dangers arc o'er,
We stand secure on the giorf1ed shore;
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