Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-16

! buG Unere are RfedJ many gOOo poO-
pie who get affrighted in other respects,
they are affrighted in our day about re-
vivals. They say: COIL this is strong
religious gale; we are afraid the church
of God is going to be upset, and there
are going to be great many people
brought into the chnrcS that are going
to be of no use to it," and they are af-
| frighted whenever they see revival
taking hold of the churches. As though
ship captain, with five thousand
bushels of wheat for a cargo, should say
some day, coming upon deck: Throw
over all the cargoi" co." says the
captain, 1--WE have peck of ehaff that
has got into this five thousand bushels
of wheat, and the only way to get rid OF
the chat is to throw all the wheat over
board" Now, that is great deal wiser
than the talk of a great manv Christians,
who want to throw overheard all the
thousands and tens of thousands of souls
who are the subjects of reyivals. Throw
all overheard because they are brought
into the kingdom of God through great
revivals, because there is peck OF
chat, quart of chat, pint of chaffi
say, let them stay until the last day;
the Lord will divide the chat from the
wheat Do not be afraid of great re-
vival. o, that such gales from Heaven
might sweep through all our churehesi
0, for such days as Richard Baxter saw
in England, and Robert McCheyne saw
in Dundeel o, for such days as Jona-
than Edwards saw in Northampton |
have often heard my father tell of the
fact that in the early part Of this country
revival broke out at Somerville, N. j.,
and some people were very much agi-
tated about it They said: 80, you are
going to bring too many people into the
church at once" 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 in reality the
work of God; beware how you try to stop
it," And he was an old man. leaning
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 between the finger and
the thumb, and he said: 20, thou inn
penitent, 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 GER
tainly. though perhaps falling slowlyr
And the cane kept on falling through
John Livingston's hand. The religious
emotion in the audience was over
towering, and men saw the type of
their doom, as the cane kept falling
and falling, until the knob of the cane
struck Mr.. Livingston's hand, and he
clasped it stoutly and said; "But the
Of fnpA cf Ar 10 I Cfa4Atand
that cane" and then there was gladness
all through the house at the fact OF par
don and peace and salvation. "Well,"
said the people after the service, 81
guess you had better send Livingston
home; he is making the revival worse"
o. for gales from heaven TO sweep all
the continentsl 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. o, how tired he looks;
what sad dreams he must havel Look |
at his countenance. He must be think |
ing Of the or oss to come. Look at him,
he is n 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 see the storm |
kneeling at His feet, and the tempests |
folding their wings in His presence; lie |
is God.
If have sorrow and trouble and want !
] 90 and kncel down at the /
back part Of the boat and say: 20, Christi /
weary one Of Gennesaret, sympathize /
with all my sorrows, man of Nazareth, |
man of the cross A man, man. But |
II want to conquer my spiritual foes, /
IL want to get tho victory over sin, /
death and holl, | come to the front OF |
the boat, and / kneel down, and ] say:
20, Lord Jesus Christ, thou who dost
hush the tempest, hush all my grief, /
hush all my temptation, hush all my /
sinw A man, a man; God a God.
learn once more from this subject |
that Christ can hush tempest.
1t did seem as IL every thing must go
10 ruin. Tine disciples had given up the
idea of managing the ship; the crew
were entirely demoralized, yet Christ
arises, and he puts His foot on the storm,
and it crouches at his feet. o, yesl
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 fond
ness, and the spade cut down through
your bleeding 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
lrches and the crumbling stairways. Per-
laps it was an aged mother. You always
vent to her with your troubles. She was
n 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
when she brushed it away from her
brow in the home circle or in
he country church. Or your prop
erty gone, you said: 81 have so
much bank stock, / have so many
yovernmer securities, l have SO
many houses, | have so many farms-all
rome. all gomez Why, sir, all the
storms that ever trampled with their
numbers, all the shipwrecks, have not
leen worse than this to you. You have