Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-10

power, not Drilln power, DuC power
complish moro in one week than with
from on high. With 1.-Two could &C
out it in hundred years. And am
going to get it, if in answer to prayer,
earnest and long continued, God will
grant it me, his unworthy servant. Men
and women who know how to pray.
when you pray for yourself pray for
me that nuy be enducd with power
from on high. l would rather have it
than all the diamond fields of Golcond:l,
and all the pearls of the sea, and all
the gold in the mountains. Many of
the mightiest intellects never had
touch of it, and many OF the less than
ordinary intellects have been sur
charged with it. And every man and
woman on earth has right to aspire
to3it. Alright to pray forit. and, properly
persistent, will obtain it.
Power from on the level is a good
thing suchpower,as Imay give you or
you may give me by encouraging words
and actions. Powcrfrom on the level
wllan we stand by each other in any
Christian undertaking Power from
{ OF the level when other pulpits are in
accord with ours Power from on the
level. when the religions and secular
press forward our Christian undertake
ings. But power from on the level is
not sufficient. Power from on high is
what we need to take possession of US.
Power straight from God. Supernat-
ural power. olnnipotent power, all con-
quering power Not more than one
out of thousand OF tie ministers has
it, continuously Not more than one
out OF ten thousand Christians has it
all the time. Given in abundance,
these last ten years OF the Nineteenth
century would accomplish more for
GOD, and tile church. and tile world
than the previous ninety years of this
century.
POWER FROM ON HIGH.
"a few men and women in each age
oEthe world llve possessed it. Caro-
line Fry, the immortal Qua.1eress, had
.itsssand three hundred of the depraved
and suffering of Ncw:5ate prison under
her exhortation repented and believed.
Jonathan Edwards had it, and North
ampton meeting house heard the out
burst of religious emotion as he spake
ofsrighteousness and judgment to come.
Samuel Budget, the Christian lner-
Chant, had it. and his benefactions
showcred the world. JOHN Newton had
it, Bishop Latimer had it. Isabella
Graham had it. Andrew Fuller had it.
The great cvangclists, Daniel Baker
and DR.. Nettleton and Truman Osborn
and Charles G. Finncy, had it. In my
'boyhood saw Truman Osborn rise to
preach in the village church at Soner-
vile, N. j., and before he had given
out his text or uttered word people ir
the audience sobbed aloud with relig
ious emotion. 1t was the power from
on.high All in greater or less degree
may have it. Once get it and nothing
can fstapdr 1bffaFee gee s9tap gRGs
deity goes down Worldliness goes
down. All opposition goes down.
Several times in the history of the
church and the world has this power
from on high been demonstrated. In
the Seventeenth century, after q great
season of moral depression, this power
from on high came down upon John
TiIlotson and Owen and Flavel and
Baxter and Bunyan, and there was n
deluge of mercy higher than the tops
of the highest mountains of sin. In the
Eighteenth century, in England and
America, religion was at a low water
mark. William Cowpcr, writing Of the
clergy of those days. said:
Except q few with Ellis spirit bcst,
Hophni and Phincas may describe the rest.
The infdel writings of Shaftesbury
and Hobbies and Chubb had done their
work. But power from on high came
upon both the Wesleys and Lady Hunt
ington on the other side the Atlantic,
and upon William Tenant and Gilbert
Tenant and David Brainerd on this
side the Atlantic, and both he1nispheres
felt the tread of a pardoning God.
Coming to later date there may be
here and there in this audience III aged
man or woman who can remember
New York in 1881, when this power
from on high descended most won
drously. 1t came upon pastors and
congregations and theatres and COLL
nercial establishments. Chatham
Street theatre, New York, was the
scene of most tremendous religious
awakening.
A committee of Christian gentlemen
called upon the lessee of the theatre
and said they would like to buy the
lease of the theatre. He said, "What
do you want it for?" They replied,
'rFor a church" "For wll-a-a-t" said
the owner. For a church," was the
reply. The owner said, "You may
have it, and l will give you thousand
dollars to help You on with your
work" Arthur Tappan, a man might
lily presented in his time, but Il man,
as I saw him in his last days, as honest
and pure and good as any man ever
knew, stepped on the stage OF odd
Chatham theatre as the actors were
closing their morning rehearsal, and
said, "There will be preaching here to,
night on this stage, and then gave out
and sang with such people as were
there the old hymn:
The voice of free grace cres, escape to the mount
For all that believe Christ has opened fountain
A BARnooM MADE A PRAYER ROOM.
The barroom of the theatre was