Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-29
THE REVIVAL.
Unabated Interest in the Meetings at the
Cumberland Church.

Unabated Interest in tho Meetings at the
Cumberland Church.
As clouds indicate the severity of O
foreshadowS what Gods people may eX-
pect from the series of meetings now be-
ing held The holy spirit is indeed moving
the hearts of Gods people to pray and look
for grand results. After several songs and
few prayers DR.. Tinnon, the pastor, spoke
from the text, Create in me clean heart. :"
Psalm IL, IS. He said: ''No one who
sense Of need, pray to God, Gre
ate in me a clean heart can pray
with any hope Of answer, Restore unto
NE the Joy of Thy salvation" There IS
no Joy of salvation except TO the clean
heart. There are no clean hearts save
those God has cleased. Men say, Il am
not moved l know ought to be Christian
but have no feeling" Why do not men
feela Because they do not want to be
clean. When man determines to put
away his hlthiness and come to God for
cleansing, he will feel Whenever the soul
is set with supreme purpose to do His
will, His overshadowing presence fills, and
profoundly moves it. II one man sets him
self to be pure in heart and repents of his
sins, the new sense Of the presence Of God
will make deep impression in him and on
his friends.
If scores of Christians turn anew. one by
one, with the sincere prayer, Create in me
q clean heart" there will be feeling and ex-
element in them. There is terrible rea-
son for your want of feeling. 1t is sin in
you that you are not willing to give up. 1t
is because you do not want your heart
cle0nsed. If you wanted cleansing, and
would come to God honestly and sincerely
for it, He would do it, and ''the pure in
heart shall see see God" When you see
God you will be moved, and moved
nightly. There will be flood of
Again, the preacher said: s'The imperfec-
tions of those who wish to help US stand
between Us and God. Men start to GO to
God and pray, create in me clean heart
but are turned aside because they stop to
look at the imperfections of others. They
has provided to guide them to Him do not
come up to their ideal. At the Centennial
exposition mechanic, standing before a
picture, was overheard speaking rapturouSly
in its praise. Isn't it splendid did
that" "You did It'll" said an astonished
by-stander. why this picture is by an
eminent French artist, and here is his
name in the corner" 'Sho," was the re-
ply, 81 mean the France
Just so; when Christ is presented to you,
you begin to talk about the preacher, the
worker, the method-in a word, about the
frame, instead of looking for God manifest
in the face of Jesus Christ. Being critics
of frames, instead of looking at
the living picture of Christ in
these frames - in the preachers
and workers, we miss the thrilling sense of
Christ's presence, and are not cleansed
Never mind the frame, but fix your eye on
the picture.
Let US remember, both saints and sinners,
that it is only our sins that can separate or
stand between us and God. You may
say that other things keep you back You
may present thousand excuses, but God
says it is your sin. Sin, and sin only,
separated you from God, and sin alone
keeps you from coming back to Him
The great need of this city is clean hearts.
Get all hearts cleansed and then every
species of uncleanness will be driven out.
Only uncleansed hearts can be satisfied with
uncleanness, and the uncleanness Of this
city comes from the unclean hearts that are
in it.
might the services will be continued
song services at As, preaching at by Rev.
J. Calnon.
The closing injunction last night was:
stranger in the city, warm welcome
awaits you. Friends, heed the Macedonian
cry and come over and help US. Sinner,
are you burdened, let US give you helping
hand"