The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-09
TIME FOR ACTION.
-Dr. TaImsge Urges a Grand Amer
lean Revival
The Enenly's Forces Being AIassed and the
Christian Army Must Prepare For the
Great CODfict-An Appeal to
Ministers.

we in the city of Jerusalem until We be
.endued with power from on high" He
said:
For a few months, in the providence
of God, I have two pulpits, in
Brooklyn and the other in New York,
and through the kindness of tie print
ing press an ever widening opportunity
To all such hearers and readers come
with an especial message. The time
has arrived for forward movement
such the church and world have never
seen. That there is a need for such a
religious movement is evident from the
fact that never, since our world has swung
out among the planets, has there been
such an organized and determined effort
to overthrow righteousness and make the
Ten Commandments obsolete and the
whole Bible derision. Meanwhile al
ecohOlism is taking down its victims by
the hundreds of thousands and the
political parties get down on their
knees, practically saying: so, thou
almighty Rum jug, we bow down be-
fore thee. Give us the Offices city,
State and National. o, give the Of
fees and we will worship thee forever
and ever. Amen" The Christian Sab
bath meanwhile, appointed for physical,
mental and spiritual rest is being secu-
1arized and abolished. AS if the bad
publishing houses of our own country
had exhausted their literary filth, the
French and Russian sewers have been
moral slush into the trough where our
American swine are now wallOwing.
Meanwhile there are enough houses of
:lnfamy in all our cities. open and I'M
Imolested of the law, to invoke the ON
nipotent wrath which buried SodOm
under deluge of birthstone.
The pandemOniac world, think, has
5massed its troops and they are this mo-
:ment plying their batteries upon family
circles, church circles, political circles
and national circles ApollyOn is in the
saddle and riding at the head of his
zsquadrons would capture this world for
darkness and woe. That is one side of
the conflict now raging. On the other
side we have the most magnificent Cos
pei machinery that the world ever saw or
Heaven ever invented. In the first place,
in this country are more than eighty
thousand ministers of religion, and.
take them as a class, more consecrated,
holier, more consistent, more self-deny-
ing, more faithful men never lived. /
know them by the thousands. 1 have
met them in every city. 1 am told,
not by them, but by people out
side our profession, people engaged
in Christian and reformatory work,
that the clergy of America are
at the head OF all good enterprises, and,
whoever else fail, they may be depended
son. The truth of this is demonstrated
by the fact that when minister of re-
1igion falls, it is so exceptional that the
newspapers report it something
startling, while a hundred men in other
.~callings may go down without the mat
ter being considered as especially worth
mentioning. In the next place on our
: side of the conflict we have the grand
lest churches of all time and higher
style of membership, and more of them,
and a host without number of splendid
men and women who are doing their
best to have this world purified, elevated,
e II II.
thing is wanting.
But look at some of the startling
facts. 1t is nearly 1900 years since
Jesus Christ came by the way of Beth
,1ehem caravansary to save this world,
yet the most of the world has been no
more touched by this most stupendous
fact of all eternity than if on the first
Christmas night the beasts of the stall
amid the bleatings of their own young
had not heard the bleating of the Lamb
that was to be slain. Out of the $780,
1000 900 of the human race, I, 400, 900, 600
are without God and without hope in
the world, the camel driver of Arabia,
Mahomet, with his nine wives, having
half many disciples our blessed
Christ, and more people are worshiping
,-chunlSs OF painted wood and carved
s-Stone than are yvorShiping the living
and eternal God.
What is the matter? NV text lets out
the secret. We all need more of the
power from on high. Not muscular
power, not logical power, not scientific
al power, not social power, not finan-
--eial power, not brain power, but power
from on high. With it we could ac-
,-complish more in one week than with
out it in 100 years
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. Supernatural power.
.loznnipotent power, all eOnQusring
power. No more than one out of a
thousand of the ministers have it con-
sinuously. Not more than one out of
ten thousand Christians have it all the
time Given in abundance these last
: ten years of the nineteenth century
would accomplish more for God and
the church and the world than the previ-