The Red Cloud chief., 1891-01-16

E1Ae sa3&el wEitines Of 6ea4Ses6as.
and Hobbies and Chubb had done thei
work. But power from on high eam
upon both the Wesleys and Lady Hunt
ington, on the otheeatde Of the Atlantis
and upon william Tennant and Gilbes
Tenant and David Br.inerd on thi
side Of the Atlantic, and botA hemil
phere felt the treadof . psrdoainx God
Coming to . later date there msy b
here and there IN this sudienoe N aRe,
man Or woman who can reDember Nev
York in 1881, when this power fro O,
high descended most w~ondrously. /
came upon pastors and congregation
and theaters and commercial establish
mentA. Chatham Street Theatsr va
the cen Of . most txemendous rc
Ggious q ,akening.
The bar room Of the theater VA
turned into q prayer roo0, and 500 per
sons were present q the first meeting
For seventy successive nights religion
services were held IN that theater, an
such scenes of mercy and salvation q
win be subjects Of conversation anf
congratulation among the ransomed II
glory - long As Heaven lasts. but
come to later time-1Ss7-rememberei
by many who are here. remember i
especially as ! had just entered th1
Office of the ministry. 1t was . year O,
hard times. A great panic had fun(
hundreds Of thousands Of people PENN
less. Starvation entered habitationl
that had never before known a want.
This nation in its extremity fell help
less before the Lord and cried for par
don and peace, and upon ministers and
laymen the power from on high de-
seconded. Engine houses, warerooms
hotel parlor, museums, factories from
l2 TO l O'Clock while the operatives were
resting, were opened for prayers and
sermons, and inquiry rooms and Bur
tons old theater on Chambers street,
where Dur ancestors used to assemble
To laugh ut the comedies, and all up and
down the streets, and out on the docks
and on the decks Of ships lying at the
wharf, people sang "All hail the power
Of Jesus name" while others cried for
mercy. A great mass meeting of
Christians on a week day, in Jsyne's
Hall, Philadelphia, t~elegrsphed TO Full
ton street prayer meeting, in New York,
saying: ''VhaS hath God wrought?'
and a telegram went back saying: Two
hundred souls saved at our meeting to-
day." A ship came through the Mar
rows into Our harbour, the captain re-
porting that himself and all the crew
had been converted to God between New
Orleans and New York. In the busiest
-marts of n largest American cities,
where the worshipers of mammon had
been counting their golden beads, men
began to calculate, what shall it profit
a man II he gain the whole world and
lose his own soul?'
In those days, what songs, what SER
mons, what turnings to God, what re-
citals Of thrilling experiences, what
prodigals brought home. what burning
tidings of souls saved, what serfdOm Of
sin emancipated, what wild rout Of the
forces Of darkness, what victories for
the truth! What millions on earth and
in Heaven r now thanking God for
1851, which, though the year of worse
financial calamity, was the year Of
Americas most glorious blessing. How
do you account for 1857, its spiritual
triumphs on the heels of its worldly
misfortune? 1t was what my text calls
the power from on high.
That was thirty-three years ago, and
though there have been in various parts
of the land many STRINGS of the Holy
Ghost, there has been no general awak-
ening. Does it not to you that We
ought to have and may have the scenes
of power in 1857 eclipsed by the n
of power in 1891? The circumstances
are somewhat similar. While we have
not had National panic and universal
prOstration, as in 1857, there has been
a stringency in the money market that
has put many families of the earth to
their wits end. Large commercial in
collapsing have left multitudes
of employees without means of support.
The racaed brains of business men have
or entirely given way. New IL
all over the land of the fact
that riches have not only feet, on which
they walk slowly as they come, but
wings on which they speed when they
60.
Brethren in the gospel ministry! if
spent half Al much time in prayer as
do in the preparation Of our ser
mons nothing could stand before us.
We would have the power from on high
as we neve have had it. Private men, |
bership of all ChristendOm! If we spent |
half a much time in positive prayer for
this influence as we do in thinking |
about it and talking about it, there
not he secretaries enough to take
down the names of those who would
want to give in their names for enlist
lnent. !
Come. Come! All through the United
States and all through C~hristendom and
all around the world let us join hands in
holy pledge that we will call upon God
for the power. o, for the power from
on high. the power that came on Pcnte-
cost: yea, on 10. 900 Pentecosts. Such
times will come in a day if We have
faith and the prayer and the conse-
As the power from on high in 1857 was
IVlAloS AouIc III 0c6OcmlcS Oh music /
and lyceum halls and theaters than in
why not this winter Of 1891,
in these two academies Of music, places
Of secular entertainment. Why not
expect and why not have the power
from on high, comforting power, arous-
ing power. convicting power, convert
ing power. saving power. omnipotent
My opinion is that in this
Of cities by the Atlantic coast
here are now 500, 600 people ready to
accept the Gospel call, if, freed from all
he cOnventionalities of the church. it
we're earnestly and with strong faith
presented to them. In these brilliant
there are hundreds who are
frequenters Of churches, and who
10 not believe much. if at all, in the
Of religion or ecclesiastical
organizations. But God knows you
nave struggles in which you need help
bereaveme1ts in which you want
'olace and prosecutions in which you
ought to have defense. and pcrplexities
n which yOu need guidance, and with q
profound thOughtfulness, you stand by