The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1891-01-08
A GRAND REVIVAL.
THE GREAT MOVEMENT OF 1857.
Rev. pr. Talmage Wants to Start One
All Over the Country.

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For n few months, in the providence OF
God, have two pulpits, one in Brooklyn
and the other in New York, and through the
kindness OF the printing press an ever
widening opportunity. To oil such hearers
and readers come with an especial message.
The time has arrived for forward move
ment such as the church and the world have
never seen. That there is n need for such n
religious movement is evident from the fact
that never since our world was swung out
among the planets has there been such an
organized and determined effort to over
throw Righteousness, and mako the Ten
Commandments obsolete and the whole Bible
a derision. Meanwhile alcoholism is taking
down its victims by the hundreds OF thou
sands, and the political parties get down on
their knees, practically saying: 20 thou al
mighty rum jug! we bow down before theel
Give US the lices-city, State and national.
oh, give us the offices, and we will worship
thee for ever and ever: Amen"
Tho Christian Sabbath meanwhile ap-
pointed for physical, mental and spiritual
rest, IS being secularized and abolished. As
If the bad publishing houses OF our own coun-
try had exhausted their literary filth, tho
French and Russian sewershavo been invited
TO pour their scurriity aud moral sush into
the trough where our American swine are
now wallowiug. Meanwhile there are enough
houses Of intamy in all our cities, open and
uumolcsted of tho law, TO invoke the omnipo-
luge of birthstone. The panicmouiac world,
/ think has massel its troops. an1 thcy arc
at this moment plying their batteries upon
family circles church circles. social circles
political circles and national circles Apollyon
is in the saddle and riding at the head OF his
myrmidoEs would capture this world for
darkness pnd woe.
That is one side of the conflict now raging.
On the other side we have the most mngnin.
cent gospel machinery that the world over
saw OF heaven ever invented. In the first
place there are in this country more than
eighty thousand ministers Of religion and.
take them as class, moro cousecrat "a,
bolcr more consistent, more self DENYING
more faithful men never lived. | know them
by the thousands. have met them In every
city l am told, not by them, but by people
outside OF our profess on, people engagedin
Christian and reformatory work, that the
clergy ot America are at the head of all good
enterprises. ald whoever else fail they may
be depended on. The truth of this is demon
strated by the fact that when n minister OF
religion does fail, it is so exceptional that the
newspapers report IL rs something startling,
while hundrcd men in other callings may
godown without the matter being considered
Us especially worth mentioning.
In addition totheir equipment in moral
character the clergy Of this country have all
that the schools can give. All archmologi.
cal, rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, literary
attainment. SO much for the Christian
ministry of all denominations. In the next
place on our side of the conflict we have tho
Rrandest churches OF all time an1 higher
style OF membership and more of them, and
host without number OF splendid men and
women who are doing their best to have this
world purified, elevated, gospeliZel. But
we all feel that something is wanting.
Enough hearty songs have been sung and
enough earnest sermons preached within tho
last six months to save all the cities of Amer
lea, and saving the cities you save the world,
for they overflow all this land either with
their religion or their infamy.
But look at some of the startling facts
1t is nearly nineteen hundred wears sine,
Jesus Christ came by the way Of Bethlehem
caraEan,ary To save this world, yet tho
most Of the world has been no more
touched by this most stupenlous fact os
nil eternity than il on the first Christmas
night tho beasts of the stall, amid the bleat.
1ngs " theii own young hal not heard the
beating of tho Lamb that was 10 be- slain.
Out oi ihe eighteen hundred million of tho
human race fourteen hundred million ars
W'thoUt Nod and without hope in the world
the camel driver of Arabia, Mahomet. with
ms hiht wives having half as many disciples
rs our u'esS,t Christ, and moro lnople are
WoIshpng chuuSs Of painted wood and
'hINcl stone than are worshiping the living
ana eternal God. Meanwhile, tho most OF
us VINO are engaged in Christian work.
speaI Tor myself as well ns others-arc toll
v
souL hdfneSsed up To the last buckle, not
Iole 20 draw pound more than we are
lifting.
What IS the matter? Ny text lets out tho
secret We all need more of the power from
on hlSh' Not muscular power, not logical
power, not scientific power, not social power
nor hnalc.al power not brain power, but
power from on high With it we could nc.
Fohp''sn more in one week tLan without it
IN hundred years. AndI am going TO get
H. u M answer 10 prayer. earnest and long
continued, God will grant il TO me, His un.
worthy servant. Men aud women who know
no" 10 pray, when you pray for yourself,
pray FOR me that may be endued with power
IRON on high. l would rather have il than
al inc diamond fields OF Golconda, anl all tho
pearls OF the sea, and all the gold of tho
mountains. Many of the mightiest intellects
never had touch Of it, and many of the less
ihhn ordlrary mtellects have been surchargel
win u. ANA every man and woman on earth
nhsa righl TO aspire 10 1t. right TO pray for
~ anu properly persistent, will obtain it.
D. rover from on the level is u good thing,
such power as may give YOU or Won NAV
BNc me- ny encouraging words and actions.
2 ROVER rom on tbs level when we stand by
sach othtr IN any Christian undertaking.
& over from on the level when other pulpts
pc IN accord with ours. Power from on the
e {eVel when the religious and secular press
& tor"sId our CHRISTIAN undertakings But
power from on the level is not sufficient.
fo"er irom on high is what we need to take
Rofsessiono OF u.s. Power straight from God.
SupefEutural power, Omnipot mt poWer alI
Ghqu.flhSp power. Not more than one out
a Thousand OF tho ministers has il CON
Huously Not more than one out of ten
tnoGsahd Christians has it all the time. Given
apuhience, these last ten years OF the
mhet enth century would accomplish more
tooi Goo, and the church, and the world than
tnt previous ninety years of this century.
re row men and women in each age OF tho
Eq'd have possessed il. Caroline Fry, tho
pmniorCal Cuakeress, had il, and three hun,
Hrcd o. the depraved and suffering OF New.
&ete prison, under her exhortation, repented
era believed Jonathan Edwards had IL, and
NoflhGmpt2n meeting house heard the out
burst OF religious emotion as he snake of
Efsteousnsss and Judgment 10 come. Samuel
Ru1gett the Christian merchant, had il, and
Rh peneLactions showered the world. John
Nerton mad 1t, Bishop Latimer had IT, lisa.
bclin Graham had IL Andrau, r,lIarh "a :.