Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
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God, and the church, and the world than
the previous ninety years of this century.
MORE POWER FROM ON HIGH NEEDED
A few men and women in each age Of
the world have possessed it. Caroline Fry,
the immortal Qualleress, had it, and three
hundred Of the deprayed and suffering of
Newgate prison, under her exhortation,
repented and believed. Jonathan Ed
wards had it, and Northampton meeting
house heard the outburst Of religious emo
tion as he spake Of righteousness and judg-
~ment to come Samuel Budget, the Chris
tian merchant, had it, and his benefactions
showered the world. John Newton had
it, Bishop Latimer had it.. Isabella Ora
ham had it. Andrew Fuller had it. The
great evangelists Daniel Baker and DR.
Nettleton and Truman Osborn and Charles
g. Finney had it. In my boyhood | saw
Truman Osborn rise to preach in the viii
lage church at S0merylle, n. j., and be-
fore he had given out his text or uttered
word people in the audience sobbed aloud
with religious emotion. 1t was the power
from on high. All in greater or less de-
gree may have it. Once get it and moth
ing can stand before you. Satan goes
down. Caricature goes down Infdelty
goes down Worldliness goes down. Ali
opposition goes down.
TIMES OF BLESSING.
\ Several times in the history of the church
and the world has this power from on high
been demonstrated. In the Seventeenth
century, after great season of moral de.
preston, this power from on high came
down upon John Iillotson and Owen and
Flavel and Baxter and Bunyan, and there
was a deluge of mercy higher than the
tops of the highest mountains Of sin, In
the Eighteenth century, in England and
America religion was at IA low water mark.
William Cowper, writing Of the clergy o.
those days said;
Except n few with Ellis spirit blest,
Hophni and Phiueas 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 Huntington on the
other side the Atlantic, and upon William
Tenant and Gilbert Tenant and David
\. Brainerd on this side the Atlantic, and
pboth hemispheres felt the tread Of par.
doning God. Coming to later date there
may be here and there in this audience an
aged man or woman who can remember
New York in 1884, when this power from
on high descended most wondrously 1t
came upon pastors and congregations and
theatres and commercial 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, For a church" "For
wh-a-at2" said the owner. "Ior "a church."
was the reply. The owner said, "You may
have it, and / will give you thousand
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