Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-12-19

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| and they try TO put out another spark. Dc
| they succeed? As well when Chicago was on
| ire might some one have gone out with q
| garden water pot trying to eXtingufsh IL.
| The difficulty ia that when a revival he
, rims in n church It begins Mt so many points
| hat while you have doused one anxious soul
| With pail OF cold water there are 500 other
| inXious souls on fire. Oh, how much bet
! er 1t would be to lay hold OF the chariot oi
1hrist's gospel and help pull It on rather
nan to fling ourselves in front OF the wheels,
ryinC to block their progress! We will not
top the chariot. but we ourselves will be
| round to powder.
Did YOU ever hear that there was n con-
ention once held among the icshercs In the
| rctic? 1t seems that the summer vas COM
| ag on, AMI the sun was getting hotter ant
otter. and there was danger that the whole
.efieli would break up and flow away, so
| he talest and the col lest and the broadsst
all the iceberzs. the very king OF the arc
| les. stood at the head OF the convention.
| nd with gavel o. lea smote on a table OF
| ce. calling the convento on to order. But the
| un kept growing in intensity of heat aud
| he south wind blew stron gar AMI stronger.
| nd soon all the icefield began TO Grind up,
ICEBERG against iceberg, and to flow away.
| The first resolution passed bv the convention
! vas. "Resolved that we abolish the SUM-"
| But the sun would not be abolished. The
| ieat OF the sun grew greater and greater
| lntil after awhile the vary king of the Ice
| ,ergs began TO perspire under the glow. and
| he smaller icebergs fell over. and the cry
| Fas: "Too much excitement Order,
| .rdern' Then the whole body, the whole
| leld. of ice began to fow ont. and thou
| md voices began to ask: "Whare are we
eng TO now2 Where are wa-doatin9 toi
We will all break to pieces" BY this -time
he icehergs had reached the gulf stream,
md they were melted into the bosom of the
Itlantic Ocean. The warm sun is the
al CN;~ rt,. s.Ah -.
Christians. The warm gulf stream is a great
| evival. The ocean into which everything
| Melted is the great. wide heart OF the
arioning and sympathizin- God.
| But think. alter all the greatest ohst tr"le
o revivas throughout Christen lon to-day
; an uncovered ministry. We must b.
| eve that the vast majority of those who
| fflcats at sacred altars are regenerated,
ut suppose thsre may float into the minis
| ~ of all the denominations OF Christians
| nen whose hearts have never been change
| V the grace of Col OF course they are all
| ntagonistic to reviv lis.
How did they get into the ministry Per.
aps some OF them chose it as a respectable
! Profession. Perhaps some chose it as
means of liv .lihooi. Perhaps some Of them
vere sincere, but were mistaken. As Thomas
| Jhalmers said, he had been many years
| preaching the gospel before his heart had
| ,een changed. and, as many ministers of the
;ospel declare, they Were preachinc and
lad been ordained to sacred orders years
| nd years before their hearts were regener-
! ted. Gracious God, what solemn thou Sht
| or those of US who minister at the altar
With the present ministry in the present
{ emperature OF piety the world will never be
nveloped with revivals. While the pews on
,ne side the altar cry for mercy the pulpits
/ IN the other side the altar must cry for
mercy. Ministers quarreling. Ministers
| ryinS to pull each other down Ministers
( trfrt-f-iDr- = fOr aplaiia rlppn Minister'S
| etnarcic with whole congregations dyinf
| N their hand. WHAT n spectacle!
Aroused pulpi's will make aroused pews.
'ulpits anams will make pews ahame.
| Everybody believes in a revival of trade,
veryboiy likes a revival in literature, every.
ody likes a revival in art, yet great multi
ude cannot understand a revival in matters
! D.. religion. Depend upon il. where you
| ind n man anita -onistic to revivals, whether
Ie be in pulpit or pew, he needs to be reSen.
rated by the Grace of Got.
| could prove to a demonstration tha,
Without revivas this world Will never be
converted, AM that in 100 or 200 years with
tut revivals Christianity will be practically
'xtinct. 1t is q matter of astounding arth-
netfc. In each of our modern generations
here are Mt least -, 009, 900 children. Now
id g., ,000, 900 to the worlds population, and
! hen have only 100000 or 2s0, 900 converted
very year. and how long before the worlt
will he saved? Never-absolutely never!
During our war the President of ths
United States made proclamation for IS, 900
roops. Some OF you remember the big stir.
But the King ofthe universe to-day asks for
OO. O.000, 900 more troops than are enlisted,
nd we want it done softly, imperceptibly,
,ently, no excitement, one by one!
You are dry goods merchant on a larC,
Gale, and am a merchant on a small scale,
md l come to YOU and want to buy 1000
ards of CLOTH Do you say: "Thank you
III sell you 1000 yards OF cloth. but I'll sell
'ou twenty yards to-day, and twenty to-
morrow, and twenty the next day. and IL il
akes ne six months I'Il sell YOU the whole
600 wards you will want as long as that to
,xamine the goods. and I'll want as long as
hat to examine the credit, and, besides that.
900 var OF cloth are too much to sell all
It once?" No, you do not say that. You
IKE me into the counting 70 om, and In ten
minutes the whole transaction is consum-
mated. The fact is, we cannot afford to be
oois in anything but religion
That verv merchant who on Saturday after
loon sold me the 1000 yards of cloth at one
troke the next Sabbath in church will stroke
lis beard and wonder whether it would not
,e better for 1000 souls to come struggling
long for ten years, instead OF bolting in at
me service.
Wetalk good Zeal about the COOL times
hat are coming and about the worlds re-
lemption. How long before they will come?
Chere is a man who says 500 years. Herr is
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Dne more confident who says in fifty years.
What. lfty years? Do you propose to let
wo generations pass or the stage before
he world is converted!
SupIosa by some extra prolongation OF
human life Mt the next fifty years you should
walk around the world, y u would not in
all that walk find one person that you recog-
nize. Why7 All dead or SO changed that
you would not know them. In other words,
# you postpone the redemption of this
world for fifty years, you admit that the
ma ajorty of the two whole generations shall
20 off the stage uublessed and unsavsd. I
tell you the church OF Jesus Christ cannot
consent to it. We must pray and toll and
uave the revival spirit, and We must strug-
gle to have the whole world sived before the
men and women now in middle life pass of.
"Oh," you say, ''it is too vast ar enter
prise to be conducted in so short time"
Do you know how long it would take to save
the whole world il each man would bring an
other. 1t would take ten years. BY a cal
culation in compound interest, each man
bringing anocher, and that one another, and
that one another, in ten years the whole
world would be saved. If the world Is not
saved in the next ten years it will be the
fault of the church OF Christ.
Is it too much to expect each one to brin5
one? Some OF US must bring more than one,
for some will not do their duty. l want to
bring 10, 600 souls. / should be ashamed to
meet my God in judgment if, with all my op-
porUniies of commenting Christ to the
people, 1 could not bring $1,000 souls. Bu
1t will sll depend upon the revival spirit. Tnt
hook IN J line fishing will not do it.
1t seems TO me as If God is preparing the
world fer some quick and universal move
ment. 4 celebrated electrician gave me
telegraph chart OF the worl'. On that chart
the wires crossing the continent ard the
clhles unfer the sea lookei like veins rel
with blood. On that chart I 500 that the
headquarters of the lightnings ara in Great
Britain and the United States. In Lon 'on
AM New York the lightniugS ars stabbed,
Whiting TO be harnessed for soma quick dis
patch. That shows you that the telegraph
is in possession of Christianity.
It is a significant fact that the man who
Invented the telegraph was an old fashioned
observation-disclosures Morse-ani that the
man who put the telegraph under the sea
was old fashioned Christian-CyruI ".
Field-and that the president OF the mos, fa-
nous of the telegraph companies Of this
country was an old fashioned Christian