The Penn's Grove record., 1894-12-07
ROVE, N. J., FRIDAY. DECEMBER !. 1894.

kfty EuFb1fftl o. VIII WITH OAl-HAO W " on
DIRE might some one have gona ont with 4
garden water not trying TO extInguish IL
The difficulty Is that when q revival be-
dns In n church II begins Mt so lar points
hat while you have doused one anxioris soul
With a pail OF COLI water there are 500 other
lnxious souls on fire. Oh, how muct bet
or IT would he to lay boil OF the chsrlos OF
Wrists gospel and help pull it on rather
nan to fling ourselves in front OF the wheels.
rying to block their progressl We will not
top the chariot. but we ourselves will be
round TO powder.
Dill YOU ever hear that there was a o
'ention once held among the icabergs In the
rc.ie2 It seems thai the sunmer vas COM
ag on, an the sun was getting hotter ant
otter. and there was danger that the whole
iefeld woul I braak up anil flow away. so
he tallest and the col lest an the broadest
{ all the ice5ergs, the very king OF the arc
les, stood at the head OF the convention,
nd with a gavel OF ice snote on q table oil
GO, cllling the convention to order. But the
un kept growing in intensity OF heat, and
hs south wind hlew stronger an stronger,
nd soon all the icefielf begin TO grin up,
sebe-g against iceberg. AMI to flow away.
he first resolution passed by the convention
vas, 'Rssolved, that we abolish the sun"
But the sun would not be abolished. The
ieat OF the sun grew greater AMI greater
Until after awhile the Try king OF the lea
leryrs began to perspire under the glow. an |
he smaller icebergs fell over. ani tho cry
vas: "Doo much exritenSntf Order,
rdPrp' Then the whole DO ~, the whola
lelf. OF ice began TO fpw ont. and thou.
and voices beam to ask itWhere ara we
,oing TO now? Where are we floating tot
We will all hrea's to ple'es.r By this time
he iceeergs hal r'srhed the gulf stream,
nd they vera melip Unto the bosom Of the
atlantic Ocean. Foe warm sun Is the
ternal Spirit. The icebergs nre frigid
christians. The warm GUT stream Is a great
evival. The ocean into Which e~vsrythina
nelted is the grent. wide heart OF the
ar Joining and sympathizing God.
But I think. alter all. the greatest obstaelh
o r~evivals Throughout Chris.endom to-day
an unconvvrjsi ministry. We must ba-
leve that the vast majority OF those who
~fficiatet at sacred affairs are regenerated,
ut ] suppose there may font into the minis
ry Of all the denominations OF Chrlstians
len whose hearts have never been changed
ythe grace of Col OF course they are all
ntagonis.ic to rsvivils.
How dill they yetinto the ministry2 Par
APPS some OF the n chose il as n respectable
Profession. Perhaps some chose 1t as a
mems of lfv lihood. Perhaps some OF them
we're sincere, but were mistaken. As Thomas
)halmers said. he had been many years
Preaching the gospel before his heart had
Ieen changed, and, az many ministers of the
,osprl declare, they were preaching and
lad ben ordained to sacred orders years
ind years before their hearts were re2ener-
ted, Gracious Col, what a solemn thought
or those of as who minister at the altar
With the present ministry In the present
emperaiure o. piety the world will never be
nv lcped with regivals. While the pews on
IN side the altar cry for mercy the pulpiis
m the other side the altar must cry for
mercy. Ministers qnarreline. Ministers
rying to pull each other down Ministers
trugcling for ecclesiastical place. Ministers
ethargic with whole congregations dyinT,
IN their hand. What a spectacle
Aroused pulpits will make aroused pews.
,ulpits alamo will make pews a1sme.
Everybody believes in a revival of trade,
yerybody likes a revival In literature, every.
Rody likes rev.Va. in art, yet a great multi.
ude cannot understand a revival In matters
u religion. Depend upon 1t. whore you
ind a man anita yonisfic TO revivals, whether
he be in pulpit orpew, he needs to Je regen,
rated by the grace Of Got.
1 could prove to a demonstration thai
Without r~evivals this world will never b.
converted, and that in 100 or 200 years with
tut reviyals Christianity will be practically
,xtlnct, II IL q matter of astounding arifh-
netic. 3l each of our modern generations
here are at least 80, 900. 900 children. Now
i'd 32, 600, 900 to the worlds population, and
hen have only 100, 200 or 200, 900 converted
very year, and how long before the worlt
will be saved2 Neyer-absoluteiy never!
During u war the President Of thu
United States made proclamation for rs, 900
rGcr"-Some OF you remember the big stir.
3ut the King of The .tulyer5e to-day asks for
100, 000, 900 more troops than are enlisted,
md we want 1t o softly, Tmp~erceptibly,
.ently, no excitement. one bys34ae!
You are a dry goods merchais< on a largt
Gale, and l am a merchant on a scsall scale.
md come to you and want to ny 1000
ards of cloth. Do you say: sThaSk you /;
I'll " you 1000 yards OF cloth, but TlNssell
ho,N NS3ntY yards to-day, and twenty "a.
nores~, and twenty the next day, and it's
axes me six months I'll sell you the whole
900 yards , you will van as long as that to
Examine the goods, and IN want as long as
hat to examine the credit, and, besides that,
1000 yards OF cloth are too much TO sell all
It once?" No, you do not say that. fop
AXE me into the counting 70 om, and In ten
minutes the whole transaction Is CONSUME
mated. The fact Is, we cannot afford to be
ools in anything but religion
That VERY merchant who on Saturday after
ioo1 sold me the 1000 yards OF cloth at one
troke henext Sabbath in church will stroke
lis beard and wonder whether it would aot
,e better for 1000 souls to come Struggling
long for ten years, instead of boiling In at
me service.
We talk a good deal about the Sles
hat are coming and about II . re-
iemption. How long beforethey will Gomez
There Is a man who says 500 years. Hersi Is
/ man who says 200 years. Here IL some
me more confident who says In fifty years.
WHAT, fifty years2 Do you propose to let
wo generations pass of the stage before
he world is converted?
Suppose by some extra prolongation OF
human life at the next fifty years you should
walk around the world, you would not in
all that walk mud one person that you recog-
nize. Why7 All dead or so changed that
you would not know them. In other words,
If you postpone the redemption OF this
world for fifty years., you admit that the
majority of the two whole generations shall
go of the stage unbiessed and unsaved. I
tell you the church of Jesus Christ cannot
consent to it. We must pray and toll and
nave the revival spirit, and we must strug-
gle to nave the whole world saved before the
men and women now in middle life pass on.
f'Oh," you say. "it 10 too vast ar enter
prise to be conducted In so short q time. -
DO you know how long it would take to save
the whole world ii each man would bring an
other. 1t would take ten years. By q cal
culation in compound interest, each man
bringing another, and that one another, and
LnuI one dnOtuofg Ii Ten years tn0 NnOto
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 II too much to expect each one to brinA
one2 Some OF us must bring more than one,
for some will not DO their duty. I want to
bring 10, 900 souls, ! should be ashamed to
meet my God In judgment II, with all my OPP
portunities of commanding Christ to the
people, l could not bring $1,000 souls. But
Il will all depend upon the revival spirit. Tht
hook an line fishing will not do 1t.
Ii seems 10 me as II God Is preparing the
world fer some quick and universal move.
ment. a &C LIBERATED electrician gave me )
telegraph chart otfhe worli. On that chart
the wires crossing the continent and the
cables I'M Tier the sea looked like veins re
with blood. On that chart I SEQ hat the
headquarters Of the ightuings are in Grelt
Britain and the Unitei States. In London
an New York the lightnings ara stabbed,
waiting to be harnessed for sons quick dis
patch. That shows you that the telegraph
is 10 possession OF Christianity.
1t is a significant fact that the man who
Invented the telegraph WIS an old fashioned
ChrIstian-Professor Morse-an1 that the
man who pu, tina telegraph under the sea
was an old fashioned Christian Cyrus w.
Field-and that the president Of the most IA
nous OF the telegraph eonptnles Of this