The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-03-29

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orally comes II the shaps Of Q solilo.
dby. Yod f1d yourself saying 10 your.
Ell, "Weii, I 6usht- nce " 10 on this
way about my mothers Asssh Bio had
suffered enough ebs had Sctns. Sthor
peoples burdens bus enough fam glad
sAas fakher and mother are together iii
heaven. and they will be waiting to greet
us and 1t will be only little while
anyhow, and God makes no mistakes.
Or you soliloquize. sayingi ut is hard
to loss my property. am sure worked
hard enough for 1t. But God will take
care Of us, and, as ID ths children, the
money might have spoiled them, and we
find that those who have to struggle for
themselves generally turn out best
and 1t will al be we'll II this upsetting
of our worldly resources leads us to lay
upttreasurcs in heaven Or you solilo-
quize. saying, 1T was hard to give up
that boy when the Lord took him, ex-
pected great things Of him, and, oh, how
we miss him out of tho house, and there
are so many things / come across that
make one think of him, and he was such
a splendid fellowi But then what an
escape he has made from the tempta-
tions and sorrows which come to all
who grow up, and 1t is grand thing to
have him safe from all possible harm,
and there are all those Bible promises
for parents who have lost children, and
we shall feel drawing heavenward that
we could not have otherwise expert.
enced." And after you have said that
you get that relief which comes from an
outburst Of tears. do not say to you,
as some say, do not cry. God pity peo-
pie in trouble who have the parohed eye
ball and the dry eyelid and cannot shed
q tear. That makes maniaos. To Gods
people tears are the dews of the night
dashed with sunrise. am so glad, you
can weep. But you think these things
you say to yourself are only soliloquies.
No, no; they are the Comforter, who is
the Holy Ghost.
Help to the Preacher.
Notice also tho Holy Ghost as the
preachers reinforcement You and
have known preachers encyclopedia in
knowledge, brilliant as an iceberg when
the sun smites it, and with Chesterfield
ian address and rhetorical hand uplifted
with diamond big enough to dazzle an
assembly and so surcharged with vocab-
ulary that when they left this life it
might be said of each Of them as De
Quincy said of another that in the act Of
dying he committed robbery, abscond-
ing with valuable polyglot dictionary,
yet no awakening or converting or sane
tifying result while some plain man,
with humblest phraseology, has seen
audiences whelmed with religious influ-
ence It was the Holy Ghost What
useful thing It would be if every minis
ter would give the history Of his SER
monsl Years ago at an outdoor meet
ing in the state of New York preached
to many thousands. There had been
much prayer on the grounds for great
outpouring Of the Holy Ghost at that
service, and the awakening power ex-
oeeded anything ever witnessed since
I began to preach, with perhaps the ex-
oeption Of two or three occasions Cler-
gymen and Christian workers by the
score and hundreds expressed themselves
as having been blessed during the serv-
ice. That afternoon took the train for
an outdoor meeting in the state of Ohio,
where was to preach on the night of
the next day. AS the sermon had proved
so useful the day before and the thome
was fresh in my mind, resolved to re-
produce 1t, and did reproduce it as far as
/ could, but the result was nothing at
all Never had seemed to have any
thing to do with flatter failure. What
was the difference between the two serv-
ices7 Some will say, "You were tired
with long Journey. No, / was not
tired at all. Some will say, 1.-THE tenn
poral circumstances in the first case
were more favorable than in the last. "
No. they were more favorable in the
last. The difference was in the power
Of the Holy Ghost-mightily present at
the first service, not seemingly present
at all at the second. call upon the
ministers of America to give the history
of sermons, for I believe 1t willillus-
trate as nothing else can the truth Of
that Scripture, mot by might nor by
power, but by my Spirit, saith the
Lord"
On the Sabbath of the dedication Of
one of our churches in Brooklyn, at the
morning service, 1928 souls stood up to
profess Christ They were the converts
in the Brooklyn Academy Of Music,
where we had been worshiping. The re-
ception Of SO many mbers-and many
Of them baptized by immersion-had
made 1t an arduous service, which con-
tinued from half past 10 in the morn
ing until half past 2 in in the after
noon. From that service we went
home exhausted, because there Is
nothing so exhausting as deep emo
ton. A messenger was sent out to
obtain preacher for that night, but
the search was unsuccessful, as all the
ministers were engaged for some other
place. With no preparation at all for
the evening service, except the looking
in Cruden's Concordance for text and
feeling almost too weary to stand up, I
began the service, saying audibly while
the opening song was being sung, al
though because of the singing no one but
God heard 1t: 20 Lord, thou knowest
my insuffioiency for this servicel Come
down in gracious power upon this peo-
pie. The place was shaken with the d.
vine prescribe AS far as we could find
out, over 400 persons were converted
that night Hear it. all young men en-
tering tho ministry; hear It, all Chris
tian workers. It was the Holy Ghost
In the Second Reformed church Of