Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-03-28

ones amid many infrmities and who feel
themselves to be in the way in the home
or business which themselves establish
ed with their own grit
The Holy Ghost comfort. think. gen.
orally comes in the shape of q solilo-
guy. You find yourself saying to your
self: well, ought not to 60 on this
way about my mothers death. She had
suffered enough. She had borne other
peoples burdens long enough. lam glad
that father and mother are together in
heaven, and they will be waiting to greet
us, and it will be only little while
anyhow, and God makes no mistakes. -
Or you soliloquize, saying: ''lt is hard
to lose my property. am sure worked
hard enough for it. But God will take
care Of rs, and, as to the children, the
money might have spoiled them, and we
find that those who have to struggle for
themselves generally turn out best,
and it will all be we'll il this upsetting
Of our worldly resources leads us to lay
up treasures 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 the house, and there
are SO many things I come across that
make one think Of him, and he was such
splendid fellowl But then what an
escape he has made from the tempta-
tions and sorrows which come to all
who grow up, and it 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 a drawing heavenward that
we could not have otherwise expert.
enoed." 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
tear. That makes maniacs. 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 sol;lcquies.
No, no; they are the Comforter, who is
the Holy Ghost.
Help to the Preacher.
Notice also the Holy Ghost as the
preachers reinforcement. You and I
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 sano-
tifying result, while some plain. man,
with humblest phraseology, has seen
audiences whelmed with religious influ-
ence. 1t was the Holy Ghost. What a
useful thing it would be if every minis
ter would give the history of his SER
mons 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-
ceeded anything I ever witnessed since
began to preach, with perhaps the ex-
ception 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 I 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 theme
was fresh in my mind, resolved to re-
produce it, and did reproduce it as far as
could, but the result was nothing at
all. Never had I seemed to have any
thing to do with f1atter failure. What
was the difference between the two serv-
ices? Some will say, "You were tired
with long journey. = No, I was not
tired at all. Some will say, "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 nightly present at
the first service, not seemingly present
at all at the second. I call upon the
ministers of America to give the history
of sermons, for I believe it will illus
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, s28 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 members land many
Of them baptized by immersion had
made it an arduous service, which con-
tinued from half past 10 in the morn
ing until half past Q in in the after
noon From that service we went
home exhausted, because there is
nothing SO exhausting as deep emo
tion. 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, !
began the service, saying audibly while
the opening song was being sung, al
though because Of the singing no one but
God heard it: 30 Lord, thou knowest
my insuffioienoy for this servicel Come
down in gracious power upon this peo-
pie = Theplace was shaken with the di-
vine presence. AS far as we could find
out, over 400 persons were converted
that night. Hear it, all young men en-
tering the ministry; hear it. all Chris
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