The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

I reproduce 90. and did reproduce Z as far as
I I could. but the result was nothing Al all.
Z Never had ! seemed TO have anything 10
. do with a fiatter failure What was the
/ difference between the two services Some
I will say. You were tired with a long
I journey" No. I was not tired at all Some
/ will say. The temporal circumstances in
I the first case were more favorable than in
+ the last" No. they were more favorable
I 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 call upon the min
T listers Of America to give the history Of
7 sermons, for / believe II viii illustrate as
I nothing else can the truth OF that scripture
Not by might, nor by power, but by my
spirit saith the Lord"
on the Sabbath Of the dedication of one
T Of our churches in Brooklyn, at the morn
/ ing service three hundred and twenty
/ eight souls stood up 20 profess Christ
I They were the converts in the Brooklyn
I Academy Of Music, where we had been
wOrshipping. The reception OF so many
/ members and many OF them baptized by
/ immersion, had made 1t an arduous SER
I vice, which continued from half past ten
( in the morning until half-past two in the
afternoon. From that service we went
/ home exhausted; because there is nothing
so exhausting as deep emotion. A messen-
ger was sent out to obtain a preacher for
/ that night. but the search was unsuccess-
I fui. as all the ministers were engaged
| for some other place. With no prepare
] ton at ali for the evening service. except
I the looking in Cruden's Concordance for
text, and feeling almost too weary to
stand up, began the service. saying audi
/ bly, while the opening song was being sung,
although because OF the singing no one but
/ God heard IL: "Oh. Lord, thou knowest
/ my insufficiency for this service. Come
down In gracious power upon this people"
/ The place was shaken with the Divine
presence. As far as we could find out
over four hundred persons were converted
that night. Hear it, all young men enter
ing the ministry, hear IL. all Christian
workers; IL was the Holy Ghost.
In the Second Reformed church of Som
erVille, New Jersey, in my boyhood days,
Mr.. Osborne. the evangelist. came to hold
| a special service. l see him now as he
stood in the pulpit Before he announced
his text. and before he had uttered a word
of his sermon, strong men wept aloud. and
1t was like the day of judgment 1t was
the Holy Ghost
In 1857 the electric telegraph bore strange
messages. one of them read. MY dear
| parents Will rejoice to hear that L have
found peace with Cod" Another read:
Dear Mother: The work continues, and
| /, too, have been converted" Another
read: AT last, faith and peace" In Ver-
mont religious meeting was singing a
hymn, Waiting and Watching for Me"
The song rolled out on the night air, and
man halted and said. II wonder II
there will be anyone waiting and watch
ing for me?' II started him heavenward.
What was it? The Holy Ghost. In that 1867
Jaynes' hall, Philadelphia, and Fulton
Street Prayer Meeting, New York, tele-
graphed each other the number of souls
saved, and the rising of the devotional
tides. MONDAY prayer meetings were held
I'm all the cities. Ships came into harbor,
captain and all the crew saved on that
voyage. Police and fire departments met
in their rooms for divine worship. At
Albany the Legislature Of the state of New
York assembled in the rooms Of the court
of appeals for religious services. Con-
| gressional union prayer meeting was OPP
ened at Washington. From whence came
the power? From the Holy Ghost. That
| power shook New York. That power shook
America. That power shook the Atlantic
| ocean. That power stock the earth. That
/ power could take this entire audience into
| the peace of the Gospel quicker than you
| could lift wour eyes heavenward. Come,
| Holy Ghostl Come, Holy Ghost He
! has comet He is herel / feel him in my
heart. There are thousands who feel him
| in their hearts, convincing some. saving
| some, sanctifying some.
The difference in evangelical usefulness
/ is not so much a difference in brain, in
/ scholarship. or evolutionary gifts, in
! holy ghost power. You will not have much
surprise at the extraordinary career of
Charles G. Finney as a soul winner, if
! you know that soon after his conversion
/ he had this experience of the Paraclete.
He says:
LAS l turned, and was about to take a
| seat by the fire, l received a baptism of
! the holy ghost. Without any expectation
| of it, without ever having the thought in
| my mind that there was any such thing
] for mill hat I
1 had ever heard the thing mentioned by
/ any person in the world the holy ghost
! descended upon me in manner that
| seeemed to go through me- body and soul.
| Indeed, it seemed to come in waves and
waves of liquid love, for I could not ex-
press 1t in any other way. 1t seemed like
/ the very breath of God. I can recollect
distinctly that it seemed to fan me like
immense wings. No words can express
/ the wonderful love that was shed abroad
in my heart, / wept aloud with joy and
love. These waves came over me, and
over me, one after another. until l recall
l cried out, II shall die If these waves con-
tinue to pass over me- said, Lord, I
cannot bear any more
Now, my hearers, let five hundred of us.
whether clerical or lay workers, get such
a divine visitation that, and we could
take this world foV God before the clock
of the next century strikes one.
How many marked instances of Holy
| Ghost power When black trumpeter
took his place in Whitfield's audience
proposing to blow the trumpet at a GER
tain point in the service, and put every
thing into derision, somehow he could not
get the trumpet to his lips and at tic
close of the meeting he sought out the
preacher and asked for his prayers. 1t
was the Holy Ghost. What was the mat
ter with Hedley Wears, the memorable
soldier, when he sat with his Bible before
him in a tent, and his deridng comrades
| came in and jeered, saying: Turned
Methodist, eh?" And another said, You
| hypocrite! Bad as you were. 1 never
thought you would come to this, old fell
low" And then he became the soldier
evangelist, and when a soldier in another
| regiment hundreds of miles away tele-
graphed his spiritual anXieties to He'd
| ley Wears, saying: What shall l do?"
Wears telegraphed as thrilling a message
as ever went over the wires Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved" What power was being felt? it
was the Holy Ghost. And what more ap-
propriate? for the Holy Ghost is tongue
of fire" and the electricity that flies along
! Of Ind h.t