Milford chronicle., 1895-03-29


be services? Some will say, You were tire
al with long journey. +" No. was not tire
C. at all Some will say: 'The temporal cir
al cumstances in the first case were more IA
o. vorable than in the last No. they wer
as more favorable in the last The dlfferanc
N was in the power of the Holy Ghost
D. Nightly present at the first service No
ie seemingly present at all at the second
70 call upon the ministers of America to Civ
y the history Of sermons, for ! believe it wis
IS illustrate as nothing else can the truth O.
that Scripture Not by might nor by
ie power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord .
y An Exceptional Service.
y On the Sabbath of the dedication of one
+ of our churches in Brooklyn at the morn
J. ing service 32s souls stood mp TO profess
; Christ They were the converts IN the
J. Brooklyn Academy of Music where we
o had been worshiping The reception of So
@ many members and many of them bap
J. tized by immersion, had made it an ardu
I GUS service which continued from half
! past 10 In the morning until half past 2 in
o the afternoon From that service we went
Q home exhausted, because there is nothing
l so exhausting as deep emotion. A mes
; senger was sent out to obtain preacher
for that night, but the search was unsuo-
oessful as all the ministers were engaged
for some other place With no preparation
at all for the evening service except the
, looking in Crudens Concordance for a
text and feeling almost too weary to stand
up ! began the service saying audibly
while the opening song was being sung
although because of the singing no one but
God heard it: 30 Lord, thou knowest
my insu f1ieiency for this service. Come
down in gracious power upon this people
Tho nj aha1
presence. As far as we could find out,
over 400 persons were converted that night
Hear it, all young men entering the min
istry; hear it, all Christian workers It
was the Holy Ghost
In the Second Reformed Church Of
Somerville n j.. 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 q word I
of bis sermon, strong men wept aloud and 1
it 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 win rejoice to hear that
have found peace with God Another
read: Dear Muther-The work continues.
and ] too, have been converted Anoth.
er read, "At last faith and peace In
Vermont a religious meeting was singing
the hymn Waiting and Watching For
Me. The song rolled out on the night
air, and a man halted and said Il
wonder if there viii be any one waiting
and watching for meY 1t started him
heayenward What was it? The Holy
Ghost. In that 1857 Jaynes hall, Phila.
delphia, and Fulton street prayer meet
ing, New York, telegraphed each other the
number of souls saved and the rising Of !
the devotional tides MONDAY prayer
meeting were held in all the cities. Ships
came into harbor, captain and all the sail
ors 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 serv.
ices Congressional union prayer meeting :
was opened at Washington. From whence
came the power? From the Holy Ghost
That power shook New York That power s
shook America That power shook the / c
Atlantic ocean That power shook the t
earth That power would take this entire t
audience into the peace of the gospel t
quicker than you could lift your eyes D
Come, Holy Ghost Come !,
Holy Ghost He has comel He is here l,
feel him in my heart. There are thou il
sands who feel him in their hearts, convict o
ng some, saving some, sanotifying some v
Words of an Evangelist. ri
The difference in evangelical usefulness d
S not SO much difference in brain, in cl
oholarship OF elooutionary gifts as in el
Holy Ghost power You viii not have d.
much surprise at the extraordinary career e
f Charles g. Finney as a soul winner If 4
ou know that soon after his conversion
q hnH t1fe ,f Ha Ff
ie says Is
AS l turned and was about to take ol
eat by the fire 1 received baptism Of the 10
loly Ghost Without any expectation Of S6 Ge
3 without ever having the thought in my ~
lind that there was any such thing for 70
le, without any recollection that l had pl
yer heard the thing mentioned by any 70
arson in the world, the Holy Ghost dc az
.ended upon me in a manner that seemed ei'
go through me body and soul Indeed "
seemed to come in waves and waves of u ~
quid love, for l could not express it in ~
~ other way. 1t seemed like the very y ~
'eath Of God 1 can recolleot distinctly ~
at it seemed to fan mo like immense W
ings. No words can express the wonder ~
] love that is shed abroad in my heart zee
wept aloud with joy and love These iso i.
ayes came over me, and over me, and ~
led out, I shall die if these waves CON
lue to pass over me. l said, Lord, 1 Vei
mot bear any more
Now, my hearers, let 500 of u.s. whether "a,
3rical or lay workers, get such divine
station as that, and we could take this ~
lrld for God before the clock of the next iae
injury strikes one au'
How many marked instances of Holy oal
lost powerl When a black trumpeter va
ok his place in Whitefeld's audience u
lposing to blow the trumpet at a certain o., ahl
int IN the service and pnt everything M M
to derision, somehow he could not get viii
g trumpet to his lips, and at the close Of get
e meeting he sought out the preacher thr
d asked for his prayers It was the m
Ily Ghost Whgt was the matter with fast
ldley Wears, the memora bio soldier, when bell
sat with his Bible before him in tent bee
d his deriding comrades came in and the
red, saying, Turned Methodist, eh2 alw
I'd another said: You hypocritel Bad else
you were, I never thought you would o'ol
ne to this, old feilowl" And then he T
lame the soldier evangelist and when as
der in another regiment hundreds of sess
les away telegraphed his spiritual anx- rail-
les to Hedley Wears, saying, what and
II dof' Wears telegraphed as thrill for
a message as ever went over the wires, ALT,
eileVe on che Lord Jesus Christ and pure
u shalt be saved What power was cole
ng feltl 1t was the Holy Ghost we'll
Tongues Of Fire. with
And what more appropriate, for the ons,
y Ghost is a tongue of fire, " and the floor
'tricity that flies along the wires is a lin c
que Of fire? And that reminds me of battl
at / might do now. From the place perh
ere / stand ON this platform there are little
isible wires or lines Of influence stretch sesse
to every heart in all the seats on the cent?
in floor and up into the boxes and gal to m
es, and there are other innumerable wher
es or lines of influence reaching out in tn
n this place into the vast beyond, and skih,
lss continents, and under the seas for stean
ny recent journey around the world esty,