Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-25

| are all those Bible PROMISES AOl P"
rents who have lost children, and we
shall feel a
DRAWING HEAVENWARD
that we could not have otherwise eX-
nerienced." And after you have said
that Won get that relief which comes
| from an outburst Of tears. DO not say
TO Won. do not cry. God pity people IN
trouble who have the parched eye-ball,
and the dry eye-lid, and cannot shed
tear That makes maniacs. To Gods
neople tears are the dew OF the night
/ dashed with sunrise. am so glad you
can weep. But you think these Things
/ YOU say 20 yourself are only soHioqules.
! Oh no. They are the Comforter, who
is the Holy Ghost.
Notice. also. the Holy Ghost, as the
preachers reinforcement. You ana
/ have known preachers encyclopaedia
! in knowledge. brilliant as an iceberg
when the sun smites it, and with Ches-
terfeldian address, and rhetorical
banduplifted with diamond big enough
10 dazzle an assembly, and so sur
charged with vocabulary, that when
! thev left this life il might be said OF
/ each OF them as De Quincy said OF an
other that in the act of dying, he COM
mitted a robbery. absconding with
valuable polyglOt dictionary, yet no
/ awakening. or converting, or sanctl-
/ fvi1g result. while some plain man,
with humblest phraseology. has seen
| audiences whelmed with religious in
duence. It was the Holy Ghost.
What Il useful thing it would be if
every minister would give the history
of his sermons. Years ago at an out
door meeting in the State OF New YORK
7 preached 10 many thousands. There
had been much prayer on the grounds
for q great outpouring of the Holy
| Ghost at that service, and the awaken
ing power exceeded anything ever
witnessed since
l BEGAN TO PREACH.
with. perhaps. the exception of two or
| three occasions. Clergymen ana
! Christian workers by the score ana
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 50 useful the day before,
| and the theme was fresh in my mind,
I resolved to reproduce it, and did re-
produce il as far as | could, but the
result was nothing at all. Never had
7 seemed to have anything TO do with
Aatter failure. What was the differ
ence between the two services? Some
will say. you were tired with long
7 n tired Al all
some will say. 1.-The temporal circum-
stances 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. l call upon the
ministers of America to give the his
tory of sermons. for | believe it will
illustrate rs nothing else can the truth
of that Scripture, Not by might, nor
bv 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 three hundred
and twenty-eight souls stood up to
profess Christ. They were the con-
verts in the Brooklyn Academy of
Music. where we had been worship
ping. The reception Of so many mem
bers, and many OF them baptized by
immersion, had made II an arduous
service. which continued from halt-
past ten in the morning until half
mast two in the afternoon. From that
service we went home exhausted; be-
cause there is nothing so eXhausting
as deep emotion A messenger was
sent out to obtain a preacher for that
night. but the search was unsuccess-
ful. as all the ministers were engaged
fol. some other place. With no prep
aration at all for the evening service,
except the looking into CrUden's Con-
cordance for a text, and feeling
ALMOST TOO WEARY
to stand up, began the service, say
ing audibly while the opening song
was being sung, although because Of
the singing, no one but God heard 1t:
"Oh. Lord. Thou knowest my INSULT
cheney for this service. Come down in
gracious power upon this people.
The place was shaken with the Dl-
vine presence. AS far as we could
find out, over four hundred persons
were converted that night. Hear 1t,
all young men entering the ministry,
hear it. all Christian workers: 1t was
the Holy Ghost.
In the Second Reformed Church of
Somerville, New Jersey, in my boy
hood days. Mr.. Osborne, the evange-
list. came to hold a special service. |
see him now as he stood in the pulpit.
Before he announced his text, and be-
fore he had uttered a word of his SER
mon. strong men wept aloud, and it
was like the Day of Judgment 1t was
the Holy Ghost.
In 1857 the electric telegraph bore
strange messages. One of them read:
NV dear parents will rejoice to hear
that l have found peace with God"
Another read: Dear mother: The work
continues. and l, too, have been con-
verified" Another read: AT last, faith
and peace" In Vermont a religious
meeting was singing the hymn: Wait
ing and Watching for Me-" The song
rolled out on the night air and man
halted and said: Il wonder if there
will be anyone waiting and watching
for me?" 1t started him heavenward.
What was it? The Holy Ghost. In
that 1857. Jaynes's Hall, Philadelphia,
and Fulton Street Prayer Meeting.
New York. telegraphed each other the
number of souls saved, and the rising
of the devotional tides MONDAY
praver-meetings were held in all the
cities. Ships came into harbor, cap
tain and all the sailors saved on that
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