Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-02-13

century, when Bunyan and Flavel and
Baxter led on; as in the awakening of tho
eighteenth century, when Tenant and
Edwards and the Wesleys led on; as in tho
awakening of 1857, led on by Matthew
Simpson, tho seraphio Methodist and
Bishop MacIlvaine, the Apostolic Episco-
palian, and Albert Barnes, the conseorated
Presbyterian, and others, just as good, in
all denominations. Oh, will not some Of
those glorious souls of the past como down
and help usY Come down off your thrones,
Nettleton and Finnoy and Daniel Baker
and Edward Payson and Truman Osborne
and Earle and Knapp md Inskip and
Archibald Alexander--that Alexander tho
Great of tho Christian churches. Como
down. How can you rest up there when
tho world Is dying for lack of the gospelp
Come down and agonize with US In prayer
Como down and holp us preach in our
pulpits. Come down and inspire our cour-
age and faith. Heaven can got along with
out you better than we oan. But moro
than all-and overwhelmed with revorent
emotion we ask it--oome, thou of the
deeply dyed garments of Bozrah, travelling
in the greatness of thy strength, mighty
to savcl Lord God of Joshual Let tho
sun of this century stand still above Glib
con and tho moon above tho valley of
Ajalon until we can whip out tho five
kings Of hell, tumblipg them down tho
preoipicos as tho other five kings went
over the rocks of Bethhorom. Hn, hal 1t
will so surely be done that 1 cannot re-
strain tho laugh of triumph.
Washington Needs q Revival.
From whore tho seaweod Is tossed on the
beach by the stormy Atlantic to tho sands
laved by tho quiet Pacific, this country
will DO Emanuel's land, the work begin
ming at Washington, II we have tho faith
and holy push and the conservation req
uisite. First Of all, we ministers must
got right. That was q startling utterance
OF Mr. Swinnock when he said, ut is u
doleful thing to fall into hell from under
the pulpit but, oh, how dreadful thing
to drop thither out Of the pulpit" That
was un all suggestive thing that Paul
wrote to tho Corinthians, LEST that by
any means, when / have preached to 9th
ers, myself should be q oastaway." That
was an inspiring motto with which White
field sealed all his letters, "we sock the
stars" Lord God Wake up all our pull
pits and then 1t will be as whom Vonn
preached, and it was said that mon foil be-
fore the word like. Stacked lime. Let us
all, laymen and clcrgymen, to tho work
What Washington wants most of oil Is an
old fashioned revival of religion, but on n
vastcr SCALE so that the world will be com
PEELED to say, us Of old, 1--WE never saw 1t
on this fashion," But remember there Is
human side as we'll as a divine side to
revival Those Of us brought up in tho
country know what Is called "a raising
tho neighbors gathered together to lift
tho heavy franc for new house after tho
timbers aro ready to be put into their
places. 1t Is dangerous work, and thero
are many accidents. The neighbors had
gathered for such q raising, and the beams
had all been fitted to their places except
ono, and that worry heavy. That ono, oil
the long pixies Of the men, had almost
reached It's place, when something went
wrong, and the men could hoist 1t no
higher. But II II did not go in its place 1t
would fall back upon the mon who were
lifting it. 1t had already begun to settle
back. The boss carpenter shouted: Lift,
men, OF die! All togetherl Yo-heave"
With mightier push they tried to send the
beam to its place, but failed. Still they
hold on, all the time thea strength lessen
ing. The wives and mothers and daugh-
ters stood in horror looking on. Thcn tho
boss carpenter shouted to the women,
"Come and hclpl'
They came, and womanly arms becaSe
the arms of giants for they were lifting to
save the lives of husbands and fathers and
sons as well as their own. Then tho boss
carpenter mounted one of the beams and
shouted: "Now! Altogether Lift or die!
70, heaveP' And with u united effort
that almost burst the blood vessels the
great beam won't to its place, and wild
huzza was heard. That is the way 1t some
times seems in the churches. Temples Of
righteousness arc to be reared but there is
a halt, "a stop, catch somewhere. A few
are lifting all they can, but we want moro
hands at this raising and more hearts,
more Christian mon to help-aye more
Christian women to re-enforce II the
work fail, 1t means the death of many
souls. All together Men and women Of
God Lift or die! The top stone must
come to its place with shoutings Of grace,
grace unto it," God Is ready to do his
part Are we ready to do our part? There
is work not only for the knee OF prayer,
but for tho shoulder Of upheaval.
The Door Of Mercy.
And now / would like to SEQ this hour
that which l have never seen, but hope to
sea- whole audience saved under one
flash Of tho Eternal Spirit. Before you go
out Of any of these doors enter tho door Of
mercy. flasher and mother, come In and
bring your children with you. Newly
married folks, consocrato your lifetime to
God and be married for eternity rs we'll as
time. Young man, you will want God
before you get through this world, and
you want him now. Young woman, with
out God this is hard world for women
One and all, wherever you sit or stand
lift my voice 50 that you oan hear 1t, out
in the corridors and on the street, and say,
in tho words Of the Mediterranean ship
captain, "Call upon thy God, II SO be that
God will think upon Jus, that We perish
not oh, what news to tell; what news
to relate to your old father and mother
what news to telegraph your friends on
the other side Of the mountains; what
news with which to thrill your loved ones
In heaven! 1t was of such news that a
man read in q MONDAY meeting In Philn-
delphia. He arose, and unrolling q manu-.
script read:
Whereer we meet. you always say:
whats tho newsp What's the newsf
Pray what's the order Of the dayp
what's the newsf What's the newsf"
Oh, have got good news to tell
My Saviour hath done all things well
And piiumphed over death and hell
That's the news That's tho newsl
Tho Lamb was slain on Calvary
That's the news! That's the newsl
To set a world OF sinners free
That's the nows! That's the newsl
Tho Lord has pardoned all my sin-V
That's the newsl That's tho news!
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