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tuat complete prOStratlOn came an aWakon-
ing in which 500, 600 people were converted
in different States Of the Union. Do you
know where one OF its chief powers was
demonstrated2 In Washington. Do you
know on what street2 This street. Do you
know in what church, This church. ]
picked up An old book few days ago and
was startled and thrilled and enchanted to
read some words. written at that time by the
Washington correspondent of New York
paper. He wrote: "The First Presbyterian
Church can scarce contain the people. Re-
quests are daily preferred for an interest in
tho prayers offered, and the reading Of these
forms one Of the tenderest and most effective
features of the meetings. Particular pains
are taken to disclaim and exclude every
thing like sectarian feeling. General aston
ishment is felt at the unexpected rapidlty
with which the work has thus far proceeded
and we are beginning to anticipate the egt's ne
cessity of opening another church" why,
my hearers, not have that again. and more
than that2 There are many thousands more
Of Inhabitants now than then. Besides tnai'
since then are the telephone, with Its SEMI
omnipresence, and the swift cable car ior as
sembling the people. belleVe tnal the
miehtiest revival OF religion that this city
has ever seen is yet to come. and the eartD
will tremb.e from Capitohne Hill to the
boundaries on all sides with the footsteps OF
God AS He comes to awaken and pardon and
save these great populations.
Peop!e of Washington. meet US next Thurs
dav night, at half past o'clock, to pray for
thfs coming OF the Holy Ghost-not for a
pentecos.al 5000 that have referred to. but
81, 900. Such fire as that would kindle
light that would be seen from the sledges
branching through the SHOWS of Labrador to
the Caribbean Sea, whero the whirlwinds are
born. Let our cry be that Of Habakkuk, the
blank verse poet Of the Bible, 80 Lord, re-
vive Thy work in the midst of the years, in
the midst of the years make known; in wrath
remember mercy" Let the battlecry be
Washington for God, the United States for
God, America for God, the world for God!
We are all tired of skirmishing. Let US
BRING on a general engagement. We are
tired of fishing with hook and line.
With one sweep Of the gospel net let US
take in many thousands. This vast work
some one must give the rallying cry, why
may not I. one of the Lords servants3 BY
arrangement, am every week
IN sermonic communication with every city.
town and neighborhood of this country, and
[ now give the watchword to north and
south and east and west. Hear and see 1t,
Ill people-this call to forward movement.
his call to repentance and faith, this call to
4 continental awakening!
This generation will soon be out Of sight.
Where are the mighty men Of the past who
rod your Pennsylvania avenue and spake
IN yonder. National Legislature and decided
he slupeEdous questions Of the supreme ju-
Ask the sleepers in the Congress
,ional cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all
over the land. Their tongues are speech
ha;r n1Acad fhafr fp1hpd
heir opportunities gone. their destiny fixed.
How soon time prorogues parliaments and
,djourns senates and disbands cabinets and
smpties pulpits and dismisses generations!
What We would do we must do quickly
Or not do at all. call upon people who
cannot come forth from their sickbeds to i'm
oIore the heavens in our behalf from their
pillows, and call upon the aged
who cannot, even by the help Of their staff,
snter the churches to spend their last days
IN earth in supplicating the salvation OF this
Nation, and I call upon all men and women
Sho have been in furnaces Of trouble, as
vas. shadrach. and among lions, as was
Daniel. and In dungeons OF trouble, as was
Jeremiah, to join in the prayer. and let
he church OF God everywhere lay hold
If the Almighty arm that moves Ma.
ions. Then Senators of the United
states will announce to the State legislatures
hat sent them here. and members Of the
House or Representatives will report to the
districts that elected them,
md the many thousands Of men and women
low and here engaged in the many depart
nents Of National service will write home,
elling all sections of the country that the
Lord is here and tina: he Is on the march :5r
he redemption Of America Halleluiah, the
Lord is coming. hear the rumbling OF his
,bov =; ;ot r,bo r faal m phAnES fhA
,reath of the white horses that draw the
1ictor! I see the fash OF His lanterns
through the long night OF the worlds sin
md sorrow.
We want In this country. only on larger
Gale, that which other centuries have seen
# Gods workings, rs in the reformation OF
he sixteenth century, when Martin Luther
md Philip Melanchthon led on; as In the
of the seventeenth century, when
3unyan and Flavel and Baxter led on; as In
he awakening OF the eighteenth century,
ghen Tenant and Edwards and the WesIeys
ed on; as in the awakening Of 1857, led on
y Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Methodist,
md Bishop MacIlvaine. the apostolic Epls-
opalian, and Albert Barnes, the consecrated
Presbyterian, and others Just as good In all
Oh. will not some OF
hose glorious souls Of the past come
lOWu uolp SOLiiO uOWh Oi yNuk
hrones. Nettleton and Finney and Daniel
3ake- and Edward Payson and Truman Os.
,orna and Earle and Knapp and Inskip and
Archibald AleIander-that Alexander the
treat OF the Christian churches. Come
!own! How can you rest up there when the
world is dying for lack Of the gospel? Come
iown and agoniZe with US in prayer. Come
lown and help Us preach in our pulpits
1oms down and inspire our courage and
aith. Heaven can get along without you
,etter than we can. But more than all. ana
with reverent emotion, we ask
t. come. Thou Of the deeply dyed garments
,f Bozrah; travelling in the greatness OF Thy
strength. mighty to save! Lord God OF
till above Gtheon and the moon above the
ALLEY Of Aialop until we can whip out the
I've kings OF hell. tumOlinS them down the
orecipices as the other five kings went over
he rocks to Bethhorop. Ha. Ha! 1t will
10 surely be done that cannot restrain the
augh Of triumph.
And now would like 20 SEQ this hour that
which have never seep, hut hope to See
, whole audience saved under one flash Of
he Eternal Spirit. Before YOU go out OF any
If these doors enter tho door OF
mercy. Father AMI mother, come in and
orine your children with you. Newly mar
lied folks. con:ecrate your lifeti'.,e to God,
md be married foc eternity ia we'll Us time.
Younc man. you will waut God before you
got through this wori |, AMI you want Him
now. Young woman. without God this is u
hard world for women. One AID oil, wher-
aver you sit or stand. lit my voice so that
you can hear 1t, out in the corridors and on
The street. and say, In the words OF the Med
terranean ship captain. "Call upon thy God,
Il so be that God will think upon us, that we
perish not" Oh, what news to tell, what
news to relate to your old father aud moth
81. what news to telegraph your friends on