Connecticut western news., 1896-02-13

the other grSas NNes are either north. srn CT southern, This is neither, or rather it is both.
 Religion Among ssatesmen-
 Again. it would be especially advan- tsgeous if & mighty work of grace start ed here, because more representative men are in Washington than in any oth CT city between the oceans. Of course there are accidents in politics, and occs- there are men who get into the senate and house of representatives and other important places who are fitted for the positions in neither head nor heart, but this Is exceptional and more exceptional now than in other days. There is not drunksrd in the national legislature, although there were times when Kentucky, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, New York and Massachusetts had men in the senate or house of repre- sentativss who were maudlin and stag gering drunk across those high places. Never pobler group of men sat in senate or house of representatives than sat there yesterday and will sit there tomorrow, while the highest judiciary, without ex ception, has now upon its bench men beyond criticism for good morals and mental endowment So in all depart ments of official position. with here and there an exception. are today the braini- est men and most honorable men of America, Now, suppose the Holy Ghost power should fall upon this city, and these men from Ill parts of America should suddenly become pronounced for Christ Do yun say the effect would be electricals More than that. It would be omnipotens> Do you say that such learned and potent men are not wrought upon by religious influence? That shows you have no, observed what has been going on.
 Commodore Foote, representing the navy; General Grant and Robert E. Lee, representing the northern and southern armies; Chief Justice Chase, the supreme court; the Theodore and Frederick. the United States senate; ]; William Pennington and scores of oth- CTS, representing the house of represent atives, have surrendered to that gospel, which before this winter is out will in this capital of the American nation, if we are faithful in our prayers and ex- ertions, turn into the kingdom of God men of national and international pow CT. their tongues of eloquence becoming the tongues of fire in another Pentecost. There are on yonder hill those who by the grace of God will become John Knoxes and Chrysostoms and Fenelops and Ponr9ato@rS xx-h r. ed. There is an illusion have heard in prayer meetings and heard in pulpits, that soul is a soul-one soul worth as much as another. deny it The soul Of man who can bring I, 1000 or 10, ,000 other souls into the kingdom of God is worth 1000 times or 10. 900 times more than the sonl of man who can bring DO one into the kingdom. A great out pouring of the Holy Spirit in this capi- tai. reaching the chief men of America, would be of More value to earth and heaven than in any other part of the na- tion because it would reach all the states, cities, towns and neighborhoods of the continent Oh, for the outstretch ed right arm of Gcd Almighty in the salvation of this capisali
 A Look Backward
 Some of us remember 1857, when at the close of the worst monetary distress this country has ever felt. compared with which the hard times of the last three years were boom of prosperity, right on the heels of that complete pros tration came an awakening in which 800, GOO people were converted in differ ent states of the Union. Do you know where one of it's chief powers was dem- onstrated? In Washington. Do you know on what street: This street. Do you know in what church? This church. picked up an old book few days ago and was startled and thrilled and en- chanted to read some words. written at that time by the Washington corrs- spondent of New York paper. He wrote: "The First Presbyterian church can scarce contain the people. Requests are daily preferred for an interest in the prayers offered, and the reading of these fnrms one of the tenderest and most ef fective features of the meetings Particu- lar pains are taken to disclaim and ex- cln6e everything like sectarian feeling. General astonishISent is felt at the un- expected rapidity with which the work has thus far proceeded, and we are be- ginning to anticipate the necessity of opening another church. Why, my hearers, not have that again, and more than that? There are many thousands more of inhabitants now than then Be- sides that, since then are the telephone, with it's semiomnipreSence, and the swift cable car for assembling the people l believe that the mishtiest revival of re- ligion that this city has ever seen is yet to come, and the earth will tremble from Capitoline hill to the boundaries on all sides with the footsteps of God as he comes to awaken and pardon and save these great populations
 People of Washington, meet us next Thursday night, at half past o'clock, to pray for this coming of the Holy Ghost-not for 8 pentecostal 5000 that fire as that would kindle a light that would be seen from the sledges crunch ing through the snows of Labrador to the Caribbean sea, where the whirlwipds are born. Let our cry be that of Habak- knk, the blank verse poet of the Bible, 70 Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the yeara. in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy" Let the battlecry be Washing
 ton 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
 must begin somewhere Why not here:
 Some one must give the rallying cry,
 why may not I. one of the Lord B sers.
 ants? By providential arrangement,
 am every week in sermonic communica.
 tion with every city, town and neigh.
 borhood of this country, and now give the watchword to north and south and
 east and west Hear and see it, all peo- ple-this call to forward movement,