Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-15

malsoleums all over the land. Their
tongues are specchless. their eyes closed,
thelr arms folded. their opportunities
gone. their destiny fixed. How Soon time
~pforosues parliaments. and adjourns SEN
ates. dlSbands cabinets. and cmptics
puipitS. 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 implore
the heavens in our behalf from their mid
night pillows. and | call upon the aged
Who cannot. even by the help of their
stan. enter the churches to spend their
last days on earth in supplicating the sal
vation of this nation. and | call upon all
men and women who have been in fur
naces of trouble. as was Shadrach. and
among lions. as was Daniel. and in dun
Seons of trouble. as was jeremiah, to Join
IN the prayer, and lei the church of God
everywhere lay hold of the Almighty arm
that moves nations.
Then Senators of the United States will
announce to the State legislatures that
sent them here. and members of the House
OF Representatives will report 10 the con
Sressional districts that elected them. and
the many thousands of men and women
now and here engaged In the many de-
partmenfs of national service will write
home. telling all sections of the country
that tho Lord is here. and that he j on
The march for the redemption of America.
liallclujah. the Lord IS coming, ! hear
the rumblins of his chariot wheels. |
feel on my checks the breath of the white
horses that draw the Victor. ] see the
nash of his lanterns through the long
night Of the worlds sin and sorrow.
y New Awakening.
We want in this country. only on a
larger scale. nat which other centuries
have seen 81 Gods workings, as in the ref
ornation of the sixteenth century. wien
Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon
led on; as in the awakening Of the seven
teenth century. when Bunyan and Flavel
and Baxter led on; as in the awakening
of the eighteenth century. when Tenant
and Edwards and the WeSlcys led on; us
in the awakening of 1851. led on by Mat
thew Simpson. the scraphic Methodist,
and Bishop MacIlvaine, the Apostolic
Episcopalian. and Albert Barnes, the con
secrated Presbyterian. and others, just
rs good. in all denominations. Oh, will
not some of those glorious souls OF the
past come down and help us? Come
down off your thrones, Ncttlet0n and Fin
ney and Daniel Bake and Edward Pay
son and Truman Osborne and Earle and
Knapp and Inskip and Archibald Alex
~andcr-that Alexander the Great of the
Christian churches. Come down! How
can YOU rest up there when the world is
dying for lack of the gospel? Come down
and agonize with us in prayer. Como
down and help us preach i'll our pulpits.
Come down and inspire our courage and
faith. Heaven can get along without you
better than we can. But more than all
and overwhelmed with revercnt emotion
we ask it-come, thou of the deeply dyed
garments of Bozrah, travelling in the
greatness of thy strength, mighty TO save!
Lord God of Joshua! Let the sun of this
century stand still above Gideon and the
moon above the valley of Ajalon until
we can whip out the five kings of hell,
tumbling them down the precipices as the
other five kings went over the rocks of
Bcthhorom. Ha, ha! 1t will So surely
be done that | cannot restrain the laugh
of triumph.
Washington Needs a Revival.
From where the seaweed is tossed on
the beach by the stormy Atlantic TO the
sands laved by the quiet Pacific. this
country will be Emanucl's land. the work
beginning ut Washington, if we have the
faith and holy push and the conservation
requisite. First of all, we ministers must
get right. That was Il startling utterance
Of Mr.. Swinnock when he said, 1T is n
doleful thing To fall into hell from under
the pulpit, but, oh. how dreadful Il thing
ID drop tlithcr out of the pulpit" That
WAS an all suggestive thing that Paul
wrote 10 the Corinthians, Lest that by
any means. when | have preached to 9TH
ers, | myself should be Il castaWay." That
was IN inspiring motto with which White
field sealed all his letters, I'VE seek tho
stars" Lord God. Wake up all our
pulpits. and then it will be rs when Nenn
preached, and it was said that men fell
before the word like Stacked lime. Let
us all. laymen and clergymen, TO the work.
What Washington wants most of all is an
old-fashioned revival of religion. but on u
vaster scale. 80 that the world will be com-
PEELED To say. as of old, I'VE never saw it
on this fashion" But remember there is
a human side rs well rs Il divine side to
Il revival. Those of us brought up in the
country know what is called ~ raising"
the nciShbors gathered together to lift
the heavy frame for a new house after tho
timbers are ready to be put into their
places. 1t is dangerous work., and there
are many accidents. The neighbors had
gathered for such n raising. and the beams
had all been fitted 10 their places except
one, and that very heavy. That one. on
the long pixies of the men, had almost
reached it's place. when something went
wrong, and the men could hoist il no
higher. But if it did not 80 in its place it
would fall back upon the men who were
lifting it. 1t had already begun To settle
back. The boss carpenter shouted: Lift.
men. or die. All together. Yo-heavev'
| With mightier push they tried to send the
beam TO it's place. but failed. Still they
held on. all the time their strength lessen
ing. The wives and mothers and daugh-
tiers stood in horror looking on. Then the
| boss carpenter shouted to the women,
Come and help!'
They came, and womanly arms became
| the arms of giants, for they were lifting to
| save the lives of husbands and fathers
| and sons as well as their own. Then the
boss carpenter mounted one of the beams
| and shouted: "NOw! Altogether. Lift or