Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-02-01
BEAR TESTIMONY.
LEI TIE REDEEMED ".S.AY So"
DIR. Ta!mase Makes An Eloquent APP
pealfor An OutspOken Religion,

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An overture, an antiphon. a doxoloey fs
I'M. CHAPTER, anG IN my text David calls for
an out.p"ken religion and requests all who
pave heen rescued and blessed no longer to
Eide the splendid facts. but 10 recite them.
publish them and as far as possible let all the
world know about il. LET the redeemed of
the Lord say 80" There Is a sinful reticence
which has been almost canonized. The
people are quite "a outspoken as they ought
70 be on all subjects q POLITICS and are fluent
and voluhle on the Venezuelan question
ana oimetaillsnl Gnd tariffs high. and low
and remodeled and female suffrage. and You
nave to s~kilf1,iy watch your chance il you
want 70 put into the active conversation
y modest suggestion of your own, but
on the subject OF divine goodness. reIi-
glous experience and eternal blessadress
they are not only silnrt. bat boastful Of their
rsticenoe. Now, II you have been redeemed
otthe Lord, why do you not say 40? If YOU 1
have IN your heart the pearl Of great price.
worth mora than the Kohinoor among Vic
J torian Jewels, why not let others see it? Ii
you got off the wrecl; in the breakers. why
not tell Of the crew AMI the stout lifeboat
that safely landed your II from the fourth
story you are rescued in time Of confagra-
ton. why not tell of the fireman and the lad
der down which he carried you? If you
have a mansion in heaven awaiting YOU.
why not show the deed to those who may by
the same process get An emerald castle on
the same boulevard? By the last two words
OF my text David calls upon all OF US who
have received any mercy at the hands of
God to stop impersonatinS the asylums for
the uAmb and i'll the persence ofmen, women.
angels, devils and all words say So"
In these January dG,ya. thousands of min
listers and private Christians are wondering
about the best ways Of starting a revival Of
religion. Ian tell Won a way Of starting a
revival. continental, hemisphere and world
wi'e. You say q revival starts IN heaven.
Wei. 1t starts in heaven jnsl as, a prosperous
harvest starts in heaven. The sun must shine
and the rains must descend, but unless YOU
UlOw and SOW and cultivate the earth YOU
will not raise a bnshcl of wheat or a peck of
corn between now and the Cnd uftha world.
How. then. shall a universal revival start?
BY a!l Christian people telling the story of
Their own conversion. Let ten men and wo-
men get up next week in your prayer meet
inS ami, not IN Il conventional or cantinG. or
do'efGtway, but in the same tone they en-
rloy IN tho fanli, or place Of business,
tell bow they crossed the line, and
the revival will begin then and there, it
Athe prayer meeting has net been so dun
rs to drive out all except those concern
1 ing whom il wa foreorlainod from al
eternity that they Should Da there. There
are so marS differrnt ways Of being con-
vertcl chat We want to hear all kinds so that
orr own case may be'hclped. 1t always puts
LIC 'LIA y I'D Ouif clf KIM OF experience,
such as q man gives when he tells Of his
aullne cOnversion-how he Wa knocked
senseless, ana then had Il vision and heard
voices, and after a certain number OF days
OF horror got up and soonle! for Joy. All
that discourages me. for I was ncvcrkuocke
henseie-S. ard | never had such a sudden
burst of religious rapture that I lost my
equilibrium. But after awhile n Christian
man got up in some meeting AMI tod us how
he was brought up by u devout pnrentage,
and had always been thoughtful about re-
ligious things, aud gradually the peace Of
the gospel came into his soul like the dawn
OF the mornipg-no perceptibie difference
between moment and moment-but after
awhile all perturbation settled down into a
hope that had c~onsoIed and strengthened
him during all the viciSsitudes Of a lifetime.
, I said, "That is exhilaratiQg; that was my
experience" And so l was strengthened.
= In another prayer meeting a man got up
and told us how he once hated God and
went through oil the round Of iniquity until
we were all on nettles lest he should go too
much into the particulars. but one day he
= was by some religious power hurled fiat and
then got up a Christians and had ever since
been going around with a Baxter Bible with
large flaps under his arm. a floating evange-
list. Well. under this story many are not
helped at all, for they know they never hated
God, and they were never dlssolute. But az
ter awhile some Christian woman arises and
SAYS. II have nothing extraordinary to
tell. yet think the ares OF life, the anxieties
about my children and two graves
opened in our family plot made me feel the
need Of God. and weak and helpless and
heartbrokcn | flung myself upon His mercy,
. and | feel what the Bible calls the peace Of
God which passeth all understanding, and
/ ask your prayers that ! may live nearer &c
the Christ who has done 50 mucn Tor me-.
n ] declare that before that woman gotthrough
we we're all crying. not bitter tears. but
fpa r - of InNfut nrnDtinn- and IN .hrpH tI3CC IN
that neighborhooi all the ice had gone out
Of the river in a s%Iringtime ire5het Of saliva
= ton. Let the redeemed oftheLor1 say So
h have but little interest in what people
> say about religion rs an abstraction. but
= have illimitabte interest i'll What people say
d abont what they have personally lel.:o re
+ ligion. 1t was an expression Of his Owl
e gratitude for personal salvation which lee
- Charles Wesley. after q season Of great de-
le sponlency about his soul and Christ hal
A, spoken pardon, ~ write that imlnOrta
- hymn:
, Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing
= My great ReleeIuer praise
Mt 1t was after Abraham Lincoln had beer
A. ronforted IN the loss 81 RAT. the bright b,
Of the White House. that he said. 4 now Sc
AS never before the IrecioUsness OF God
love in JESUS Christ and how we are brough
!. near TO Gcd-as oUr Father by Him
What aIhrili Went through the meeting j
Portland, Or. when an neutrality-suspicious.:
o the Unitet states rose aIii said: LID
i night l got upanl asseI il prayers ofGoi
people. feel nov perfectly satisfied. Th
= burden isrolled off and all gone. and l fe.
that could run or fly into the arms of Jesu
Christ
VIVA, a record for all time and eternit
= was made by Gellacius. the play actor. j
the theatre ut Heiiopolis. 4 burlesque
Christianity was put upon the stage. In d,