The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-02-19

ligiOn that this CITY las ever seen is vet
to come, aud the earth Will tremble from
Capitoline hill! to the boundaries on all
sides with tho footsteps Of God us 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 a pentccostal 5000 that
I have referred to, but 10000. Such Il
fire as that would kindle light that
would be seen from the sledges crunch
ing through the SHOWS Of Labrador to
the Caribbean sea, where the whirlwinds
are born. Let our cry be that of Habak-
kuk, the blank verse poet of the Bible,
go Lord, revive thy work in the midst
of the years, in the midst Of the years
make known; III wrath remember
mercy" Let the battlecry be Washing
ton fer God, the United States for God,
America for God, the world for God
We are all tired CT skirmishing. Let us
bring on general engagement. We are
tired of fishing with hook and line.
With one sweep Of the gospel net let rs
take in many thousands. This vast work
must begin somewhere. Why not here?
Some orc must give the rallying cry,
why may not /, one of the Lords serv-
ants: By proyidential arrangement, l
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,
this call to repentance and faith, this
call to continental awakening!
Mighty Men Of the Past.
This generation will soon be out of
sight Where are the mighty men of the
past who trod your Pennsylvania avenue
and spake in yonder national legislature
and decided the stupendous questions of
the supreme Judicatory? Ask the sleep
ers in the Congressional cemetery. Ask
the mausoleums all over the land. Their
tongues are speechless, their eyes closed,
their arms folded, their opportunities
gone, their destiny fixed. How soon
time prorogues parliaments and adjournS
senates and disbands cabinets and emp
ties pulpits and dismisses generations!
What we would do we must do quickly
or not do at all. 1 call upon people who
cannot come forth from their sickbeds
to implore the heavens in our behalf
from their midnight pillows, and I call
upon the aged who cannot, ever by the
help of their staff, enter the churches
to spend their last days on earth in sup
plicating the salvation of this nation,
and I call upon all men and women
who have been in furnaces Of trouble, as
was Shadrach, and among lions, as was
Daniel, and III dungeons Of trouble, as
was jeremiah, TO join in the prayer, and
let 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 legis-
latures that sent them here, and men,
bcrs Of the house of representatives will
report to the congressional districts that
elected them, and the many thousands
of men and women row and hero en-
gagged in the many departments Of ma
tional service will write home, telling
all sections of the country that the Lord
is here and that he is on the march for
the redemption Of America. Ba]leluiah,
the Lord is coming! l hear the rumbliug
of his chariot wheels I feel on my
checks the breath Of the white horses
that draw the Victor! see the flash Of
his lanterns through the long night Of
the worlds sin and sorrOw!
We want il this couutry, only on
larger scale, that which ether centuries
have seen Of Gods workings, as in the
reformation Of the sixteenth century,
when Martin Luther and Philip Nc
lanchthon led on; as in the awakening Ct
the seventeenth century, when Bunyan
and Flavel and Baxter led On as i'll the
awakening of the eighteenth century,
when Tenant and Edwards and the
Wesleys led on; as in the awakening Of
1857, led OF By Matthew Simpson, the
seraphic Methodist, and Bishop Mac
Ilvaine, the apostolic Episcopa!ian, and
Albert Barnes, the consecrated Presby-
terian, and others just az 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, NettIeton and Finney and Daniel
Baker and Edward Payson and Truman
Osborne and Earle aud Knapp and In.
skip and Archibald Alezander-that AL
exander the Great of the Christian
churches. Come down! How can you
rest up there when the world is dying
for lack CT the gospel? Come down and
agonize with Us in prayer. Come down
and help Us preach in our pulpits. Come
down and inspire our courage and faith.
Heaven can get along without you bet
ter than VIC can. But more than all, ard
overwhelmed with reverent emotion, we
ask it, come, thou Of the deeply dyed
garments of Bozrah, travelling il tho
greatness of thy strength, mighty to
save. Lord God of Joshua, let the SUI
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, tu1nbling them down the
precipices as the other five kings went
over the rocks to Bethhoron. Ha! Ha!
1t will so surely be done that cannot
restrain the laugh of triumph.
4 Call to the Pulpi:s.
From where tho seaweed is tossed on
the beach by the stormy Atlantic to
the sands laved by the quiet Pacific tnis
country will be Emanuel's land, the
work beginning at Washington, if we
have the faith and holy push and the
conservation requisite First Of all, we
ministers must get right. That was a
startling utterance Of Mr.. SwiDnock
when he said, "It is doleful thing to
fall into hell from under the pulpit; but,
oh, how dreadful thing to drop thither
ont of the pulpit" That was al all sug-
gestive thing that Paul wrote to the
Corinthians, Lest that hy any means,
4 Life Saved.
jamestown, Tenn, October Is, 1891.