The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-02-21

I myself should be c castaway." TEas
was an inspiring mot.o with which
Whitefield sealed ali his letters: we
seek the stars" Lord Cod! Wake Up
all our pulpits, and then it will be as
when Vcnn preached and 1t was said
that men fell before the Word like
Stacked lime. Let us all, laymen and
c~lergymen, do the work. What Wash
ington wants most OF all is an old-fash-
toned revival of religion. but on a
vaster scale. so that the world will be
compelled TO say, as of old, I'VE never
saw it on this fashion, But remem-
Der there is a human side as we'll az q
Divine side to a revival. Those OF US
brought up in the country know what
is called "a raising" the %neighbors
gathered together to lift the heavy
frame for a new house, after the tim
bers are ready to be put into their
places. 1t is dangerous work, and
there are many accidents. The neigh
bors had gathered for such a raising.
and the beams had all been fitted to
their places except one, and that very
heavy. That one, on the long pixies
of the men, had almost reached its
place, when something went wrong, and
the men could hoist it no higher. But
IL it did not so in its place it would fall
back upon the men who were lifting 1t.
1t had already began to settle back.
The boss carpenter shouted. Lift, men,
or die, All together! Yo-heave."
With mightier push they tried to send
the beam to its place, but failed. Still
they held on, all the time their strength
~lessenirg. The wives, and mothers, and
daughters stood in horror looking on.
Then the bos~s-carpenter shouted to the
women, Come and helpp!' They came,
and womanly arms became the arms OF
giants. for they were lifting to ave the
lives of husbands, and fathers and sons,
as well as their own. Then the boss
carpenter mounted enc of the beams
and shouted, "Now, Altogether. Lift
or diet Yo-heaver' And with a
united effort that almost burst the
blood-vessels, the great beam went to
it's place, and a wild huzza was heard.
That is the way it sometimes seems in
the churches. Temples of righteous
ness are to be reared, but there is a halt.
a stop, a catch somewhere. 4 few are
lifting all they can, but We want more
hands at this raising, and more hearts.
More Christian men TO help, aye, more
Christian women to re-enforce. If the
work fail, it means the death of many
souls. All together! Men and women
of God! Lift or die! The topstone must
come to it's place with shOutings OF
grace, grace unto it." God is ready to
his part; are we ready to do our part?
There is work not only for the knee OF
prayer, but for the shoulder of up
heaval.
And now I would like to see this our
that which I have never seen, but hope
to sea whole audience saved under
one fash of the Eternal Spirit. Before
YOU go out OF any of these doors, enter
the door Of Mercy. Father and mother.
in and bring your children with
vou. Newly-married folks. consecrate
YOUR lifetime to God, and be married
eternity as well as time. Young
you will want God before you get
through this world, and You want him
low. Young woman, without God this
is a hard world for ome One and
all, wherever you sit or stand. 1 lift my
voice so that you can hear it, out in the
corridors and on the street, and say, in
the words CT the Mediterranean ship
captain, Call upon thy God, if SO be
that God will think upon Us, that We
Derish not"