Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-02-15

Capltollne hill to the boundaries ON al
sides with the footsteps of God as h
comes to awaken and pardon and say
these great populations.
People Of Washington, meet us rex
Thursday night. at half past O'Clock
to pray for this coming of the Eel,
Ghost--not for pentecostal 5000 tina
/ have referred TO, but 80, 000 Such
fire as that would kindle light tina
would be seen from the sledses crunch
ing through the SHOWS of Labrador t,
the Caribbean sea, where the whirlwind
are born. Let our cry be that of Habak
kuk, the blank verse poet of the Bible
20 Lord, revive thy work in the mids
of the years. in the midst of the year
make known; in wrath remembe
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 II
bring on a general engagement. We ar,
tired of fishing with hook and line
With one sweep of the gospel net let III
take in many thousands This vast worl
must begin somewhere. Why not here
Some one must give the rallying cry
why may not /, one Of the Lord s serv
ants? By providential arrangement,
am every week in sermonic communica
ton with every city, town and neigh
borhood of this country, and | now give
the watchword to north and south anC
east and west. Hear and see it, all PEG
ple-this call to forward movement
this call to repentance and faith, THU
call to a continental awakening
Mighty Men of tine Past.
This generation will soon be ont Of
sight. Where are the mighty men of ths
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. Ash
the mausolenms all over the land. Then
tongues are speechless, their eyes closed,
their arms folded, their opportunities
gone, their destiny fixed. How soor
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. call upon people who
cannot come forth from their sickbeds
to implore the heavens in our behalf
from their midnight pillows, and call
upon the aged who cannot, even 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 | call upon all men and women
who have been in furnaces of trouble, as
was Shadrach, and among lions. as was
Daniel, and in dungeons of trouble, as
was Jeremiah, to join in the prayer, ard
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-
atures that sent them here, and mem
bers of the house of representatives will
report to the congressional districts that
elected them, and the many thousands
of men and women now and here 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. Halleluiah
the Lord is coming hear the rumbling
of his chariot wheels. / feel on my
cheeks the breath of the white horses
that draw the Victor / see the fash Of
his lanterns through the long night of
the worlds sin and sorrowl
We want in this country, only ON a
larger scale, that which other centuries
have seen of Gods workings, as in the
reformation of the sixteenth century,
when Martin Luther and Philip Me-
lanchthon led on; as in the awakening of
the seventeenth century, when Bunyan
and Flavel and Baxter led on; as in the
awakening of the eighteenth century,
when Tenant and Edwards and the
Wesleys led on; as in the awakening of
1857, led on by Matthew Simpson, the
seraphic Methodist, and Bishop Mac
Ilvaine, the apostolic Episcopalian, ard
Albert Barnes, the consecrated Presby-
terrain, and others just as good in all
Oug Will 0Ob sumo Oh
those glorious souls of the past come
down and help us? Come down off your
Nettleton and Finney and Daniel
Baker and Edward Payson and Truman
Osborne and Earle and Knapp and In
skip and Archibald Alexander-that Al.
exander 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. 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 we can. But more than all, and
with reyerent emotion, we
ask 1t, come, thou of the deeply dyed
garments of Bozrah, travelling in the
greatness of thy strength, mighty to
savel 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 to Bethhoron. Ha! Hal
1t will so surely be done that cannot
the laugh of triumph.
A Call to the Pu1pits.
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 Emanuel's land, the
work beginning at Washington, if we
nave the faith and holy push and the
requisite. First Of all, we
ministers mnst get right. That was a
startling utteranee of Mr.. Swinnock
when he said. 1t is a doleful thing to
sall into hell from under the pulpit; but,
oh, how dres dful thing to drop thither
out of the pulpit. That was an all sug-
yestive thing that Paul wrote to tie
Corinthians, Lest that by any means,
when have preached to others. / myself
should be castaway" That was an in
spring motto with which Whitefeld
sealed all his letters. We seek the
stars. Z Lord God. wake up all our pull
pits. and then it viii be as when venn
and 1t was said that men fell
before the word like Stacked lime. Let
Is all. laymen and clergymen, to the
work. What Washington wants most Of