News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-02-13


sides with the footsteps of God as no
comes to awaken and pardon and save
these great populations
People Of Washington, meet us next
Thursday night, at half past Z O'Clock.
to pray for this coming of the Holy
Ghost-not for a pentecostal 5000 that
have referred to, but 100000 Such a
fire as that would kindle light that
would he 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,
80 Lord, revive thy work in the midst
of the years, in the fiidst of the years
make known; in wrath remember
mercy" Let the battlecry be Washing
ten for God, tie United States for God,
America for God, the world for God |!
We are all tired of skirmishing. Let us
bring on a general engagement. We arc
tired Of fishing with hook and line.
With one sweep Of the gospel net let us
take i'll many thousands. This vast work
must begin somewhere Why not here?
Some one must give the rallying cry,
why may not l, one Of the Lords serv-
ants? By providential arrangement, l
am every week i'll sermonic communica-
ton with every city, town and neigh
borhood of this country, and l 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 speeches., 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
VAAb NO NOulu W. NO IuuSb uO uulChly
or not do at all. l call upon people who
cannot come forth from their sickbeds
to implore the heavens in our behalf
from their midnight pillows, and l 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, 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 ttat sent them here, and mem
bers of tie 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 homo, 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. I feel on my
cheeks the breath of the white horses
that draw the Victor I see the flash Of
his lanterns through the long night Of
the world g sin and sorrow
We want i'll this country, ouly on a
| larger scale, that which other centuries
have seen Of Gods workings, as III the
reformation of the sixteenth century,
when Martin Luther and Philip Me-
lanchthon ledCn; 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, and
Albert Barnes the consecrated Fresby.
terrain, and others just as good in all
denominations. Oh, will not some Of
those glorious souls of the past come
down and help us? Come down off youl
thrones, Nettleton and Finney and DAME
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 yor
rest up there when the world is dying
for lack of tie gospel? Come down an(
agonize with us i'll prayer, Come dowl
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, ant
overwL olmed with reverent emotion, w
ask it, come, thou Of the deeply dye
garments of Bozrah, travelling in tn
greatness of thy strength, mighty It
savel Lord God Of Joshua, let the SUI
of this century stand still above Gibeol
and the poon above the valley o
Avalon until we can whip out the fiv
kings Of hell, tumbling them down th
precipices as the other five kings wen
over the rocks to Bethhoron. Ha Ha
1t will so surely be done that | canno
----1---:.. +l,n l.,',..l, of trir,lnh.
A Call to the Pulpits.
From where the seaweed is tossed O
the beach by the stormy Atlantic t
the sands layed by the quiet Pacific tni
country will be Emanuel's land, tn
work beginning at Washington, if W
have the faith and holy push and tn
conservation requisite. First Of all, W