The Monitor-register., 1896-02-14

VI men and women now and here en-
gagged IN the many departments of ma
tionai service will write home, telling
all sections of the country that the Lord
Is mere and that he is on the march for
the redemption of America. Halleluiab.
the Lord is coming hear the rumbling
VI MS chariot wheels. I feel on NV
cheeks the breath of the white horses
tnat draw the Victor see the flash of
MS lanterns through the long night of
the world s sin and sorrowl
we want in this country, only on a
larger scale. that which other centuries
nave seen of Gods workings, as in the
reformation of the sixteenth century,
when Martin Luther and Philip Ne
!anchthon led on; as in the awakening of
the seventeenth century, when Bunyan
ana Flavel and Baxter led on; as in the
awakening of the eighteenth century,
when Tennant and Edwards and the
Mesleys led on; as in the awakening of
1907, led on by Matthew Simpson, the
seraphlc Methodist, and Bishop Mac
\ !lvalne, the apostolic Episcopalian, and
! Albert Barnes, the consecrated Presby-
terlan, 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 your
thrones, ,Nettleton and Finney and Daniel
Baker and Edward Payson and Truman
osborne and Earle and Knapp and In
skip and Archibald dAlexander-that AL
exander the Great of the Christian
churches. Come down. How can YOU
rest up there when the world is dying
Tor lack of the gospel? Come down and
| agonlze 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
overwhelmed with reverent emotion, we
ask 1t, come, thou of the deeply dyed
garments of Bozrah, travelling in the
greatness of thy strength, mighty to
save Lord God of Joshua, let the sun
OF this century stand still above Gibeon
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. Hal Ha!
1t will SO surely be done that I cannot
restrain the laugh of triumph.
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
have the faith and holy push and the
consecration requisite. First of all, we
ministers must get right. That was a
startling utterance Of Mr.. Swinnock
when he said, SIT is doleful thing to
fall into hell from under the pulpit; but,
oh, how dreadful thing to drop thither
out of the pulpit. That was an all sug-
gestive thing that Paul wrote to the
Corinthians, LEST that by any means,
when have preached to others, I myself
should be castaway." That was an in
spring motto with which Whitefeld
sealed all his letters, "We seek the
stars. Lord God, wake up all our pull
pits, and then it will be as when Venn
preached, and it was said that men fell
before the word like Stacked lime. Let
us all, laymen and clergymen, to the
work. What Washington wants most of
all is an old fashioned revival Of reli-
gion, but on a vaster scale, so that the
world will never be compelled to say as
of old, "We never saw 1t on this fash
ion. - But remember there is human
side as we'll as divine side to a reviv-
al. Those Of us brought up In the coun.
bow, t. H.
the neighbors gathered together to lift
the heavy frame for new house after
the timbers are ready to be put into
their places. It Is dangerous work, and
there are many accidents. The neigh
bors had gathered for such 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 if it
did not go in its place 1t would fall back
upon the men who were lifting it. 1t
had already begun to settle back. The
boss carpenter shouted: "Lift, men, or
| diel All togetherl Yo, heaver'
With mightier push they tried to send
the beam to its place, but failed. Still
they held on, all the time their strength
lessening. The wives and mothers and
daughters stood in horror looking on.
Then the boss carpenter shouted to the
women, "Come and help" They came,
and womanly arms became the arms Of
| giants, for they were lifting to save the
lives of husbands and fathers and sons,
as we'll as their own. Then the boss car
penter mounted one Of the beams and
shouted: 'Nowl Altogether Lift or
diel Yo. heaveP And with united
effort that almost burst the blood ves-
sells, the great beam went to its place
and wild huzza was heard. That is
the way 1t sometimes seems in the
churches. Temples of Righteousness are
to be reared, but there is halt, stop,
a catch somewhere. A few are lifting
all they can, but we want more hands
at this raising, and more hearts, more
Christian men to help-aye, more Chris
tian women to re enforce. If the work
fail, it means the death of many souls.
All together, men and women of Godl
Lift or diel The top stone must come to
its place with shoutings Of grace, grace
unto it. &" God is ready to do his part;
are we ready to do our part? There is
work not only for the knee of prayer,
but for the shoulder of upheaval.
Good News.
And now Iwould like to see this hour
that which have never seen, but hope
to sea- whole audience saved under
one flash of the Eternal Spirit. Before
you go out of any of these doors enter
the door of mercy. Father and mother,
come in and bring your children with
you. Newly married folks. consecrate
your lifetime to God, and be married
for eternity as well as time. Young
man, you will want God before you get
through this world, and you want him
now. Young woman, without God this
is a hard world for women. One and
all, wherever yon sit or stand, lift my
voice SO that you can hear it, out in the
corridors and on the street. and say, in
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