The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-06


places. Never non'rr group of meG snt in /
Senate of House ~ Representatives than enc /
thara yesterday and will slt thefrt0-morf1w.
while th8 highest Judiciary. without or. /
cepilou, bias now upon lia bench men b. /
y0nd criticism ior good morals aut mental /
endowment $50 ln Oh departments Oi on.- /
olal position, with here aud thesr nn uxeep-
ton, arr to-day Che bmInlest men Hnd most
honorable mon oi America. NOW, suppose
the Holy Ghost p1Wsr should Hl upon th.s
city and these Wrn from Hli paris az Amef.
Tea should fufdru.y become pronounced for
Christ. DO Y0u slY ths. effect No1id he rler.
trrN2 Mors than that. Il would Do ONE
n.poicni. 30 you say that such learned aud
potent men are not wrought upon by rehr-
ious influenced That shows you have not
observed what has been g3lneOn.
Commodore F1ole. representing the navy;
General Grant Hud Robert +. Loe, represent
iag thr Northern end Southern armiesi ChlH
Justice Chase. representing the Supreme
Court. the Frolnghuyaene, Theodore and
Frederick. representing the United States
senate; William Pennington and scorrs Of
others, representing the House of Represent
atives have surrendered 90 that gospel,
which before this winter Is out win In this
capital Of the American Nation, 80 we are
faithful I'm our prayers aud oxord0ns, turn
into tho kingdom Of God men 81 National
aud international powgs. their tongues OF
eloquenco becoming tho tongues OF fire In
another Peutceost There are on yonder
hill thoss who by tho guce Of God will be-
and Fenelons and B0urdeleaus, when
once regeneratsi. There IS an
illusion have heardin prayer
meetings and heard I'm pulpits. that a
soul is n soul-ona soul worth as much as
another. / deny A.. The soul OF q man who
can bring 1000 or 10, 900 other souls into the
kingdom OF God Is worth 1000 times or
10000 times more than the soul OF man
who can btng no one into the kingdom. A
great outpourlng OF the Holy Spirit In this
capital, reaching the chief men OF America,
would be OF more value 10 earth and heaven
than In any other part OF the Nation because
It would reach all the States, ci.ies. towns
and nelghborhoods Of the continent Oh.
for the outstretohed right arm OF God Al
mighty In the salvation OF this capital!
Some OF as remember 1857. when at the
close Of the worst monetary distress this
country has ever felt, compared with which
the hard times OF the last three years were
a boom OF prosperity, right on the heels Of
that complete prOslrlti0n came m awaken
ing In which 100000 people were converted
in different States OF the Union. Do you
know where one OF IFS chief powers was
know on what street? This street. Do you
know In what church, This church.
picked up an old book a few DAYS ago and
was startled and thrilled and enchanted TO
read some words. written at that time by the
Washington correspondent OF a New York
paper. He wrote: "Ihe First Presbyterian
Church can scarce contain the people Re-
quests are daily preferred for an interest IN
tho prayers offered, and the reading OF these
forms one Of the tenderest and most effective
FEATURES OF rne meetings. Particular pains
are taken to dlsclaim and exclude every
thing like sectarian feeling. General aston
ishment Is felt at the unexpected rapidly
with which the work has thus far proceeded
and we are beginning to anticipate the ne
cessity OF opening another church" Why,
my hearers, not have that again, and more
than that2 There are many thousands more
ofinhabllants now than then. Besides that
since then are the telephone, with Its semi
omnipresence, and the swift cable car for as
sembling the people. / believe that the
mtghtiest revival Of religion that this city
has ever seen is yet to come, and the earth
will trembe from Capitollne Hill to the
boundaries on all sides with the footsteps Of
God rs He comes to awaken and pardon and
save these great populations.
People Of Washington, meet us next Thurs
day night at half past o'clock, to pray for
this coming of the Holy Ghost-not for a
pentecostal 5000 that have referred to. but
$4,000 SUCH fire as that would kndle
light that would be seen from the sledges
crunching through the SHOWS of Labrador to
the Caribbean Sea, where the whirlwinds are
born. Let our cry be that of Habakkuk, the
blank verse poet OF the Bible, so Lord, re-
vive Thy work In the midst OF the years, in
the midst Of the years make known; in wrath
remember mercy" Let the battlecry be
Washington for God, the United States for
| God, America for God, the world for God!
We are all tired OF skirmishing. Let us
bring on general engagement. We are
tired OF fishing with hook and line.
With one sweep Of the gospel net let us
take in many thousands. This vast work
must begin somewhere. Why not here2
Some one must give the rallylng cry, why
may not I, one Of the Lords servants? BY
| Providential arrangement, am every week
in sermonic communication with every city,
| town and neighborhood OF this country, and
| ! now give the watchwOrd to north and
south and east and west. Hear and see il,
all people-this call to forward movement,
this call to repentance and faith, this call to
Rcontinental awakeningl
This generation will soon be out of sight.
| Where are the mighty men Of the past who
! trod your Pennsylvania avenue and snake
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the stupendous questions of the supreme iu.
dicatory2 Ask the sleepers in the Congress.
sional cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all
over the land, Their tongues are speech.
less, their eyes closed, their arms folded
their opportunities gone, their destiny fixed
How soon time prorogues parIiaments and
adjourns senates and disbands cabinets anC
empues 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 i'm
plore the heavens in our behalf from theil
midnight pillows and call upon the aget
who cannot, even by the help of their staff
enter the churches to spend their last dayl
on earth In supplicating the salvation OF this
Nation, and I call upon all men and womeI
who have been in furnaces of trouble, u
was Shadrach, and among lions, as wa
Daniel, and In dungeons Of trouble, as wa
jeremiah to join in the prayer. and le
the church Of God everywhere lay holt
Of the Almighty arm that moves Ma
lions. Then Senators of the Unlte
States will announce to the State legislature
that sent them here, and members of tn
House OF Representatives will report to tn
Congressional districts that elected them