The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-02-14

Capitoline hill to the boundaries on all
sides with the footsteps of God as he
comes to awaken and pardon and save
these great populations
People of Washington, meet us next
Thursday night, at half past 7 O'Clock,
to pray for this coming of the Holy
Ghost-not for pentecostal 5000 that
l have referred to, but 1000. Such a
fire as that would kindle a light that
would be 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 midst of the years
make known; in wrath remember
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 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 here?
Some one must give the rallying cry,
why may not 1, one of the Lords serv-
ants? By providential arrangement, l
am every week in 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 awakeningl
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 speechless, 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
What we would do we must do quickly
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 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 I call upon all men and women
who have been in furnaces of trouble, as
was Shadraoh, 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 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. Hallelulah,
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 see the fash of
his lanterns through the long night of
the worlds sin and sorrow
We want in this country, only on a
larger scale, that which other centuries
have seen of Gods workings, as in the
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, and
Albert Barnes, the consecrated Presby- |
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 your
thrones, 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
overwhelmed with reverent emotion, we
ask it, 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 Gideon
and the moon above the valley Of
Ajalon until we can whip out the five
Kings of hell, tumbling them down the
orecipices as the other five kings went
,ver the rocks to Bethhoron. Hal Ha!
It will SO surely be done that cannot
restrain the laugh of triumph.
Call to the Pulpits.
From where the seaweed is tossed ON
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