The Penn's Grove record., 1896-02-14

Huttu DttoTG tliS WlutcI II buI Vii III I'LL
capital OF the American Nation. IL we az
faithful in our prayers and exertions, turi
into the kingdom of God men OF Eationa
: aud international power. their tongues 0
eloquence becoming the tongues of fire Il
another Pentecost. There are ON yonde
hill those who by the grace oil God will be
come John Knoxes and Chrysostom
illusion / nave heardin praye
meetings and heard In pulpits, that
! soul is a soul-one soul worth as much n
another. Ideny it. The soul OF a man VIII,
can bring 1000 or 10, 900 other souls into TIL
kingdom OF God is worth 1000 times o
! 10000 times more than the soul of a MAJ
who can bring no one into the kingdom. 4
great outpouring Of the Holy Spirit in thi,
sapitAl, reaching the chief men OF America
would be o. more value TO earth and HEAVIER
than 10 any other part OF the Nation becaus,
II would reach all the States, cities, town
and nelghborhoods OF the continent. oh
for the ouistretched right arm OF Tod Al
mighty In the salvation Of this capital.
Some OF us remember 1857, when at the
Aose OF the worst monetary distress thii
,ountry has ever felt, compared with which
the hard times Of the last three years wers
Il boom of prosperity, right OF the heels Of
that complete prostrntion came az awaken
ing In which 600, 900 people were converted
in different States Of the Union. Do you
know where one of its chief powers wai
demonstrated? In Washington. Do you
| 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 &c
read some words. written at that time by the
Washington correspondent of a New York
| paper. He wrote: ttThe First Presbyterian
Church can scarce contain the people. Rs.
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 the meetings. Particular pain
are taken to disciaim and exclude every
/. thing like sectarianf feeling. General aston.
ishment Is felt at the unexpected rapidity
| with which the work has thus far proceeded
and we are beginning to anticipate the ne
cessity OF opening another church" Why,
I my hearers, not have that again, and more
than that2 There are many thousands more
of inhabitants now than then. Besides that
since then arethe telephone, with its semi,
omnipresence, and the swift cable car for as
Sembling the people. I believe that the
! mightiest revival OF religion that this city
has ever seen is yet to come, and the earth
| will tremble from Capitoiine Hill to the
boundaries on all sides with the footsteps Of
| God as He comes to awaken and pardon and
ave these great populations.
People OF Washington. meet us next Thurs.
lay night, at half past 7 o'clock, to pray fol
| his coming of the Holy Ghost-not for q
| 3entecostal 5000 that I have referred to. but
10000. Such a fire as that would kindle a
light that would be seen from the sledges
rrtinching 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, 30 Lord, re-
| Fiye 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
Sod, America for God, the world for God!
We are all tired OF skirmishing. Let us
| ,rIng on a general engagement. We are
fred OF fishing with hook n line.
With one sweep Of the gos eel net let us
| AXE in many thousands. 1nis I work
| must begin somewhere. Why \ t here?
| some one must give the railying ery, why
nay not /, one Of the Lords servants? By
| erovidential arrangement, / am every week
n zermonic communication with every city,
| own and neighborhood OF this country, and
now give the watchword to north and
| outh and east and west. Hear and see 1t,
Ill ~people-this call to a forward movement.
| his call to repentance and faith, this call to
lc~ontinental awakenin9I
This generation will soon be out OF sight.
| Where are the mighty men OF the past who
rod your Pennsylvania avenue and spake
l II yOuuoI CdttUuhA Atki5ibtuf0 III uccludu
| he ~stupendous questions of the supreme ju-
sicatory3 Ask the sleepers In the Congress
| ionai cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all
| ,ver the land. Their tongues are speech
ess, their eyes closed, their arms folded,
heir opportunities gone. their destiny fixed.
low soon time prorogues parliaments and
ldiourns senates and disbands cabinets and
implies pripits aud dismisses generations!
What We would do we must do quickly
,r not do at all. / call upon people who
1annot come forth from their sickbeds to i'm
1 ,Iore the heavens in our behalf from their
Midnight pillows, a l call upon the aged
who cannon, even by the help Of their staff,
enter the churches TO spend their last days
in earth in supplicating the salvation oftthis
Nation, and I call upon all men and women
who have been In furnace of trouble, 10
vas Shadrach. and among lions, as was
Daniel, and In dungeons Of trouble, as was
jeremiah, to Join In the prayer. and let
he church OF God everywhere lay hold
If the Almighty arm that moves Ma
ions. Then Senators of the United
Jtates Will announce to the State Legislatures
hat sent them here, and members OF the
House OF Representatives will report to the
Congressional districts that elected them.
ind the many thousands of men and women
aow and here engaged In the many depart
nents OF National service will write home,
elling all sections OF the country that the
Lord is here and that He 10 on the march,for
he redemption Of America. Halleluiah, the
Lord Is coming. ! hear b rumhling of His
,hariot wheels. 1 feel on my cheeks the
breath OF the white horses that draw the
Vctorl see the flash Of HIS lanterns
through the long night OF the worlds sin
md sorrow.
We want in this country. only on a large
Gale, that which other centuries have seen
II Gods workings. as in the reformation Of
-. .ft,,atb -. vuhan NTorfIn TVsAha-
and Philip Mslanchthon led on; as In the
Weakening of the seventeenth century, when
Bunyan and Flavel and Baxter led on; as in
The awakening of the eighteenth century,
when Tennant and Edwards and the Wesleys
ed on, rs Ia the awakening OF 1857, led on
~ Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Methodist,
md Bishop MAcIlvaine, the apostolic Epts-
,opalian, and Albert Barnes, the consecrated
Presbyterian, aud others Just as good in all
denominations. Oh, will not some OF
hose glorious souls OF the past come
Ioyn and help us? Come down of your
hrones. Nettleton and Finney and Daniel
Baker and Edward Payson n Truman 0s-
borne and Earle and Knapp n Inskdp and
Archibald Alexander-that Alexander the
Great OF the Christian churches. Come
down! How can you rest up there when the
world Is dying for lack of the gospei2 name
down and agonizs with us in prayer. ONE
down and help us preach In our psipits.
Come down and inspire q courage n
faith. Heaven can get along without you
better than We cam. But more than all. and
overwhelmed with reverent emotion, We ask
Ii. 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
all above Gideon and the moon above the
valley of Aialon until we can whip out the
Ave kings OF he'll. tumbliug them down the
precipices as tho other Ave kings went over
The rocks ~toBethhoron. Ha. Hal 1t will
50 surely be done that cannot restrain the
laugh Of triumph.
From where the seaWeed Is tossed on the
! peach BY the stormy Atlantic to the sands
layed by the quiet Pacific this country will
be Emanuel's land, the work beginning at
Washington, II we have the faith and holy
push and the conservation requisite. FRS
OF all, we ministers mnst get right. THAI
was a startling utterance of Mr.. Swinnoch
when be said. ut IS q doleful thing to fRl
into he'll from under the pulpit; BE-, oh. how
reedful a thing to drop thither out OF ths
Anipit." That was an all suggestive thing
fthat Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "Lesi
that by any means, when l have preached "a
others. I myselfshould bea castawav." Thai
was an inspiring motto with which White.
feId sealed ali HIS letters, 'swe seek the stars
Lord God, wake IN all u pulpits. and then
It will be as when yenn preached, n 1t wa