Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-01-25

"sAY SO" THE SUBJECT OF DR.. TAI
IMAGES DISCOURSE.

"SAY so" THE SUBJECT OF DR.. TAI
IMAGES DISCOURSE.
The Eminent Divine Believes In outspokcn
Religion Nothing Can stand Before
Prayer Let the Redeemed show Their
Colors Personal Testimony.
WAsHINGToN. Jan. l9.-lRev. DIR. Tai
mage never produced more practical and
suggestive sermon than this II to-day. We
believe il will stir Chrlstendom His sub
ject was say 80, and the tNt selected
was Psalms evil, =. Let the redeemed ~
the Lord say so.
An overture. an antiphun. u doxology is
this chapter. and in my test David calls
for an outspokon religion and requests all
who have been rescued and blessed 10
longer 10 hide the splendid facts. but to
recito them, publish them and. "a far a.
possible, let all the world know about IL.
Let the redeemed Of the Lord say SO.
There is n sinful rciiccncc which has been
almost canonizcd The people are quite
rs outSpoken as they ought To be on all
subjects Of politics and are fluent and vol
ublc on the Venezuelan question and hi
mctallism and tariffs. high and low and
rcmodeled, and female suffrage and you
have to skillfully watch your chance il
you want To put into the active cnnvcrsa-
ton modest suggestion of your own, but
on the subject Of divine goodness, religions
experience and eternal hlc>sedncss they
are not only silent, but hua>tful Of their
reticcnce Now If you have been redeemed
of the Lord why DO you not say so: II
you have in your heart the pearl Of great
price, worth more than the kohinoor
among Victorian jewels. why not let 9th
ers see it! II you got or the wreck in tho
breakers, why not tell of the crew and the
stout lifcboat that safely landed your Ii
from the fourth story you are rescued in
time Of conflagraiion, why not tell Of the
fireman and the ladder down which he
carried you. II you have a mansion in
heaven awaiting you, why not show tho
deed TO those who may by the same proc
ess get an emerald castle ON the same
boulcyardg BY the last two words OF my
text avoid calls upon all Of Us who have
received any mercy at the hand OF God TO
stop impcrsonating the asylums for tho
dumb, and in the presence Of men, wom-
en-, angels, devils and all worlds, Say so. "
A Universal Revival.
IN these January days thousands Of
ministers and private Christians are won
dering about the best ways of starting
revival of religion. | can tell you u way
OF starting a revival continental, hcmi-
sphcric and worldwide. You say a revival
starts in heaven. Well, it starts in heaven
just rs aprospcrous harvest starts in hcav-
en-. The sun must shine and the rains
f,laxt- nd
sow and cultivate the earth you will not
raise IA bushcl ~ wheat or n peck Of corn
between now and the end Of the world.
How, then, shall universal revival start?
BY all Christian people telling the story Of
their own conversion. Let ten men and
women get up next week in your prayer
meeting, and. not in conventional or
canting or dolcful way, but in the same
tone they employ in the family or place
OF business. tell how they crossed the
line, and the revival will begin then and
there II the prayer meeting has not been
so dull as 10 drive ont all except those CON
corning whom ii was fureordained from
all eternity that they should be there.
There are 81 many different ways of being
converted that we want la hear all kinds,
so that our own case may he helped. Ii
always puts me back to hear only one kind
of experience, such as a man gives when
he tells of his Pauline convcrsion-how he
was knocked scnsclcss, and then had q
vision and heard voices, and after Ger
tain number Of days Of horror got up and
shouted for joy. All that discouragcs me,
for / was never knocked senseless, and l
never had such n sudden burst OF religious
rapture that | lost my equilibrium. But
after awhile Christian man got up in
some meeting and told us how he was
brought up by dcyout parentagc and had
always been thoughtful about religious
things, and gradually the peace OF tho Cos
pei came into his soul like the dawn of the
morning-no perceptiblc difference be-
tween moment and moment-but after
awhile all perturbation settled down into
u hope that had cOnsolcd and strengthened
him during all the vlcissiiudcs Of a life
time. said, That is cxhlarating; that
was my experience. And so | was
strengthened.
In another prayer meeting a man got up
and told us how he once hated God, and
went through all the round of iniquity
until we were all on nci;lcs lest he should
go too much into the particulars. but one
day he was by some religious power hurled
flat, and then got up u Christian, and had
ever since been going around with Bax
ter Bible with large flaps under his arm,
"A floating evangelist Well. under this
story many are not helped N all, for they
know they never hated God and they
were never diSsolutc. But after awhile
some Christian woman arises and says:
Z" / have nothing extraordinary to tell. Yet
think the cares of life. the anxictics
about my children, and two graves opened
in our family plot made me feel the need
of God and weak and helpless and heart
broken | flung myself upon his mercy,
and feel what the Bible calls the peace
of God which passcth all understanding.
and ask your prayers that ] may live
nearer to the Christ who has done 80 much
for me" declare that before that woman
got through we were all crying not bitter
tears but tears Of joyful emotion, and in
three days In that ncighhorhood all the
ice had gone ont Of the river in a spring
time freshet Of salvation. Let tho re-
deemed OF the Lord say 50.
Personal salvation.
have but little interest in what people
say about religion a. an abstraction, but
have illimitablc interest In what people
say abou; what they have personally felt
Of religion II was M expression of his
own gratitude for personal salvation
which led Charles Wesley, after a season
of great dependency about his soul and
Christ had spoken pardon, to write that
immortal ymn:
Oh for thousand tongues % sing
Ny great Hcloomor'7 praise,
1t was after Abraham Lincoln had been
comfortcd in the loss Of Tad. the bright
boy of the White House, that he said, :" /
now see n never before the prociousncss
Of Gods love in Jesus Christ and how we
arr brought near To God is our Father by
him
What thrill went through the meeting
I'm Portland. Or. when an cx-aiturney
general of the nitcd States arose. and
said: Last night got up and asked the
prayers of Gods people. feel now per
fectly satisfied The burden is rolled of