The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-15

drunkard in the national legislature,
although there were times when Ken
lucky, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois,
New York and Massachusetts had men
in the senate and house of representa-
tives who went maudlin and stagger-
ing drunk across hose high places.
iNNever nobler group of men sat in sen.
ate Or house of representatives than
sat there yesterday, and will sit there
tomorrow, while the highest Judiciary,
without exception, has now upon its
bench men beyond criticism for good
morals and mental endowment. So in
all departments of official position,
with here and there an exception, are
to-day the brainiest men and most hon
orable men of America. Now, suppose
the Holy Ghost power should fall
upon this city, and these men from all
parts of America should suddenly be.
come pronounced for Christ! Do you
say the effect would be electrical?
More than that; it would be omnipo,
tentl Do you say nat such learned
and potent men are not wrought upon
by religious infiuenee2 That shows
tina you nave not observed what has
been going on. Commodore Foote,
representing the navy; Gen. Grant and
Robert E. Lee, representing the north.
ern-and southern armies; Chief Justice
Chase, representing the supreme court;
the Frelinghuysens, Theodore and
Frederick, representing the United
States senate; William Pennington and
scores of others, representing the house
| of representatives, have surrendered
to that gospel, which before this
winter is out, will, in this capital of
the American nation, If we are faithful
in our prayers and eXertions, turn into
| the kingdom of God men of national
and international power, their tongues
of eloquence becoming the tongues of
fire In another Pentecost. There on
yonder hill those who by the grace of
God will become John Knoxes, and
Ch~rysostoms, and Fenclons, and Bour-
dcleaus, when nee regenerated.
There is an illusion.l have heard in
PRAYER meetings and heard in pulpits
that a soul is a soul-one soul worth as
much as another. deny it The soul
of a man who can bring a thousand or
ten thousand other souls into the king
dom of God is worth n thousand times,
or ten thousand times, more than a
soul who can bring no one into the
kingdom. A great ~outpouring of the
Holy Spirit in this capital, reaching
the chief men of America, would be of
more value to earth and HEAVIER than
in any other part of the nation. be,
cause it would reach all the states,
cities, towns and neighborhoods of the
continent. Oh, for the outstretched
arm of God Almighty in the salvation
of this capital.
Some of us remember 1857, when, at
the close of the worst monetary dis,
distress this country has ever felt, com
pared with which the hard times of
the last three years were q boom OF
prosperity, right on the heels of that
complete prostration, ca me an awak-
ening in which 500. 600 people were o n
verified in different states in the union.
Do you know where one of the chief
powers was demonstrated? In Wash
ington. Do you know on what street?
This street. Do you know in what
church, This church.
1 believe that the mightiest revival
of religion that this city has ever seen
Is yet to come, and the earth will
tremble from Capitoline hill to the
boundaries on all sides with the foot.
steps of God as He comes to awaken
and pardon and save these great popp
.lations. People of Washington, meet
us next Thursday night, at half past
seven o'clock, to pray for this coming
of the Holy Ghost-not for o pente-
costal 1000, that / nave referred to,
but 80, 600. Such a fire as that would
kindle a 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: 20
Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of
the years, in the midst of the years
make known; in wrath remember
mercy" Let the battle cry be. Wash
irgton for Godl the United States for
'Godt America for 9odl the world for
Godi We are all tired of skirmishing.
Let us bring on a general engagement
This generation will soon be out OF
sight. Where are the mighty men OF
tie past who trod your Pennsylva-
mia avenue and spake in yonder ma
tional legislature, and decided the stu
pendous questions of the supreme
judicatory? Ask the sieepers in the
congressional cemetery. Ask the mau'
soleums' all over the land. Their
tongues are speechless. their eye
closed, their arms folded. their oppor-
tuuities gone. their destiny fixed. How
soon time prnrogues parliameuts, and
adjourns senates, and disbands scabi-
nets. and empties pulpits, and dis.
misses generationsi What we would
do, we must do quickly or not at all.
] call upon the people who cannot
come forth from their sick beds to i'm
plore the heayens in our behalf from
their midnight pillows, and Icall upon
the aged who cannot, ever 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 call upon all men and women who
been In furnaces of trouble, as
was S~hadrach, aud among lions,
was Daniel, and in dungeons
of trouble, as was jeremiah, to
join in tine prayer, and let the
of God everywhere layhold of
the Almighty Arm that moves nations.
We want in this country, only on a
scale, that which other centuries
have seen of o workings, as in the
of h sixteenth century,
Martin Luther and Philip
led on; as in the awaken
ing of the Seventeenth century, when
and Flavel, and Baxter led on;
as in the awakening of the eighteenth
century, when Tenant. aud Edwards
and the Wesleys led on; As in the
awakening of 1857, led on by Mathew
Simpson, the seraphic Methodist, and
MacIlvane, the Apostolic Epis-
copalian. and Albert Barnes, the con-
Presbyterian, 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
off your thrones. Nettleton, and
Finney, and Daniel Baker, and Edward
and Truman Osborne, and
and Knapp, and Inskip and
Alexander hat Alexan.
der the Great, of the Christian
churches. Come down! How can
you rest up there when the world
IS dying.for lack OF the gospel?
From where the seaweed is tossed on
the beach by the stormO Atlantic, to
The sands laved by thesquiet Pacific this
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