The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-10


and sorrowi We want in this country.
only on larger scale, that which other
centuries have seen Of Gods workings;
as in the reformation of the sixteenth
century, when Martin Luther and Philip
Melanethon led on; as in the awakening
Of the seventeenth century, when Bunyan
and Flavel and BaXton led on; as in the
when Tenant. and Edwards and the
Mesleys led on; as in the awakening of
le5a led on by Matthew Simpson, the
seraphtc Methodist, and Bishop MacIl-
Vaine, the Apostolic Episcopalian. and
AlDert Barnes, the conSecrated Presby-
terrain. and others, just as good. in all
denominations. on, viii not some of
those glorious souls of the past come
down and help us? Come down off your
thrones, Nettleton, and Finney, and Dan
lei Baker, and Edward Payson, and Tru-
man Osborne, and Earle, and Knapp, and
Inskip, and Archibald Alexander-that
churches. Come down! How can you
rest up there when the world is dying
Tor lack of the Gospel? Come down and
agonize with us in prayer. Come down
and help as preach in our pulpits Come
down and inspire our courage and faith
Heaven can get along without you better
than we can. But more than all land
overwhelmed with reVerent emotion we
ask III, come, thou of the deeply-dyed
garments OF Bozrah, travelling in the
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, tumb-
ling them down the precipices as the other
nVe kings went over the rocks of Beth
boron. Hal ha! IT will so surely be done
that / cannot restrain the laugh of
triumph.
From where the seaweed is tossed on
the beach by the stormy Atlantic, to the
sands laVed by the quiet Pacific, this
country will be Emanuels land, the work
beginning at Washington. If we have the
requisite. First of all, we ministers must
get right. That was startling utter
ance of Mr.. Swinnock when he said: 1T
is a doleful thing to fall into hell from
under the pulpit; but, OH how dreadful
thing to drop thither out of the pull
pit That was an all-suggestive thing
that Paul wrote to the Corinthians: Lest
that by any means. when have preached
to others, myself should be a castaway."
That was an inspiring motto with which
Whitfield sealed all his letters: 1--WE seek
the stars" Lord God Wake up all our
pulpit, and then IL will be as when Venn
preached and 1t was said that men fell
before the Word like Stacked lime. Let
us all, laymen, and clergymen, to the
work. What Washington wants most of
all is an old-fashioned revival of religion
but on Vaster scale, so that the world
Will be compelled to say, as of old: 1--WE
never saw 1t on this fashion, But re-
member, there is a human side as well as
a divine side to a revival. Those of us
brought up in the country know what is
called "a raising" the neighbors gather
ed together to lift the heavy frame for a
new house, after the timbers are ready to
work, and there are many accidents, The
neighbors had gathered for such a rails
ing and the beams had all been fitted to
their places except one, and that very
heavy That one, on the long pixies
of the men, had almost reached
It's place, when something went
higher. But if it did not go in it's place it
would fan back upon the men who were
lifting II. II had already begun to settle
back. The boss-carpenter shouted. Lift
men or diei All togetherl Yo-heavel"
With mightier push they tried TO send the
beam 70 its place, but failed. Still they
held on, all the time their strength lessen
ing. The wives, and mothers, and daugh-
ters stood in horror looking on. Then the
boss-carpenter shouted to the women
come ana helpt' They came, and woman
ly arms became the arms of giants, for
they were litting to save the lives of hus-
bands, and fathers and sons, as well as
their own. Then the boss-c carpenter
mounted one of the beams and shouted
Now! Altogether! Lift or die! Yo-heave!'
And with united effort that almost burst
the blood-vesselS, the great beam went
to its place, and wild huzza was heard.
That is the way it sometimes seems in the
churches. Temples of righteousness are
to be reared, but there is a halt, a stop. a
catch somewhere. A few are lifting all
they can, but we want more hands at this
raising, and more hearts. More Christian
men to help, aye more Christian women
to reinforce. If the work fail, il means
the death of many souls All together!
Men and women of God! Lift or diel The
shoutings of grace, grace unto it," God
is ready to do his part; are we ready to
do our part? There is work not only for
the knee of prayer, but for the shoulder
of upheaval.
And now 1 woI1d like to see this hour
that which l have never seen, but hope
to SEGA whole audience saved under one
flash of the Eternal Spirit Before you
go out of any of these doors, enter the
door of mercy. Father and mother
came in and bring your children with
you. Newly married folks, consecrate
your life time to God. and be married for
eternity as well as time. Young man, you
will want God before you get through this
world, and you want him now. Young
woman, without God this is a hard world
for women. One and all, wherever YOU
sit or stand, lift my voice so that YOU
can hear it, out in the corridors and on
the street, and say, in the words of the
Mediterranean ship captain, Call upon
thy God. if so be that God will think upon
us that we perish not" oh, what news
to tell, what news to relate to your old
father and mother, what news to teIe-
graph your friends on the other side of
the mountains, what news with which 10
thrill your loved ones in heaveni 1t was