St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-02

til the last day; the Lord will divide
the chatf from the wheat

til the last day; the Lord will divide
the chatf from the wheat
Oh. tnat these gales from Heaven
might sweep through all our churchesl
OH, for such days ~ Richard Baxter
saw in England and Robert McCheyne
saw in Dundee! Ohi for such days as
Jonathan Edwards saw ia Northamp-
ton! have often heard my father tell
of the fact that In the early part Of the
century q revival broke out in Somer~
vile, n. J., and some people were very
much agitated about it They said:
''Oh, you are going to bring too many
people into the church at once;" and
they sent down to New Brunswick 70
get John Livingston to stop the re-
vival. Well. there was NO better soul
in all the world than John Livingston.
He went up; he looked at the revival;
they wanted him to stop it. He stood
in the pulpit on the Sabbath, and
looking over the solemn auditory. he
said: ''This. brethren. is in reality the
work of God; beware how you try to
stop it" And he was an old man, lean
ing heavily on hisstaff-a very old man.
And lie lifted that staff, and took hold
Of the small end Of the staff, and began
to let it fall very slowly through, be-
tween the finger and the thumb.
and he said: 'Oh, thou impcni-
tent, thou art falling Dow-falling
away from life, falling away from
peace and Heaven, falling as certainly rs
that cane is falling through my hand
falling certainly, though perhaps fall
ing very slowly" And the cane kept on
falling through John Livingston's
band. The religious emotion in the
audience was overpowering. and men
saw type of their doom Is the cane
kept falling and falling until the knob
Of the cane struck Mr.. Livingston's
hand, and he clasped it stoutly and
said, But the grace Of God can stop
you rs stopped that cane;" aud then
there was gladness all through the
house at the fact of pardon and peace
aud salvation. 'Wcll, said the people
after the service. II guess you had
better send Livingston home; he is
the revival worse" Oh. for
the gales from Heaven and Christ on
board the ship. The danger Of the
church OF God is not in revival&
Again. my subject impresses me with
the fact that Jesus was God and man
in the same being. Here He is in the
back part of the boat oh, how tired
lie looks; what sad dreams He must
have! Look at His countenance; He
must be thinking of the cross to come.
Look at Him; He is man-bone of our
bone. flesh of our flesh. Tired, He falls
asleep; He is man. But then find
Christ 1T the prov of the boat Ihear
Him say: "Peace. be still;" and l see
the storm kneeling at His feet, and
the tempests folding their wings
in His presence; He is q God.
II l have sorrow and trouble, and
want sympathy, 60 and kneel down
at the back part of the boat and say:
''Oh, Christ! weary one of Gennesaret,
with all my sorrows; man
of Nazareth, man OF the cross" A
man, a man. But If want to conquer
my spiritual foe; il I want to get the
victory over sin, death and hell. come
10 the front of the boat. and kneel
down, and l say: ''Oh, Lord, Jesus
Christ, thou who dust hush the temp
est, hush all my grief; hush all my
hush all my SIM" A man,
. man; . God. God.
Ilearn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush . tempest. It did
seem as if everything must 80 to ruin.
The disciples had given up the idea OF
the ship; the crew were en-
tirely demoralized; yet Christ rises,
and He puts His foot on the storm, and
it crouches at His feet Oh, yes! Christ
can hush the tempest
You have had trouble. Perhaps it
was the little child taken away from
sweetest child Of the house.
hold; the one who asked the most
curious questions, and stood around
you with the greatest fondness. and
the spade cut down through your bleed
ing heart. Perhaps it was an only SON.
and your heart has ever since been like
a desolated castle. the owls of the
night hooting among the falling rafters
and the crumbling stairway.
Perhaps it was an aged mother. You
always went to her with your troubles.
She was in your home to welcome your
children into life, and when they died
she was there to pity you; that old
hand will do you NO more kindness;
that white lock- Of hair you put away
in the casket or in the locket, did not
look IS well as it usually did when she
brushed it away from her wrinkled
brow in the home circle or in the coun-
try church. Or your property gone.
you said: Il Ihave SO much bank stock,
have SO many government securities.
have so many houses, l have 50 many
gone, all gone.
Why, all the storms that ever tram
pled with their thunders, all the ship
wrecks, have not been worse than this
TO you. Yet you have not been COM
pletely overthrown. Why? Christ
hushed the tempest Your little one
was taken away. Christ says: Il have
that little one; can take care of him
as we'll Is you can, better than you
can, o bereaved motherw Hushing the
tempest. When your property went
away, God said: 'sThere are treasures
in Heaven. in banks that never break. !"
There is one storm into which we
will all have to run the moment when
we let go Of this life and try to take
hold of the next, when We will want
MI the grace we can have-we will
->u4 "a all Wonder zee 4 ChriStinn
soul rocking on the surges Of
death; all the powers OF dark
ness seem let out against that