The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

will rouse HlDlStlI ana Coutc iOIlh W
shake nigh tily the nations
Oh, that these gales from Heaven
might sweep through all our churches.
Oh, for such days rs Richard Baxter
saw in England and Robert McCheyne
saw in Dundee! Oh. for such days as
Jonathan Edwards saw in Northamp-
ton! / have often heard my father tell
of the fact that in the early part of the
century a revival broke ont 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 to
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 his staff-a very old man.
And he 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 impeni-
tent, thou art falling Dow-falling
away from life, falling away from
peace and Heaven, falling as certainly as
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 a type of their doom as 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 as stopped that Canes" and then
there was gladness all through the
house at the fact of pardon and peace
and salvation. .NWell," said the people
after the service, Il guess you had
better send Livingston home; he is
making 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 revivals.
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
He 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 a man-bone OF our
bone, flesh of our flesh. Tired, lie falls
asleep; He is man. But then | fin Il
Christ at the prov of the boat. h ear
Him say: Peace, be stills" and l see
the storm kneeling at His feet, and
the tempests folding their wings
in His presence; He is a God.
If l have sorrow and trouble, and
| want sympathy, go and kneel down
at the back part of tho boat, and say:
''Oh, Christ. weary one of Gennesaret,
sympathize with all my sorrows; man
| of Nazareth, man OF the cross
man, a man But if l want to conquer
nv spiritual foe; if want to get the
victory over sin, death and hell, come
to 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
temptation, hush all my SIM man,
man; God, a God.
learn once more from this subjec,
that Christ can hush tempest. 1t did
seem as IL everything must go to ruin
The disciples had given up the idea o
managing the ship; the crew were en-
tirely demoralized; yet Christ rises
and He puts His foot on the storm, ant
it crouches at His feet Oh, yes! Chris
can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble. Perhaps i
was the little child taken away from
you-the sweetest child of the house
hold; the one who asked the mos
curious questions, and stood aroun'
you with the greatest fQndness, an
. the spade cut down through your bleed
, ing heart. Perhaps it was an only son
and your heart has ever since been lik
desolated castle, the owls of tn
: night hooting among the falling rafter
and the crumbling stairway.
Perhaps it was an aged mother 70
= always went to her with your troubles
She was in your home to welcome you
!, children into life, and when they die
= she was there to pity you; that oil
- hand will do you no more kindnes
\ that white lock Of hair you put ava
= in the caslxet, or in the locket, did n,
look as well as it usually did when 81
:. brushed it away from her wrinkle
:, brow in the home circle or in the cou
try church. Or your property gon
- you said: Il have so much bank stocl
q have so many government securitie
l have SO many houses, have SO mar
farms'-all gone, all gone.
- Why, all the storms that ever traI
pied with their thunders, all the shi
- wrecks, have not been worse than til
~ to you. Yet you have not been col
pletely overthrown. Why? Chri
hushed the tempest Your little Of
W was taken away. Christ says: II ha
wv that little one; can take care of hi
~ as we'll as you can, better than y,
~ can. o bereaved motherp flushing t
80 tempest. When your property we
- away. God said: There are treasuI
in Heaven, in banks that never breal
-. There is one storm into which
will all have to run the moment VIII
we let go of this life and try to Ia
hold ~ tho paxf tyhan will xyr