The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-09-02
As though n shin Cssstain with 1000 bush

all The cargo; and the sailors should say,
"Why, Captain, what doyou mean? Throw
over all the cargo?Y Oh" says the Cap
tain, eve have peck, of chaff that has got
into this 5000 bushels, of wheat, and the
only way to get rid of, the chaff is to throw
all The wheat overboaIdD
Now, that is a great, deal wiser than the
talk of great manyfC Christians who want
to throw overheard al The thousands and
tens of thousands of souls who have been
brought in through great awakenings.
Throw all overheard because there is peck
of chaff, quart of chat, a pint of chaff! l
say, let them stay until the last day; the
Lord will divide the chaff from the wheat.
Oh, that these gales from heaven might
sweep through all our churches! Oh, for
such days as Richard Baxter saw in Eng
land and Robert McCheyne saw in Dundee !,
Oh for such days as Jonathan Edwards saw
in Northampton! / have often heard nay
father tell of the fact that in the early part
of this century revival broke ont in Somer-
Vile, n. j., and some people were very much
agiated about it.
They said, "Oh, yon 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 revival
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 look ed over the solemn audi
tory, and he said
This, brethren, is in reality the work of
God beware how you try to stop it." And
he was an old man, leaning 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, between the finger and the thumb,
and he said
Oh, thou impenitent, thou art falling
now-!alling away from life, falling away
from peace and heaven falling as certainly
as that cane is falling through my hand
falling certainly, though perhaps falling
very slowly" The cane kept. on falling
through John Lvingston's hand. The re-
llgious emotion in the audience was over
powering, and men saw 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 / stop
ped that cane and then there was gladness
all through the house at the fact Of pardon
and peace and salvation. Well" said
the people after the service, II guess you
had better send Livingston home; he is
making the revival worse" Oh, for the
gales from heaven, and Christ on board the
snip. The danger of the Church Of God is
not in reyivals.
Again, my subject iInpresses me with the
fact that Jesus was God and man in the same
being. Here he is in the back part of the
boat. Tired, he falls asleep; he is man.
But then l find Christ at the PROV of the
boat l hear him say, Peace, be still" !;
and see the storm kneeling at his feet, and
the tempests folding their wings in his pres
ence; he is q God
If have sorrow and trouble, and want
sympathy, | go and kneel down at the back
part of the boat, and say, 90 Christ
weary one of GennesMet, sympathize with
all my sorrows, man OF Nazareth, man of
the cross" A man, a man But if | want
to conquer my spiritual, foes. if | want to get
the victory over sin, death, and hell, come
to the front of the boat, and l kneel down,
and say, 20, Lord Jesus Christ, thou who
dost hush the tempest hush all my grief;
hush all my temptation bush all my sin.
A man, man; Cod "a God.
j learn once more from this subject that
Christ can hush tempest. 1t did seem as if
everything must 60 to ruin. The Disciples
had given up the idea Of managing the ship;
tie crew were entirely demralized; yet
Christ rises, and he puts his foot Oh the storm
and it cronches at his feet. Oh, yesl Christ
can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble. Perhaps it was the
little child taken away from you-the sweetest
child Of the household, the one who asked the
most curious questions, and stood around you
with the greatest fondnesS, and the spade cut
down through your bleeding heart. Perhaps
it was an only son, and your heart has ever
since been like the desolatc castle the owls
OF the night hooting among the falling rafter5
and the crumbling stairways
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 VIII do you no more
kindness; that white lock OF hair you put
away in the casket, or in the 1ocket, did not
look as well Us it usually did when she brushed
it away from her wrinIled brow in the home
circle or in the country church. Or, your
property gone, you said, . have so much
bank stock, | have SO many Government
securities, ] have SO many houses, | have so
many farms"-aIl gone, all gone.
Why, all the storms that ever trampled
with their thunders, all the shipwrecks have
not been worse than this to you. Yet you
have not been completely overthrown. Why?
Christ hushed the tempest Your little one
was taken away Christ says, have that
little one can take care of him as well as
you can, better than yea can, 0, bereayed
mother" flushing the tempest. When
your property went away, God said, There
are treasures in heaven, III banks that never
break"
There is one storm into which we will all
have to run, the moment when we let 60 this
life, and try to take hold Of the next, when
we will want all the grace we can haye-we
will want it all. Yonder Isee Christian
soul rocking on the snrges of death /; all the
powers of darkness seem let out against that
soul-the swirling wave, the thunder OF the
sky, the screaming wind, all seem to unite
together; bnt that soul is not troubled there
is no signing, there are no tears; plenty of
tears in the room at the departure, but he
weeps no tears, calm, satisfied, peaceful; all
is well Jesus hushing the tempest. BY the
flash of the storm you sec the harbor Just
ahead, and You are making for that harbor.
Strike eight bells. All is well.
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