Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-06-16

| all the wheat overhoard"' Now. that is
a great deal wiser than the talk of many
Christians who want To throw overheard
all the thousands and tens g thousands
of souls who are the subjects of REVEALS
Throw all overheard because they are
brought into the kingdom Of God through
great revivals, because there is a peck of
chat, quart Of chaff pint of chafT,
say let them stay until the last day. Tho
Lord will divide the chat from the
wheat.
DO not be afraid Of great revival. oh.
that such gales from heaven might sweep
through all our churches, Oh. Tor such
days as Richard Baxter saw in England
and Robert McCheyue saw in Dundcci
On, for such days as Jonathan Edwards
saw in Northampton, | have often heard
my father tell of the fact that in the
early part of this century there broke out
revival at Somerville. y. J.. and some
people were very much agitatt.l about il.
They said. You are going TO bring too
many people into the church at once"
and they sent down to New Brunswick
to got John Livingston to stop the re-
Viyal. Well, there was no better soul in
NIL the world than John Livingston. He
went and looked at the revival They
wanted him 10 stop 1t. He stood In the
pulpit on che Lords day and looked over
the solemn auditory. and he said: This,
brethren. is in reality the work of God
Beware how you stop IT," And he was
an old man, leaning heavily on his staff
very old man. And he lifted that staff
and took hold Of the small end Of the
staff and began To let Il fall slowly
through between the finger and the
thumb, and he said: oh thou impcni-
tent, thou art falling now-faling from
hfe falling away from peace and heaven,
falling as certainly rs that cane is falling
through my hand-faling certainly.
though perhaps falling slowly" And the
cane kept on falling through John Iliv-
ingston'S hand. The religious emotion in
the audience was oVerpuwcring, and men
saw type of their doom as the cane
kept falling and falling until the knob
of the cane struck Mr.. Liyiugston's hand,
and he clasped il stoutly and said. But
the grace Of God can stop you rs | stop
ped that cane and then there was clad4
ness all through the house nj the fact Of
pardon and peace and salvation. Well"
said the people after the service Il guess
you had better send Livingston home lie
is making thc revival worse" Oh. for
gales from heaven To sweep all the conti-t
ncnts, The danger of the church of God
is not in rcviyaia.
Calming the Storm.
Again, my subject impressed me with
the fact that Jesus was God and man inl
the same being. Here he Is in the back
part OF the boat oh, how tired he iooksT
What sad dreams he must have. Look
at his countcnauce; he must be thinking
of the cross to come. Look at him; lie ia
" man-bonc of our bone, flesh of our
flesh. Tired, he falls asleep: he is a
man. But then | find Christ at the prov
of the boat hear him say, Peace, be
still" and / see the storm kneelng at his
feet end the tempests folding their
wings in his presence; lie il n God IL /
have sorrow and trouble and want sym
pathy, / go and kneel down ut the buck
part Of the boat and say; 20 Christ,
weary One of Gcnnesaret sympathze
with all my sorrowl 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 / knccl down. aud | say. 20
Lord Jesus Christ, thou who didst hush
the tempest, hush all my grief, hush an
my temptation, hush all my sim
| learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush q tempest Ii did
seem as if everything must 20 10 ruin.
The disciples had given up the idea or
managing the ship; the crow were en-
tircly dcmoraiiEcd yet Christ rises, and
the storm crouchcs at his feet Oh. yes.
Christ can hush the tempest. You have
had trouble, Perhaps il was the little
child taken away from you-thc sweetest
child of the household the ono who ask
ed the NEST curious questions and stood
around you with the srcHtest fondncss.
and the spad" cut down through your
bleeding heart. Perhaps it was an only.
son, and your heart has over since hcen'
like Il desoatcd castle, the owls Of the
night hooiing among the fallen arches.
and the crumblug stairways. Or all
your property swept away, you said: Il
had so much bank stock; ! had SO many
government securities; L had so many
houses; ! bad 80 many farms an gone.
nh gone" Why, sir al! the storms that
over trampled with their thundcrs. all
the shipwrecks hay" not been worse than
this to you. Yet YOU have not been com
pletcly oyorthrowu. Why Christ saysa
II have that lttle one in my keeping. f.
can car" for him AZ well rs you can. bet
ter than you can, . bcrcuvcd mother"
flushing the tempest When your prop
orty went away God said, There are
treasures in heaven in banss that never
break" Jcsu, hushiug thc tempest
There is one storm into which we will
all have to ran, The moment when we
LET ga Of This Wprti mud tt,. IN taln BalJ