Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-06-16

all the wheat overboardw Now, thai
is n great deal wiser than the talk OF
many Christians who want TO throw
overheard all the thousands and tens
OF thousands of souls who are the sub
jects Of reylvals. Throw all overheard
because they are brought into the
kingdom of God through great reyivals
because there Is peck Of chaff, a
quart Of chaff, a pint of chaff! | say
let them stay until the last day. The
Lord will divide the chaff from the
wheat.
Do not be afraid of great revival
Oh, that such gales from heaven might
sweep through all our churches! Oh,
for such days as Richard Baxter saw
In England and Robert McCheyne saw
in DUNDEE Oh. for such days as iona.
than Edwards saw In Northampton!
have often heard my father tell Of the
fact that In the early part Of this GEN.
tury there broke out a revival at Son.
eryllle. n. j., and some people were
very much agitated about 1t. They
said, "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 revival.
Well, there was no better soul In all
the world than John Livingston. He
went and looked at the revival. They
wanted him to stop it. He stood In the
pulpit Oh the Lords day and looked
over the solemn auditory. and he said:
"rhis, brethren. Is In reality the work
Of God. Beware how you stop it."
And he was an old man, leaning heavi-
ly 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
1t fall slowly through between the fin
ger and the thumb, and he said: "Oh,
thou impcntent. thou art falling now
falling from life. falling away from
peace and heaven, falling as certainly
as that cane Is falling through my
hand-falllng certainly. though per-
haps falling slowlyw And the cane
kept on falling through John Living
ston's hand. The religious emotion in
the audience was Oyerpowerlng, and
men saw a type Of their doom as the
cane kept falling and falling, until the
knob Of the cane struck Mr.. Living
ston's hand. and he clasped it stoutly
and said. But the grace of God can
stop you as stopped that cane" and
then there was gladness all through
the house at the fact of pardon and
peace and slvation. "Well," said the
people after the service, Il guess you
had better send Livingston home. He
Is making the revival worse" Oh, for
gales from heaven to sweep all the
continents. The danger Of the church
of God is not In revivals.
One and the Same.
Again, my subject impressed 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, he falls
asleep; he is man. But then | find
Christ at the PROV Of the boat: hear
him say, Peace, be STILL" and | see
the storm kneeling at his feet and the
folding their wings In his
be is a God. II have sor-
row and trouble and want sympathy, !
90 and kneel down at the back part OF
the boat and say: 10 Christ, weary
One Of Gennesaret, sympathize with
all my sorrow, Man Of NaZarctG Man
Of the Crossw A Man. Maa! But If
I want to conquer my spiritual foes, II
| want TO get the victory over sin.
death and hell, / come to the front OF
the boat, and kneel down. aud say.
20 Lord Jesus Christ, thou who didst
hush the tempest. hush all my grief,
hush all my temptation. hush all my
SIM
l learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush tempest. II did
seem as II everything must 60 10 ruin
The disciples had given ~ the idea Of
the slip: the crew were en-
tirely demoralized yet Christ rises,
md the storm croucEcc Ut his feet. Oh.
res, Christ can hush the tempest. You
nave had trouble. Perhaps II was the
little child taken away from you-the
sweetest child Of the household, the
,ne who asked the most curious ques.
ions and stood around you with the
greatest fondnoss. and the spade cut
lown through your bleeding heart.
Perhaps II was an only sou, and your
heart has even since been Ike DESC
ated castle; the owls Of the night hoot
ng among the fallen arches and the
'rumbling stalrways. Or all your prop
,rty swept away, you said: Il had SO
much bunk stock; had SO many gov.
,rnment securities: had 80 many
had so many farnls-all gone,
Ill gone" Why SIR, all the storms
hat over trampled with their thunders,
III the shlpwrecks. have not been
yoree tEaa this TO you. Yet you have
lot been CO... yletrly oyerthrown. Why!
Christ says: Il bnys that little one In
~ keeping. can care for him as well
s you can. better than you can, o be-
eaved motherw flushing the tenn
est. When your property went away,
iod said, "There are treasures In heav-
n In banks that never break" Jesus
ushing the tempest.
There Is one storm into which we
7ill all have to run. The moment
yhen we let go of this world and try to
IKE hold of the next we will want all
he grace possible. Yonder I see a
soul rocking on the surges Of
cath. All the powers Of darkness
eem let cut against that soul-the
wiring wave, the thunder Of the sky,
he shrek OF the wind, all seem to
mite together. But that soul Is not
rOubled. There is no signing, there
re no tears; plenty Of tears in the
nom Mt the dpDartllrp hut he WepDs no