The Iola register., 1900-06-15

ligiOn VIII never make any conquest
among men" But after awhile the
Lion of the tribe of Judah will rouse
Himself and come forth to shake
nightly the nations. Whats a spi-
ders web to the aroused lionP Give
truth and error fair grapple, and
truth will come off victor.
Do not be afraid of n 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 Jona-
than Edwards saw in Northampton
| | have often heard my father tell of the
fact that in the early part of the CEN
fury there broke out revival at Som
ervile, y. j., and some people were
very much agitated about it. They
said: "Nou are going to bring too
many people into the church at once"
and they sent down o NewBrunswickt 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 IL. He stoodin the
pulpit on the Lords day and looked
over the solemn auditory, and he said:
This. brethren, is in reality the work
of God. Beware how you stopit." And
he was an old man. leaning heavily on
! his staif-a very old man. And he
! lifted that staff and, took hold of the
small end of that staff and began TO let
it fall slowly through between the fin
ger and the thumb, and he said: "Oh.
thou impenitent, thou art falling now
falling from life, falling away from
peace and Heaven, falling as certainly
as that cane is falling through my
hand-falling certainly, though per-
haps falling slowly!" And the cane
kept on falling through John Living
stons hand. The religious emotion in
the audience was overpowering, and
men saw a type of their doom rs the
cane kept falling and falling until the
knob of the cane struck Mr. Living
stous 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 salvation. We'll said the
people. after the service, 81 guess you
had better send Liviugson home. lie
is making tie revival worse" Oh, for
gal, from Heaven to sweep all the con-
tinents. The danger of the church OF
God is not in revivals.
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 lie
must have! Look at His countennnce
lie must be thinking of the cross to
come Look at Him; He is man
hone 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 al
His feet and the tempests folding
their wings in His presence; He is q
God. If / have sorrow and trouble
and want sympathy, | go and knee
, down at the back part of the boat and
say: 80 Christ, weary One of Gen.
nesaret, sympathize with all my sor'
row! Man of Nazareth! Man of the
, Cross!" \ Man, a Mar! But if
want to conquer my spiritual foes, il
| want to get the victory over sin
death and hell, | come to the front OF
the boat, and kneel down. and | say:
go Lord Jesus Christ. Thou who didst
hush the tempest hush all my grief
hush all my temptation, hush all my
sin!" - -~
, | learn once more from this subject
. that Christ can hush n tempest. II
did seem as If everything must go tC
: ruin. The disciples had given up the
: idea of managing the ship; the crew
were entirely demoralized; yet Christ
rises, and the storm crouches at His
: feet. Oh, yes; Christ can hush the
? tempest! You have had trouble. Per
! haps it was the little child taker
away from you-the sweetest child o.
r the household, the one who asked the
most curious questions and STOOD
r around you with the greatest fond
, ness, and the spade cut down through
your bleeding heart. Perhaps it wa'
/ an only son, and your heart has evel
since been like n desolated castle; tn,
owls OF the night hooting among the
. fallen arches and crumbling stair
, ways. Or all your property swep
. away, you said: 81 had so much banl
stock; I had so many government Sc
curities; had so many houses; haC
so many farms-all gone, all gone.
p Why, sir, all the storms that eve,
trampled with their thunders. all tn,
q shipwrecks, have not been worse thar
: this TO you. Yet you have not beer
3 completely overthrown. Why? Chris
says: 81 have that little one in m!
keeping. / can care for him as wei
! as you can, better than you can, o be
3 reaved mother!" flushing the tenn
e pest. When your property went away
God said: "There are treasures il
- Heaven in banks that never break.
| Jesus hushinP the tempest