Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-06-11

never make any conquest among men,"
But after awhile the Lien of the tribe
of Judah will rouse himself and come
forth to shake nightly the nations
What's a spiders web to the aroused
lion? Give truth and error a fair Crap
pie, and truth will come off victor.
Gales From Heaven.
But there are a great many good
people who get affrighted in other re-
spects They are affrighted about re-
vivals. They say: ooh, this is a strong
religious gale! We are afraid the
church Of God is going to be upset and
there are going to be a great many
people brought into the church that are
going to be of no use to it," And they
are affrighted whenever they see re-
vivaI taking hold of the churches. AS
though a ship captain, with 5000 bush
els of wheat for a cargo, should say
some day, coming upon deck, "Throw
overheard all the cargor' and the sail
ors should say: 'Why, captain, what
do you mean? Throw over all the car
go?' "Oh," says the captain, eve have
a 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 overboardr' Now, that
is a 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 reviyals. Throw all overheard
because they are brought into the
kingdom Of God through great revivals,
because there is a peck of chaff, a
quart of chaff, pint Of chaff! I say,
let them stay until the last day. The
Lord will divide the chaff from the
wheat.
Do not be afraid of a 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 Dundeei Oh, for such days as JOna-
than Edwards saw in Northampton! 1
have often heard my father tell of the
fact that in the early part of this cen
fury there broke out revival at Som
erville, n. J., and some people were
very much agitated about it. They
said, "You are going to bring too many
people into the church at once" and
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 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 stop it."
And he was an old man, leaning heayi-
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
it fall slowly through between the fin
ger and the thumb, and he said: ooh,
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
stOn's hand. 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 MI. Living
StOn'S hand, and he clasped it stoutly
and said, But the grace of God can
stop you as I stopped that cane" and
then there was gladness all through
the house at the fact of pardon and
peace and slvation. "WeH," said the
people after the service, 81 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 a man. But then I find
Christ at the Prov Of the boat; l hear
him say, "Peace, be STILL" and I see
the storm kneeling at his feet and the
tempests folding their wings in his
presence; he is q God. If | have SOr-
row and trouble and want sympathy, L
go and kneel down at the back part of
the boat and say: so Christ, weary
One Of Gennesaret, sympathiZe with
all my sorrow! Man of Nazareth! Man
Of the Crossi" A Man, a Man! But if
I want to conquer my spiritual foes, If
I want to get the victory over sin,
death and hell, 1 come to the front of
the boat, and 1 kneel down, and I say,
80 Lord Jesus Christ, thou who didst
hush the tempest, hush all my grief,
hush all my temptation, hush all my
sinr'
1 learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush temneSt II did