The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-06-16

! .h-ou all the whe overboardf" NOW
that is a great deal wiser than 'ne ,' u" IT.
~ great many Christians VINO wan
to throw overheard all the thousands
and tens of thousands of souls VIM az ~
tba subiects of revivals. Ihro" az
overheard because they are orousns
into the kingdom of God through iea ~
ravivals because there is peck -,
cboff a quart of chaff, pint OF ehan'
I saw let them stay until the iaS' uuy :
The Lord will divide the chaff from INC
wheat. ,,;uoI
No not be afraid of a great revival
Oh that such gales from Heaven m'gh'
sween through all our churches! on'
for sncb DAYS as RichaId,BaXter sa" IN
Eno,and and Robert McCheyne saw III
Dundeel Oh. for such days as Jona-
than Edwards saw in Northampton
have often heardmy father tell Oh 'he
fact that in the early part OF the cen
turv there broke out a revival al SOM
erville, N. j., and some people W. weie .
very much agitated about H. 1hey
said; you are going to BRING 'o" ,,
many people into the church at ONE
and they sent down to NewBrunswckto
get John Livingston to stop the revi'" =;
Well, there was no better soul III an
the world than John Livingston. he
went and looked at the revival 1hey
wanted him to stop it. lie stoou ~ 'A9
nulpit on the Lords day and lookeo
over the solemn auditory, and ne salu'
"This. brethren, is in reality the WORK
of God Beware how you stopit.' Ana
he was an old man, leaning heavily on
Ms staff-a very old man. Ana ne
lifted that staff and took hold OF the
small end of that staff and'began TO leu
it fall slowly through between the nm
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
ston's hand. The religious emotion IN
the audience was overpowering, and
men saw type OF their doom as the
cane kept falling andlfalling 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, ana
then there was gladness all through
the house at the fact of pardon and
peace and salvation. well" said the
people, after the service, Il guess you
had better send Livingson home. lie
is making the revival worse On, Tor
gales 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 lie IS
in the back part of the boat. Oh how
tired He looks. What sad dreams He
must have! Look at His couptenance;
He must be thinking of the cross to
come. Look at Him; He is man
bone 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 l hear Him say: Peace, be
still" and see the storm kneeling at
His feet and the tempests folding
their wings in His presence; He is a
God. II I have sorrow and trouble
and want sympathy, I go and kneel
down at the back part of the boat and
say: 80 Christ, weary One of Cen
nesaret. sympathize with all my sor-
row! Man of Nazareth! Man of the
Cross" A Man, Mani But if |
want to conquer my spiritual foes, il
I want to get the victory over sin,
death and hell, I come to the front OF
the boat, and kneel down, and | say:
80 Lord Jesus Christ. Thou who didst
hush the tempest, hush all my grief,
hush all my temptation, hush all my
SIM"
learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush a tempest. 1t
did seem as if everything must go to
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 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 fond
ness, and the spade suit down through
your bleeding heart. Perhaps it was
an only son, and your heart has ever
since been like desolated castle; the
owls of the night hooting among the
fallen arches and crumbling stair.
ways. Or all your property swept
away, you said: II had so much bank
stock; l had so many government Sc
curities; had so many houses; I had
so many farms-all gone, all gone"
Why sir, 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
says: 81 have that little one in my
keeping. l can care for him as well
as you can. better than you can, o be-
reaved mother!" flushing the tenn
pest. When your property went away,
God said: There are treasures in
Heaven in banks that never break"
Jesus hushing the tempest.
There is one storm into which we
will all have to run. The moment
when we let go of this world and try
to take hold of the next, we will want
all the grace possible. Wonder I see
Christian soul rocking on the surges
of oeath. All the powers of darkness
seem let out against that soul-the
swirling wave, the thunder of the sky.
the shrek of the wind, all seem to
unite together. But that soul is not
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