Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-30


ed them. People who in this day do not
like revivaiS nevertheless have not words
to express their admiration for the re-
vivalists of the past for they were re-
vivalists-Jonathan Edwards, John Yves
ley. George Whitfield, Fletcher, Griffin,
Davies, Osborne, Knapp, Nettleton, Moo
dy and many Others whose names come
to my mind. The strength Of their in
tellect and the holiness of their lives
make me think they would not have had
anything to do with that which was
ephemerai Oh, it is easy to talk against
reviVais!
sin Against Holy Ghost.
Oh, am afraid to say anything against
reviNaiS of religion or against anything
thar looks like them. because | think it
may be sin against the Holy Ghost, and
You know the Bible says that sin
against the Holy Ghost shall never he
forgiven, neither in this world nor the
world to come. Now, il you are painter
and speak against youl pictures do
not speak against YOU? II you are an
architect, and | speak against building
sou put up. do | not speak against you?
IT revival be the work of the Holy
Ghost, and speak against that revival,
do l not speak against the Holy Ghost?
And whose spcaketh against the Holy
Ghost, says the Bible. he shall never he
forgiven, neither in this world nor in the
world To come. think sometimes people
have made a fatal mistake in this direc-
ton.
Many of You know the history Of Aaron
Burr. He was one of the most L@;Ilinnt
men of his day l suppose this country
never produced a stronger intellect He
was capable of doing anything good and
great for his country or for the church Of
God had he been rightly disposed. but
his name is associated with treason
against the United States government,
which he tried to overthrow. ana with
lihcwinSm and immortality. DO YOU
know whore Aaron Burr started on the
downward road? 1t was when he was
IN college, and he became anxious about
his soul and was about to put himself
under the influences of revival, and
minister Of religion said: Don't 90
there, Aaron; don't go there. That's Il
place of Wildhre and great excitement
No religion about that. Don't so there"
He tarriod away. His serious impress
slons departed. He started on the down
ward road, And who is responsible for
his ruin for this world and his evcrlast-
ing ruin in the world to come? Was it
the minister who warned him against
that revival? When | speak Of excite
ment in reyivals, / do not mean temper
airy arrangement Of the nerves, | do not
mean the absurd things of which we have
rsnlI
church of Christ. but ! mean an intclli-
gent, intense, all absorbing agitation Of
body. mind and soul in the work of spir-
itual escape and spiritual rescue.
Goodness of the Director.
Now | come to the real, genuine cause
of objection TO revivals. That is the
GOODNESS of the objector. 1t is the secret
aud hidden but unmistakable canse in
every case, a low state of religion in the
| heart. Wide awake, consecrated, useful
| Christians are never afraid Of reyivals.
Ii IS She spiritually dead who are afraid
of having their sepulcher molestcd The
chief agents Of the devil during a great
awakening are always unconyerted pro-
fcssors of religion. As soon as Christ S
work begins, they begin to gossip against
put ont this spark of religious influence.
and they try to put out another spark
DO they succeed? As well when Chicago
was on fire might some one have gone out
with garden water pot trying to extn.
guish it. The difficulty is that when
revival begins in a church it begins mt 50
many points that while you have douscd
one anxious soul with pail of cold wa
ter there are 800 other anxious souls on
fire. Oh, how much better it would be to
lay hold Of the chariot of Chrsts gospel
and help pull it on rather than to fling
ourselves in front Of the wheels, trying to
block their progress. We will not Stop
the chariot, but we ourselves will be
ground to powder.
Did you ever hear that there was
convention once held among the icebcrgs
in the arctic? 1t seems that the sum
mer was coming on, and the sun was
getting hotter and hotter. and there was
danger that the whole iccfcd would
break up aud flow away. So the tallcst
aud the coolest and the broadcast of aH
the iceberss, the very king of the arctics,
stood at the head Of the convention and
with q gavel Of ice smotc on a table of
ice, calling the convention to order But
the sun kept growing in intensity of
heat, and the south wind blew stronger
and stronger, and soon all the ceiield be-
gan to grind up, iceberg against iceberg,
and to flow away. The first resolution
passed by the ice convention was. RE
solved, That we abolish the sun" But
the sun would not be abolished. The
heat Of the sun grew greater and greater
until after while the very king Of the
lccbergs began to perspre under the
glow, and the smaller icebergs fell over,
and the cry was: Too much excitement!
Order! Order" Then the whole body,
the whole field Of ice, began to flow out
and a thousand voices began to ask:
Where are we going to now? Where
are we floating to? We will all break TO
pieces" BY this time the icebergs had
reached the gulf stream, and they were
melted into the bosom Of the Atlantic
ocean. The warm sun is the Eternal
Spirit. The icebergs are frigid Chris.
tians. The warm gull stream Is great
revival. The ocean into which every. |