The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-03-29

NlN Put up 40 NOT SPEAK against YOU
Ii revival be the work Of the Holy
Ghost and | speak against that revival,
do ! not speak against the Holy GhoSts
Aud whose sprAketh against the Holy
Ghost. saws the Bible he shall never be
forgiven neither IN this world nor in the
world 20 come. | think sometimes peo.
pie have made fatal mistake IN this dl'
recticn.
Many Of YOU know the history oi Aaron
Burr. lie was one Of the most brilliant
men Of hlS dav. / suppose thls country
never produced 4 stronger intellect He
was capable oi doing anything good and
great Tor his country or for the church of
God had he been rightly disposed hut
has name Is associated with treason
against the United States government.
which he tried % overthrow, ami with
llhevtunism and immortality DO YOU know
where Aaron Burr started on the down
ward roNdy II was when he was IN col.
lcge and he became anxious about h,S
soul aud was about 20 put himself under
the influences of revival. and a minister
ot religion SAID Don't 80, there. Aaron,
don't 80 there. That's place oi wildhrr
and great excitement. No religion about
that Don't 60 there lie tarrlcd away,
His serious impressions departed. lie
started on the downward road
And who Is responsible for has ruin for
this world and has everlasting ruin m
the world - come, Was It the m,nIstcr
who warned HIM against that revival
When | speak of excitement m rcvlvals
| do not mean temporary arrangement of
the nerves. ! do not mean the absurd
things OF which we have read as trans
pirIng sometimes IN the church of Christ j,
but | mean an intelligent, intense, all ali
sorhng agitation of body, mind and soul
IN the work OF spiritual escape and spirit.
uil rescue
Now | come TO the real. genuine cause
of objection 90 revlvals-that is. the
codntss o{ the ohlector. IL Is the secret
aud hidden but unmistakahc cause IN
every ease, A low state of religion IN the
heart Wide awake, consccratcd, useful
Christians are never afraid Of revlvals
IL Is the spiritually dead who are afraid
ot having their sepulcher molcsted. The
chief agents of the devil during a great
awakening are always unconrerted pro-
iessOrs oi religion.
As soon As Christ's work begins they be-
gin 10 gossip against u aud take a pail OF
water and try Ia put out this spark Of
religious influence, and they try To put ont
another spark Do they succeed As we'll
when Chicago was on fire might some one
have gone out with garden water pot
trying TO eNtlnguish It. The difficulty rs
that when a revival begins IN a church It
begins AZ So many points that while YOU
have doused one anxious soul with a pail
of cold water there are 800 other ANXIOUS
souls on fire.
Did YOU ever hear that there was a con
ventlon once held among the lcebergs of
the arCtlcf II seems that the summer
was coming on and the sun was getting
hotter and hotter and there was danger
that the whole coheld would break up
and How away. so the tallest and the
coolest and the broadcst of all the ice.
borgs, the very king of the arctics, stood
at the head of the convention. and with
/ u Mt tFfa. am. In - nj tsn al
ing the convention To- order But the sun
kept growing m intensity ot heat and the
south wind blew stronger and stronger
and soon all the icchcld began To grind
up, lceberg against iceberg, and To How
away The first resolution passed 10y the
| abolish the sun But the sun would
not be abolished The heat of the sun
| grew greater and greater until after awhile
the very king of the icebcrgs began TO
| uerspirc under the glow and the smaller
| iccbcrgs fell over and the cry was. Too
much excitement Order, Orderi' Then
! the whole body. the whole field of ice,
| began TO flow out. and a thousand voices
! began 10 ask. Where are we gong TO
now Where are We floating to- We will
| all break to pieces by tins time the
iccbcrgs had reached the gulf stream and
! they were melted into the bosom OF the
| Atlantic ocean The warm sun ~ the
|
! Christians The warm gulf stream ~ a
! great revival The ocean into which
| everything melted ~ the great, WIDE heart
| Of the uardonlrg and sympathlZlng God.
While the pcws on one side OF the altar
! cry for mercy the pulpts on the other
! side the altar must cry Tor mercy. MIN.
! I.tcrs ugarrCinV. ministers trying To pun
each other down, ministers struggling for
! ecclesiastical place, ministers lctharRlc
! with whole congregations dying on their
! hands " hat a spectacle
Aroused pulplts wil make aroused
! pcws, pulpits alame will make pcws
| aNamn Everybody believes IN revival
iu trade, everybody likes revival IN lat.
oraturc, everybody likes a revival IN art,
! vet "A great multitude cannot undcrsiand
! a revival M matter. oi religion, Depend
uyon n, where you find a man antagOn.
! l1ic 10 rcvlyas, whether hc be ln pulpit
or pew, hc needs 10 be rcgencrated by
| the grace of God.
/ could prove 10 a demonstration that
| without rrvlvas this world viii never
| be converted and that IN 100 or 200 years
| without rpvIvals Christianity VIII be praC'
! tically extinct. : is a matter Ot a-tound'
! ing arithmetic. Ia each OF our modern
! generations there are AZ least 32pOOWO
! children Now add 32OOO.OOO 10 the
worlds population and then have only lOD,.
/ OJD or 200 900 converted every year aud
/ how long before the world will be saved,
! Ncvcr-absolutciy never
During our Civil War the President Of
! the United States made proclamation tor
| 5000 troops. Some Of YOU remember
| the big stir But the King oi the universe
| today ask. for 300 900, 900 more troops
than are enlisted, and we want IT done
| softly impcrccptlbly no excitement, one
/ by one You are a dry goods merchant
on "a large scale, and ! am a merchant on
q small scale, and ] come 10 you and want
| 10 buy "a thousand yards oi cloth. Do you
/ say Thank you. III sell you thDu'
| sand yards Of cloth but III sell you twcn.
~ yards to day and twenty tomorrow, ana
twenty the next day, and II IT takes me
| SIX months III sell you the whole thou
| sand yards, you will want as long AZ that
90 examine the goods. and III want -
| long ~ that 30 examine the cfedli, anu
| besides, that, thousand yards 9i cloth
! are too much 10 sell all az once No, you
| do not say that You take me into the
counting room, and ia ten minutes the
| whole tranFactiOn D. COuBummdted. The
| fact b., we cannot afford 10 be fools in any
| thing but religion.
| That very merchant VINO on saturday
| afternoon sOld me the thousand yards
] ol cloth az one stroke the next Sabbath
in church will stroke his beard aud won
| der whether u would not be- better for a
| thousand souls 10 come struggling along
| for ten years instead Oi boiling m AZ one
| service.
We talk a good deal about the good
| times that are coming and about the
| worlds redemption. How long before
| they will come, There ~ a man who says
! 800 years, here IL man who says ~
! vears. here n some one more confident
who says IN fifty years. What, hity
I yearf DO YOU propose % Jet two genera.
tons pass Of the stage before the world
\. ,gnvcftedy Suppo.e by prolOngatIOn Oi
| human life al tie end Oi the next htty
| years you should walk the length Oi
| Prunsylyania avenue, Washington, Of the
| lsUgth of broadway. New 1Ork-in all
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