The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-03-28

| against tnc Holy Ghost shall never be
forgiven neither. in this world nor the
world to come. Now, if you are painter.
and | speak against your pictures. do ]
not speak against you? II you are an
architect and | speak against a building
| you put up. do l not speak against you uf
| II revival be the work of the Holy
| Ghost and / speak against that revival,
| do i not speak against the Holy Ghost !
| And whose speaketh against the Holy
| Ghost, says the Bible. he shall never be
forgiven neither in this world nor in the
world to come. ] think sometimes pco.
| pie have made a fatal mistake in this di.
rection.
:, Many Of you know the history of Aaron
| Burr. He was one of the most brilliant
men of his day. / suppose this country
never produced 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. and with
li6ertinism and immortality. Do you know
where Aaron Burr started on the down.
ward roadg II was when he was in col
lege and he became anxious about his
soul and was about to put himself under
the influences of a revival, and a minister
Of religion said: Don't go there. Aaron;
don't go there. That's place of wildfire
and great excitement. No religion about
that. Don't go there" He tarried away.
And who is responsible for his ruin for
this world and his everlasting ruin in
the world to come? Was it the minister
who warned him against that revival?
When speak of excitement in revivals,
L do not mean temporary derangement of
the nerves, ! do not mean the absurd
things OF which we have read as trans.
piring sometimes in the church of Christ,
but | mean an intelligent, intense, all alb.
gOrhlnn nf ind nd on,tI
in the work OF spiritual escape and spirit.
ual rescue
Now come to the real, genuine cause
OF objection to revivals-that is, the
eoldness, OF the objector. 1t is the secret
and hidden but unmistakable cause in
every case, a low state of religion in the
heart. Wide awake, consecrated, useful
Christians are never afraid of revivals.
1t is the spiritually dead who are afraid
OF having their sepulcher moested. The
chief agents of the devil during a great
awakening are always unconverted pro.
tessors of religion.
As soon as Christs work begins they be.
gin to gossip against it and take pail of
water and try to put out this spark OF
religious influence. and they try to put out
another spark. Do they succeed? As we'll
when Chicago was on fire might some one
have gone out with a garden water pot
trying to extinguish it. The difficulty is
that when a revival begins in a church it
begins at so many points that while you
have doused one anxious soul with a pail
OF cold water there are 500 other anxious
souls on fire.
Oh, how much better it would be to Law
hold of the chariot of Christ's gospel and
help pull it on rather than fling our.
selves in front of the wheels, trying to
block their progress. We will not stop
the chariot, but we ourselves will be
Aroused pulpits will make aroused
pews; pulpits ahame will make pews
aflame. Everybody believes in a revival
in trade, everybody likes revival in lit
erature, everybody likes a revival in art,
yet a great multitude cannot understand
a revival IN matters of religion. Depend
upon it, where you find man antagon-
istic to revivals, whether he be in pulpit
or pew, he needs to be regencrated by
the grace of God.
could prove to a demonstration that
without reyivals this world will never
be converted and that in 100 or 200 years
without revivals Christianity will be prac-
tically extinct. It is matter of astound-
ing arithmetic. In each of our modern
generations there are at least 80 2,000, 900
children. Now add 32000,000 to the
worlds population and then have only lO0,.
900 or 100000 converted every year, and
how long before the world will be saved?
Never-absolutely never!
During our Civil War the President of
the United States made proclamation for
10000 troops: Some of you remember
the big stir But the King of the universe
to-day asks for 1900, 10000 more troops
than are enlisted, and we want it done
softly imperceptibly, no excitement, one
by one. You are a dry goods merchant
on large scale, and / am a merchant on
small scale, and l come to you and want
to buy thousand yards of cloth. Do you
say: Thank you. I'll sell you a thou
sand yards of cloth, but III sell you TWEEN
ty yards to-day and twenty tomorrow, and
twenty the next day, and if it takes me
six months I'll sell you the whole thou
sand yards; you will want as long as that
to examine the goods, and I'll want as
long, as that to examine the credit, and,
besides, that, thousand yards of cloth
are too much to sell all at once?" No, you
do not say that. You take me into the
counting room, and in ten minutes the
whole transaction is consummated The
fact is, we cannot afford to be fools in any
thing but religion.
That very merchant who on Saturday
afternoon sold me the thousand yards
OF cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath
in church will stroke his beard and won
der whether it would not be better for a
thousand souls to come struggling along
for ten years instead of bolting in at one
service.
We talk good deal about the good
times that are coming and about the
worlds redemption. How long before
they will come? There is a man who says
500 years; here is man who says 200
years; here is some one more confident
who says in fifty years. What, fifty
years? Do you propose to let two genera.
tions pass off the stage before the world
is converted? Suppose by prolongation of
human life at the end of the next fifty
years you should walk the length of
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, or the
length of Broadway, New York-in all
those walks you would not find one per.
son that you recognize. Why? All dead
or so changed you would not know them.
demption OF. this world for fifty years
you admit that the majority of the two
whole generations shall go off the stage
unblessed and unsaved. / tell you, the
church of Jesus Christ cannot consent to
it. We must pray and toll and have the
revival spirit, and we must struggle to have
the whole world saved before the men
and women now in middle life part.
"Oh," you say, "it is too vast an en-
time!" Do you know how long it would
take to save the whole world il each
man would bring another? 1t would take
ten years. BY calculation in compound
interest each man bringing another, and
that one another, and that one another,
in ten years the whole earth would be
saved-l9ll. Before the organs in our
churches are worn out they ought to
sound the grand march of the whole earth
next ten years, it will be the fault of the
church OF Christ. But it will all depend
upon the revival spirit. The hook and
line fishing will not do it,