Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-29

vivalists-.Iunathan Edwards, John Wes-
Icy. George Whitfield, Fletcher, Griffin.
Davies. Osborne. Knapp. Nettleton. Moo
dy and many others whose names come
to my mind. The strength of their intel
lcct and the holiness of their lives make
me think they would not have had any
thing to do with that which was ephem-
eral. Oh. it is easy to talk against re-
vivals.
man said to Mr.. Dawson: Il like
your sermons very much. but the after
meetings ] dcspise. When the prayer
meeting hcgins. | always go up into the
gallery and look down. and ! am disgust
ed. "Wcn. said Mr.. Dawson. "the reason
is You 20 on the top Of your neighbours
house and look down his chimney TO ex-
anime his fire. and Of course you get only
smoke in your eyes. Why don't you come
in the door and sit down and warm"
Sin Against Holy Ghost.
Oh. am afraid to s;Iy anything against
revivals Of religion or against anything
that locks like them, because | think it
may be a sin against the Holy Ghost. and
you know the Bible says that sin
against the 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? If you are an
architect and speak against building
you put up. do | not speak against you?
If a revival be the work of the Holy
Ghost. and speak against that revival,
do ] not speak against the Holy GhOsty
And whose Spcakcth against the Holy
, Ghost. says the Bible he shall never be
forgiven. neither in this world nor in the
world to come. ] think sometimes people
have made fatal mistake in this direc-
ton.
Many Of yau kaOw 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
libertnism and immortality. Do you know
where Aaron Burr started on the down
ward road? II was when he was in col
lCge, 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 20 there, Aaron;
don't 20 there. That's place of Wild
fire and great excitement. No religion
about that. Don't 90 there" He tarried
away His serious impressions departed.
4 He started on the downward road. And
4 who is responsible for his ruin for this
4 world and his everlasting ruin in the
world 70 Gomez Was it the minister who
warned him against that revival? When
4 | speak Of excitement in rcvivals. do
not mean temporary arrangement Of the
nerves. ! do not mean the absurd things
| of which we have read as Transporting
sometimes in the church of Christ, hut
mean an intelligent, intense, all absorb
ing agitation of body. mind and soul in
the work of spiritual escape and spiritual
rescue.
Goodness Of the Director.
Now ] como to the real. genuine cause
of objection to REVEALS. That is the cold
ness of the objcctor. II is the secret and
hidden but unmiStakahle cause in every
case, low state of religion in the heart.
Wide awake conSecrated. useful Chris
tians are never afraid Of revivals 1t is
the spiritually dead who are afraid of
having their scpucher molestcd The
chief agents of the devil during a great
awakening are always unconverted pro-
fessOrs of religion. AS soon as Christ's
work begins they begin to gossip against
it and take a pail of water and try to
put out this spark of religious influence
and they try to put out another spark
Do they Succccdf As well when Chicago
was on fire might some one have gone out
with garden water pot trying to extin
guish it. The difficulty is that when re
vival begins in a church it begins al SC
many points that while you have douset
one anxious soul with pail of cold wa
ter there are 500 other anxious souls OF
fire. Oh. how much better it would be t,
lay hold of the chariot Of Christ's gospe
and help pull il on rather than to fin;
ourselves in front of the wheels. trying t,
block their progress. We will not stOl
the chariot but we ourselves will b.
ground to powder.
Did you ever hear that there was
convention once held among the iceberg
in the arctic? 1t seems that the sum
mer was coming on, and the sun wa
getting hotter and hotter, and there wa
danger that the whole icefield woul,
break up and flow away. So the TALES
; and the coolest and the hroadest of al
TIE icebeIgs, the very king of the arc
tics. stood at the head of the conveu
, ton and with a gavel of ice smote on
table of ice, calling the convention to OF
der. But the sun kept growing in in
tcnsity of heat. and the south wind bey
stronger and stronger, and soon all tn
icefeld began to grind up, iceber
= against iceberg, and to flow away. TIL
first resolution passed by the ice cor
= vention was, Resolved, That we abOlis
the sun" But the sun would not
. abolished. The heat of the sun gre,
. greater and greater until after awhil
: the very king of the icebergs began t
. perspire under the glow, and the smallC
. icebergs fell over, and the cry was: "TC
much excitement. Order. Order" The
the whole body, the whole field Of ic
= began to flow out, and a thousand vote,
# began to ask: Where are we going
It now? Where are we floating to? W
" will all break to pieces" By this tin
y the icehergs had reached the gulf strear
le and they were melted into the bosom
nj the Atlantic ocean. The warm sun is Il
If Eternal Spirit. The icebergs are frig
II Christians. The warm gulf stream is
Is great revival The ocean into viii,
r, everything melted is the great, wi,
n heart of the pardoning and sympathiziI
he God.
ID An UncOnverted Ministry.
n But think. after all, the greatest Q
u stacle to revivals throughout ChristendC
s. is an unconverted ministry. We must
ne lieve that the vast majority of those w
70. Olliciate at sacred affairs are regeneratC
III but l suppose there may float into
nit ministry of all the denominations
ne Christians men whose hearts have ney
Ike been changed by grace. They are all {
oil tagonstic to REVEALS. How did they {
.ro into the ministry? Perhaps some
an them chose it as a respectable prOfessiC
in Perhaps some chose it as means
no livelihood. Perhaps some of them VT
sincere. but were mistaken. As ThOn
mt Chalmers said. he had been many yes
oh preaching the gospel before his heart h
no been changed, and as many ministers
vo the gospel declare they were preachi
~ and had been ordained to sacred ord
ON years and years before their hearts W,
,Lo regcnerated. Gracious God, what a
,,ro emn thought for those of us who mir
a. ter at the altar. With the present mil
~, try in the present temperature of pie
or this land will never be envelOped W
,,as revivals. While the pews on one S
hot the altar cry for mercy, the pulpits
49, the other side the altar must cry
a. mercy. Ministers Quarrelng. Minist
trying to pull each other down. Minist
os struggling for ecclesiastical place. Mi
-, tiers lethargic with whole congregati
- dying on their hands, What a spectac
Arousad DulDifs will noLa oro,,