The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-05
2.RELIGr 10 OIts rib Ats.
sDs. Talmage Ina Titnel y Discourse
Declares His Belief Id Them.

ID. Talnaagc, In q Titholy Discourse
q Declares sHis Belief Id Them.
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Il Ecopyrisht. 1901. by Louis ISiopsch. n. II
gas 81 {s2 t5G GsS Nv ashingto on, March "A.
!. ,Ss This discourse Of 5Dr. Talmagc is
4 nioat pertinent at this time WHOM q
y. fyyidespse sead effort for Religious awak-
q ening ID being made; text, Luke, verse
s&s y! They incloaed q great multitude dc
3 ,,of fishes and their net brake.
si Giimon and his comrades had expert
Il onodd tho night before what fishermen
81 call ',,po or luck." Christ steps on board
\ The fishing amack and tells tho sailors
+ TO pull away from the beach and di.
Il reets them again to sink the net. Sure
& enough, very soon the net is full OF
4 Anhea, and tho sailors begin to haul In
Il 30 large q school Of fishes was taken
that tho hardy men began to look red
\ in the face as they pull, and hardly
4 have they begun to rejoice at their suo-
boss when snap goes q threat OF the
8 net, and snap COOS another thread, SO
,thero Ia danger not only OF losing tho
tlah, but Of losing tho net.
Without much caro- rs to how much
Y tho boat tits or how much water Is
splaRhed on dock the fishermen rush
about, gathering up the broken meshes
Of the net. Out yonder there is q ship
X dancing fons the wave, and thoy hail 1T:
"Bhip ahoyi Bear down this wayl"
L The ship comes, and both boats, both
Il siphing smacks, are filled with tho
Aoundering treasures.
"Ah," says some one, show much
better 1t would have been II they had
staid on shore and Ashed with n hook
and limo and taken ono at q time in
stead Of having this great excitement
and the boat almost upset and the net
/ broken and having to call for help and
getting aopping wet with the seal"
The church is tho Boat, the Gospel
( Is the not, society Is the sen, and o
great revival ia a whole school brought
4 In at ono sweep of the net. have nd
mirntion for that man who goes out
with q hook and line to fish. I admire
tho way he unwinds the reel and adj,
( gusts tho bait and drops the hook in q
quiet place on a still afternoon and
here catches one and there one, but /
& like also big boat and largo crew
md net O mile long and swift oars
and stout sails and stiff breeze and o
great multitude OF souls brought-so
5 great u multitude that you have got
B to get holp to draw it ashore, atraining
4 the net to the utmost until 1t breaks
4 hero and there; letting few escape,
! but bringing tho great multitude into
htornal safety.
In other words, believe In revivals.
The great work of saving men began
4 with 5000 pooplo joining the church in
one day, and 1t will close with 40 or O
hundred million people saved IN "a
4 hours when nations shall be born In a
* day. But there are objections to re-
viyals. People arc opposed to them
because the net might get broken, and
IL by tho pressure Of souls 1t docs not
ss get broken, then they take their own
3 penkniyes and slit the net. "They in
closed q great multitude Of fishes, and
81 the net brake as
Il It is sometimes opposed to revivals
y ]
\ the church at such times do not hold
D out AS long: aa there is a gale Of bless
b Ing they have their sails up. But as
eon 1as7 tron g winds stop blowing
then they drop into q dead calm. But
what arc the facts In the oasc2 In oil
Sl bur ohurcheB tho vast majority Of the
Naeful people are those who are
brought In under great awalscnings,
and they hold out. Who arc tho prom
snent mon In the United States III
\ churches, in prayer meetings., in Sab
a bath schools? For the most part they
are the product Of great awnlscnings.
8N I hayo noticed that those who are
brought into the Kingdom Of God
through revivals have more per-
gistenoe and more discrimination in the
Christian life than those who como
In under d low state Of religion. Peo-
pie born In On icehouse may live, but
Ehey will never get over the cold they
hauBht In tho ioohouse. A cannon ball
& depends upon tho impulse with which
e lS starts for how far It shall go and
how swiftly, and the greater the re-
yival force with which soul Is started
the more far-reaching and far-resound-
4 ing will be the execution.
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Put 1t Is sometimes objected to re-
yivals that there is SO much excitement
that people mistake hystcria for relig-
Ion. We admit that In every revival Of
religion there Is either n suppressed or
O demonstrated excitement. Indeed,
II man can go out Of state of con-
demnation into q state Of acceptance
with God or see others 60 without any
Z agitation Of soul he Is in On unhealthy,
morbid state and is as repulaive and
absurd MS man who should boast he
saw q child snatched out from under q
horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or
aew a man rescued from tho fourth
story Of a house on fire and felt no ac-
coloration Of the pulses.
Salvation from sin and death and
hell into life and peace and Heaven for
H ever Is such tremendous thing that
x II a man tells me he can look on It
without any agitation T doubt his
Christianity The fact ia that some.
tirnas excitement Is the most ilnpor.
tnnt possible thing. In cnse Of resus.
citation from drowning or freezing
the one idea ia to excite animation
Before conversion we are dead. Tt is
tho business Of the church to revive
arouse, awaken, resuscitnte. startle
into life. Excitement Is bad or good
according to what 1t makes us do. Il
Y 10 make us do that which is bad, it Is
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