The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-03-30

= w
make me think they would not have
had anything TO do with that which
was ephemeraL Oh. Il l. easy to
talk against rsvivSlsl
A man said 10 Mr.. Dawson: II
like your ermon very much, but
the after meetings l despise. When
the prayer meeting begins always
90 up into the gallery and look down,
and l am disgustsd." WELL" said
Mr.. Dawson. "the reason is you 90
on the top Of your neighbor's house
and look down his chimney TO exam
Inc his Gre, and OF course you get
only smoke in your eyes. Why don't
you come In the door and sit down
and wsrn?"
Oh, ] am afraid to say anything
against REVEALS Of religion or against
anything that looks like them, be-
cause / think it may be a sin against
the Holy Ghost, and you know the
Bible says that a ain against the Holy
Ghost shall never be forgiven. neither
In this world nor the world 10 come.
Now, II you are a painter and | speak
against your pictures, do ! not speak
against your II you are an archi-
teet, aud ] speak against a bailding
you put up. do l not speak against
you? II revival be the work Of tina
Holy Ghost. and I speak against that
revival, do I not speak against the
Holy Ghost? AAd whose speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, says the
nible. he shall never be forgiven,
neither in this world nor in the world
70 come. I think sometimes people
have made q fatal mistake In this d.
rection.
Now I come TO the real. genuine
ssnse Of objection TO REVEALS. That
10 shs eoldness Of the objector. 1t is
the secret and hidden but unmistak-
abs cause in every case, a low state
OF religion In the heart, Wide awake.
cOnsecrated. useful Christians are
never afraid Of revivals. II is the
spiritually dead who ara afraid Of
having their sePuichsr molested. The
chief agents Of the devil during a
great awakening r always uneon-
vsrtsd professors of religion. As soon
- Christ's work begins they begin
TO gossip against 1t and take a pail
Of water and try to put out this
spark OF religions influence, and they
try TO put out another spark. Do
they succeed? A well when Chicago
was on Ere might some one have
gone out with q garden water pot
trying TO extinguish it. The difficulty
IA that when . revival begins in n
church Il begins at so many points
that while you have doused one anx.
Ions soul with a pail Of cold water
there are 800 other anxious souls on
fire. Oh. how much better II would
be 10 lay hold OF the chariot OF
Christ's Gospel and help pull IL on
rather than to Cling ourselves In front
OF the wheels. trying TO block their
progress. Wa will no stop the
chariot br, we ourselves will be
ground 20 powder.
But I think, after all. the greatest
obstacls 10 r~evivais throughout
Christendom IL an u~neonverted minis
try. We must believe that the vast
majority Of those who ofsciate az
sacred affairs are regenerated, but I
suppose there may hoat into the
ministry Of all the denominations OF
Christians men whose hearts have
hsver been changed by grace, They
are all aDtaEonistic TO REVEALS. How
did they get into the ministry? Per-
kaps SONS Of them chose It as a re
spectacle profession. Perhaps some
of them were sincere. but were mis-
taken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he
had been many years preaching the
Gospel before his heart had been
changed. and as many ministers OF
the Gospel declare they were preach
Ing and had been ordained to sacred
orders years and years before their
hearts we're regenerated. Gracious
God, what q solemn thought for those
of Us who minister at the atari
With the present ministry in the
present temperature of piety, this
land will never be enveloped with re-
vivals. While the pews on side
the altar cry for mercy, the pulpits
on the other side Of the altar must
cry for mercy. Ministers quarreling.
Ministers trying 20 pull each other
down. Ministers struggling for eccle-
siastieal place. Ministers, lethargic
With whole congregations dying on
their hands. What a spectaclei
During our civil war the president
of the United States made proclama-
ton for $4,000 troops. Some Of you
remember the big stir. But the king
Of the universe to-day asks for
1900, O0o. 900 more troops than are en-
listed, and w want It done softly.
tfnpereeptibly. no excitement, one by
one. You are q dry goods merchant
on q large scale. and ! am 4 merchant
on . small scale, and | some to you
and want to buy 1000 yards OF cloth.
Do you say: Thank you. I'll sell
you 1000 yards Of cloth, but I'll sell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 tomorrow
and 20 the next day. and II II takes
me six months III seL you the whole
thousand yards. You will want es
long AS that TO examine the goods,
and I'll want a. long as that to exam
inc the credit. and besides that 1000
yards Of cloth is too much to sell all
at once?" Ne; you do not say that.
You take me into the eounting-room.
and In ten minutes the whole transae-
tion Is contaminated. The fact is we
cannot afford to be fools in anything
but religion.
That very merchant who on Satur-
day afternoon sold me the thousand
yards OF cloth n q stroke the next
Sabbath In church will stroke his
beard and wonder whether II would
> not be better for . thousand souls to
ON struggling along for ten years
{ instead Of boiling In at one service.
II seems to me a. II God IL prepar-
, ing the world for some quick and
. universal movement. A celebrated
0 electrician gave me q telegraph chart
Q Of the world. On that chart the wires
( crossing the continents and the cables
n under the sea looked like veins red
with blood. On that chart / see that
n the headquarters of the lightnings are
In Great Britain and the United
ststes. In London and New York
the hgbtnings are stabbed, waiting
o 70 be hnrnssssd for some quick dis.
patch. That shows you that the tel.
. sgTaph 10 In the possession of Chris
tianity.
II 10 q significant fact that the mar
who invented the telegraph was az
oid-fashioned Christian, Prof. Morse,
. and that the ma who put the tele.
d graph under the zen was an old.fash.
y Toned Christisn, Cyrus ". Field. and
. that the president OF the most 70.
nous Of the telegraph companies Of
& this country was an old fashioned
christlsn, William orion, going from
the communion table on earth