The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-04

wien 1he DulnV OHerlng Degan the song Oi
the Lord began again, also with the trum.
pets and with the instruments ordained by
David, King OF Israel. And all the congrel
CATION worshiped, and the singers sang
and the trumpeters sounded, and all this
continued until the burnt offering was
finished"
Third, all this is typical. We have nc
song in the church to-day as once we had
do not wish to be pessmistc in my view
of the condition of things; il is my great
desire TO- inspire the church with new
hope and a conception OF better things,
but no one is so blind to-day but what he
can see that the church is without the old
song she used to have, and beyond all ques.
tion it is because the temple must needs
be cleansed. Why should not the work be.
gin now
W. 1t ought to begin with the priests
themselves AZ in the Old Testament story.
Christian Evans tells of the time whom
one day riding through wood he dis.
mounted from his horse. hitched it to the
tree aud made his way into the darkenine
shadows and stayed upon his face before
God for hours waiting for his special bless.
ing or his special work, and when he re.
turned to his horse and mounted it and
the next day began his preaching service
revival was started which swept the whole
country. Maze spent a day and night in
a New York hotel asking for Gods special
blessing because he needed it. and at last
must needs rise and say, "Oh, Lord. stay
Thine hand | can hold no more" Murray
McCheynre was so filed with God that az
he laid his hands upon a boys head and
said, 81 am very much concerned about
your soul, the hoy remembered it and
when he forgot McCheynnes sermons he
felt the touch OF his loving hand upon his
head, and it pushed him into the kingdom.
t2). And the inner part of the house
needs also to be cleansed. There is in
every church circle into which God has
seemed to call certain persons. 70 these
now direct my message. to the officers OF
the church OF whatever name, to the Sun
day-school teachers and to those who have
become spiritually minded is the searching
question, is thine heart right in the sight
of God?" In the SD chapter of Isaiah
and the llth verse the prophet says, "Be
We clean that bear the vessels of the Lord"
God pity the man whose life is unclean,
while his Office is one the angels might
covet to fill The searching power of Gods
word ought to touch the Sunday school
teacher. One of Mr.. Moody's teachers in
Chicago was dying OF consumption. He
must leave his Western home and return
to the home of his boyhood in the East,
but before he would leave, entering a car
riage he drove to every home and besought
the, members of his class to yield to God,
came for him to leave Chicago his whole
class, every one of them saved, gathered
at the platform of the station to wave him
a farewell, and they all sang, 'Blest be the
tie that binds our hearts in Christian
love.'P In Galatians. the 9th chapter and
the lst verse, it is commanded, aye which
are spiritual restore the wanderers in the
Ipirit of meekness." and alas, it is true that
men have wandered in multitudes from the
church, and we have done nothing to re-
strain them, let the work of cleansing go
On.
(3). The church as a whole ought to be
set right with God In Zechariah, the Sd
,hapter and the first seven verses, we have
the picture of Joshua, the high priest,
standing before the angel of the Lord.
He was clothed with filthy garments, and
the word Of the Lord came saying, "Put off
the filthy garments and | will clothe thee
with a change of raiment." These filthy
garments upon the high priest are like the
habits which cling to some of us. They
nave sapped our spiritual life and we are
oowerless in the presence OF the world.
We ought to put them off and then put on
Christ, so that living among men we
night win them to Him by the very way
We live. This will not be easy, for the pic
ure of Joshua is with Satan resisting
lim. | doubt not he is resisting us now
n the presence of God, doubtless calling
attention to the way we have sung our
lymns this morning and uttered our pray
srs, but this picture in Zechariah also
ells us that Joshua, the high priest, had
fair mitre set upon his head, and the
bands showed that service was hard. That
air mitre is like the descent of the Holy
ihost, for which there is a great need to-
lay Then Hezekiah saw that the vessels
If the temple were restored The church
has had certain vessels committed to her,
.s, for example, the Bible. We have
picked it to pieces until the faith of some
las been shaken. "Will you pray for a
theological student" said woman to me
his week, who used to be one of the most
consistent Christians | ever knew and one
# the most Jealous. "He doubts much of
he Scripture, and as consequence his
ife is not only indifferent but inconsist-
mt" The time has come when the Bible
ought to be put in the church in the place
once occupied.
Preaching is another vessel entrusted to
he church As matter of fact, do you
believe that men would know they were
ost from much OF the preaching they hear
:o-day. The time has come for the old
lime spirit of the church fathers to pre-
rail
Prayer is still another vessel Prayer is
lot performance with which men may be
either pleased or displeased Prayer is
talking to God. Will our prayers stand
This test?
Music is still another vessel, and that
church is to be ptied if not despised
where the music is not in every way to the
praise of God, rendered by men and women
whose hearts have already been yielded to
God, but it was when the burnt offering
was presented that the song began and
there was this peculiar about the burnt
offering, it was all yielded and it was all
consumed, an illustration of the fact that
when we are entirely surrendered to God
when He rules in the ministry and controls
in everything in the church, when there is
no thought but for His glory and no com
petition but for His approval, then will the
song OF the Lord begin once again. If you
will read the Both chapter of II. Chronicles
you will have the story Of great revival
where people from Dan to Beersheba came
to Jerusalem to spend seven days, and then
tarried seven days longer, or if you will
read the 3lst chapter of III, Chronicles you
will have the picture of the priests OF God
going up and down the land oyerthrowinQ
the idolatrous places OF worship and set.
ting up the altars once more. This is the
secret OF purifying our cities and purifying
our land. Let the song of the Lord begin
once again. There is no more fitting close
to Hezekiah's life than the 2lst verse OF
the 3lst chapter of III. Chronicles. "And
with every work that he began in the serv-
ice OF the house OF God, and in the law,
and in the commandments, to seek his
God, he did it with all his heart, and
prospered."
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