New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-13

| of every man Who has registered his and gone
It was not tie easy to get away from Laban Laban
not easily shaken of When you want t to come come
you IND yourself held to y0ggr sor I fd f by av
have placed ourselves in the power OF others.
.. He left while Iaban was busy. I do not suppose
a capital thing for you make haste TO come out
You rs e WsS n he Strength of God and lose no
lime. you will find that God will send l1apan sheep
shearing while you get away beyond the boundary
! You have come up TO Noithheld in the hope that
! God would bring you back where? All you know!
] appeal 10 every man who has been twenty years
world. is the life that you live what you expected
bower e over s mat you expected to have the day
when you registered your VOWS unto CO., 60m 9
there in Padan AFam any more than you wGgld
darkness That is the word or GOO TO his Peopie'
Iaban was serious difficulty. but what about
Esau? When you turn your race around, you MI
see some things you have been shutuhg your tS
view. and some things you have been particulariy
9d cohTont 3 YOU you d0 the 2 s ling that viii
soul is the 'Esau you have robbed. God is the
champion of every wronged man. and with me
challenging, God Wrestling God contending for the
man Whq you nave ih5QreG o i rone has been
rghted You have got 20 face your task; you have
life and you viii not find Your way back to Bethel
without first OF all having TO meet some people that
Some people say that the preaching OF holiness
value Such people know nothing about IT,
Let anan try to live life Of full s
value or not; and if you are going to be fully de,
presence. you have got some things TO settle. You
cannot get back TO Bethel with family quarrel
! unhealed.
FIRST REVIVAL.
Oh. will never forget the first revival l was
mixed up with / found the church was built on
IS a tning the World cannot Understand what
ever the church thinks about it. Tney would drink
found tnat among the lew people there were Two
parties. and at the head Of the Two parties We're
Two leading families. l don't know why they called
tEem ea0lng families, because they never led, and
what is more, they took good care that nobody else
led II one party proposed anythlng' me other
At last came to my wits end, and have found
many a time since tlat when have come TO the
END OF my wits have come TO the beginning OF
God l had to face this question alone with COD
ana began TO pray, not about myself, but about
me. and instead OF filing the church Cod began
by emptying ne and turning me INSIDE out, ana II
wasn't comfortable process, / tell you. But
after / had gone through that experience, we
formed prayer league, and about twenty-five or
thirty people agreed pray every day Tor revival
OF God 5 work and We met every Saturday night TO
compare notes; and one SATURDAY mght II was pro
posed that we should have week ; prayer meet
prayer. We prayed week and nothing happened;
again and one man said: I propose we go on until
S9e NE dd not need n to say %na5 Sio
SO the next week we had prayer, ana the week
following We had prayer ana people began to
come, 50 that We came out of the anteroom into
the church and THURSDAY night the two lead
ing families We're represented Inc women folk
TeF %a heF Social nd 6e 2oe T y h lh es
that was at the bottom OF the trouble.
There was mighty power in that meeting. and,
knelt the communion rail, sobbng if her heart
would break. Then another came down the same
aisle and knelt at the other side of the rail
didn't know what TO do My mother used TO tell
follow that when you do not know what to do, as
she put II IN her Lancashire phraseoIogy, DO
nought" which, translated into decent English aud
probably AlnerlcanisEn, means, Don't. do any
and for the first time for years they shook hands,
after the other Then when they had both prayed,
they turned and kissed each other, and all uncon-
power that brought the people out OF their pews.
full surrender to God; and that was the first oc-
caslon when there came manifestly upon com
nICulty OF people 70 my hnowledge ana conscious
n na5a baptism ism OF the spirit OF God Those Two
spirit OF jealousy; and if you living in spirit
you have got to leave your gt at the altar and 80
n neIed T 2d o9 es TO hin in the nigh. and he
wrestling and night OF anguish and OF tears was
struggle with himself. wrestling with conscience,
battle IN the secrets Of his own soul, and in the
struggle st with himself he found at last that he
6 ad upon me very neck OF his Cod and when he
Father IN Heaven then he went out to meet Esau.
You start for Bethel. The first thing that
comes to your mind is Esau. Take your Esau to
COO GOD ana then after the night at Penuel take
your GOD TO Esau and through that night of wrest-
ing ana OF conquest you shall find victory in the
Now you would think all the difficulties were
oyer Now he will go straight to Bethel Not Yet
ESee%een Fenuel and Bethel there lay city called
| escaped from the house of LabaE and he Who had
and seductiveness Of the Canaants cit citv # Wes
| thriving and a prosperous place. with great
appeals TO Jew like the chance of bargaiB
magnificent place for business. a capital oppor-
h
| tiers. II isn't Bethel but then man with such
| first consideration. He will still keep it in his
thoughts. and still cherish it in his heart. and
secraton. but at present there other things to
| be considered besides Oh, yes, besides besides.
| thing. Besides. he has duty to his family Oh
Se eRcus Of obgn mas SePgG at 9f ta under
| Their he might do the Shechemites some good You
by Withdrawing from it. If all the good people
cease to mix with the worldly people, what chance
| The great mistake of good people. we are told
is that they Withdraw from these things instead of
bad.
AFFAIRS IN WRONG PLACES
And he settled at Shechem. And listen! He
places He going to be ashamed Of his
be in the world and mix with the world but he
would let 1t he known that he not of it. There
Is nothing more damnable in this world than world
illness spiced by pety. You can respect a man who
does wrong with an open ten you despise
Built an altar. and he thought, at any rate
some people seem to think to-day. that if you
build an altar the altar sanctfes everything: and
II only YOU can raise a profession of religion or
bring yourself to do then il viii be ali right tho
sanction Of the altar TO the life of Shechem.
compromises with the world for The benefits Of the
disaster The children OF saints go to the devil in
shechem Lot lived in s s3l: pitched his tent
Sodomite life, and brought peril and disaster 10