The Caucasian., 1905-02-28

ham, Atlanta and Denver Armaged.
dons.~ They met night after night and
week after week until at last the
Spirit came as it did on the little COM
pany in the upper chamber ut Jerusa-
| lem.
The marvellous sights we have wit
messed in Los Angeles during the last
few weeks are not the work of any hui
man agency, but Of God. Those were
the results Of faith-the faith that
moves mountains. When Gods people
pleaded with him for this blessing they
put their trust in one who never fails.
The preparation In the heart Of man Is
with the Lord, and when these believ-
in. men and women begged him to
touch the hearts of the people he heard
and answered them. The earnest ap-
peals of Dr. Chapman and Mr.. Bieder-
wolf would have found no response in
the hearts of those men whom we saw
arise in the mems meeting In Hazards $
pavilion if it had not been that a
mightier power than mans had been
at work in them.< II we want revival
to move a city we must get that re-
viyal by the golden tongue Of earnest
prayer We shall never get it simply
by the SILVER tongue of brilliant
speech. Prayer, prayer, agonizing pray
er, prayer which came from hundreds
and thousands of anxious fathers and
mothers and brothers and sisters and
husbands and wives, was the cause, the
chief cause, Of the Los Angeles revival.
The Secret of His Success
The same lesson was taught us by the
movement led by Campbell Morgan a
year ago. After the great English
preacher had left the Pacific coast the
ministerial union of this city met to
discuss the results of those meetings.
One clergyman after another discussed
the causes of that awakening, but no
own inability to understand it, for l
had heard Campbell Morgan in the
east, when he did not. seem to have
any such influence over men. Yet the
sermons which were pOwerless there
were practically the same sermons that
were fruitful here. With that the
Nestor of the congregational ministers
arose, good old loving DR.. Warren +
Day. He said: Brethren, you have
omitted to state the chief reason OF
Campbell Morgan's SUCCESS in Los AD
geles. 1t was due to the fact that hun
dreds and thousands of Christians
paved the way for his success by weeks
of earnest prayer. The Christians pray
ed in their churches: they prayed in
their cottage prayer meetings; they
prayed everywhere!' "Amen," said |.
"Dr. Day is right" Campbell Nor
gan's revival was due chiefly to the
fact that those meetings were lifted up
praying Christians. J. Wilbur Chap
man when he reaches heaven will see
there many saved during this Los An
geles revival. But the old mother in
Israel, the old Christian elder and dea-
con, the old Christian church member.
will rejoice with him in this harvest
Christ from his throne will recognize
their services. You wondered" he
will say to the evangelists, why it
was that your words so moved the sin
ner to seek salvation. 1t was in answer
to the prayers Of these humble Chris |
tians that the Holy Spirit touched the
hearts Of your hearers so that the good
seed fell into good ground" Let us
thank God for such prayers.
The Los Angeles revival teaches an.
other great lesson. The vast number |
Of people do not have to be taught who |
Christ is. They know enough about tie |
gospel of salvation to be saved If they !
will. They must be led by the power
Of the Holy Spirit simply to make
stand, to come to decision, to do what |
they know they ought to do. They do |
not need to hear sermons on the au-
thenticity of the Scriptures, tile divini- |
ty Of Christ or the doctrine Of original
sin. They are for the greater part be-
levers in Christianity. It is the person
ii appropriation of these truths that
they lack. They love sin 50 much that
they will not come to the desired de-
,ision. In other words, they believe, but
they do not wish to give up sin. 1t is
not information about Christ nor expla-
nation of the truths of Christianity that /
men need. They understand these
things already. 1t is the will that must
1e captured. They do not realize their
1anger nor that they must themselves
,eek salvation through Christ. The SER
mons preached by the evangelists prov
ID that fact
Methods of the Evangelists.
The city was mapped out into Sec
ions. Then the different Protestant
churches, irrespective Of creed, united
n one central church Of their respec-
i've districts. Thus the rich and the
,oor, the educated and unedueated, pas
ors as well as people, had the bread OF
life broken unto them. And how did
hese evangelists break the bread of
ife? They gave their gospel message
n the simplest language, first taking 1t
or granted that all men believed in the
Iiyine personality of Jesus. And when
he invitation was given to come to
christ men and women arose by the
cores and often by the hundreds and
anne. Ministerial friends, Christian
riends, we as class spend too much
ime In proving that Christ is rather