Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-02-27

dons. They met night after night and
week after week until at last the
Spirit came as ii did on the little com.
pany in the upper chamber at Jerusa
lem.
The marvellous sights we have wit
messed i'm Los Angeles during the last
few weeks are not the work of any hu-
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 falls.
The preparation I'm the heart of man IN
with the Lord, and when these believ-
ing 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
mightier power than mans had been
at work in them. If we want revival
to move a city we must get that re-
vival 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
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
solution was found. l confessed my
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 Morgans success in Los An
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 L.
CDR. Day is right" Campbell Nor
CAMS revival was due chiefly to the
fact that those meetings were lifted UP
to heaven by thousands of pleading,
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 il
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 sim
ner to seek salvation. 1t was in answer
to the prayers of these humble Chris
dams 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
Of people do not have to be taught who
Christ is. They know enough about the
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 a decision, to do what
they know they ought to do. They do
not need to hear sermons on the au-
thenticity of the Scriptures, the divini-
ty of Christ or the doctrine of original
sin. They are for the greater part be-
levers in Christianity. 1t is the person
al appropriation of these truths that
they lack. They love sin so much that
! they will not come to the desired de-
cision. 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
DS CdpIuASO Lucy uO uOI realize lQ6lf
danger nor that they must themselves
seek salvation through Christ. The SER
mons preached by the evangelists prov
ed that fact.
Methods of the EvangeIists.
The city was mapped out into sec
tons. Then the different Protestant
churches, irrespective of creed, united
in one central church Of their respec-
tive districts Thus the rich and the
poor, the educated and uneducated, pas
tors as we'll as people, had the bread OF
life broken unto them. And how die
these .evangelists break the bread OF
life? They gave their gospel message
In the simplest language, first taking il
for granted that all men believed in tht
divine personality of Jesus. And wher
the invitation was given to come tt
Christ men and women arose by The
scores and often by the hundreds and
came. Ministerial friends, Christian