The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-05-04

man think more clearly, makes him more
honest and makes him be more man i'm
every respect May such one be sent
to Mankato. We need power from on
high. We need to hear from God. There
is no pumped up or massage method
in morals, but down coming from
Heaven. That is what we need
The speaker said that the people be-
lieve i'm revivals in education, in the
home in the way of housekeeping, in
cleansing the body, in reviving the ape
tite three times a day, in store methods,
therefore wouldn't it be strange thing
ii there were no revivals in religion?
"When we get into genuine thorough 60
ing revival, it brings out the devil, which
is sort of fifth sense. We should con-
suit his strength and methods before
opening our attack upon him. He has
always used the same gun. A revival
he puts in new fuse. Then another
revival comes and burns that out, and
he puts i'm a new one. and so on. Some
day the fire of Heaven will come down
and melt his old gun.
1.-The most pain suffering man is he
who lives on dead religion. He has sac
rificed his Joy in this world for it and
has no JOY in Heaven. He needs re-
vival Young people can strike the re-
ligious gait nowhere as well as in a
revival They get the right tone from
the bugle call, Heavens pitch for the
melody of triumph. Let us welcome
more and yet more the revival from
Heaven.
sect a copy of the bible and read it..
All of the treatises and discussions upon
| it are not worth as much to you as
good study. When a man is hungry
twenty thousand cook books are not of
as much value to him as one cOokey.
We must cease trying to warm our
selves at wornout, painted CRATES, or
trying to refresh ourselves by eating
chrome grapes. We must have the true
spirit of prayer. Those who begin to
pray when the earth begins to reel and
tumble or when the floods GOMEZ
wouldn't score them. 1t is a good plan
to put into port when a storm comes,
even if the sailor knows of but one.
IF forty per cent of the church men,
bership attend prayer meeting the min
lister thinks that the mellenium is APP
preaching, but it is no uncommon thing
for ninety per cent to attend the chick
en- pie social and the oyster supper with
the wit and humor thrown in. Is it be-
cause the people are after the chicken
and the oysters and the wit and humor
1t is because they know more about the
chicken and oysters than they do about
prayer. They have sampled them.
"The great awakening should be full
ly characterized by enthusiasm. There
is that in mans character which is
comparable to Corless engine-that
which makes him move by Calvary's
breath-a real enthusiasm. They say
that we can get enthusiastic-that we
are too much engrossed in business, Oh
too scholarly. | don't believe it. We
see the enthusiasm of the college stu.
dents and faculty when their speaker
wins prize, and the enthusiasm of the
football game. Either scholarship and
enthusiasm live in the same head in
college students or they ought to be in
the insane asylum. The most enthu.
siastic men in the world aside from
students are business men. They will
ride horeback and carry torch during
political parades and be sore for days
and they will ride in sleeping cars. Fix
a church up like sleeping car and ask
a man to go through any such suffering
as he does on a sleeper, and you won't
get him out to church. An earthquake
destroys a city and the people rise in a
fine enthusiasm to rebuild better than
before. They will open the mouth OF
, two continents to facilitate trade. There
is enthusiasm everywhere but in the
church. Every saloon does more bust,
ness in one day than the churches in
seven. If we had anything like as much
interest in being as spiritually healthy
as we have in being physically healthy,
or took as much interest in religion as
in the color of our hair or the style OF
| fit of our clothes, we would not need
revivals. You ought to have religion
so hard that it would break out upon
you, that we could feel it like we feel
the heat before we do the stove. Broth
erliness without Goodness cannot live"
RELIEF FUND GROWS.