The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-03-20

- Tt..%%E~- committee HI#Nn seemed =
real p.rfl I'D the deeper e.niacaE-e
sf "a Ee.nali~t ans
f.o.tIe aIfEc were .I,ss5ga fsem-ly.3
Transport was oIteutias carried +
FAR that ii seemed .t- thou II th.-
heard from heaven the sound - -
! rushing mighty Wind. That ti.v
Here endowed with eleven tongue liz
fire. which sat upon them. ard ths.
they were filled ~ith fae HoS Ghost
and began - speak Win Other
tongues 4s the Spirit gave them ~
terance. ~ASsurediy the spirit Of Pen
tecost vas upon them. gathered in On"
place. - thai tAe words ri ine 2to-
phet Joel came true ara they lt't
inc spirit IL 'hs iIesh aud Knew ihAl
iiielf daa&iiieia Slou!d pfpbhes}. aht
the young men Sc visions u the OLD
men dream dreams And they "a.
the wonders of heaven With new eyes
and the signs in the earth. u the
blood and fire and vapour
Of smoke. And. above ali. d4d
they know that whatsoever shan
cali on the name of the Lord shaIi be
saved Yet tn fact that the REVEALS
continued to grow in power is proof
thai they were Of the temper Of those
days in Corinth and T~hcssalonica of
NI1l"h am fduI wrote 10 qucnch
not the spirit and OF whose prophe-
s}liSs he commanded do not de-
splse, Crude, ferVent, as they Of
tentimes were to the point of tempo
1ary Transformation. the reVINals did
q work which attacks tn. OWLS man
est to the hand. which put absolutism
ana manhood 10 war eternal, and Vhjll;
shocked the Dying BODY OF y ritual
eaten theolo9X into action as the
price of its salvation. Incidentally. il
was the revival spirit which gave
America to the English colonies and
afterwards the republic to the world.
In this day when the hour is ripeninc
under new conditions of error. the
impending revival will be that which
VIII give the repuplc BACK TO the
people.
In he truer light Of the history
which takes account not only of events
but of causes. the basis of the liberties
of the old and the ~reation OF the
new world revert tg the periods when
mems minds, en3rossed III material
ism or in the pursuit OF profligate
pleasure. have caught the strange eX-
a~ltation of the revival spirit. In such
times does humanity Seem to throw
itself back on God at the momon1
when apparently it has the farthost
departed from the primal conscious
ness of an over-ruling power. 1t was
50 i'll the days when the first revival
started in Egypt M the tribes hasten
ed into the desert: in the Durginc
trials of the wandering and the stray
ing after strange gods even INTO IN
BabylOnian captivity: again. when the
Master had departed. in the zeal that
WORKED in the disciples unto MARTYR
dom so that the word spread among
the sentiles from Greece to Rome.
And always has the revival worked
upward from persecution to liberty.
always has it spoken for individual
freedom of thought even when it's
surface manifestation was censorious.
Ever has the revival been pyogressive
and practical, dealing with conditions,
putting the ideal abstraction INTO llar-
hes for plain men. America drew us
capital upon the s~torehouses Of perse-
cution. The tumult of the Reforma-
ton found in its virgin shores a safe
asylum. From England the followers
of the martyr Latimer. of Ridley. CT
Crammer, sought for freedom III The
west. The settlements at JamestoWn.
IL 1907. at Plymouth. in 1920. were
the direct results of the revival spirit.
1t was the day when Europe WAS
awakening to religion as cxcmpiified
in the man rather than as y listIess
of the State. Since the or
ganization of the Church had growa
of the preaching of an ideal. re-
ligion and the, State had cxisted th.
II after the other. A revival there
fore. was more than 2 mere ncfsorai
convictions. NecessariIv and vitality
if concerned itsa1f With naH+io. 10;