Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-03


other logs began TO force them In
Then those huge logs were closing over
your head when your little companion
lav down fiat upon his stomach and OK
tended to- you his fishing pole and pull
ed you out just In time. Or perhnps
your narrow escape from death came
in some awful runaway. You can see
now tho horses plunging and taking
the bits in their teeth. You can hear
the crash MS the wagon is shattered
against tree. Or perhaps, like George
WashnEton's mother during a thun-
dcrstorm you had friend struck
dead before your eyes by the lightning.
/ do not know what that early escape
was, but this | do know-tbcrc is
hardly man, woman or child who has
not in youth come so near death rs to
almost feel the cold air of the tomb
tanning tho check. Why. you were so
near death tint just one step more
and you would have been over the
precipice or under the revolving wheel
of the car Now, what was the reac-
ton Of that sudden escape from death
in the early days of your youth?
The Reaction.
At first YOU began to trcmbc like an
aspen leaf You did not do this while
you were SIN looking into the yawn.
Ing abyss Of the grave. The grave
opened and shut SO quickly that YOU
did not re izc what was happening
until all danger was past. Then the
cold sweat began to break out over
You: your nerves began to twitch; you
began to say: 20 God, never knew
/ till now no" ncnr one could come 10
death and ct escape 1t. For what
hast thou cd no. And all through
the succco. Ig days and nights the
Lord ,leSu- hrist seemed to be stand
/ ing by your side, saying: II have say
ed YOU that YOU might become my dis
/ ciplc. GOD gave you Il divine rcycla-
: ton at thu time, just "a Christ APP
pearcd unto Paul in the scene Of my
test. when n. was taken MP into the
( third heaven and knew not whether he
/ was in the rody or out Of the body.
The mex ,lorioiis revelation which
came to yar may have been a few
years later. When. under the power Of
q great @a-i revival YOU surrendered
your life 20 the Master, joined the
church and -.t ut the table of the holy
/ communion How that scene comes
I back now There is The little white
church vita lis straight backed pcws.
There is th' choir loft in which your
sister used lob sing. There is the old
prayer mco : room below. which was
used for tbr sunday school before the
Sunday u Wing pr"aching.- Wherc
we're the ST.. astonrs You used to play
among on '..'I days and try to read
The cpitarh- 'n Sunday, when the min
lister WolN erSist in praying about
every thine IN the creation down to
! the prc>idcH e the United States and
all others IN authority.
The rHu1-se Of the Holy Spirit.
If some ou. houid ask You how that
revival stni YOU could not answer.
Suddenly. W out ary apparent cause,
the power OF nc Holy Spirit began to
descend 1t rs Nisibly felt through
all the coun One Sunday the old
minister inst of giving out his text,
as usual, OPT the service III words
something III heSe: "Brethren, have
tried to VIII" sermon this week. but
it has been impossibility. Every
tllilc entered :"y STUDY the SUM- Snlali
Noi'o % '''N N''' say ing po"n Oh
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r''i"' ray l-''' pray N"o' my
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foice o, "on' ~ nave ueen pray 'hs
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o'"cr ~ pray got urea ana com
'HeHVro u wiz III your seat "u'
ao'leiio" S"' ~' !eeilhS OF unrest
came over ." Wen your dear mother
"rose 10 Pray ''u never heaid hel
pray III Pu"c ~. ''c IN your me- hu'
Nr''' H"c 'u WIN 'r''i'''Ih4
voice an" N'.u' i'oru' dear Master
precious "a 'o"' como mo our hlluS'
ANA taNe 'le'e .'ue 'amoS lhto thy
arhis' you 'o"'' not Keep PACK TIC
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you
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