Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
THE DIXON REVIVAL
 CAMPAIGN OPENED
Two Strong Sermons Preached Yes terday in the Baptist Church. Good Music Provided.


 The Dixon meetings opened auspic- uously with a good audience yester- day afternoon at three o'clock, at the First Baptist church. The ser vice opened at exactly o'clock and Pastor Coats announced that the first meeting would be like all that followed in one respect, it would be- gin on time. Dr. DiXons pictures do not flatter him, his genial smile and bright eyes give him a more youthful appearance than his newspaper pie lures would suggest. He gained the attention and sympathy of his audi ence as soon as he began to speak. His reading of the scriptures, inter spersed with original and suggestive comments was unusually impressive The subject of Dr. Dixon's first ad- dress was: The Revival we Need The following is a synopsis of the address which was full of seriousness. earnestness, pleasantly and power.
 The text was from the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm, 18th, 1O7th and 154th verses. My soul cleaveth unto the dust. Quicken Thou me, accord ing to thy word" q am afflicted very much. Quicken me, Lord, ac- cording to thy word" Plead my cause, and deliver me. Quicken me according to thy word" These words of Scripture define a true re- vival. It is a quickening according to Gods word not according to some mans magnetism or eccentricity. A revival implies some life present. A revival means a giving of more life. We need a quickening of faith, faith in God up to date, the God of Wesley, Whitefield, Kinney, Sturgeon. Moody, our God present today. We need faith in a God able to do great things now.
 We need a revival of hope. Some people are never happy unless they are miserable. They think they must cherish some doubt of God to keep them from presumption. Every Christian has a right to be radiantly hopeful. We need a revival of con- scientiousness. All over the country there is a revival of the civic con- science. We need a religion not of the hot house, which thrives under the heat of song and sermon and services on Sunday, but of sturdy growth, that will flourish in the soil and atmosphere of everyday busf- ness. Honest merchants, truthful lawyers. faithful preachers, loyal citizens, devoted mothers, wives and husbands, obedient children, indus trious workmen, are the needs of to- day and every day.
 We need such a revival to lift us out of the dust My soul  symbol of earthliness. Dead or dropping things hold the dust The sick eagle wallows in the dust; but the eagle full of life scars above the dust and gazes into the sun. Christians who are today wallowing in the dust of wordliness need an infusion of strong healthy life, that they may mount up on wings as eagles" We need a revival to sus- tain us under life's daily burdens. T am afflicted very much" Dust mars and hinders life but it is not heavy The word afflicted" has a wider range than bodily disease. There are Christians not covered with dust, living consecrated lives, who have on them heavy burdens of responsibility, calamity, sorrow, the humdrum loads of every day These need quickening according to Gods word that they may have strength ro bear their burdens. We do not know just what Paul's thorn in the flesh" was, but we know it was something he did not want. But God said to him, Tt is better for you to keep it and have my grace to bear it than to be without it and not have the grace. What we need is more life to carry what burdens we have and to assume larger burdens. We need a revival to break all bonds that en- slave us. Plead my cause, Deliver me. Quicken thou me according to