The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-17
The Revival at Pentecost
Harmon Delivered at the City Auditorium the Afternoon of
January 1877 ~,

@orh ana. you must Yulnu the oe-
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starving TO death. You have got 10
fulfill the divine order II you want to
be healthy. You violate Gods laws
OF sanitation and you win pay the
price with disease. An right You
have got 10 do IL to live aecentiy. So.
work in harmony with the Lord n
see how well you get along.
The time spent in preparation In
never lost. The time your boy or
girl spends in getting an education
isn't lost, for with a bright. brilliant
brain they a 20 out and succeed
will come down easier II you take
time 70 grind the axe. II the engi-
neer didn't take some time to get up
steam. he never would get the engine
out of the depot. II they didn't take
time 10 get up steam, they never
would cross the ocean. Time spent
in preparation II lost II I
didn't spend time to hunt and read
and get something to preach. I would
have nothing to say when ! got up. |
believe in preparation. believe you
have got to have II everywhere you
turn around in life: you can't do
without It. We put fire-~scap pes on
buildings; that is preparing the peo-
Pile for n way TO get out. You ont
wait until you fall down and break
youE leg ana then run over to college
10 1nd out how TO set II. We have got
men who know that now. You have
TO prepare everything In life, We
prepare the ground before we put in
the seed, We prepare the food be-
fore we eat II. So. all through life
everywhere you turn, you are up
against the same proposition.
Now. Gods will had the right OF
way for those tcp days, and the track
was clear, and the purposes Of God
swept on to marvellous victory They
made their domestic and their bust
ness arrangements SO as not to inter-
fere with Gods plan. They had no
social parties All right They had
no literary gatherings to attend. They
had no committees and conventions.
had no sewing to h done. no house
cleaning. no theatre parties. had no
business to interfere In those days. no
politics. no lodge meetings. am not
a member of any lodge, but II ! were
and lodge meeting came on prayer
meeting nirht. would go to prayer
meeting instead of lodge meeting.
| am not against them. I think.
they are doing n magnificent work. I
pull my hat off TO them for the mag
nincent things they are doing. And
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dances. no card parties, all other
things had 70 get out OF their way for
God. When housecleaning comes' at
the same time AS a revival you know
which suffers most. And they had
nothing that would prevent them
from doing the work OF God. You do
the sarne thing and see what God viii
do here In Richn end.
The Lords cause had the right of
way. They planned to he present at
the meetings. The last verse OF
filled il. for / read. "They were con-
tlnuously in the temple praisinr and
blessing God" They had all-day
meetings Nobody was anxious to get
home by Q O'Clock. They had no
clocks to watch. preached In "a
church where they had a clock screw
ed IN on the front OF the pulpit and
u think the devtl used the screw-driv-
err You VIII never have a revival:
when the people are watching the
cloek-=1t makes me"sick to ses some
fellow yank out his watch as though
I am treepassine m his time. II you
want 70 pull a CUR on me. all right,
but dor't pull a watch.
~33TssRy > took time 10 be ~reiigioua
Tfasy tao& Slime 80 pray. They tool
finae To pYafer God X In as impoe-
sihle to pray earnestly when YOU are
or the run as IL is 10 run an auto
mobile with dish water or pink tea.
They took time 10 consider who God
was. They took time TO consider
what God was doing for them. And
the disciples gave time and thought
for Cod.
what's the Matter With Mcn7
Then, another thing! The breth-
rem were there too think II more
men turned out we'd have better
meetings. not that men have a mo-
nopoiy on religion. God knows they
haven't Judging from church at
crowded with men. II they have
enough to scare up a male chorus they
will do we'll
] have no doubt that the disciples
had Just as pressing business as your
hushands-tust exactiy~-but they
found time to lay IL aside and give
God q chance every once In awhile,
They were there and they stayed
through h meeting. They didn't
ret up and hike out. Some people
fee, uneasy; some people have the ca
pacity OF a thimhle; others q hogs
head. n you can get Allied up quick,
whv TIL let you go.
Then I md another thing. They
had warm, fervcrt meetings. nc ehak-
ing hands with two fingers, none of
this doggy kind Of shaking. When I
see a mi shaking hands ] wonder
II she has a boil under her arm. I
like the good old poke.handle fashion.
1t has some heart in Il. This bunk
oysters and sawdust beiness! Oh,
gentleman! Warm meeting-no lar
ger OF catching cold by sitting down
In ON e that had Just been va
Gated by some Der of the Official
board Nc Ice water in that meeting.
no marble heart, NJ Klondike. Moth
ing OF that sort. A warm fervent
meeting.
And they were all with one ac-
cord" They all wanted something
They all wanted 1t intentIy. They all
wanted the same thing. And they all
toe hold of God In earnest. and all
together. and they would not let go.
and they all prayed in the same way.
they all prayed for the am thing.
they all prayed with n accord. No
matter who prayed. everybody said.
Amen"
Nobody said, Now. i wonder II
he will pray all night? He will never
get through. If / couldn't pray bet
ter than that I wouldn't start" None
OF that spirit In Il. No, none at all.
Nobody criticised! nobody found