Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 December 1894 — Page 6

I , I KECBUITS FOE CHEIST. The Part Religious Revivals Take in Furnishing Them.

The IT neon verted Ministry the Orentesi Ohetacle to Wholesome Revivals of Religion Through Thelf Antagonistic Attitude. The following discourse on “Objections to Religious Revivals” was chosen by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage for publication this week. It is based on^he text: They inclosed a great multitude of Ashes and their net brake.—Luke v., 6. Simon and his oomrades had experienced the night before what fishermen call “poor luck.” Christ steps on board the fishing smack and tells the sailors to pull away from the beach and directs them ag^in to sink the net. Sure enough, very soon the net is full of fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in. So large a school of fish was taken that the hardy men begin to look red in the face as they pull, and hardly have they begun to rejoice at their success when snap goes a thread of the net, and snap goes another thread, so their is danger not only ol losing the fish, but of losing the net. “Ah!” says some one, “how much better it would have been if they had staved on shore, and fished with a hook and line, and taken one at a time, instead of having this great excitement, and the boat alipost upset, and the net broken, and having to call for help, and getting sopping wet with the sea!” The church is the boat, the Gospel is the net, society is the sea, and a great revival is a whole school brought in at oue sweep of the net. I have admiration for«that man who goes out with a hook and line to fish. I admire the way he unwinds the reel, and adjusts the bait, and drops the hook in a quiet place on a still afternoon, and here ciitehes one and there one; but I like also a big boat, and a large crew, and a» net a mile long, and swift oars, and stout sails, and a stiff breeze, and a great multitude of souls brought—so great a multitude that you have to get ", help to draw it ashore, straining the net to the utmost until it breaks here and there, letting a few escape, but bringing the great multitude into eternal safety. Ip. other words, I believe in revivals. The great work of saving men began with three thousand people joining the church in one day, and it will close 0 with forty or a hundred million people saved in twenty-four hours, when nations shall be horn in a day. But there are objections to revivals. People are opposed to them l>ecause the net might get broken, and if by the pressure of souls it does not get broken, then they take their own penknives and slit the net. “They inclosed a great multitude of fishes and rhp net brake.” I have noticed that those who are brought into the kingdom of God through revivals have more persistence and more determination in the Christian life than those who come in under a low'state of religion. People born in anjee house may live, l>u| they will never get over the cold they caught in the ice house. A cannon ball depends upon the impulse with which it starts for how far it shall go and how swiftly; and the greater the revival force with which a soul is started the more farreaching and far-resounding will be the execution. ' But it is sometimes objected to revivals that there is so much excitement that people mistake hysteria for religion. We must admit that in every revival of religion there is either a suppressed or h demonstrated excitement. Indeed, if a man can go out of a state of condemnation into a state of acceptance, or see others go, without any agitation of soul, he is in an unhealthy, morbid state, and is as repulsive and absurd as a man who should |t>oast he saw a child snatched out from-under a horse’s hoofs and felt no agitation, or saw a man rescued from the fourth story of a house on fire and felt no acceleration of the pulses. Salvation from sin and death and hell into life and peace and Heaven forever, is-such a tremendous thing, that if a man tells me he can look on it without any agitation, I doubt his Christianity. The fact is, that sometimes excitement is the most important possible thing. In case of resuscitation from drowning or freezing, the orfe idea is to excite animation. Before conversion we are dead. It is the business of the church to revive,

arouse, awaken, resusitate, startle into life. Excitement ib bad or good according to what it makes us do. If it make us do that which is bad, it is bad excitement; but if it make us agitated about our eternal'welfare, if it make us pray, • if it make us attend upon Christian service, if it make us cry unto God for mercy, then it is a good excitement. It is sometimes said that during revivals of religion, great multitudes of children and young people are brought into the church, and they do not know what they are about. It has been my observatipn that the earlier people come into the kingdom of God, the more useful they are. Robert Hall, the prince of Baptist f preachers, was converted at twelve years of age. It is supposed he knew what he was about. Matthew Henry, the commentator, who did more than any man of his century for increasing the interest in the study of the Scriptures, was converted at eleven years •of age; Isabella Graham, immortal in the Christian church, was converted at ten years of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns wi%be sung all down the ages, was converted at nine years of age; Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect that the American pulpit ever produced, was converted at ieven years of age, and that father and mother take an atfful responsibility when they tell their child at seven years of age: “You are too young tc be a Christian,” or, “You are too young to connect yourself with the church.’ That is a mistake as long as eternity. I_. y. U> look up33 rcTivali

as connected with certain men who fostered them. People who in this day do not like revivals, nevertheless have not words to express their admiration for the revivalists of the past, for they were revivalists—J.ohathan Edwards, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Osborn, Knapp, Nettleton and many others whose names come to my mind. The strength of their-intellect and the holiness of their lives make me think they would not have anything to do with that which was ephemeral. Oh! it is easy to talk against revivals. A man said to Mr. Dawson: “I like your sermons very much, but the after meetings I despise. When the prayer meeting begins I always go up into the gallery and look down, and I am disgusted.” “Well,” said Mr. Dawson, “the reason is you go on the top of your neighbor's house and look down his chimney to examine his fire, and of course you only get smoke in your eyes. Why don’t you come in the door

and sit down and warm?’ Oh! I am afraid to say anything1 against revivals of religion, or against anything that looks like them, because a I think it may be a sin against the Holy Ghost, and you know the Bible says that a sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor the world to come. Now, if you are a painter, and I speak against' your pictures, do ,1 not speak against you? If you are an architect, and I speak against a building you put up, do I not speak against you? If a revival be the work of the Holy Ghost, and I speak against that revival, do I not speak against the Holy Ghost? And whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, says the Bible, he shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come. I think sometimes people have made a fatal mistake in this direction. When I am speaking pf excitement in revivals, of course I do not mean temporal derangement of t^ie nerves; I do not mean the absurd things of which we have sometimes read as transpiring in the church of Christ, but I mean an intelligent, intense, allabsorbing agitation of body, mind and soul in the work of spiritual escape and spiritual rescue. Now I come to the real, genuine cause of objection to revivals. That is the coldness of the objector. It is the secret and hidden, but unmistakable cause in every case—a low state of religion in the heart. Wide-awake, consecrated, useful Christians are never afraid of revivals. It is the spiritually dead who are afraid of having their sepulchre molested. The chief agents of the devil during a great awakening are always unconverted professors of religion. As soon as Christ’s work begins, they begin to gossip against it, and take a pail of water and try to put out this spark of religious influence, and they try to put out another spark. Do they succeed? As well when Chicago was on fire might some one have gone out with a garden water-pot trying to extinguish it. The difficulty is that when a revival begins in a church it begins at so many points, that while you have doused one anxious soul with a pail of cold water, there are five hundred other anxious souls on fire. Oh! how much better it would be to lay hold of the chariot of Christ’s gospel and help pull it on, rather than to fling ourselves in front of the wheels,trying to block their progress. We will not stop the chariot, but we ourselves will be ground to powder. But I - think, after all, the greatest obstacle to revivals throughout Christendom to-day is an unconverted ministry. We must believe that the vast majority of those who officiate at sacred altars are regenerated; but I suppose there may float into the ministry of all the denominatians of Christians men whose hearts have never been changed by the grace of God. Of course they are all antagonistic to revivals. How did they get into the ministry? Perhaps some of them chose it as a respectable profession. Perhaps some chose it as a means of livelihood. Perhaps some of them were sincere, but were mistaken. As Thomas Chalmers said he had been many years preaching the Gospel before his heart had been changed, and as many ministers of the Gospel declare they were preaching and had been ordained to sacved orders years and years before their hearts were regenerated. Gracious God, what a solemn thought for those of us who minister at the altar! With the present ministr\* in the pres

ent temperature of piety the world will never be enveloped with revivals. While the pews on one side of the altar cry for mercy tfco pulpits on the other side the altar must cry for mercy. Ministers quarreling. Ministers trying to pull each other down. Ministers struggling for ecclesiastical place. Ministers lethargic, with whole cgngregations dying on their hands. What a spectacle! Aroused pulpits will make aroused pews. Pulpits aflame will make pews aflame. Everybody believes in a revival in trade, everybody likes a revival in literature, everybody likes a revival in art; yet a great multitude can not understand a revival in matters of religion. Depend upon it, where you find a man antagonistic to revivals, whether he be in pulpit or pew, he needs to be regenerated by the grace of God. I could prove to a demonstration that without revivals this world will never be converted, and that in a hundred or two hundred years without revivals Christianity will be practically extinct. It is a matter of astounding arithmetic. In each of our modern generations there are at least thirty-two million children. Now add thirty-two millions to the world’s population, and then have only one or two hundred thousand converted every year, and how long before the world will be saved? Never—absolutely never! During our war the president of the United States made proclamation for seventy-five thousand troops. Some of you remember the big stir. But the King of the Universe to-day asks for eight hundred million more troops tVin uve eaiisted, and we want it done

softly, Imperceptibly, gently, no exj citenuent, one by one! We talk a good deal about the good , times that are coming, and about the I world’s redemption. How long before they will come? There is a man who says five hundred years. Here is a man who says two hundred years. Here is some one more confident who says in fifty years.' What, fifty years? Do you propose to let two generations pass off the stage before the world is con* verted? Suppose, by some, extra prolongs* tion of human life, at the next fifty years you should walk around the world, you would not in all that walk find one person that you recognise. Why? All dead, or so changed you would not know them. In other words, if you postpone the redemption of this world for fifty years, you admit that the majority of the two whole generations shall go off the stage unblessed and unsaved. I tell you the church of Jesus Christ "can not consent to it. We must pray and toil and have the revival spirit, and we must struggle to have the whole world saved before the men and women in middle life pass off.

, ‘‘Ob!” you say, “it is too vast an enterprise to be conducted in so short a time.” Do you know how long it would take to save the whole world if each man would bring another? It would take ten years. By a calculation in compound interest, each man bringing another, and that one another, and that one another, in ten years the whole world would be saved. If the world is not saved in the next ten years it will be the fault of the church of Christ. Is it too much to expect each one to bring one? Some of us must bring more than one, for some will not do their duty. I want to bring ten thousand souls. I should be ashamed to meet my God in judgment if, with all my opportunities of commending Christ to the people, I could not bring ten thousand souls. But it will all depend tfpon the revival spirit. The hook and line fishing will not do it. It.seems to me that God is preparing the world for some quick and universal movement. A celebrated electrician gave me a telegraph chart of the world. On that chart the wires crossing the continents and the cables under the sea looked like veins red with blood. On that chart I see that the headquarters of the lightning are in Great Britain and the United States. In London and New York the lightnings are stabled, waiting to be harnessed for some quick dispatch. That shows you that the telegraph is in the hands of Christianity. It is a significant fact that the man who invented the telegraph was an oldfashioned Christian—Prof. Morse—and that the man who put the telegraph under the sea was an old-fashioned Christian—Cyrus W. Field—and that the president of the most famous of the telegraph companies of this -country was an old-fashioned Christian— William Orton—going from the communion table on earth straight to his home in heaven. What does all that mean? I do n6t suppose that the telegraph was invented merely to let us know whether flour is up or down, or which filly won the race at the derby, or which marksman beat at Dollymount. I suppose the telegraph was invented and built to call the world to God. In some of the attributes of the Lord we seem to share on a small scale. For instance in His love and His kindness. But until of late, foreknowledge, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, seem to have been exclusively God’s possession. God desiring to make the race like himself, gives us a species of knowledge in the weather probabilities. gives us a species of omniscience in telegraphy, gives us a species of omnipresence in the telephone, gives us a species of omnipotence in the steam power. Discoveries and inventions all around about us, people are asking what next? I will tell you what next. Next,a stupendous religious movement. Next,the crash of despotisms. Ne'kt, the world’s expurgation. Next, the Christ-like dominion. Next, the judgment. What becomes of the world aftd!r that I care not. It will have suffered and achieved enough for one world. Lay it up in the drydoeks of eternity, like an old man-of-war gone out of service. Or, fit it

up like a ship of relief to carry bread to some other suffering planet. Or, let it be demolished. Farewell, dear old world, that began with Paradise and ended with judgment conflagration. One summer I stopped on the Isle of Wight, and I had pointed out to me the place where the Eurydice sank with two or three hundred young men who were in training for the. British navy. You remember when the training-ship went down there was a thrill of horror all over the world. O, my friends, this world is only a training-ship. On it are training for Heaven. The old ship sails up and down the ocean of immensity, now through the dark wave of the midnight, now through the golden-crested wave of the morn, but sails on and sails on. After awhile their work will be done, and the inhabitants of Heaven will look out and find a world missing. The cry will be: “Where is that earth where Christ died and the human race were emancipated? Send out fleets of angels to find the missing craft.” Let them sail up and down, cruise up and down the ocean of eternity, and they will catch not one glimpse of her mountain masts, or her top-gallants of floating cloud. Gone down! The training-ship of a world perished in the last tornado. Oh! let it not be that she goes down with all on board, but rather may it be said of her passengers, as it was said of the drenched passengers of the Alexandrian cornship that crashed into the breakers of Melita: “They all escaped safe to land.” —The less we expect from this world the better for us. The less we expect from our fellow-men the supplier will be our disappointment. He that leans oh his own strength leans on a broken reed.—Dr. T. L. Cuyler.

. STEVE ELKINS AGAIN. Harrison** henchman Asrain in the Political Prerewton. Not all eyes, but many eyes, especially many republican eyes, are turned toward West Virginia. A republican legislature has been elected, and “Hon.” Steve Elkins, lately of New Mexico, Missouri, and more recently of Broadway, is a candidate for United States senator. His friend Edwards, a member-elect of the legislature, is a candidate for speaker of that body, and the plan is, according to the best advices, to make Edwards speaker, then elect Elkins senator, and then when the time comes for Mr. Faulkner to retire to make Edwards the other senator. Of 'course there are a r unber of ambitious aspirants for the first United States senatorship, the 0 ie to to Up the place of Mr. Camden, * ho was so much disfigured in the 1 :gar trust investigation, who have announced. themselves. Hon. Nathan Ooflf, ex-seerc tary of the navy and now u United States district judge, is a candidate without so many pretensions, but perhaps with the best chance of all to be elected. He was chosen governor of West Virginia, as the republicans of that state firmly be

lieve, once upon occasion, and is probably deepest in the hearts of his party. ^|r. Elkins has much in his favor. He and his father-in-law, Henry G. Davis, and his old-time star route partner and business Louis, have invested other people’s money, and possibly some money of their own, in developing the timber and coal lands of West Virginia. They have built a railroad or two and some handsome residences, for Mr. Elkins’ palatial home at Elkins, a town 6n his own railroad and named after himself, is said to be worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, though I believe it is returned to the tax gatherer as worth but twenty-five thousand dollars. But the Elkins, Davis and Kerens combination, with which senators like Gorman and Brice are thought to have more or less close affiliations, has spent money, employed large numbers of men, helped to develop the state, and, of course, established itself pretty firmly in politics. Mr. Elkins understands how powerful the fugacious dollar is. He helped Blaine make money, in some of these same West Vii*ginia enterprises in fact, and Blaine liked him for it. Ho invested money in Russell Uarrison’3 Montana Cattle company and lost it if it was his own, and Mr. Harrison is said to be the real reason why Mr. Elkins was made secretary of war. and for the reason, too, that he pretended to be able to head off the Blaine presidential movement. But with the power of money in West Virginia there also comes a weakness to Mar. Elkins. This is caused by his use of money also. He said several years ago, in one of the presidential campaigns, I think, that it was easy enough to carry West Virginia; it was only a matter of the use of money. And this statement the democrats posted in big black letters all over the state, and it was very harmful to the republican campaign. So, many of the old-time republicans look upon Mr. Elkins as a carpetbagger and they will have nothing of him. It is thought to be true that the numerous aspirants for the senatorship are all intending to help Judge Nathan Goff get the prize when the time comes. The republican managers in the state have been willing enough to use Mr. Elkins’ money, or the money of others which he has been able to collect; but they hardly feel like passing Mr. Goff by for this newcomer. However, the ex-secretary of war has practiced before every court in the country, business, social, political, if not judicial, and he is unusually nimble and, as his friends say, he has such a taking way with him, seeming to be the friend of everybody. It is thought that Mr. Elkins, if he came to the senate, would not allow his public duties to interfere with his private business. He could conduct that just the same, and even if he were • not to continue to make money he could probably get along comfortably, being considered by most people to be worth two million dollars, though the estimate in the mountains of West Virginia is eight million dollars. The ex-secretary is most familiar to old habitues of Washington as “counsel” in large cases before the departments or congress. It is said that he had a stake of one hundred thousand dollars in the fur seal contract awarded by Mr. Windom. That may have been a mere exaggeration by persons who failed to get tho contract. It is also said that he came to Washington during the progress of sugar legislation last winter to see that the republicans were nicely kept in line, and it was known that he was here and much interested in the topic. It is hardly

liuely tnat ne was m cnarge oi me republican end of the thipg. In the first place, nobody was ifi charge of it much, and Mr. Elkins would hardly be the man whom the sugai* trust people would select. If Mr. Harrison’s ex-secretary came to the senate he could take his same interest as formerly in the political management of the republican party. He could collect fundb for use in West Virginia or for the general use of the committee. It is related that he and one of his friends secured each a campaign subscription of twenty-five thousand dollars on the supposition that a valuable contract which the war department was able to give out could be influenced to como their way by this liberality—in each of the two different directions, that is to say. But it turned out to be necessary that a third bidder should get the contract: whereupon the other two threatened to sue the secretary of war and his friend, and make a thorough exposure of the game unless the money was given back to them, which, the story concludes, was done. It is well known that Thomas Dolan, of Philadelphia, the chairman of the finance committee of the last republican national committee, had great trouble in inducing Mr. Elkins to give up a subscription of twenty-five thousand dollars which he

had collected for the committee and was intending to divert to the uses of the West Virginia committee or of himself in the campaign there or elsewhere. Mr. . Elkins is said to be for the renoraination of Mr. Harrison for president, and he is helping along his candidate, as some of the republican pacers daily charge, by throwing bricks at Gov. McKinley. If Mr. Elkins is for Gen. Harrison, that is very important to the cause of Mr. Harrison. He knows everybody, and by reason of his wealth, as well as his acquaintanceship, is a good man in convention. He used to help Blaine in older times, but finally lost his confidence, even before he deserted him for Harrison.—Chi* cago Times.

NO MORE CALAMITY HOWL. Th« Sadden Disappearance of Republican Hard Times 'Wallers. Some time before election Oliver & Co., of Pittsburgh, were engaged in the erection of a one-million dollar tinplate mill. The foundation had been laid, contracts had been let and workmen were busy on the immense structure. The great enterprise was referred to as indicating the revival of business, the restored confidence of capital and the awakening of industrial operations. It is a big undertaking, and special significance attached to the fact that it was made. immediately upon the adoption of a “ruinous free trade policy,” as the calamity howlers were wont to designate the tariff legislation perfected by the present congress. Now these wailers and political claquers appear in an entirely different role. A republican victory changes the whole face ol events. To them the future is rose-tinted and touched with the light of hope. They have gone from the depths of despondency to the extreme heights of rejoicing. As illustrative of this, a Pittsburgh correspondent has been industriously circulating a revised story of whati Oliver & Co. are "doing, and as to the reasons in which they found justification for so large an expenditure of money. Without apparent appreciation of the humor of the thing, he announces that the republican victory is what assures the completion of the new plant. It was projected before the election and while the new tariff bill was pending in congress; thousands of dollars were expended and the corporation obligated itself to the extent of the entire cost of construction, and now the country is gravely informed that the mill will be erected because the republicans were successful on November 0. Oliver & Cb. have for years clone a business amounting to millions annually. They have never followed the dictates of sentiment or changed their plans in deference to ill-omened calamity shouters. They know that it will be impossible to change exist ing tariff legislation before the summer of 1897, and that if done then it must be by a congress committed to at least some of the heresies of McKinley ism.. Yet we are informed that these careless, not to say reckless, business men are willing to risk one million dollars upon the extremely remote contingency that some years hence the Wilson bill may be repealed to make way for such legislation as the country has declared twice, in manner unmistakable, that it will not have. The correspondent with his republican victory theory only succeeds in making .ridiculous the cause which he seeks to advance. Under the new law the tin-plate industry has all the protection that it needs, and there could be no more conclusive proof of the fact than in the enterprise conceived and put in motion before the re-publican-victory dodge was available. The plain fact is that by repealing the McKinley duty on block tin the new tariff law confers a great boon upon the domestic manufacturers of tin plate, as it does upon all other consumers of raw material in the production of manufactured articles for the markets of \the world. Those who but a few days\agp could see nothing bfat want and discourager ment confronting the entire country, have suddenly grasped the fact that prosperity is returning, and like the Pittsburgh correspondent they credit it all to the republican victory. Let the good times return and the people can be relied upon to discover what wrought the welcome change.—Detroit Free Press.

PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS. -Democrats may be a little discouraged now, but not so much so that a few of Czar Reed’s old-time speeches will not fret them back into a fighting humor. And as everybody knows, a fighting humor means a winning humor with democrats.—N. Y. World. -Benjamin Harrison says he has no words to express his sentiments about the recent elections. If asked, however, as to whether he knows a likely republican presidential candidate for 1896 even modesty would not prevent his making ample reply.—Chicago Herald. -Democracy again has a golden opportunity to display the wonderful recuperative power for which it has long been distinguished. It has taken more kinds of whippings than any other kind of political organization in existence, but never has lost faith in the justice of its cause or in its ultimate triumph.—Detroit Free Press. -The republican party, having flooded the country with a paper and silver currency, which is kept at a parity with gold only by resort to borrowing and increasing the public debt, it requires unbounded gall on the part of republican organs to inveigh against the efforts of the democratic administration to protect the public credit. But the organs are equal to the task. The issues of bpnds are denounced as a wanton speculation in the interest of the banks. /'This course of criticism is on a par with the recent effort to prolong the period of business distress in the hope to reap partisan advantage thereby.—Philadelphia Record.

—The first whipping post in Boston was erected in front of the old meeting house. This, old meeting house, the first church of Boston, was an unpretentious structure of wood, and "*aa situated on State street, on th$ ground which is now occupied by Brazier's building, and in it preached the first* ministers of the town—John Wilson and John Cotton—and thither went 9 to worship John Winthrop and Richard Bellingham and all their zealous Puritanical followers. The church remained here until 1640, when it was removed to that part of what we now eaH Washington street, nearly opposite the head of State street, on the site of the present Rogers building. But the whipping post remained in its original position for some years afterward, until it was removed to near the West street gate of the common, and public whippings, whether deserved or not, continnued to be inflicted as late as 1803.

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