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N - ew Series, Vol. 11, No. 46.
HONORING THE HOLY SPIRIT,
They that loolt‘for true prosperity in the
Church and that , would prepare the way for
Revivals, must honor the Holy Spirit. They
must give prominence in their plans, their
prayers, and their efforts to his character,
his relations, his power, his office work,
and his supremacy. Naturally, they will
be .drawn in this direction as the first
conscious movement toward true revival.
I. They will honor the Spirit by recog
nizing his true divinity and .personality.
Revival is unknown among those who deny
it; those who heartily believe it and live
up to their belief, are spiritually alive, are
ready for revival. The supremacy of the
Spirit in this dispensation, must be recog-_
nized in order to give Him due honor. The
Holy Spirit is the promised Paraclete, the
spiritual Christ, taking the place of Christ
"after the flesh" in his church. Whatever
we are and experience and do, as Christians,
is in, and by, the Holy Spirit. Our prayers
and plans must show that we are aware 'of
this exalted position and these intimate
relations of the Spirit to the Church.
2. We honor him by recognizing his
indispensable agency in the work of regen
eration. This great change is a new birth.
It is a removal of obstinacy and of utter
moral powerlessness from the sinner. It is
quickening those dead in trespasses and
sins. It is renewing the affections, spirit
ualizing the tastes, turning from earth
heavenward the whole tide or man's fallen
nature; it is making Jesus appear lovely
and glorious to those who could see no
beauty in him to desire him. It is raising
out of the depths of depravity to a career
of holiness. We honor the Spirit by re
cognizing the full and dreadful measure of
man's necessities, by admitting that nothing
short of Divine interposition can rescue
him, and by casting ourselves wholly,
humbly, importunately upon his condescen
sion, his grace, for help.
3. We honor the Spirit by admitting
large views of his power and willingness to
aid His people. We are prone 'to narrow
timorous views and expectations. When
in the lapse of ages will the world be con
verted if; we will not say the desires, but
the confident hopes of Christ's people in
large and speedy manifestatious of His con
verting power, only, are fulfilled? We
dare not allow ourselves to believe that the
Holy Spirit is ready largely to bless us
now. We measure our expectations only
by what we have seen in the paSt. We do
not look tor the early, sound conversion of
the children of our families and of the
Sabbath Scheols. We do not expect the
Spirit, by great strokes of his Almighty
power, to send a thrill of conviction to the
consciences of a whole community:at once,
or, as by a simultaneous impulse, to inflame
all hearts with zeal and love, and devotion
to Christ. We are too much absorbed in
worldly affairs, verhaps, exactly to relish
such a religious revolution. At any rate,
we do not tune our expectations to such a
key, or pray with ardent faith that such
manifestations in any considerable degree
may lake. place. We are content and happy
if a slow, old-fashioned, orderly rate of pro
gress is maintained, occasionally varied by
a somewhat more abundant ingathering.
We strike thrice when we should have
struck five or six times. Infinite power
and grace are not honored by such human
limitations. The God that brought Israel
out of Egypt—lsrael's God—says " Open
wide thy mouth and I will fill it." The
Holy Spirit that came down in tongues of
fire, and that converted thousands in a day
at the commencement of His dispensation,.
and that, in three centuries of persecution,
converted the world, may well be offended
by our ignoble content, and Our low views
of His real energy, and grieved and of
fended may leave us where we are content
to grovel. " According to your faith be it
unto you." -
4. We honor the Spirit by rightly estima
ting his tenderness, his pity, his long-suf
fering love. He is no cold abstraction, but
a true person, filled with infinite yearning
towards perishing souls. He persuades, he
entreats, he follows with miraculous pa
tience the persisting obstinate sinners: He
bears with innumerable rebuffs, with scorn,
with bitter hostility. He strives as a wres
tler with an antagonist. Sometimes the
conflict is an agony to rid the soul from the
grasp of its own: ins and its deadly enemy.
It is as if God came in storm and' thunder,
as if he sent from above, and took the sin
ner and drew him out of many waters, from
the sorrows of hell and the snares of death.
The sinner has a work to do in honoring
the Spirit. It is his part to recognize this
infinite tenderness, this patient, persuading
love of God, and to heed the still, small
voice, speaking through his conscience.
He must not forget that this infinite love
can be wounded and grieved by rejection
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1865.
or neglect, just as truly as human love can
be. Nay, he must solemnly lay it to heart,
that it is God himself condescending to
strive with unwilling rebellious man, and
that it would be no wonder if his continued
opposition to the Heavenly call should sud
denly put an end to the marvellous scene,
and at last utterly reverse the position of
the parties. " Then shall they call upon me,
but I will not answer; they shall seek me
early, but they shall not find me." If you
seekfor personal salvation, or for general
revival, Honor the Holy Spirit.
" SOMETHING TOLD ME."
Most eventful results have often followed
the carrying out of those suggestions of the
moment which are expressed by the above
phrase. Some of the choicest opportuni
ties for eternal accomplishments have slip
ped by, never to be repeated, by. ignoring
their Divine origin, and treating them as a
passing fancy. We have often thought of
this. Recently, in a social meeting, our
views of it were freshened by the narrative
which a Christian 'brother gave of the re
sults of some efforts of his own, the imme
diate prompting to which was—something
told me to do it.
For example : Walking along the street
of a city in the evening, during a time of
great .religious interest, he saw • near at
hand a young man, a total stranger, and some--
thing told him to make inquiry respecting
the condition of his soul. Feeling tlie instiga
tion to be one that had a meaning and
should be obeyed, he joined himself to the
young man, and affectionately inquired, res
pecting his spiritual condition. He found
him unconverted, but candid, free, and in
terested—indeed anxious for salvation. But
he was standing at bay, at the point.where
unbelief generally makes its last stand—
Christ's present readiness to receive the re
turning 'sinner.. Our brother met the case
at that point, and by instruction and invi
tation, sought to lead him to the Saviour
then. God opened his heart to believe.
The two stepped aside into a retired nook
and knelt together, and there the young
man, as is believed, made the everlasting
consecration of himself to the Lord.
God had unquestionably arranged the cir- •
cumstances of this conversion. He had
brought the mind of the subject of it to
just the point where nothing further was
needed from,man than that last appeal to
come then to Jesus, but where just that
final urgency was indispensable.' He had
brought him into the street at that hour
that he might fall in with the brother men
tioned; and the something which told that
brother to inquire for the welfare of his
soul was the whisper of the Holy Spirit.
It may not seem lawful to speculate con
cerning what might have been the result,
had the suggestion of the, moment been dis
missed as a passing thought. With God
there are no uncertainties; there is noth
ing which answers to our common notions
of contingerit results. Still he has laid out
our work in a way which presents crises to
be met by us, as if their issues for good or
evil were suspended upon the manner in
which we meet them. And so there is an
allowable sense to the supposition that, in
the case here related, the loss of an immor
tal soul might have been the consequence of
disobeying the inward monition.
In the same allowable sense we may and
.must believe that, on the broader scale - of
the Church's whole field of effort, many ir
reparable losses of seemingly possible acqui
sitions—the loss of individual souls, the
loss of revivals, and the loss of golden op
portunities for glorious Christian achieve
ments—are
,to be laid to the account of
trifling with this "something told de"—
these heaven-born suggestions of the mo
ment. We may suppose that they never
come from God until he has himself pre
pared the way for some specific result of
what is done in obedience to them. If
they fail to secure obedience, although it is
not for us to say what God may do concern
ing that result, still the case stands practi
cally against us. Practically, our responsi
bility for all the loss and , misery, tempooal
and eternal, which that something told us
to strive to arrest, is real.
We do not forget that this subject is
beset with some dangers of mistake. We
give no countenance to the wild conclusion
that every mental impression is to be ac
cepted as the voice of the Holy Spirit: The'
worst beings in the universe have some in
visible, mysterious access to our minds, and
their suggestions are often dangerous in
proportion as they put on the false show of
sanctity. We can accept of nothing as
coming from God, merely because one says
that something told him to do or say it.
We cannot be satisfied to obey any such
suggestions made to our own minds, until
we have some reasonable evidence of what
that something is—whether the Holy Spirit,
or an idle fancy, or a Satanic inspiration.
, We hardly need to say that, in trying the
spirits, reference is always to be had to the
word of God, as the conclusive test. If
they speak not according to that, there is
no truth in them. If the impression of any
given moment relates to some proposed
duty, does it fall within those lines of Chris
tian duty marked out in the book of Divine
revelation ?: And does the way suggested
for pursuing the proposed duty, accord with
the Gospel-prescribed methods of winning
souls, extending the Church, and doing
good ? Fainiliarity with these inward sug
goations, such ne is obtained through obedi
ence and watching the fruits of obedience,
largely qualifies one for judging the -true
nature of any individual impression upon
his mind. The men who are constantly
handling bank notes are seldom,, imposed
upon by a counterfeit. So the people who
habitually live in the Spirit, and walk in
the. Spirit, who are always careful to lten
to its special calls, and who have found in
the fruit of their obedience to those calls, that
'they were not mistaken concerning the na-
ture of them, become familiarized to the
modes, the tones, and the utterance of the
voice of the Spirit. Their hearts answer it
with a responsive thrill which is not likely
.t 1 be awakened by any simulation of its im
'pressions.
Weknow not whether there was any
outward word or sign, when the Spirit told
Philip go, and join hithself to the Ethic)-
!
pian noble; but it is easy to suppose that
the command was given only through one
of those special silent prompting which we
are now considering. And if so,,there was
little danger that its character should be
mistaken by such a man. We think of him
as one whose familiarity with those influ
ences was intimate, whose heart was ever
open . to their reception, and ever ready for
obedience, and who had learned, from the
fruits.of such obedience, to trace them to
their l Divine source. We expect him to
disticicmish the voice of the Spirit from all
impo4 j ure. And in precisely this way,
.tdotig'with the additional advantage which
, the.:yrritien• word now furnishes, we may
stillexpectChristians to be assured of the
heavenly origin of the special inward calls,
which often summon them to special duties.
We are surprised that a subject which is
so influential in the progress of the work of
salvation, so seldOm comes up for remark.
We doubt whether there. is scarcely a
Christian reader of this article, who cannot
recall to memory times when his mind felt
singular impressions of duty toward some
sinner, some straying brother, some peculiar
interest of the Church, or something to be
said, done, or bestowed for the cause of
Christ. In this way God often brings his
own chosen instruments into contact with
the exact work which he has prepared for
them. When his preparation for the re
sult of their effort is complete, then they
feel that something which tells them to do
it. We trace an intimate relation between
this " something tells me" and some of the
most surprising results of holy enterprise
which our world has witnessed. In the
early part of the present century, something
told three college students to start out for
the salvation of the heathen world. They
obeyed, and now behold all Christian Ame
rica committed to organized missionary en
terprises which have already belted the
globe.
No doubt God opens to his people sea
sons and opportunities for peculiar results
by peculiar outward providences. But his
most special calls to special effort for the
salvation of men, are those which, unheard
and unseen from without, are spoken direct
to the heart. When that call is made, he
to whom it is addressed may be sure that
it is - fn. some purpose. Some work is then
ready. and if prosecuted, something will
come of it. It is' the moment of a passing
opportunity which;if lost, may return no
more—the crisis moment of some immortal
soul, or some still wider, interest of the
Church. He that is thus •moved by Hea
ven, has only to step forth in the spirit of
prompt, obedience, and he will find that
God has gone before him. Or if he treat
the Divine impression as a play of fancy,
he will probably find his false judgment re
corded as a contempt of the Spirit of grace.
REV. HORATIO W. BROWN, lately of
Lyons, has accepted the call given him
by the Presbyterian Church of Brock
port, and is to enter at once, we believe,
upon his'labors in this new field.
Rev. C. E. Stebbins, of Phelps, has
received a call to the Presbyterian
Church at Ovid, which it is probable he
will accept. The Ovid Church has re
cently paid off a small debt, and now
stands clear of any such embarrassment;
are preparing also to put their house of
worship tin coMplete repair and so be
ready to receive a good pastor.
Genesee Evangelist, No. 1017.
IF TREASON BE NO CRIME, WHAT
Those who are acting upon the admission
that no crime, requiring repentance, has
been committed by the rebellious South,
are perhaps not aware of the width and
significance of the inferences to be drawn
from this most false and dangerous con
cession. Let us but enumerate some of the
more striking of them.
Of course, then, it is no crime to plot
and -undertake the, destruction of this or
any human government; none, to seek to
subvert the social order; it is none to assail
even a happy, just, and equal government;
none to rise without a real serious grievance
and from mere passion, political jealousy
or sectional ambition, to declare and carry
on a most, murderous war against the life
of a nation. All possible aggravations,
such as the purpose to perpetuate Ameri
can Slavery, the free Constitution and
glorious nationality which it was proposed
to destroy, the' candid acknowledgment of
leaders like Stephens and General Lee,
that secession was unwise and unnecessary,
that ours is "the best and freest govern
ment—the'most equal in its rights—the
most just in its decisions—the most lenient
in its measures, and the most inspiring in
its principles, to elevate the race of men
that the sun in heaven ever shone upon ;"
and that the attempt to overthrow such a
government "is the height of madness,
folly; and wickedness,"—such acknowled
ments betraying the clearest convictions of
wrong on the part of the perpetrators, do
not make them, guilty. Their . apprehen
sions were a delusion ; they were over-Con
scientious; they should have plunged into
their rebellion without a scruple.
There can then be no such a thing as
crime in rebellion against any government,
under any circumstances, and with any
aggravations, if crime has not been perpe
trated by the South. The whole thing is
removed from the sphere of morals and
become a mere matter of calculation. All
governments are fairly and , justly at the
mercy of the dissatisfied and the restless if
these happen to be the strongest.* There
is to be no barrier against rebellion in the
public conscience, or in the solemn deci
sions and penalties of the law. Minor dis
orders, single cases of murder and robbery,
street-mobs, are to be treated with all the
formality of law, with a strict view to
maintaining the moral sentiment of the
community; but when all crimes are organ
ized into one, and when the attempt is
made by thousands of intelligent responsi
ble agents to break doln all law, then the
offence is to be treated as if no moral ele
ment was involved in it, as if it were a
mere natural evil, no more to be punished
than the boisterous waves of the Hellespont
should have been for hindering the pro
()Tess of Xerxes. All we have to do with
it, is to treat it like a flood, to sweep it
back, to dike it out if we can, and to thank
God for it when it is done.
Had the rebellion succeeded, and had
the fair fabric of liberty erected by our
fathers been subverted and replaced by an
odious slavocracy, binding the fetters more
closely on the necks of four millions of men,
and putting contempt upon the memory of
a quarter of. a million of new martyrs for
American liberty, still there would, have
been no crime committed. Success, indeed,
would, to a very considerable and an almost
excusable extent, have blinded and bewilder
ed the consciences of men; but would even
success have much more misled and per
verted the judgments of men, than our treat
ment of failure is doing? Men, who re
joice at the elevation of General Lee to the
presidency of a college, make substantially
the same impression upon the public con
science with men who deplore his humilia
tion at Amelia Court Rouse.
And if treason is not a crime, where was
the honor, the nobleness, the virtue of op
posing it ? What right had we to lay the
duty of opposing it, with all the great and
solemn sanctions of religion, upon the hearts
of our youth ? How can we look into the
pale faces of orphaned children, childless
parents and broken-hearted widows, whose
fathers, whose sons, and whose husbands
we encouraged to go and mingle in the
deadly fray, as we would have encouraged
martyrs to go to the stake ? We would not
have dared to lay such responsibilities upon
them in a strife for mere material interests
apart from all principle.
Above all, what security against the re
petition of the offence have we in the fu
ture ? It is only a mistake, a blunder, a
failure which is to be attributed to the
South. Whatever their consciences may
have objected before or during the attempt
* In Ciirlye's very immoral History of Fred
eric the Great, he lays down a political princi
ple corrupt enough to be quoted in this connec
tion :—" The only real treaties are a well
trained army, and your treasury full."
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to destroy this Government, since its failure
the conduct of the North. has been such as
to relieve them from all sense of blamewor
thiness whatever. No one is punished;
pardons are distributed by the thousand ;
political equality is offered them with the
utmost liberality, and not a whisper of
criminality or unfitness for the exercise of
the highest duties, or the enjoyment of the
highest privileges of American citizenship,
is addressed by our Government to the
rankest and bloodiest of those who, but
little more than• six months ago, were ar
rayed in arms against it. The Southern
people are showering honors upon their late
rebel leaders, electing them to high literary
positions, making them legislators, gover
nors, and even Congressmen; and we might
just as well as not prepare to see them pre
sent one of their own number, in due season,
and with the calmest kind of effrontery,
among the candidates for the next Presi
dential term. The Southern churches, re
taining their distinct organizations, encour
aged now by the attitude of the North on
rebellion, as they formerly were in regard
to the Scripturalness of slavery, will render
their combined and powerful aid to quiet
the Southern conscience, and indeed to
nurse a sense of the holiness of the cause in
which they were enlisted, and to keep alive
the hope of success in another effort. How
bold is the Southern Church in these efforts,
may be seen from its recent demonstrations in
the Episcopal Convention, and in certain
Synods of the other branch of the Presby
terian Church. It not only teaches its
people at home that they have done no
wrong, but it demands that the whole
Northern Church shall recogniie and teach
the same doctrine, as the only condition on
which it will resume its former ecclesiasti
cal relations with us. Thus, not only is the
terrible perversion of the Southern con
science tobe perpetuated, but the conscience
of the North also is to be debauched to the
admission that the South has done no wrong
in the sight of God or man, and needs no
repentance.
Without doubt, the recent rebellion is
utterly crushed, and it will be many a year
.before a second attempt is made by those
now smarting under the bitterness of
their failure. But the mortification of
failure and the sense of pecuniary loss are
feelings not too deep for the lapse of time
to obliterate. If the judgment of the Na
tional conscience that rebellion is one of
the greatest . of crimes is not solemnly put
upon record and illustrated by some signal
judicial act ; if the Government is to appear
utterly oblivious of such criminality in its
treatment of the rebel leaders; if the whole
North is to welcome back to an equality in
every civil, commercial, ecclesiastical, and
social relation, the Southern people, as en
tirely worthy of our confidence and respect;
if the idea of Providential failure in a good'
cause, of martyrdom in fact, is thus to be
encouraged in the Southern mind, and hon
ors-of every kind are •to be heaped upon
rebel leaders living and dead ; in short, if
not law, and the moral sense, but 'ONLY
FORCE is to be arrayed against even ,the
least justifiable and bloodiest of rebellions,
then its spirit will ,not die. - Guarded in
the palladium of public opinion, it will live
—it will maintain respectability and Fes
age in spite of temporary ill success; it
will bide its time, and in another unex
pected moment it will burst forth more vir
ulent than ever; and as we suffered the
penalty of our forefathers' Constitutional
and well-meant toleration of slavery, so our
posterity will expiate, in tears and blood,
if not in National ruin, our easy and unpar
donable lenity to the crime which has
nearly undone us.
PROCLIVITIES OF TREASON.—It has all
along been curious to observe the read
iness with which - traitors, when they have
passed over the St. Lawrence, betake
themselves to *the sympathies and insti
tutions of Itornanism. A Montreal cor
respondent of La Canadien, is responsible
for the following :
" The children of Jefferson Davis have been
for some time in Canada, as is well known.
The two boys are just now in Chambly, and
about to enter Lennoxville College. The
young girl, nine years of age, is a pupil at the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Sauk au Re
callets. Last Sabbath several Southern refu
gees went to see her. They brought with
them the Federal General Cochrane, whom
they introduced to the girl , ‘ telling her that
he was a good friend of the Southern cause,
although circumstances constrained him to
fight in the ranks of its enemies. The child,
looking to the General, answered, `I shall be
lieve that you are one of the friends of the
cause when you shall have obtained the re
lease of my father.' The General was deeply
moved with this answer, and promised the
child to use all his influence on behalf of Mr.
Jefferson Davis. General Cochrane, who, I
believe, occupies an official position in the
United' States, visited yesterday the magnifi
cent establishment of the Hotel Dieu. He
was so highly pleased with his visit that he
begged leave from the good sisters to present
them a picture for their Church, which he is
to forward them from New York."