re mar REVIVALS A BENEFIT Dr. Tcimage Draws Lessons From Famous Religious Awakenings. The Most Useful Christians Are Those Cone verted in Early Life~Bringing the Multitude Into Safety. {Copyright 1001.1 Wasninaron, D. C.—-This discourse of Dr. Talmage is most pertinent at this time, when a widespread effort for re- ligious awakening is being made: text, Luke v, 6. “They inclosed a great multi. tude of fishes, and their net brake." Simon and his comrades had experi- enced 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 di- rects them again to sink the net. Sure enough, very goon the net is full of fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in. Bo large a school of fishes 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 suc cess when snap goes a thread of the net, and snap goes another thread, so there is danger not only of losing the fish. but of losing the net Without much care as to how much the boat tilts or how much water is splashed on deck the fishermen rush about gathering up the broken meshes of the net, rut yonder there is a ship dancing on the waves, and they hail it: “Ship ahoy! Bear down this way!" The ship comes, and both boats. both fishing smacks, are filled with fhe floundering treasures “Ah,” says some one, “how muc} it would have been had staid shore and fished with a hook and and taken one at a time instead of ing this great excitement and the almost upset and net broken having to call for help and getting s¢ wet with the sea!” The church the boat, the net, society is the sea. revival 18 a whole school brought in at one 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 one and there one, but I like also a big boat 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, strain- ing the net to the utmost until it breaks here and there, letting a few escape, but bringing the great multitude into eternal safety. In other words, 7 The great work of with 3000 people jo v better on line hav- boat and pping u i if they n 1 un the 18 the gospel is and a great catches 3 revivals. began ining the church in one day, and it will ¢ with forty or & hundred million people saved in twenty- four hours when nations shall be born In a day. But there are objections to vivals. People are opposed them cause the net mi get and if by the pressure of souls it does not get broken, then they take their own pen- knives and slit the net. “Thev inclosed a great multitude of fishes. and net brake.” It is sometimes opposed to religion that those who church at such times not hold out As long as there 1s a gale of blessing they have their sails up, but as soon as strong winds stop blowing then they drop ints a dead calm. But what are facts is the case? In all our churches the majority of the useful people are tho who are brought in under great ; ings, and they hold out. Whe prominent men in the United States in churches, in praver ; in Rabbat} schools? For the they the product of great awakenings have noticed that ti brought into the kingdom of God revivals have mq persistence and determination in the Christian life those who come in under religion. People 1 in a Live, but they will never coid they caught in the iceh A cannon ball depends the \ pulse h which it starts for how far i shall go how swiftly, an 1 great er the val force with 1 a is started the more far-reaching and resounding will be the execution ut it 18 sometimes ¢ vivals that there that ] We higion demonstrated ee; man can go tion into a state or see ot} beli in men lose re. to be- 3 ¥ broken, the revivals of come into the do the AXE ate the are ae Are rough more than § ol re state Tn CEROUSE may get the over soul far. byte out ceptance with any agitat 5:3 i boast he saw a child snatched t nb aguas hg & horse = and feit " SAW a man rescued from # he on and no Ace on of the Salvation from sin and death and hoofs Hue fire pulses and hell 1 heaven forever 1% thing that if into life I8 Bn tells agit af The neti is the mos ortant pe le case of ion from drown freezing, idea 18 to excite anima- tion. Before conversion we are desc It is the business of the church to arouse, resuscitate, startie hie Excitement is bad te what it makes us do that which is bad, it is bad excitement. but if it makes us agitated about our eternal welfare, if it makes us pray, if it make us attend upon Christian service, if it make us cry unto God for mercy, then it ig good excitement. It is sometimes said that during re- vivals of religion great multitudes of chil dren and young people are brought into the church, and they do not know what they are about It has been my obser vation that the earlier people come into the kingdom of God the more useful they are. Robert Hall,the prince of preachers, was converted at twelve years of age. It is likely 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 Wtudy 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 will be sung all down the ages, was con- verted at nine years of age; Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect that the American pulpit ever preduced was converted at seven years of age. and that father and mother take an awful re- sponsibility when they tell their child at geven years of age, “You are too young to be a Christian,” or, “You are too youn to connect yourself with the church. That is a mistake as long as eternity, If during a revival two persons pre sent themselves as candidates for the church, and the one is ten years of age and the other is forty years of age have more confidence in the profes sion of religion of the one ten years of age than the one forty years of Why? one who professes at forty ye oge has forty years of imp wrong direction to correct; the child has only in in the wrong direction to Sorfeet, Rg ten are oy gut the religious prospect for the that comes into the or md of God and into the church at ten years of age than the man at forty, . 1 am very apt to look upon revivals 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 revival Jute of the past, for they wire reviy Shathin wards, John Wesley, Whi , Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, borne, pp, Nettleton, ly and an In ng or thing revive awaken, mto or good, according If it makes us do many others whese names come to my mind. The strength of their intellect and the holiness of their lives make me think they would not have had anything to do with that which was ephermera!, Oh, it 18 easy to talk against revivale, A man said to Mr. Daweon: “I your sermons very much, but the meetings 1 despise. When the meeting begins, 1 always go up in the gallery and look down. and I am dis. gusted.” “Well,” said Mr. Dawson, “the reason is you go on the top of vour neigh- bor's house and look down his chimney to examine his fire, and of course vou only get the smoke in your eves. Why don’t you come in the door and sit down and : like after prayer warm?" Oh, 1 am afraid to say anvthing revivals of religion or against anvthing that looks like them, because T 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 he forgiven neither in this world nor the world to come. Now, if you are a painter and I speak against vour pictures. do i not speak against you? If vou are an architect and I speak against a building you put up, do I not speak against vou? If a revival be the work of the Holy Ghost and I speak against that revival. do 1 not speak against the Holy Ghost? And whoso speaketh against the Holy Ghost, says the Bible. he shall never be forgiven neither in thie world nor in the world to come. I think sometimes peo. ple have made a fatal mistake in this di- rection. against Many of you know Burr. He was one of men dav. 1 the hist { the of his pr never ¢ “Don’t go there t That's a piace of wi and great excitement No religio I J Don’t go there He t who 18 responsible for his nere that And world and this everiast y derangement mean the read reh mean temp nerves, I do not of which times in the absur ings we ring ! on 201 n the wor piriiual es ual rescue Now 1 of objection t« coldness of and hidden every heart Christ the real, genuine revivals—that the objector. It but case, a low Wide ans unmistakat state of Te ire walter and relig an JUS Ini we wa ex ire a dry good le, and 1 am a n i 1. : takes me t hie gs to-day anc : the ni day, and if it mix months I'll Hy sand yards; vou will want as long as that to examine the goods and I'll want as } to #xamine the credit, and. a thousand yards of cloth are too m i at No, you say that. You take me into the room, and in ten minutes transaction is consummated. The fact is, we cannot afford to be fools in any- su the whole once That very merchant who on Saturday sold me the thousand yards one stroke the next Sabbath in church will stroke his beard and won- der whether it would not be better for a thousand souls to come stragghng along for ten years instead of bolting in at one gervice We talk a good deal about the good times that are coming znd about the world's redemption. ow long before they will come? ‘There is a man who says 500 years; here is a man who says 200 years; here is some one more confident who mays in fifty years. What, fifty years? Do you propose to let two genera- tions pass off the stage before the world tm converted?! Suppose by prolongation of human life at the end of the next fifty years you should walk the length of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, or the length of Broadway, New York-in all those walks you would not find one per: son that you recognize. Why? All dead or so changed you would not know them, In other words, if you postpone the re. demption of this world for fifty years you admit that the majority of the two whole generations shall go off the stage unblessed and unsaved. [ tell you, the church of Jesus Christ cannot consent to it. revival spirit, and we must struggle to have the whole world saved before the men and women now in middle life part. “Oh,” you say, “it is too vast an en- : 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 ealculation in compound interest each man bruging another, and that one another, and that one another, in ten years the whole earth would be saved--1911, ore the organs in our churches are worn out they ought to Sound the Find march of the whole earth REXL {on yearn 1 will bo tae vets 1} he nex wi au church of Christ, But it will all depend upon the revival ; gh The hook 0 . lige fishing will 10 35 HERDED NOY In the Spring You Are Always Run Down. Do For Yourself, And Just Why You Bhould Follow Exactly This Plan. In the spring everybody needs to think about taking a spring medicine. Not only is this a common practice, but a very necessary and healthful one. It is a fact which physicians acknowledge and the people recognize generally, that a spring tonic taken during the months of March, Apri} and May is more conducive 10 the ros. toration of health, in cases of those who are sick, than any other course of treatment that could possibly be adopted. 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