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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
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