Great Revivals and Evangelists By JOHN H. HUNTER III. ULSTER REVIVAL OF 1859, (Concluded) Copyright, 1915; by John H. Hunter
irt active daily labor. Not the least in teresting portion of our worshipping assem bly on each Sabbath day, and at our weekly prayer meetings, are these Marys of. the church—these daughters of the revival— whose simple dress, marked attention, reg ular attendance and steady walk indicate the dawn of a brighter day, the foretaste of a better future.” THE CARELESS “One fine but thoughtless girl, a pupil in the Sabbath School, was asked to go and sing in the house where another person was in deep distress. She had not been many minutes in the room when the bodily mani festations so impressed her that she went home to consider the question, ‘Have I not as much reason to weep for my own sins, and pray for my own soul?’ For days and weeks she continued in the deepest anxiety of mind until, after a painful and protracted conflict, in which her judgment had well- nigh given way, she shut herself up to closet prayer with God, until she found peace in the finished work and perfect righteousness of Christ. She is now a con sistent member of the church, and an effi cient teacher in the Sabbath School, and these exercises of her mind have been bless ed to the conversion of her sister, who is also adorning the doctrine of God her Saviour.” THE FORMALIST “One man up in years, moral in his char acter and well acquainted with the Word, whilst returning from the prayer meeting in the Botanic Gardens, heard one of our lads singing one of our beautiful psalms. God ordered that sound to reach his heart,
LTHOUGH what we related of the revival-in Coleraine in our last article illustrated in IL/ a 8enera' way what, took place all over Ulster, the fol
lowing incidents from various communities will still further help us to understand something of the mighty power of this movement of the Holy Spirit in fulfilling His work as promised by the Lord Jesus: “And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment . . . He will guide you into all truth . . . He shall glorify me” (John 16: 8, 13, 14). THE FALLEN Says the Rev. William Johnston, of Bel fast: “The most hopeless class in pur com munity is composed of those who have lost the virtue and the dignity of women, and have sunk to the lowest level of degrada tion which any human creature can occupy. -And yet, as in the days of our Lord, harlots are entering into the kingdom of heaven be fore some of our wretched and lifeless Pharisees. One humble but devoted Chris tian woman, a member of my church, has been honored of God to rescue, during the last few months, some twenty ‘unfortunates’ out of sin and misery; and one of the most difficult, as well as the most delightful por tions of my ministerial work during the past summer has been to provide temporary support and permanent employment for those who, like the prodigal, were disposed to return. With the exception of one or two who have relapsed,. by the treachery and diabolism of their own relatives and com panions in crime, they are all doing ad mirably. Some are in good service; one has -been married; and the rest are happy
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