Earnest Christianity illustrated Author:James Caughey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. BEAMINGS OE HOPE. The following chapter, like the preceding, exhibits the movements of Mr. Caughey's mind, but under more enc Dur- aging circu... more »mstances. The pious reader will find many useful hints in the quaintly-expressed meditations of our journalist. Dec. 11.— Good news from our spiritual troops ! Last night's adventure quite awakened them out of their deceitful dream. Their human confidences,— Jer. 2: 37,— their trusts in an arm of flesh, have died the death! My refusing to preach, though in the pulpit, came like a thunder-clap ! Such a thing was not thought of, was unheard of. They had fully expected a great revival, and was this to be the end of it ? It was quite overruled for good; for though there was the appearance of grief, or impatience, or self-will, or wounded pride and vanity, or precipitation, and some were stumbled and offended, yet the really spiritual part took it to heart, were alarmed, fled to their closets, betook them to prayer! Some prayed part of the night, I understand; others, most of the night, and a few, all night! Praise our God! This will do! The crisis is past! As to self, last night I went to my knees, also, with sighs mid groans. But, taking up my pocket-Bible, myeye rested on the old promise given me of the Lord, on first catching a glimpse of England's shores, as we neared the coast from America. This was it.— Isa. 33 : 16, 20. 0, I remember that moment! Standing on the deck of the steamer, Bible in hand, as England rose out of the waves, I opened it upon that passage, which was sweetly applied to my heart. I felt assured the Lord would be with me in that strange land. It has often been a comfort to me since, when in any trouble. Last night it sweetly soothed me. I closed the book, and believed. It was oil upon the troubl...« less