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THE REVIVAL IN THE KHASIA HILLS Mrs John Roberts |
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3. The Revival In Shillong | |
A few days after the Church in Nongsawlia had received
the rich blessing of the Holy Spirit, the sister Church in SHILLONG
was made joyous by a participation in the same great gift. The following
account has been written by one who was present on the never-to-be-forgotten
occasion, when God made His presence manifest there by wondrous signs.
A young man sitting on the other side of the Church, touched by the Spirit, with joyfulness of heart got up and walked to the mother, and began to sing, ‘Crown Him, Lord of all.’ The two sang together, oblivious of all. One woman, convicted of the hardness of her heart, fell down on the floor. One young man realised his own perilous condition, having never really accepted Christ; he felt as if the scourge of God was failing upon him, so terrible and so real was it that he seemed to hear the swish of the scourge. He tried to run away from the meeting, to flee somewhere from the awful Presence, but he was riveted to his seat, and in great agony he cried for mercy. As he prayed the scourging ceased, and he had the great peace that comes to every one who casteth himself on the Saviour. Another young man, a Christian, but a very irreverent youth, felt great terror, he felt as if some unseen hand was twisting him, and for days he was unable to leave his bed.” The realisation of the love of God in Jesus Christ, the suffering Saviour, revealed by the Holy Spirit of God, was the power that conquered hard hearts and subdued stubborn wills in Khasia. Too many professing Christians had been heedless of themselves, and had allowed their hearts to become overcharged with the “cares of this life,” and had woven for themselves a thick veil of indifference. But when the promised Spirit came He revealed anew the Lord Jesus on the Cross, and tore asunder the veil from their hearts, and they saw again and more vividly than ever before the love of the One in whom they had believed. Oh, how they reproached themselves for their coldness, for their neglect, and how they praised God for so lovingly arousing them from their torpor. The same great love sought out the wanderers from the Father’s
House, the prodigal sons who had wandered far from home and who had
wasted their substance in riotous living. This wonderful love sought
them in the land of famine, and brought them back, yes, in poverty and
rags, but brought them to be enriched and clothed, and surrounded again
by the love of the Eternal Father. And in the case of the heathen, also,
it was still sweetly true. They were brought to know the Love that had
given His Son to be the propitiation for their sins. They hastened to
throw away their old rites and ceremonies; the blood which they had
considered sacred they cast from them with abhorrence, for they had
had a glimpse of the Lamb of God, and of His precious blood, which verily
cleanseth from all sin. As in Wales, so in Khasia, the Cross was the
conquering force. “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, shall
draw all men to myself.” |
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