The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-18
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.

UUk SUNDAY CULUMN.
AFTER CONVERSION, WHAT ?-The
Christian Union has well-considered
article, from which we take the sub
joined paragraph, which may be read
with profit BY many who have just be-
gun to lead lives of devotion to Christ !.
How shall man be just with God :?
How can man escape his sin and its
consequences? The first and lower forms
Of religious experience are busted mainly
with this question; and, as in our
schools the primary classes are more
popular than the academic, ten to one,
so in our churches the pious souls that
are handling the question of sin, and
justification, and pardon, far outnumber
them who are going on to perfection.
At the same time, we find men and
women in our churches who have learn
ed these primary lessons perfectly. No
pastor can set forth the plan of saliva
ton more clearly than they. Having
found justification through Jesus Christ,
and having received pardon and peace
having lost all fear Of punishment, and
having INDUCED hope that as an an
Choir lays hold Of the invisible, they are
passing years without adding one ray to
their souls illumination, not a syllable
to their declaration of faith, not a leaf
to their tree of spiritual life They are
giving thanks for their salvation. They
are in the Church like summer fruits in
glass cans-saved, warranted to keep in
any climate.
But salvation OF another kind is at
least conceivable. A man ought to be
saved as young tree is saved being
rooted and grounded and lifted up by
each years increase, stretching out holy
hands to heaven and gaining strength
with stature, to stand against the blasts,
to defy the frosts, and hail the returning
spring with bud and blossom, fragrance
and fruit. This kind OF salvation is what
Peter means when he says: Grow in
grace and in knowledge of Jesus
Christ"
If some such process Of growth he not
possible, then the days Of active, ag-
gressive piety are already numbered.
IT nail be driven on one side of
tree, and a little twig not so large as the
nail be allowed to grow on the other side
Of the tree, the nail, which was the lar
ger, shall be in ten years quite over
grown, and the twig, which was the
smaller, shall in ten years be grea;
branch. a growing man makes increase
in every part. Religion or spiritual life
must grow or be overgrown. Men grow,
even in vice and the ingenuity that
gratifies a vicious APPETITE.
We call attention to this question,
which is not often answered in any con-
siderable detail by our churches. After
conversion, what?
DR.. CHALMERS DAUGHTER.-ln one
Of the alleys running off from Fountain
Bridge, Edinburg, street crowded with
drunkenness and pollution, is the low
rooted building in which this good wo-
man is spending her life to help unfor-
Inmates out Of their miseries Her chief
work is with drunkards, their wives and
daughters. Some Of the poor women
of the neighborhood who have sober
husbands complain against her, saying:
"Why do you pass us? Because our
husbands are good, you do not care for
us. live had married some worthless
sot, you would then have taken care Of
us in our poverty!
Ia the winter, when the nights are
long and cold, you may see Helen .Chal-
mers, with her lantern, going through
the city, hunting up the depraved, and
bringing them out to her reform meet
ings. Insult her. do they? Nner.
They would as soon think of pelting an
angel Of God. Fearless and strong in
the righteousness of her work, she goes
up to group of intoxicated men, shakes
hands with them, and takes them along
to her Thursday night speech on Temper
ance.
One night, as she was standing in a
low tenement, talking with the intem-
perate father, and pursuading him to a
better life, a man kept walking up and
down the room, as though uninterested
in what was said; but finally, in his
intoxication, staggered up to her, aud
remarked: 81 shall get to heaven as
easy as you will; do you not think SOP
Helen answered not a word, but opened
her Bible and pointed to the passage:
"No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom
Of God" The arrow struck between the
Joints of the harness, and that little
piece of Christian strategy ended in that
mans reformation.-Rev. T. DE Wit
1almayne.
SETTING UP IN LIFR.-Reverend John
Hall thus wisely speaks, to young peo-
pile: There are two ways of setting up
in this life. One is to begin where your
parents are ending-magnificent man.
sions, splendid furniture and an elegant
turnout. The other is to begin little
nearer the point where father and
mother-of blessed memory-began.
You see, my friend, you can RQ. up so
easily and gracefully, if events show 1t
would be safe; but it would be trying
and awkward to come down. And 1t
costs much now to live. And business
luctuates; and health is uncertain; and
temptations from the side Of pride are
strong; and many young man who
did not mean to be extravaganza has
been led along; and rather than face
the position and descend manfully, has
tried to keep up the embezzlement and
been called to ''swindle.
ICouNr this thing to be grandly true,
That q noble deed is a step toward God,
Lifting the soul from the common SOD
To purer air and broader view.
IN. Io1Lopd