The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-18

punishment at the moment oil
aanIhilstion it is certainly not
punishment sfterward. A being came
be punished who does not exist. De-
struction and death mean the rum OF the
,oll separated from God and al that IL
90 ID and pure-its torture, its misery.
We deduce therefore from the meta.
phor and in the text,
First-That the nature OF the PUNISH
meut OF the wicked in hell Is the re-
nors, and terrible anguish OF conscience
which shall never be relieved. Tney Will
say it is l, it. is l, myself, who have
brought all this upon NE. What must
the thoughts and expressions be from the
wounds of guilty conscience. we VIII
exclaim, Oh, these cursed sppetitcs and
passions and this obstinscy have
brought me TO this eternal rum.
The sting of conscience in life in tins
world have intervals of relief but in he'll
there will be no change. The absence OF
ali that is good will be eternal. Crimes
OF the pest always rising up before the
eyes which will have no rest.
Second-The perpetuity OF this PUNISH
ment. The Divine and Sovereign Being
des gning to display the wonder OF bis
grace built heaven of great splendor,
but since sin and wickedness have en-
tered into bis creation of men and angels,
he saw TT to display the terrors OF MS
| Justice and TO make his wrath and lndlg-
nation known among reDellious creatures,
for this purpose he built hell located
somewhere In dismal region OF his vass
domains, where wicked spirits can carry
their own inward hell thither with them;
a hell of sin and misery; and although
he has sent his own Son to acquaint the
trarsgressors of his righteous laws OF
| the awful doom that awaits the oostlE-
ate and the finally impenitent, yet we
conceive the one-balf is not told US.
| Therefore God has set before US these
terrors that we might fly from the wrath
to come, and AVOID these sutterings The
perpetuity OF this punishment Is fully
portrayed in the text and elsewhere.
The misery is everlasting III both parts
of the text. For their worm dieth not
and their tire is not quenched.
The words OF Christ in the last
verse Of the 25th chapter of Matthew,
pronounce these punishments etsr'tGt.
Depsr, We cursed into everlasting fire
prepared for the devil and his angels.
| The apostles Paul aud John, in I'd Tnes-
ssonians, l.9, say the same. Revolutions
IA, 10 IL The same shall drink OF the
wrath of God, which is poured out with
out mixture.
II Chris, and his apostles taught that
the punishment OF the wicked is eternal,
dare any mortal man rise up and say
that i. is not true. Some will! say, why
preach on such hcrlid topics2 why not
breach the love of Christ? We must do
what Gods word does. The Gospel
saves and i: hardens. The Great question
tor us to solve Is this, Which shsll |
choose, life eternal or death everlasting?
ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Notwithstanding the mud and threat
ening rain OF yesterday, quite good
sized congregation assembled TO hear
Rev. S. B. Bsrnitz IN his Plea tor
Childhood.
The text was from Matthew xviii IA:
Even so j. is not the will Of your Father
which is IN Heaven, that one OF these
little ones should perish In the intro
duction the scenes OF the context were
set forth, in which Christ shows that
Whatever others may think lie sets n
great value upon children and youth.
The following propositions were
then discussed and Illustrated from
sacred and secular history:
|. The Bible is the only book which,
up to certain age, recognized childhood
and children. The Official books OF the
religions of Greece, Persia, China and
India have scarcely q single reference TO
childhood, but the Bible is full OF names,
| and acts and development OF chill
hood. No history, no poetry,
| no painters, no ethics, outside OF Pales-
| tine recognized children, bat in sll these
departments, under Christianity and ur-
der the Jewish dispensstion, the boys
and girls were recognized. "Christian-
ity weighs the baby's soul as well as lts
BODY" and has saved TO the world such
men as Sir Isaac Newton, who would
not have filled quart cup when born,
and who, under Spartan rule, would haze
been considered too small TO let 1--we. SO
also Charles Sumner, who only weighed
three pounds at his birth; Wllbertorce,
Washington Irving and others.
II. Our Father in Heaven gave Ills
only Son to die for these little ones, and
it is "Hs will that not one perish"
III. Oar responsibility as parents aGd
teachers.
Under this head an earnest appeal
was made for pure and faithful teaching
By precept and example IN the home
circle and a. Sunday School, and q plea
! also for the neglected and orphaned ones
of our city and State. In speaking OF
what children are and may become, the
Reverend speaker SAID
"They are idols Of hearts and of house
holds,
They are angels OF God in disguise,
His sun hight san sleeps in their iresScs,
His glory sin sleeps in their cye%:
Oh, those truants irom home and rom
heaven,
They have made me more manly and
mlld,
And know how Jesus could llllrn
The Kin sdom OF tod To child
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The Rev. D. A. Cunningham, d. d,
delivered an able sermon last night on
the words (Epb. A. "Where,orc ne
saith, awake thou thst sIeepeth s1d arise
from the dead and Chris. shall give you
light" This is Gods message to careless
souls. 1t is strange thought which the
Apostle brings Us, tae thought o! sleep
ing soul. The sleeping soul ia like the
81 aepng body. |. is unconscious OF sil
that passes around, and hears not the
sounds OF truth and love, and As far a.
it is concerned, there nigh. as well BE-
no God, no Saviour, no heaven and no
hell. and still moves a5ou: in scrt
o. somrambu,istic stste. The Saviour
also promises you eight lie hiss
awakened you, ard lie has light Tor
every sleeping soul. l. is strange