Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-18

u HdTu utiukcT. 1uc uTCautui aPpNdto
had sent down its roots until they were
interlinked with the vitals OF body,
mind and soul; but he has not taken
any s,imulants for two years. What
did that2 Not Temperance societies.
Not prohibition laws. Not moral sua.
sion. Conversion did il. "Why," said
one upon whom the great change had
come, "Sir, feel just as though were
somebody else" There is Sea captain
who swore all the way from New York
to Havana and from Havana to San
Francisco, aud when he was in port he
was worse than when on the sea. What
power vas it that washed his tongue
clean OF profanities and made him sing
to the glory OF God? Conversion.
There are thousands Of people in this
house Tonight who are no more what
they once were than lily is nightshade
or morning lark vulture, or day
night; and il should demand that all
the people in this house who have !elt
the converting power OF religion shoul Il
rise up, so far from being ashamed,
they wOull spring TO their feet with
more alacrity than they ever sprung to
the dance, tears minglin2 with their ex.
hilara.ion as they cried, I've are wit
nesses," and il they tried to sing the old
Gospel hymn they would break down
with emotion by the time they got to
the second verse;.
Ashamed OF Jesus, that dear friend
On whom my hopes OF heaven dependf
No! when b.usA. be thus my shame
That no more revere his name"
Again, l remark that We are witnesses
OF the
Power CT the Gospel to Comfort
When a man has ,routre. tie world
comes IN and Gays: "Nuw yet v ur mind
of this; go out and breathe the fresh
all; plunge deeper into business" What
poor advice. Get your mind of OF it,
when everything is upturned with be-
reavement, and everything reminds you
O; what you have lost Get your mind
off of it! They might as well advise you
to stop thinking. You cannot do 30,
and you cannot stop thinking in that
direction. Take q walk in the fresh air !
Why, along that very street or that very
road she once accompanied you. Out
OF that grass. plot she plucked flowers,
or into that show window she looked,
fascinated, saying, Come and see the
pictures Go deeper into business! !!
Why, she was associated with all your
business ambition, and since she has
gone YOU have no ambition left. Oh,
this is clumsy world when 1t tries TO
comfort broken heart. / could build
a Corliss engine, could paint q Raph.
aers Madonna, / could play a Beetho-
ven's heroic symphony as easily as this
world can comfort broken heart.
And Yet You Have Been Comfortsd.
How was it done? Did Christ come to
YOU and say: "Get your mind of OF
this; 20 and breathe the fresh air;
plunge deeper into businessP" No.
There was minute when he came to
you, perhaps in the watches OF the
night; perhaps in your place OF busl,
ness; perhaps along the street, and he
breathed something in your soul that
gave peace, rest, inf mite quiet, 80 that
YOU could take out the photograph OF
the departed one and look into the eyes
and face Of the dear one and say: ut
is all right, she is better of; | would not
call her back. Lord, thank thee that
thou hast comiorted my poor heart. /
thought | should 20 crazy for awhile,
but the rough sea has become smooth
harbor. On, how hard it was for me to
give her up, and | shall never be the
man that | was before; but the Lord
hath taken away
Blessed be the Name of the Lord"
There are Christian parents here to-
night who are willing TO testify to the
power OF this gospel to comfort. Your
son had just graduated and was going
into business, when the Lord took him.
Or your daughter had just left the young
ladies' seminary, and you thought she
was going to be useful woman and OF
long life. But the Lord took her, and
YOU were tempted to say, "All this cul.
ture for nothing" Or the little child
came home from school with hot fever
tha. stopped, not for the asonized pray
cr or the skiliul physician, and the little
child was taken. Or the bsoe was lifted
out OF your arms by some quick epidem..
ic. and you stool wondering why God
ever gave you tha, child at all, ifso soon
he was to lake it away. And yet You
are not repining, you are not iretfui,
you are not fighting against God.
What Has Enabled You to Stand All the
Ir.alP
"Oh," you say, Il took the medicine
that God gave my sick soul; in my dis
tress threw myself at the feet OF sym
pathiziny Savior, and when was too
weak 10 pray, or to look up, He breathed
into me q peace that ! think must be
the foretaste OF that heaven where there
is neither tear, woe, a farewell, nor q
grave" Come, all ye who have been
out 10 the grave to weep there =. come,
all We comforted souls get up oil your
knees. Is there power in this gospel to
soothe the heart7 Is there power in
this religion TO quiet the worst paroxysm
Of grief? Tell me. There comes up an
answer 10 the comforted widowhood
and orphans age, and childlessness. say
ing: Ave, ave, We are witnesses"
Again remark that We are witnesses
OF the fact that religion has power 10
Give Composurs in tbs Last Moment.
| shall never forget the first time con-
fronted death. Wewent across the corn
fields in the country. was led by my
fathers hand, and We came to the farm.
house where death had come, asd We
saw the crowd Of wagons and carriages;
but there was one carriage that especially
attracted NY boyish attention. and It
had black piume,. said: Whats
that? What's that? Why those black
tassels q, the topp' And after it was
explained 10 me. and | was lifted up To
look upon the bright face OF the aged
Christian woman, who three days before
had d.psrrc'i in triumph, the whole
scene r,aa!- au impression never forgot.
In on; scrmcus and in our day exhor;a'
tons We are very apt, when we want to
bring illustra' ioas OF dying triumph, to
20 back 10 sorr- distinguished personage
10 a John Knox or a Harriet Newell.
Such illustrations ere o! no use to me
Want You For Witnesses
I want 10 know II yJu have ever teen
ANYTHING to n,rk. va believe that the
religion o; e lrIst ,an give cOnposure IN
the final h. Iur? Now. 10 the courts. at.
,orney. Jury, al juisc will nev.' ID.
init mere heressy Tney demand that
the witness must have s.-n niiii iiis
own ey.s or fesrd with lis "sn ears;
and 80 I am rriiiral IN nv ex,n u ition
Of Won. and want I, kEox whether
von have sem or h-ari anything that