The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-12

and chapel, the incense OF prayer has for
wee rs been ascending, I'LL the whole land y
fragrant, In what does our crisis consist
Not 50 much In the political realm g N me
religious and national, We have iofgeUep
God. Our commercial greatness has made rs
proud and sslfreliant. Gold Is our God. The
Sabbath has been given up TO seeplafpuFutts
and social pleasures, Laws are Openly !lo-
lated, The most sacred ties that bind society
in compact Of peace and purity are sunder'
ed Our great cities are sinks Of vice. Sane
tuaries are deserted. Bibles give way 70 nov
els, THIS Gospel is exchanged Tor the lecture
Of the ipRdel
As a nation we have forgotten God and his
wrath Is upon US FIr
Whether, then, our President lives or dies
we should consider 1t fortunate that q blow |
has fallen upon Us. heavy enough. TO drive us
as nation TO our knees before God IN weep |
There are elements in. our Constitution
which threaten TO wreck Us In irFetrievable
ruin. To our shores are coming by thousands
French communists, Russian nihilists, Irish
agitators and German iniidelS, They are at
| lacking our liberties, subverting our instilu-
tiuns, stopping the peace Of society, desc
Grating our Sabbath, broadening the limits Of
crime and teaching our youth In schools OF
| violence. What Is our only help! Nothing
beneath the cope Of heaven but fine hand aud
help Of Jehovah II We realize this, We
should be thankful that an eventhas trans
plred, gloomy and appalling us It Is, that has
had the power to arrest our minds and
arouse our more serious thoughts, Jesus
Christ died BY the hands OF insatilte enemies,
but u world will be saved from eternal
DEATH James A. Garfield may Yet die. bit
by his death our Republic will get back to
God and walk lolticr level, Hes, even
now prodigal America Is on the way to the
Fathers House.
The highway Of prayer II pressed by the
multitudes and'God waits to answer Look
, toward the sea- Is the divine edict, There
, will signs Of healing be visible,
Upon our knees on the Mount Of Prayer, rs
, Elijah ofold, we arC to watch and wait, Its
command Of hope. The nations patient
I has had his wish-change Of scene has been
gained. The fatigue OF the journey has been
i bFidged, q peaceful reaction has followed and
he who was nigh to death In the White House
is no worse In his cottage by the sea,
1t u command OF promise, Look toward
the sea- Us II God was telling us In articulate
! speech that he means to answer prayer,
q Look toward the sca, aud while You Hok,
pray, and soon the official bulletins, the
GebuZi messengers, will come speeding, along
:. the wires bringing the glad news Of recovery
!. Let Ms, then, rs those who fear God, obey The
,. Injunction, Let Us "l0Ol; toward tho sen
|. with the eye Of faith, and in the Calmness Of
4 hope listen for what the wild waves will say
. and wait for what the pnrPling horizon VIII
N bring, rtn-,..'.f.I fl,..r, lt.
!. a STRANGER At REv, RARNTT2's CHURCH. q
d At the Sixteenth Street English Lutheran
;. Church, Rev. q, II, GerlptiIng, Of Ohip
a OBLIGATED yesterday Rev, $, D, BarnlH con
4 Quoting the liturgie services. Mr, Gerhard
n ing isa visitor at the Synod OF Ohio, md thu
~ quest OF Mr. and Mrs. W, a, Heimbergr
h His preaching was very acceptable To thu
II congregation the sermons showing careful
n preparation and being delivered with etlec
N tive Garncstness. The morning discourse, wa
Il based upon Mark iy:2B, ~ And lie said, 50
a. is the Kingdom Of God rs " u man shoult
!, cast seed into tho ground, and should sleep
!, and rise night and day, and tile seed SHOULD
~ spring and grow up he knowctl
IN not how. For the earth bringeth forth lru
~ Of herself; first the blade, then the ear nfte
I. that the full corn IN the ear, But when tn
( fruit is brought forth Immediately he puttetl
!, In the sickle, because the harvest is come
" The discourse was very cleUr and practical
~ showing that God Is the author OF the Chris
=, tian life, and that TIe sustains II; that maj
~ y may hinder It's growth and development, unt
i that to maintain It requires the use Of tn
y, means Of graCo-ihO Word and the Sacra
", ments by very beautiful illustrations TN
I, truths Of the text were enforced, and the en-
" " tire sermon was listened to with close Rtten
" ton. Mr., Gerbcrdng preached also at nigh
y to an interested congregation, from tn
:" Scripture contained inst, James II, 10.
re OTHER NOTES. @
re Owing to tho sudden indlspostion Of III
Y pastor, Row Q. Il. Manchester, Elder +, J
q. Stone preached at Thomson NJ, L. Chapel, Of
In the Island yesterday, aa rf
y The Executive Committee Of the Wheelin
y Sabbath School. Association is called to NEE
2. this morning, at half.past ten o'clock, ut til
a office Of Judge Okry Johnston, at the Capitol
n. A business meeting Of the officers an
ID teachers uf the English Lutheran Sabmt
nj rooms .sfiT8 l,l} b'