Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-12

when Jesus offers himself to the people.
saying 81 am the bread of life."
"Fine -four for sshekel." That day,
when the gates OF Samaria were opened,
why did they make such excitement
about the flourH Why did not some
oHe send in figs, boquets or pastry
insteadf The people would have run
uumn the bouquets and thrown away
the figs and trampled upon the pastry
in the rush for bread. Effort has been
made to feed those spiritually dying
With the poesies of rhetoric and the su-
gar plumbs OF ritualism and The confec.
tionery OF sentimentalism. Our theolo.
gy has been sweetened, and sweetened,
and sweetened until it is as sweet as
ipecacuanha, and as nauseating to the
regenerated SOUL What the people
need is bread-just as God mixes it
unsweetened. plain, homely, unpretend.
ing, yet life sustaining bread. That you
must have, o dying soul! Better the
smallest crumb OF this that ever fell from
the masters table than everything the
world can give you. Bread on Calvary
kneaded by knuckles OF earthly torture
Bakedin the Fires ofthe Cross!
One of the old writer's wished he could
have seen three things: Rome in its
prosperity; Paul preaching; Christ in
the body. have three wishes: First,
to see Christ in glory, surrounded by
His redeemed; second, to see Christ in
glory, surrounded by His redeemed;
third, to see Christ in glory, surrounded
by His redeemed.
when on my new fedged wings rise,
To tread those shores beyond the skies,
I'll run through every golden street,
And ask each blissful soul meet
Where Is the God whose praise we sing?
Oh, lead me. stranger, to your king"
Are you ready to day to accept? In
stead OF floundering about in darkness,
trying this, that and the other thing,
now taking the gospel of Theodore Park.
or, and now the gospel OF Darwin, and
now the gospel OF Herbert Spencer, and
now the gospel of Comte, and now the
gospel OF Huxley, take the gospel OF the
two old people who had more religious
peace and happiness in one hour than
all these scientists have IN life time
the two old people who sat at either
end OF the table in your childhood. |
mean the old people by whose side you
would like to be buried when your
work is done. / place the religion OF
your fathers house against the edreaming
OF ali the universities OF the world
Come out of that cold fog OF ra-
tionalism that has been chilling you
to the bone, and stand on the rock
Christ Jesus. Not many wise, not many
noble are called, but God hath chosen
the weak things to coufouud the mighty.
No elaborate thinking is necessary to
understand our religion. You have Oh
ly to put two ideas together; the one Is
the saddest idea in the universe, and
the other is the gladest: l am sinner,
and
Jesus Died to Save Ne.
The God of NJ. Comte was what he de-
fined as the Continuous resultant OF all
the forces capable OF voluntarily con
curing in the universal perfectioniDg OF
the world" That is not nv God. do
not know him. do not want to know
him. My God is Jesus Christ who came
10 pardon and to save world. And II
have never done it before, this mo-
ment cast myself at His feet, crying
for His mercy upon my soul, and for the
salvation OF ell this people. o, ye fam.
ine.struck souls, the siege is lifted!
Bread for all the starving! A measure
OF fine -four for five shilings? No! no!
no. Without money and without price.
B4ware, lest because there are some
things about this religion you can not
understand, therefore you dlsbelieve,
and the fate OF the Samaritan nationalist
he yours Behold thou shalt see it
with thine eyes, but shall not eat there
OF, and so it fell out unto him, for the
people trod upon him in the gate and
ha died