Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-11

10 staTVG It's on husks when the Father 5
banquet is ready; and the best ring IL
taken from the casket; and the sweetest
harp is struck lor the music, and the
swiitest foot is already lifted ior the
dance. They patroniZe heaven ana
abolish hell; and try to measure eternl-
tywith their hour-glasses, and the throne
OF the great God with their yard sticks.
| abhor it. tell You
The Old gospel Well is a Captured Well.
| pray God that there may be, some
where in the elect host, three annOinted
men, with courage enough to 60 forth in
the strength OF the Cmnipotont God,
with the glittering swords OF truth TO
hew the way back again to that old well.
| think the tide is turning, and that the
old Gospel ls 10 take its place again lQ
the family, and III the university and in
the legislative hall. Men have tried
worldly PHILOSOPHERS. aad have found
and that they drop an arctic midnight
upon the death pillow. They iall when
there is dead chief in the house; and,
when the soul comes to leap into the
iathomless ocean of eternity, they give
TO the man not 80 much as broken
spar To cling to. Depend upon it that
we'll will come into our possession again,
though it has been captured. Ii there
he not three annolnted men IN the
LOrd's host with enough conservation TO
do the work, then the
Swords Will Leap from J5hoyah's Buck
ii. th,nA tNiIl IAsnAnI--
God the Father, God the Son, and God
the Holy Ghost-cOnquerlng for our
diving race the way back again to "the
water Of the well oi Bethlehem, which
IS by the gate " Ii God be for us, who
can be against u.s. Ii God spared not
His own son, but freely gave him up for
us au. how shall We not with Him also
freely 1--WE us allthings? For | am per
suaded that neither height, nor depth,
nor angels, nor princlpalItles, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things
10 come, shall take from us INTO final
captivity the Gospel oil the Lord Jesus
Curst.
bless my Lord Jesus Christ that there
IS "A we'll AT the gate ct publication. For
ureat sin, great pardon. For eighty
riyrness. For crime deep as hell, an
atonemrnt high as heaven. That where
sin ahuuuded, 80 grace may much more
abound. That as ain relgned unto death,
even SO may grace reign through nghte-
business unto eternal lie by Jesus Christ
our Lord. Angel OF the Covenant,
Dip Thy Wing Into This Living Foun-
tain
ani wave It over us that our souls may
wash in the water ot the well OF Beth
lehem, which is by the gate.
Furtner remark that tins well ot the
Gospel is at the gate OF comfort. Do
Won know where David was when he
uttered the words OF the text? He was
in the cave OF Adullum. That s where
some people are now. Has the world
always gone smoothly with you? Has
it never pursued you with slander? Is
vour health always good? Have your
fortunes never persisted? Are your
children all alive. and well? Is there
one dead lamb in the fOld2 Are yon
ignorant OF the way TO the cemetery"
Have yCu never heard the bell toll
when II seemed as ii every stroke Ot the
iron rlapper beat your heart? Are the
skies as bright when YOU look into them
as they used TO be when other eyes,
now closed used TO look into
them? Is there some trunk
r drawer in vOur house tlat
YOU 20 to only on anniversary days,
mu,n tuert tunes beading against your
soul the surf oi great ocean OF agony?
f. is
The Cave IL Adullum-the Cave Of Adu!-
lum!
Is there some David, whose fatherly
heart wayward Absalom has broken?
Is there some Abraham wh9 Is lonely
because Sarah is dead in the family plot
of Macuelahn After thirty or forty wears
of companionship, how hard it was Tor
them 20 pant, Why not have two seats
in the Lords char OF, 50 that both the
old folks might have gone up at once
Ny aged mother, in her last moments,
said 10 MY father; Father, wouldn't 1t
be nice il We could both 90 together?
No, no, no; We must part. And there
ar, wounded hearts now. Some have
tai trouble. The world cannot give
comlort. What can it bring? Nothing
nothing. The Salves they try to put
on YOUR wounds will not stick. They
r.,nhu-, with their hungIing surgery,
u,rnd the broken bones. Xnphar, the
Naamathite and Bildad the Shuttle and
Fupha the Tamanitp, come in and talk
and talk and talk; hut miSei able COM
frrIrr~ are they all. They cannot pour
Eyht into the cave OF Adullam. They
rtpIo, hliny a single draught OF water
"ro.u the We oi Bethleh' m when Is
NV the gate. But glory be to Jesus
Christ, there is comfort a the gates;
there l. hie in the we'll at the gate.
NIl dIAw mp = promise trr every man,
Woman and rhIli. | will lay mold OF the
rope a. the OLD well.
Tue Well Is uers IT Q: We'll OF Heaven
Come. do not care low feeble YOU are
let me take hold ot your arm and steady
you up u the well curb. "Ho, every
one that thirsteth, come" | would
rather win one soul To Christ than wear
the crown of the worlds dominion. DO
no. let auv man say did not invite
n IN.
In New Jersey some winters ago
three little children wandered oil from
home in snow storm. Night came on.
Father ana mOtheT Sald' w ucIe are
the children" They could not be
found. They started ont IN haste and
the news ran to the neighbors, and be-
fore morning it was said that there were
hundreds OF men hunting the noun
ta,us for these three children, but tound
not Alter 4 while man i'm.
ssined there MAS 4 place that
had not h cn lonked at, ANA
h. went AMI saw the three chi'dren.
He examined their bodies tie found
tuat the
Elder Boy aad Taken OF His Coat
ami wrapped It around the other one,
the baby, and then taken ot his YES.
and put it around the Younger one.
And then they all died, and thought TO
mvSeli OF more melting 5 EN- than that
it is tina: Jesus, our elder brother, took
oil the robe oi his royalty, and aid aside
the last garment oi earthly comIor;, that
he might wrap our poor souls from the
bia.t. Some ministers say the worst can
b. saved h cIuSa Rich ri Baxter Was
saved and John Newton MAS saved and
any maa can be saved. | do not want