Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27

you of physician who will cure you, who
has cnred hundreds and hundreds who
we're as sick as YOU are. 'Oh,n you say, II
have no confidence in Him. But will you
not try Him? Accommodate me In tins
matter; obiige me in this matter; Just try
Him; am very certain He will cure you.
You reply, 81 have no confidence in Him;
hut as Won ask me as q matter of accommo-
6ation, introduce him." So L do Introduce
Him-Christ, the physician who has cured
more blind eyes and healed more CHASTITY
wounds and bound up more broken hearts
than all the:.doctors since the time OIL AS
culapius. That divine physician is here.
Are YOU not ready to try Him? Will you
moi. as pure matter of experiment, try to
state your case before Him?
Hold nothing back from Him. II You
cannot pray; if you do not know how 70
pray any other way, say: " LORD Jesus
christ, this is is q strange thing for me 10
do. know nothing about the formulas oil
religion. These Christian people nave oeen
talking so long about what thou canst 90
for me. II am ready to do whatever thou
con, mandest me to do. lam ready to take
whatever thou commanded me to take: Ii
there be any power in religion, as these
people say, time have the advantage oil IL
Will You Try that Experiment: y
do not at this point OF my discourse say
THAT there is anything in religion, but
simply say try it-try it. Do not take my
counsel or the counsel of any clergyman, If
YOU despise clergy men. Perhaps We may
be talking professionally; perhaps we may
be preiudiced in the matter; perhaps We
NAV be bypocritical in our utterances; per-
baps we may preach because We are paid TO
preach; perhaps our advice is not worth
taking. Then take the counsel OF some
very respectable laymen, as John Milton,
the poet; as William Wiloerforce, the states
man; as Isaac Newton, the astronomer; a.
Robert BOYLE, the philosopher; as Locke,
the metaphysician. They never preached or
pretended TO preach: and yet pulling down,
one his telescope and another his .parlia'
mentary scroll, and another his ELECTRIC
clans wire; they all declare the adapted,
ness of Christ's religion to the wants and
troubles of the world. If you will not take
the recommendation of ministers or the
pospel then take the recommendations OF
reliable respectable laymen. men,
SkepticaI and struck Through with
Unrest,
would you not like to have some OF the
peace which breaks over the Christians
soul? Iknow all about your doubts. i
have been through them all. | have gone
through all the curriculum. i have doubted
whether there is q God, whether Christ is
God. have doubted whether the Bible
was true. | have doubted the immortality
of the soul. have doubted my own exist
epce. Ihave doubted everything, and yet
out of that hot desert of doubt have come
into the broad, luxurient, sunssiny
land OF Gospel hope and peace and comfort,
and so have confidence in preaching to
you and asking you to come in, However
often you have spoken against the Bible or
however much you may have carricatured
religion. step ashore from that rocking and
tumultuous sea You do not want your
children TO come up with your scepticism.
You cannot afford to die in that midnight
darkness, can you? If you do not believe
in ANYTHING else, you believe in love-in
fathers love, mothers love, wife's love,
child's love. Then let Inc tell you that
God loves you more than them all. You
will come ill., The great heart OF Christ
aches to have you come in, and Jesus al
this very mOment-whether you SIT or stand
looks into your eyes and says: Other
sheep have which are not IN His fold.
Again / remark that the heavenly shcp-
herd is going to find great many sheep
among those who have been long at evil
habit 1t makes me mad TO see Christina
people
" w AsoSss
There are those who talk rs though the
grace of God were chain of forty or fifty
links, and after they had run out there was
nothing to touch the depth OF very bad
case. II they were hunting and got of the
track OF the deer they would look longer
among the brakes and bushes for the lost
game than they have been looking for that
lost soul. People tell us that if man has
delirium tremens twice he cannot be re-
claimed that after woman has fallen
from her integrity she cannot BE- restored.
The Bible has distinctly intimated that the
Lord Almighty is ready to pardon 1870
times; that is seventy times seven. There
are men before the throne OF God, who have
wallowed in every kind of sin, but saved
by the grace of Jesus, and washed in his
blood, they stand there radiant now. There
are those who plunged into the very lowest
hell of Elm street, New York, who have for
the tenth time been lifted up and finally,
by the grace of God, they stand in heaven,
gioriously rescued by the grace promised
TO the chief of sinners. ! want to tell you
that God loves to take hold Of very bad
case.
When the Church Casts You OF,
and when the club room casts you Off and
when society casts you OIL, and when busl'
ness associates cast you off, and when father
casts you off, and when mother casts you
off, and when everybody casts you of, your
first cry for help will bend the Eternal God
clear down into the ditch of your suffering
and shame. The Good Tcmplars cannot
save you, although they are
grand institution. The Sons
OF Temperance cannot save you, although
they are mighty for good. Signing the
temperance pledge cannot save you, al
though believe in it. Nothing but the
grace Of the eternal God can save you, and
that will if you throw yourself on it. A
man once said to me: "Unless God helps
me cannot be delivered. have tried ey-
erything sir; but now have got into the
habit of prayer, and when | come to
drinking saloon pray that God will take
me safe past and pray until 1 am past.
He does help me-" For every man given
to strong drink there are
Scores or Traps Set.
and when he goes out on business with his
bill OF goods on Broadway, or John street,
or Fulton avenue, or Atlantic avenue, he
will be in infinite peril and no one but the
everywhere present God can see that man
through. on, they talk about the cata-
combs of Naples, and the catacombs OF
Rome, and the catacombs Of Egypt-the
burial places under the city where the dust
of great multitude lie; but
I tell you Brooklyn has its
catacombs, and New York its catacombs,
and Boston its Catacombs and Philadelphia
its catacombs, and they are the underground
restaurants. full of dead mems bones and
all uncleanness. Young man, you know
it. God help You.
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