Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-13

last hour Wnen the lamp Ol tue nOOu
| day sun had gone out and left Him II
of nursing attendants. When you are II
suffering how pleasant it is to have tht
head bathed, or the hands or the feet rub
bed. Look at Christ's hands and feet
Look at his face! Did he have any such at
tendance? There were women there who
knew how to take care OF the sick, but they
could not come up. Christ's mother could
not come up The chief priests and the
soldiers must have it their own way. They
had it their own way. The hours are pass
ing on. 1t is one o'clock. It is half-past
one o'clock. 1t is 9 O'Clock. II is half,pasi
2 O'Clock. It IS almost 3 o'clock. Take
YOUR last look of that sufferer-his face wan
and pinched; purple lips drawn tight
against the teeth; the eyes red with fiery
redness from weeping and sunken as ii
pushed back with grief and blacknesS un.
der the lower lid; his body adroop and
shivering with the last chill; his breath
feebler and feebler until he gives one long,
deep last sigh.
He is dead. o, my soul, he is de;pi, Can
you tell why? Was he fanatic, dying for
a principle that did not amount to any
thing? Was he infatuated? No: To de-
liver your soul from sin and make heaven
Christ perished there that day. Some one
must die to atone for sin. "Letit be me,"
said Jesus, "let il be met Do you not
understand that idea of substitution? You
were drafted during the last war. Some
man went as your substitute. He fell at
Gettysburg or at Atlanta He suffered for
you-was your substitute, Just as the Lord
Jesus Christ was our substitute, coming
into this great battle of sin aud falling for
us, through his death we being saved. How
doy you feel towards this Jesus Christ? Any
sympathy toward him? Any going out OF
the hearts affection toward him? Or have
you been 30 hardened i'll sin and are you
so abandoned in transgression that you are
fearless and unmoved before all this scene?
oh, no, | hear thousand people in the
audience crying out: "lf Jesus did, all
that for me, must love him, | will love
him, do love him. surrender myself to
him this hour Here, Lord, | give myself
away 1t is all that ! can do
But how are you going to test your earn
eStneSS? My text gives test Christ car
ricd a cross for you, but in the text he sets
forth the idea that you have to
Garry Grows for Him.
You say, What is it," You say, 81 bear
a great deal in prayer-meetings all over
about carrying cross. What do you mean
by it, sir?' will tell you. Anything un-
pleasant and hard that you are called to do
for Jesus, that is cros~ We'll. says
some one in the church, 81 am ready to do
anything; Just show me what cross am to
carry. Christ has done SO much for me
am ready to do anything for Him" Will
you keep that promise? Well, ! will show
YOU a cross that you. may carry for Him.
II is not Tomorrow it is not in your home,
nor in the store, nor on the street. Where
is il? 1t is here At the close of the ser
mon get up and say: 81 am on the Lord )
side. | want the people of God to pray for
me. take Christ to be my Savior At
the close of this sermon get up and say
that. "'Oh, no. you say, Il cant
Just as 1 feared. l have pointed
out cross and you cannot carry it. You
finch at the idea of the cross. Though
Christ carried as heavy claim for you,
YOU cannot carry pound or an ounce for
him. You dare not stand up. and say: 81
am tired OF sin and want Jesus for my Sa-
yior: and Christ says: "Whosoever doth
not take up his cross and follow me cannot
he my disciple" Depend upon it that just
so long as you are ashamed of being Seri-
Gus about your soul, Just so.long will you
never find Christ.
But your Cross,
perhaps is in the dry goods store, in the
factory. in the social circle, where most OF
the clerks. most OF the operatives, most OF
YOUR comrades make light of religion. Are
YOU earnest enough in this matter to-mor-
row morning to go to New York and go up
to your yorng companions and say: "I am
trying to become 4 Christian. Won't you
ioin me on the road to heaven? oh, no,
YOU say, II couldn't do that! Cant do
that? Then you refuse q second cross. Do
you not mean to take any cross II you
cannot do that the Savior says ~ on cannot
be my disciple
But here is some one whose cross will be
to avow his religious principles in the fam
ily circle. Would you dare kneel down by
your bedside and say your prayers II YOU
knew YOUR brother or sister were looking
at YOU? Would YOU dare to ask the bless
ing of God at the tea table? "Oh," you
say, IL have a very quick temper, aad il
should pretend TO be a Christian in the
family circle and lose my temper they
would say:
You're Pretty Christian
and they cow You down. They keep You
back from Christ and from doing your du-
ty bv their sarcasm. when, instead OF being
Cowed down you ought to take that whole
family into Heaven, God helping you.
NO" you say, IL can be an ayOwed Chris
tian anywhere but at home" Just as |
feared for some of you. have pointed out
q third cross and you cannot carry 1t, anu
YOU cannot be ChriSt's disciple. There
was a company of rough men together at
O'Clock in the morning, and man said !:
"My wife is q Christian, and il should
90 home at this hour aud order her
to get us an entertainment, she would
get it with good cheer and without one word
OF cenSure. They laughed at him and said
she would not; they laid wager, and start
ed for his home and they knocked at one
or two o'clock in the morning. The Chris.
tian wife came to the door and the husband
said: Get us something to eat; get 1t right
away" She said: what shall | getF
And he ordered the bill of fare and it was
provided without one word OF censure.
After his registering companions had gone
out of the house he knelt down and said;
"Oh, forgive me. | am wicked, | am
most wicked, Get down and pray Tor me.'
And before the morning dawned on the
| earth the pardon of Christ had dawned or
| that man. Why? His wife was thorough
| Christian. He could not resist the power
! OF her Christian influence. And you IN
your family are to take up the cross anC
| follow Jesus, and you are to bring them al
| in-husband, wife, father, brother. sister
| ii you can only take up the cross and FOL
! low Jesus
| 1DeTe mas some one NOlllt NO-Nhl
| that you have not seen. You did not set
| him come in that door. Nor through any
of these aisles did you see him come; bu
| he is here. lie started in the East-the IA
East He comes in wan and weary, hi!
feet blistered with the way, his garment
draggled with the dust. his eyes dim Will
tears, his cheeks red, not with health bu
With Blood from the Temples.
| take hold of his coat and say, at doe
not fit thee?" And he replies, 1T is Dor
rowed. For my vesture did they cast lots.
And then say, Thine eyes are red as i
from lack of sleep" and he answers, Yes
the Son of man hath not where to lay hi
head" Then look at the log on his bacl
and say: What is this?' And he says
at is the cross carried for thee and tn
world of sin. Let all these people tax
q cross and follow me" And h
marches on and the procession is forminj
to-day, the great CrosS-bearer going ahead
and We who have smaller crosses cominI
on after in this great march TO heaven
and as some OF the people halt and say
I'VE will not join procession where W
have to carry burden or suffer shame,
Jesus turns upon them with a majesti
| and omniDntance that makes the YER