Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-04
A POPULAR CHRIST.
From Out the Cloud of the Worlds 8
Abuse, He Comes, Y
Brighter and Purer From the Contrast, the
Friend, the Brother, The Saviour,
The Redeemer, The Great .,
Forgiven of Mankind. .....
AN ELOQUENT AND TIMELY SERMON
Special 10 the Register.

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cation the church has been handsomely
decorated, newly upholstered and beauti
fed in many ways. The Doctor took fol
his text, this morning, Genesis xix. 10:
"Unto him shall the gathering of the peo-
pie be-" Through supernatural lens that
might call a prophescope Jacob looks
down the corridor of centuries and sees
rchrist the most popular being IN all the
I earth, Once the world tried hard to put
him down and put him out. In the year
1900 while excavating for antiquities fifty
three miles northeast of Rome, a copper
plated table was discovered on which had
been inscribed the death sentence OF Jesus
| Christ, reading: "In the year IL OF the
| empire of Piberius Cesar and the oath OF
| March, I, Tontius PLATE, governor OF
Praestory, condemn Jesus of Nazareth to
die on the cross between two thieves.
Quintus Cornelius to lead him to the place
of execution" This death warrant was
signed by the following witnesses: First,
Daniel, Rabbi, Pharisee; second Johannes,
Rabbi; third, Raphael; fourth, Capet, a
| citizen. This capital punishment, accord
ing to order. took place. The name OF the
robber diving on Christ's right hand was
Dismas. The name of the robber on the
left was Gestas Pontius PLATE, writing OF
the execution, says: 'ln all the world they
lighted candles from noon until evening"
Thirty-three years of maltreatment! The
world assigned his birth to bastardy and
his death to eXcruciation. y city wall built
about that time and few months ago ex-
posed by an archTologiSt, shows cariCa-
ture OF Christ representing cross and
donkey nailed to it and underneath the
words, This is the Christ whom Christians
worship" But gradually Christ is coming
out from under the worlds abuse. His
name stands higher up in the worlds esti-
nation than it ever did.
ScOHers are Changed tOl WOrshippers.
Where Christ had one friend once, he has
q thousand now. OF twenty celebrated in
fdels in Great Rritian in our time, sixteen
have came out for Christ, trying to undo
the blatant mischief OF their lives. Every
man who writes letters and documents
willingly or unwillingly is doing honor to
Christ. We date everything as B. c. or A.
D.-B. c. before Christ or A. ID. ammo
domini, year of our Lord-all the ages OF
earthly history having for pivot to turn
on the upright beam of the cross of the
son of God, b. C. and A. D.! | do not
care what YOU call him, whether king or
conqueror, or Lebanon cedar or morning
star. or sun of righteousness, or brother or
friend, or, as in the same phrase from
which nv text is taken, you call him
Shiloh. which means his son or tranquila-
tor or peacemaker. | only want you TO
know that unto him shall the gathering
of the people be-"
First all the people will gather around
Christ for pardon. No sensible or health
fully ambitious man is fully satisfied with
MS past me. tIiv tVVl may think he is all
ngt rgn' o review of his lifetime behavior De:
fore God and man is far from satisfactory.
oh" he soliloquizes, II have done so
many things ought not to have done, and
said so many things | ought not to have
said and thought so many things | ought
not to have thought that must be read
iusted. / must have
The Past Fixed Up.
There are days and months and years
that crv out against me in horrible vocifer-
alton. All, Christ is the only one who can
| adjust the past. He does it by complete OBJ.
| liberation. He does not erase the record OF
| our misdoings in dash OF ink from the
registers pen, but, lifting his right hand
crushed red at the palm, he presses 1t
against his thorn-pierced brow, and then
against his pierced side, and then with the
| crimson accumulation of all these lacera-
! tions, he rubs out all the accusatory chap.
| ters and blots out our tTansgressions. On,
| man, anxious about the future, better be
| more anxious about the past Why carry
| the burden of that sin any longer? Come
| under the horizontal beam of the Cross.
The Christ who has saved millions of 9th
| ers will save YOU. But" says one, Il
| have been as bad as | could be for forty
years-any mercy for me- Mercy for you.
| But" saws another, 81 had the grandeSt
parentage, the holiest of fathers and the
tenderest of mothers, and my deprayity has
been inexcusable-any mercy for me
| Mercy for you. But" says another, Il
| have committed the objectionable sin, and
| those who committed that shall not be for
| given, either in this world or the world to
| come-any mercy for me?' The fact that
YOU have any soliCitude left on the subject
is proof positive that you have not COM
| mitted
The objectionable Sin.
Mercy for you, Come, let us measure
the kingdom of Christs mercy. Let one
surveyor take his chain and start toward
the north and another surveyor take his
chain and start toward the south, and
another surveyor take his chain and start
toward the east, and another surveyor take
his chain and start toward the west, and
LET ms make UP the number OF square miles
You must wait for all eternity to get re
nor I of the measurement. 1t is immeasu
rable. Paul attempted to scale the height
and he went up peak above peak, attitude
after altitude, and after he had gone up a:
far as he could climb he saw other Slerrt
Neyadas beyond, and other Mstterhorn'
above, and sinks down exhausted and give
il IN. shouting TO us who are far below IL
the plain, "Unsearchable" Past finding
outri That in all things he might have thu
nre-eminence!" l do not care what yol
call il: whether pardon, or pity, or grace, o.
deliverance, or salvation, the story has con
ouered part of the earth, and will befor
long CONQUER all of it. Nearly al! the sin
pers mentioned as saved in the Bible wert
great sinners Rahab, great sinner; TIT
publican. great sinner; Magdalen, grea
sinner; the prodigal son, a great sinner
No one doubts that Christ will pardon
half a sinner. bnt what the world needs .
be persuaded of is that he can pardon IN
worst sinner, the hardest sinner, the oldeS
sinner,
Still further, the people will gather to thi
Christ for sympathy. At this season OF tn
wear many Of US return from summe
absence and perhaps We leave members Q
our family away till the cool weather
| established, ana now lOnely tuS aNo'~
till they all get back. But oh! how "
miss those who will never come back; A
times il does not seem possible. Whs'
never have them come over the threshold
Never have them at the table? Never hav
them kueel again at the family altar
Never again look into their sunny faces
Never again take counsel with them aoou
the war of life? Alas, me! What shall W
do under the surses of such, griety
Christ. none can do for the berett sou
, | what Thou can'st do. He 1t IS who con
msnds peace. He il is who promises resu
/ | rection. He it is that takes his place o
; our side and tells us of reunion. He 1t
| that breathes the spirit of submission unit
we can look up from amid the wreck OF ou
brightest expectations and say: Eatnel
NOT nv will but thine be done" U Chrls
, to-day stand by all those empty cradles an
all those desola;ed homes ,eads aud all tho:
broken hearts and make Us feel that All
= we'll. From such overwhelming disast
: the world
e Has No Refuge.
e Does il offer money to soothe your grie