Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-03

given? Your death hour, is it provide.
for? Your heaven, is il secured. ESlor
was in the palace and Ehud came with s
private message and Elon moved out all
his attendants. knock at the door o
your heart. Letme as Christ's messenger
come in alone. Wave out all your ankle,
ties about others. Here ] stand with q
question about you: Have you repenetd
Have you believed? Have you prayed
Have you been saved? ask nothing abou,
anybody else in oil the universe. All my
thoughts turn towards you. The lane
travel up ends at your heart. The door bell
/ ring is that OF -FOUR soul. 1t is your life,
your death, your enthronement, your
exile, your unending existence.
mightier earthquake than that which de.
molished the Philappian prison will after
awhile rumble about your ears. The
Foundations OF the World.
| will give way ana by one tremor all Amer.
ican cities will be thrown fat into the dust.
| Lisbon and Caracas went not down more
| complete Catheirals and palaces and
prisons that have been standing a thousand
| years will topple like child's block house.
| Seas in one surge will submerge the land
| and Atlantic and Pacific oceans join hands
| above the Alleghenies and the Alps and
] the Himalas. What then shall | do?
What then will you do? | wonder not at
| the Jail keepers personal anxiety, for he
was guarding nqt only against the falling
| of that prison, bat the falling OF world.
Again. the gaestion of the jail-keeper
was one of incomparable importance. Per-
haps he NAV have been anxious to have his
salary raised by the Government Perhaps
be may have thought a supervisor likehim
ought to have larger Accommodations. Per-
hapS he may have been about to institute
prison reform on the subject of light, or
warmth, or cleanliness, or medical treat
ment, or discipline. Men are wonderfully
alike, and I.suppose like ourselves he had
many subjects under discussion, and yet
all the questions Of his life are hushed up
submerged, forgotten, annihilated in the
outcry "What must do to be saved?' My
hearer. what question have you compare
bic in Importance with this Is 1t
a Business Question:
But all your earthly business will shortly
come to an end. You will 90 out of the
partnership Beyond a certain point OF all
the millions of goods that are sold in New
York or Brooklyn you will not handle a
yard of cloth, or a pound OF sugar, or a
pcnny's worth. A fire might start at Cen
trail Park and burn down to the battery, it
would not do you any damage. Every
cashier might ahsCOnd and every bank sus-
pend payment, and every insurance COM
pany fail and yG,, would not be affected
BY it, What is'&ly business that stops
this side the grave, to he compared III inn
portanCe with that which reaches beyond
il. What purchases have you made for
eternity? What losses will YOU incur that
are everlasting What is beyond the store
and the shop What are your unfailing
securities? Are you jobbing for time when
you might be- whOleSaling for eternity Is
there in your store any question of busi-
ness so broad at the base, 80 altitudinOus,
so overshadowing as the jailer's question,
rs Mr.. IngerSolrs question, What shall |
do to be SavedE' In your domestic affairs
is there any question comparable with this?
Is it something about father or mother, or
husband OF wife, son or daughter? But in
a short while this earthly relation, by in
evitable and universal law, must be broken
up. Father will be gone, mother will be
gone, you will be gone. But the super.
natural question of the text will then Just
begin harvesting its gains or deploring is
losses, rolling up it's magnitudcs and sweep
ing its circlcs-Qucstion that decides
whether you will
Live Ages CRcOanted
with God the blessed, or with demons lost,
whether YOU will take wings and fly or
chain and drop, whether you shall forever
be built up or pulled down. whether God
shall be your father or foe, whether your
future shall be spent prasing or blaSphem-
ing, chanting or groaning, living the lie
that always lives or dying the death that
always dies. What difference now to Ma
poleOn III whether he triumphed or sur
rendered at Sedan, lived at the Tuilcries or
at ChiselhurSt, was an emperor or all exile
Laid out in his coffin in the dress OF a field
marshal, did that in the future world give
him any better chance than il he had slept
in the plaincst shroud? What 10 you in
few days will be the difference whether
on earth YOU rode or walked, were bowed
to or maltreatcd applauded or hisSed, vel,
coined in or kicked out, while laying hold
OF every moment OF the great future, over.
arching and undcrgirding all time and
eternity is the plain, living, infinite, start
ling, stupendous, overwhelming question
Of the text-"what must do TO be saved
Further. it was a,question pressed outhy
Crushing Misfortune.
The penitentiary down, the keeper lost his
position. But more than that the tlight OF the
prisoner was ordinarily the death of the
tailor. Had the wall stood quiet and the
inCarCeratcd lay still in their stocks and the
morning sunlight dropped calmly on the
pillow Of the supervisor suppose you he
would have flung the agitated words OF my
text into PAUL. ) ear" No, ii was the earth
quake that reused up his anNicueS MY
hearer. do not your troubles start in your
soul the same question The color OF your
dress is not as bright as once. Why have
YOU chosen more subdued garb? Do you not
like saffron. or orange, orSoiierln" as well rs
once? Yes; but that which was in harmony
with your feelings when YOU were Young
and ray and prosperous would be a di>Curd
now, and so you have pleted up the shadows
into YOUR apparel There have been lark
dayS in your dwelling. IL does not seem
anv ike home One" you thought II You
could only have il quiet: now II Is too
quiet Others say of the departed they
would not call them back if they could TO
this troubled world, brt II you had
chance YOU would call them back and the
voice, would all again be sounding, and
the feet all going, and the faces kindlins,
and 1t would he as once in the Christmas
or Thanksgiving dnys that long ago tlet,
never 10 come again with hilariticS. n
CarthQuGkc
Rock ell DOmn. N0Nr DOmesti" Enjoy-
menEs,
and Some Of YOU. aambeau in hand, are
staggering amid the falling walls OF Jour
earthly hopes and crying what must d"
to be saved Oue-half the Christians have
been started ChristwaTd by their bereavc-
mentS. Oh the grave is 81 cruel, so deyour-
ing so relentless, that when our loved ones
art. swallowed up of It We must have some
one to go to with our torn and Leedlng
hearts: we must have a hslsam better than
exudes from any earthly tree 10 stop the
sharpness of the pong Friends TAay tell
us they are sorry, and cluster asound u,
irving to break up our lovelnes'. bui
Jesus is the only one who can take TIE
freuEied soul into his busom ard hush At
with the lullaby of heaven. That heaIy
Grief will never b. lifted from your heart
In Jesus lifts T. is not the less of your
friends and the scattering Of your estate
and the pursuit oi Your enemies and IN"
iall OF vear earthly prospects ahat comPels,
today. from the soul of hun freds in TINS
! audience the question spelled ous Win
! tears AMI groans and hcartashes,
what Must do TO se savess7''
Further, it was q question hasty and i'm
mediate 1t was put OF the run Look Al
! his face as he hoSs mp the ligSt 70 md
! where the apostles are. What an earnest
! and startled look no u,9e L" coAb his hair,
notime TO arrange his apparel He must have
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