Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-12-04
From Midnight Into Midnoon

with which he unhorsed Saul on the Da.
( mascus turnpike, and broke down Lydia in
in her fine store and lifted the 5000
From Midnight Into Midnoon
| at the Pentecost. With that power the
Spirit of God this morning beats at the
| gate of your soul. Have you not noticed
what bomely and insignificant instrument.
| tality the Spirit of God employs for mans
| conversion? There was man on a Hud-
| son river boat to whom tract was offered.
| With Indignation he tore it up and threw
| it overheard. But one fragment ladged on
| his coat sleeve and he saw on it the word
eternity" and he found no peace until he
was prepared for that great future. Do
you know what passage it was that caused
| Martin Luther to see the truth? The Just
shall live by faith" Do you know
brought justice from life of
dissolution: "Put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ and make no provision for the flesh
| to fulfill the lusts thereof" 1t was Just one
.passage that converted Hedley Wears, the
great soldier to Christ: 1.-THE blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth frem all SIM" Do
you know that the Holy Spirit used one
passsge of the Scripture to save Jonathan
Edwards? NOW unto the high, eternal,
immortal, invisible the only wise God, our
had for my text: Oh, give thanks unto
the Lord, for He is God; for His mercy en-
dureth forever" and there was Q young
man in the house to whose heart the Holy
Spirit took that text to his eternal redemp-
tion. might speak of my own case.
will tell you 1 was brought to
The Peace OF the Gospel
through the Syro-Phoenician woman's cry
to Christ: Even the dogs eat of the
crumbs that fall from the masters table"
Do you know that the Holy Spirit almost
always uses insignificant means? Eloquent
sermons never save anybody. Metaphysi-
cal sermons never save anybody. Philoso-
phical sermons never save anybody. But
the minister comes some Sabbath to his
pulpit worn out with engagements and
the jangling of frenzied door-bell. He
has only text and two or three ideas, but
he says: 20 Lord, help me! Here lare
good many people that | may never meet
again. have not much to say. Speak
thou through my poor lips" And before
the service is done there are fearful eyes
and selemnity like the judgment. The
great French orator when the dead king
lay before him, looked up and cried, GOD
only is great" and the triumph OF his elo-
quence has been told by the historians, but
have not heard that one soul was saved
may think that the early preaching OF
Thomas Chalmers was a masterpiece, but
Thomas Chalmers says he never began to
preach until he came out of the sick room,
white and emaciated and told men the
simple story of Jesus In the great day OF
eternity it will be found that the most
souls have been brought to Christ, not by
the Bossuets and Masillons and Bourda-
lones, but
BY Humble Men.
who in the strength of God and believing
in the eternal spirit, invited men to Jesus.
There were wise salves, there were excel
lent ointments in the time OF Christ for
blind or inhamed eyes. But Jesus turned
his back upon them and put the tip of his
finger to his tongue and then with the
spittle that adhered to the finger he an
nointed the eyes of the blind man and day
light poured into his annointed soul. So it
is now that the spirit of God takes that
humble prayer.meeting talk which seems
to be the very saliva OF Christian influence
and and annOints the eyes Of the blind and
pours the sunlight OF pardon and peace up
on the soul. o, my friend, | wish we
could feel it more and more that If any
good is done it is done by the power OF
Gods omnipotent spirit. / do not know
what hymn to-day may bring you to Jesus.
| do not know what words OF the
Scripture lesson | read may save your
soul Perhaps the spirit of Ged may hurl
the very text into your heart. Come, for
all things are now ready. o. eternal
spirit, strike with all thine omnipotence,
and slay the pride and the indifference and
sin of the people.
Again the church is ready. Imprudent
man, if could take the curtain off these
Christian hearts could show you a great
many anxieties for your redemption. ou
say that old man is asleep because his head
is down and his eyes are shut No, he is
praying
For Your Redemption,
and hoping that the words spoken may
strike YOUR heart. Do you know the air is
full of prayer? Do you know that prayer
is going up from prayer-meetings and 60
ing up every hour OF the day for the re,
demption OF the people and If you should
Just start towards the door Of the Christian
church how quickly it would fly open.
Hundreds of people would say GIVE
that man room at the sacrament, bring the
silver bowl for his baptism, give him the
right hand of Christian fellowship. Bring
him into all Christian associations. y, you
wanderer on the cold mountains, come
into the warm sheepfold". let down the
bars TO. day and bid you come in. With the
shepherds crook | point you the way.
into the church of God. A great many
people do not like the church and say 1t is
great mass of hypocrites. But it's glo'
rious church with all its imperfectlons
Christ bought it and hoisted the pillars
and swung its gates and lifted its arches
and curtained it with upholstery crimson
with crucilixion carnage. Come into it.
1--WE are a garden walled around,
Chosen and made peculiar ground.
little spot enclosed by grace
Out of the worlds wild wilderness.
Again the angels of God are ready. A
great many Christians think that the talk
about angels is fanciful. You say it is very
good subject for theological students who
have Just begun to sermonize, but for older
men il is improper. There is no more
proof in that Bible that there is God than
that there are angels. Why do they not
swarm about. Jacobs ladder? Are we not
told that they conducted Lazarus upward:
that they
Stand Before the Throne
their faces covered up with their wings
while they ary "Holy! holy is the Lord God
Almiphtyw Did not David see thousands
and thousands? Did not one angel siay
lS5. 900 men in Sennacherib's army? And
shall they not be the chief harvesters at
the Judgment" Our planet is in commerce
with Two WOGluS, DedNeu anu HSli' ahu Ga
the inter-communiCation is by angels. Lost
spirits are running a long train OF darkness
down to the depot of eternal night, and
when a bad man is about 10 die they come
upon sulphurous wings and they shackle
him and push him off the precipice, and
with guffaw OF hellish jubilation they cele::
| brate his demolition. There is line OF
| loving, holy mighty angels reaching to the
bright world. l suppose they reach from
here to the very gate when an audience is
assembled for Christian worship the air is
| full Of them. II each one OF you have q
guardian angel how many celestials there
are here to-day
They Crowd the Place,
they hover they fit about they rejoice,
they batter down the evil in your heart
Look, that spirit has just come from the
throne. A moment ago it stood before
Christ and heard the doxelogy of the
glorifed Look! Bright immortal, what
news from the golden city. Speak spirit
blestl. The response comes melting on the
morning air. Come, for all things are
now ready" Angels ready to bear the
tidings, angels ready to drop the benedic.
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