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



their iedgers and day BOOKS. aud govern
ment securities, and bills OF lading, and
safety deposits and stores beyond this
world. Others put OF religion till thsir
hearts were hard, and they tried 10 repeat
but could not, and tried to pray but
failed. and with tottering step they came
on. hearing heavier and heavier on the
staff till it broke and they fell headlons.
Are you wise enough to put the urgent and
immediate question, or are you putting it
Of till the last hour. The probability is
that ninety-nine out OF the hundred death
bed repentances never amount 10 anything.
With the scores of people who are men
toned in the Bible as dying. how.Many are
represented as successfully repehtins in
the last hour? Fifty? No. Fortys No. Thir-
ty? No Twenty? No. Five? No. One. Only
one! Barely one, That is to say,
Ii l. barely Possible
that man may be saved in the last hour but
improbable, vastly improbable. - im-
probable that the chances are
hundred TO one against him. The last hour
is the most unfit hour vi all our life for re.
pentance, the doctors standing by with
their medicines and the lawyers with half
written will and the family in conSterna.
ton rs TO what is 10 become of them. aud
all the bells of eternity ringing out the s)ul
from the body, and all the past rustling
upon us and all the future and angels dying
through the room and devils plotting for
the eternal yerthrow-that man is an inf
mite fool who thinks Of waiting till his
death hour for repentance. Ny text does
not tell you how To be saved. IL only, with
the deep importunate wailing cry, asks il.
1t is the following verse that tells how and
strict rules OF scrmoniZing might say,
81 hot ip,n IN hat
are the rules of sermonizinc to me when
am after souls immortal.
Wait Till Another Time:
cannot wait ] might be dead before
had another chance al them, and there are
those here whom | will never confront
again. Some of you will not come because
you do not like the way OF the preacher.
Some OF YOU leave for other places. Some
OF you. in the slight headache that hovers
about your temples or the cold that op.
presses your lungs. have the premonition
of your last sickness. Some of you will 20
to the North. some TO the South,
some to the East, some to the West.
some across the sea, and 30 must not miss
this. my last chance. The most useless
thing in all the world is that any man be
lost. Have you ever heard OF Jesus How
mighty He is To help and how willing lie
is to save, He died with all the sorrows OF
earth and the agonies of hell pressing out
from his heart the prayer, Father, forgive
them, they know not what they do" by
His feet blistered of the mountain way, by
His back whipped till the skin came oil;
by His death couch of four long spikes,
two for the head and two for the feet; by
the sepulchre in which lie lay, for the first
time in thirty-three years the cruel world
I,t, oil l,N l,a fra
which lie bends to day with iavor> ri par
don and help for dying world. beg YOU
to come and lay your all AT his feet.
The reverend orator thon cited the ru-
mantle incident of the saving Of the lifc ri
John Cochrane by his daughter Grisci, and
concluded aS follows: But here il u
More Thrilling Scene!
4 death warrant went forth from the King
of heaven and earth, saying. the soul that
snncth il shall die" The death war, ant
wa, on its way. on the black horse nt ctcrn-
al night. We must die! We must die
But pressing out through the night and
hrCasting the storm was the disguised
wayfaTcr The world knew him not With
mighty arm he snatChrS by the bride the
on-CUming doom and tIingS the eyccutiOner
TO the earth and puts II bleeding foot on
the hrcast nf the ovcrthrown pursucr.
Mcanwh lille pardon. complete pardon.
flashes from the throne, saying: Go free!
Open the prison door, Strike OF the
chain, Go free" And before your liber.
ated souls, TODAY, stands your dcliverer.
and as he throws Off the disguise Of his
humiliation, the disguise Of his earthly
sandals and his seamless coat, and his
turban OF thorns, you behold Him. one Of
your household. your brother, your Christ,
your pardon. your knsman, your God.
Let all earth and heaven break forth in vo.
cifcration: Victory, through our Lord
Ir.ms Christ,