Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-02
Raptixei with Fire

soming the sewers for every sbominahon,
if we could see those little ones sacrificed
on the altar Of every iniquitous passion
baptized with Fire
from the laver of the pit, we would recoiS
CRYING out: "Avaunt thou dream oil hell!
They are rot always going TO be children.
They are coming up TO be the men and wo-
men of this country. That spark OF iniqui-
ty that might now be put out with one drop
OF the water of life will become the contia-
grafton of every green thing that God ever
planted in the soul; that which ought TO
have been temple of the Holy Ghost will
will become SCARED and blistered ruin
every light quenched and every altar IN
the dust That petty thief who slips into your
store and takes yard OF cloth from your
counter will become the highwayman OF
the forest, or the burglar at midnight pick
ing the lock Of your money safe and blow
ing ND your store to hide the villany.
great army with staggering step and blood
shot eve and drunken boot, they are COM
ing on gathering recruits from every
grog shop and den of infamy in the
land to take the ballot box and hurrah at
the elections. The hard-knuckied fist OF
ruf6anism will have more power than the
gentle hand ofintlligenCe and society. Men
bloated and with the signature OF sin
burned in from the top OF the forehead to
the bottom of the chin will look honest
men out of countenance. Moral corpses
which ought TO be buried hundred feet
deep to keep them from poisoning the air
will rot in the face of the sun at neon day.
Industry in her piain frock will be unap:
preciated, while thousands OF men Will
wander around in ideleness with their
hands on their hips, saying: THE world
ow es me living" Oh, what tremendous
power, there isl iniquity, when uneducated
and unrestrained and unblanched it goes
on concentrating and deepening and widen
ing and gathering momentum until it
swings ahead with verge.
Triumph ofDesOlation,
drowning like surges, scorching like flame,
crushing like rocks. What are you going
to do with this abandoned population OF
the streets? Will you gather them in
your churches? 1t is not the will OF your
Heavenly Father that one OF these little
ones should perish. II you have ten re.
spectacle children in your class. gather in
ten that are not respectable. If, in yonr
Bible class, there be twenty young men
who have come from Christian homes and
elegant surroundings, let those twenty
Young men go out and gather in twenty
more of the young men who are lost to God
and lost TO society. This outside popula.
tion unless educated and restrained, will
work terror in the ages that are to come.
Years ago, at New Orleans, when the
cholera was raging fearfully, a
steamboat put out just before nightfall
crowded with passengers who were trying
to escape from the pestilence. After the
boat had been out little while the engi-
neer fell with the cholera. The captain,
in CONSERVATION, went down among the
passengers and asked: "Is there any one
here who knows any thing about engineer
ipg?" A swarthy man replied: II am an
engineer" well" said the Lapt"'n 81
would be very glad il you would take
charge of this boat" The man went to the
engine. The steamer went more and more
rapidly until after awhile the captain and
some passengers were alarmed, and they
went to see what was the matter, and they
found that this man was maniac engt-
neer, and that he was seated on the safety
valve, and as they came to him he said:
II am
COmmissi Oned of Satan
10 drive the steamer to hell"' And he
tlOurished his pistol and woald not come
down. But after q while through some
Strategem he was brought from his position
and the lives of the passengers were saved.
., my friends, that steamer had no such
peril as our institutions are threatened
with If the ignorant and unrestrained chill.
dren of this land shall come up in their
ignorance and their crime to engineer our
civil and religious institutions and drive
them on the rocks. Educate this abandoned
population or they will overthrow the in
stitutions of this land. Gather them into
your Sabbath schools. l congratulate you
that many have been gathered. Go forth,
teachers, in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ and on the coming Sabbaths instead
of !, 800 in the school We shall see three or
four thousand, and the grace OF God will
come down upon them and the Holy Spirit
will bring them all with the truth.
Another characteristic of a live church
is one with appropriate architecture. In
the far West, and amid destitute pppu!a-
tion. log church is very appropriate, the
people living in log houses; but in COM
munities where people live in comfortable
abOdes a church inCommOdiOus or lacking
in beauty Is moral nuisance. Because
Christ was born i'll manger is NJ reason
why we should
Worship Him I'm a Barn.
Let the churches of Jesus Christ be not
only comfortable. but ornate. Years ago
we resolved TO have comfortable church.
We resolved that il should be amphitheat
ri, Oi IN shape. The prominent architects
OF the country, after figuring on the 5at-
ter good while, SAID that such a church
would not be churchly, and they would
have nothing to DO with the enterprise.
But after awhile We found an architect
willing to risk his reputation. He put up
f : us the first TaberneCle in amphitheat
ri,al style. We liked it. All who came
liked it. This building followed in the
same style. We believe II is appropriate
and adapted. never knew man that
did not like it.
bless God that ever came TO Brooklyn;
bless God that | ever met you. Looking
back over all the fourteen years OF my
paStnrate'I cannot find a single thing about
which 10 make complaint. And now, my
start out on another year, God only knows
what will be the history OF this year. |
am expecting grander spiritual results and
that thousands of sous now in the dark
ness OF sin will stray out into the liberty
Of the gospel, and do not know any way
in which We can more appropriately cele-
brate the anniversary OF a pastorate than
by the induction Of great multitude of
souls into
The Peace of the Gospel.
So let il be to-day. Let them come like
clouds and doves to the windows. o, men
and women immortal, hear this call of
sovereign mercy. All the offers of the gos-
pei are extended to you without money
and without price" And you ara con-
scious of the fact that these opportunities
will soon be gone forever. The conductor
of railroad train was telling me OF the
fact that ht was one night standing by his
train on a side track, his train having been
switched off so that the express train
might dart past unhindered. He said
while he stood there in the darkness beside
his train on the side track, he heard the
thunder OF the express, in the distance.
Then be saw the flash of the headlight.
The train came on with fearful velocity,
nearer and nearer, until after a while
when it came very near, by the fash OF the
headlight, he saw that the switch
man had not attended TO his duty,
either through intoxication or indifference
had not attended to his duty, and that
train, unless something was done immedi-
ately, would rush on the side track ami
dash the other train to atoms. He shouted
TO the switchman: "Set mp that switch.
And with one stroke the switch went back
and the express thundered on q. men
snd women going toward the eternal world,
swift as the years, swift as the months,
ea