Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-08
LET US FAIL NOT,
Nor Weary Of the Work of Doing
Good,
For at the Coming Of the Harvest Time
We viii Reap Abundantly of That
Which We Have Sown.

Yesterday was the anniversary collection
day in the Presbyterian Churches of the
United States for the National Sunday
School Fund. The First Presbyterian
Church of this city, ike all others through
out our National domain, made her contri-
button to this Christian and important
enterprise. Like all Of her charitable con-
tributions, it was liberal and worthy of so
good cause. The morning lesson was the
one hundred and twenty-sixth psalm, and
the Introductory hymn No. 572. The
second lesson was that remarkable chapter
in Galatians, sixth (vi.) This chapter bet
ter and more fully portrays the Christians
character than any single chapter in the in
spired book. DR.. Cunning ham selected as
his text the following: Galatians vi, tx:
"And let US not weary in well doing, for in
due season we shall reap if We faint moi"
THE FIRST THOUGHT DISCUSSED
was action. Man was made an active be-
ing. He could not be idle if he would.
He had to work somewhere: either in the
Lords vineyard or the devils. He could
not occupy neutral grounds in the great
contest of life. He had to fight under one
banner or the other. Man, BY nature, is an
active, moving, never-satis6ed creature.
The next thought discussed was that we
should enlist under the banner of Christian
duty, and not weary in well doing. DIR.
Cunningham elaborated this, the most i'm
portant thought in his able discourse, for
The purpose of showing in what direction
duty led us to act in the interest of our fel
lowmen.
The Christian had warfare before him
in this world; it matters bnt little as to what
line of duty he followed. The main ques-
ton with the Christian was how to endure
his trials and survive them. Patience was
THE THING MOST NEEDED,
powerful Christian patience. If we had
this we would be able to reach the prize of
our high calling in Christ Jesus. Consistency
was another grace Of character that the
true follower of Ged must bare in order to
succeed. Patience and constancy, prayer,
faith, energy and perseverance; all of thLse
were needed in educating the children in
tho Sunday schools. Then spotless, &C
tive, upright, pure Christian life-all OF
these things are essential in Sunday school
education, and without these success is i'm
possible. The Christian will reap great
harvest in due time if he doesn't fall by the
wayside. He will not be allowed to weary
in we'll doing, but will be encouraged and
held up by the power and grace of God as
he passes through his great, and at times
almost overwhelming tribulations. God
will be with him and help him.
A duty which demands the largest and
most tiresome exercise of our patience, and
which is fraught with greater results than all
others combined, is the religious training or
education of our children. In the faithful
discharge of this duty much patience, judg-
ment and common sense, in worldly
sense, are necessary, and then, in addition
to these
GOOD CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE
founded Oh good deeds, so that they may be
seen and read and easily understood by the
children under our care. Children are gov
erned more by what we do than by what We
say or tell them to do. Our examples are
watched studiously by them. Whatever is
good and not good in them will be soon de-
tected and pointed out, and tell favorably or
unfavorably on their young and susceptible
minds. The church to the present day has
the education Of the rising generation com
mitted into her hands. If she sows good
seed she will reap rich and grand harvest
in due time, if she faints not Not only
does she have the religious training of the
children to answer for, but, to great ex
tent, their future political citizenship is
nodded and shaped by the church; and it
behooves her not to be idle, but to employ
all the means at her command in bringing
up the children in the way of the Lord, 80
that they may become
THE PILLARS or THE CHURCH AND STATE
when the time comes for them to assume
these important responsibilities.
The church will reap in due time if she
fsints not. The harvest is what most con.
Germs the christian in this world, and the
world to come. The harvest will consist OF
big sheaves and little sheaves. Christian
ministers, whether in christian or heather
countries; in our home pulpits, or in mis-
sionary fields; it matters not where in this |
world we may live, five are true to God We
will become sheaves to be gathered by the
angels when the last great harvest will be
garnered. These will be the big sheaves
Prophets, apostles, martyrs, and all the |
saints, in all ages, and in all climes, have
been gathered by this grand harvest OF the |
church. Then all the little children who |
have been gathered by the angels in all |
ages, times and countries these are the lit |
tie sLeayes &C. his glorious harvest
The church
OWES A GREAT DUTY
to the little sheaves, and unless she faith
fully performs it, many Of them will not be
come big sheayes but. will be lost by the
wayside.
In conclusion, DR.. Cunningham said, that
no man or woman could measure his or her
in the training of their chill
dren IN the fear and admonition of the
Lord. Time did not limit that responsible
ity, but it went with US up to the Judgment
bar Of God. Let US not weary in well 10
ing, for in due time we shall reap if we
faint not.
During the delivery of this eloquent SER
mon, tears were visible on many mothers
cheek, when the good man of God was talk.
ing about the little sheaves that had been
gathered from the homes of many who now
sat before him. And when he told of the
gathering of that great, good and big sheave,
Mother Rawling, whose death he announced.
the congregation was as motionless as death
itself
The morning sermon was concluded by
singing:
"Work, for the night is coming
Work thro' the morning hours;
Work, while the dew is sparkling,