Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-16

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be We saved, for am God and there is none
else" Proclamation of universal emanci-
| patton for all slaves Proclamation of uni
versal amnesty for all rebels. Ahaznerus
| gathered the Babylonish mobiles to his.table; !,
George entertained the Lords Of England
at a banquet; Napoleon Ill. welcomed the
| Gar of Russia and the Sultan of Turkey 10
his feast the Emperor of Russia was glad
to have our minister, George Bancroft, Sit
down with him at his table; but tell me, ye
who know most of the world history what
other king ever asked the abandoned and
the forlorn, and the wretched and the outcast
to come and sit down beside him? o won
derful invitation You can take it out and
stand at the head of the darkest alley in all
this city and say Come, clothes for your
! rags, salve for your sores, a throne for your
eternal reigning."
A Christ That Talks
like that and acts Ike that, and pardons
like that, do you wonder that, t,Stephen stood
looking at him? hope TO spend eternity
doing the same thing must see him |
must look upon that face once clouded with
nv sin but now radiant with my pardon.
want to touch that hand that knocked of
nv shackles. l want TO hear that voice
which pronounced my deliverance. Behold
Him, little children, for if you live to three
score years and ten you will see none so
fair. Behold Him, We aged ones, for
He only can shine through the dimness OF
YOUR failing eyesight Behold Him, earth.
Behold Him, heaven. What a moment
when all the nations of the, saved shall
gather around Christ! All faces that may.
All thrones that may, gazing, gazing on
Jesus.
"lIs worth ii all the nations knew,
Sure the whole earth would love Him too
pass on now and look at Stephen stoned.
The world has always wanted to get rid Of
good men. Their very life is an assault
upon wickedneSs. Out with Stephen through
! the gates of the city. Down with him over
the prccipice. Let every man come and
drop a stone uT0n his head But these
men did not so much kill Stephen as they
! killed themselves Every stone rebOunded
| upon them While these murlcrers are
tramsGXed by the scorn of all good men,
| Stephen lives in the admiration Of all chris
tendon. Stephen stoned, but Stephen
alive SO all good men must be peltcd. All
Who will live Cody in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution 1t is no eulogy of a
man to say that everybody likes him Show
| me any one who is doing all his duties to
State or church, will show YOU scores of
! men who
Utterly Abhor Him.
If all men speak we'll of YOU it is because
| vou are either a laggard or dOlt. If a
steamer makes rapid progress through the
waves the water will boil and foam all
| around it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ
will hear the carbines click. When | see a
man with voice and money and intlunce, all
on the right side and some caricature him
| and some sneer at him and some denOunce
| him and men who pretend TO be actuated
by right motives, cOnspire to cripple him, to
east him out, to destroy him, say: Stephen
! stoned. When | see man in some great
moral or religious reform battling against
grOg-shupS, exposing wicGedneSS in high
! places, bv active means trying to purity the
! church and better the world estate and |
lind that the newspapers anathelnatlze him
and men. even good men, oppose him and
! drnouuce him, because though he does
good he does not do it in their way,
say: Stephen stoned" The world with
infinite spite took after john Frederick
Obcrlin and Robert Motfat and Paul and
Stephen Of the text. But YOU notice, my
friend. that while they assaulted Him they
did not succeed really in killing Him. You
NAV assault a good man but YOU cannot
kill HIM On the day of His death Stephen
| spoke before a few people in the Sanhe-
| irian: this Sabbath he addressed all Chris
tendon; Paul the Apostle, stood on Mars
bill addressing handful of philosophers
| who knew not so much about science as q
school girl of Packer Institute or a school
boy of the Polytechnic. To-day he talks to all
| the millions of chriStendom about the
Wonders of Justification,
and the glories of resurrection. John WeS-
| ley was howled down By the mob to whom
he preached and they threw bricks at him
and they denounced him, and they jostled
him. and they spat upon him. and yet to-day
| in all lands he is admitted to be the great
father of Methodism. Booths bullet va
Gated the Presidential chair but from that
| spot of coagulatcd blood on the floor in tine
| 5Ox of Fords theatre there sprang up a
new life of nation! Stephen stoned, but
Stephen alive.
Pass on now and see Stephen in his dying
PRAYER His first thought was not how the
stones hurt his head nor what would become
1f his body His first thought was about
| mis- spirit, Lord Jesus receive my spirit.
The murderer standing on the the trap door
| the black cap being drawn over his head
Il.
he future; but YOU and have no shame IN
| cOnieSsing some anxiety about where we
are going to come ont You are not all
BODY. There is within You a soul. see
| it CLEAN from your ewes and | see it irradi-
| ating your countenance. Sometimes | am
abashed before an audience. Not because
| come come under your physical eyeSight
| but because | realize the truth that stand
| before so many immortal spirits The
| probability is that your body will at last find
| a sepulchrc in some of the cemeteries which
! surround this city. There is no doubt but
| that your obSequieS will be decent and respect
full. and YOU will be able to pillow your head
under the maple or the Norway spruce or the
cypress or the blossoming fir; but this spirit
about which Stephen prayed, what direc-
ton will it take? What guide will escort
it? What gate will open to receive it?
What cloud will be cleft for its pathway?
After it has got beyond the light of our sun
will there be torches lighted for it the rest
of the way? VIII the soul huve to travel
through long deserts before it reaches the
! good land? If should lose our pathway
will there be castle at whose gate we may
ask the way to the eity?Oh, this mysterious
spirit within us; it has two wings but 1t is
in a cage now: it is locked fast to keep it;
but let the door of it's cage open the least
and that soul is off. Eagles winge could
not catch it The lightnings are not swift
enough to take up with it. When the soul
leaves the body it takes so worlds at
bound And haye.I no anxiety about itb
Have you no anxiety about it? do not
care what YOU do with my body when my
soul is gone or whether you believe in
cremation or inhumation. shall keep
Just as well in weapping of ssckcloth
as in satin lined with eagles down. But
nv soul, before leave this home will find
out where it is going to land. Thank God
r. Il, ;,,,r,a,IoD nf my tart that w hen We