Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-28
WHFETING MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 49, 1885,

subiects-I will say in regard to that man,
ii is warning to you and me. Young
people. where are those who entered school
with you four years ago? Graduates Of
colleges. where are those who took the di'
ploma with you on the same commence
ment day? Business men, where are those
who started in commercial life with you
twenty vas ago? "Well," you say,
some of them have passed of" There is
business msu sitting here who had a
partner who left the world, and now
he thinks over that case. He says:
Thst man lived on without any con-
eern about the future world and
suddenly he died" Well, l come to you
to-day and l say: What do you
suppose was that mans destiny2 Where
do you suppose he is2' Well, you are en-
barrassed. You say; 81 wouldn't like to
take the responsibility" "Well," l say,
you are not bound to take any responsi-
bifity I want your opinion as to where
he sf and again you resist the question.
You don't want to take the responsibility.
OF wonder if when we are dead there
will be any awful guessing about where
we are gone. These men sat under the
same Gospel. They sang the came songs
TheY had the same opportunities of salVa-
ton. they rejected them. You sit under
the same advantages, and you are going
through precisely the same process, and |
ask if it is not an srousiDg consideration
for you and me.
THE DAY WILL CONE
when you and will have to quit this life
We may be stalwsrt to-day, we may not
have all ache or pain, We may be exuber-
ant iu orr physical health. but our COM
mon sense tells Us that there will have 10
come q time when We will put our head to
the pillow aud die. o! il iu that hour you
hear the upbraidings of conscience, and
the reverberatious of O broken law, and
the thuuders of Gods spathemas, you will
wish you had never been born. Why not
come out tonight and have this matter
gioriously settled2 If there be snythiug g
in CDrist, aud bright hope of heaven,
why not come ard get it7 1t is yours il
YOU will have it. In the mama
Of my Lord Jesus Christ, l plainly Offer
it. Pardon for all your ain. Comfort for
all your trouble. Help for al your bur
dens. The Gospel that preach Is not one
of distinctions bat q Gospel OF salvation
PeItiDsx heard, one night, pounding at
his palace door. some messengers Swho
wanted 10 get in. He said to himselG
"Thev have come to take my life, and he
trenbled, and he refused to open the door.
They kept on pounding and pounding
away until he almost tainted with fright
but after a while, plucbing mp courage and
girding On bis sword, and paiing bis hand
on the hilt, he had the door opened, when
10! the messengere had come TO offer him n
crown. They said: THE king died one hour
ago Of apoplexy, and you have been chosen
10 be his successor, and We have come TO
offer you the crown" O. | thought how
much like that 10 our rejection OF the Cos
pei as though it were Is matter OF over
thlOw, when il is matter OF coronation
Not TO slav but to euthroue. If, this mo
meut, By giving up your sin fairy and
sousrely-I do not take the responsibility
of saying what your sin is, do not know--
if you would honestiy and before God this
moment give up your sin snd take Christ,
the news would fly hesvenward and would
strike seraphic hsrps, and angels bending
in the sky, and ministeriog sPirits flying
on errauds of salvation, would JON wing TO
wing and wing TO wing, while they cried:
nm 4 II I.