Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-05

"My days are gliding swiftly by
And i, pilgrim stranger,
Would not detain them as they fyr
Those days Of toll AMI dsngsr."
Before the sermon DR.. Talmage read pass
ages of Scripture contrasting ancient Ion
gevity with the brevity Of mo1ern, human
life. The text was, Samuel, xxi:8: "Tht
kings business required haste" Following
is the sermon in full:
The cradle of 1885 rocked in the grave oi
1884! All intelligent people, whether Chris
tian or unchristian, are thoughtful about the
closing of one volume of time and opening
of another. The striking Of clock is al
ways suggestive, but the most tremendous
stroke the clock ever gives is when on the
nights of the 3lst of December it strikes
twelve. think all Of US who have anything
to do feel that we must swiften our pace.
Accelerationl In my text David appears
before Abimelech without sword or food OF
usual attendants, and gives as his reason for
this unseemly appearance that he was on
urgent, imperial business and had no time
to properly accoutre or equip himself. "The
kings business required haste"
Ny friends we are all instrustei with
some part of the Kings business; aud our
great need is to have our speed accelerated.
God seems to be being of infinite leisure.
He sometimes takes twenty-five hundred
years to do one thing; though in six. days
he put on the world the final touches that
made it inhabitable for man. Geologists
tell US that uncounted ages passed between
the laying Of the corner stone of the earth
ard It's final competition. God took this
unimaginable reach of time for work that
he could have done in three months. He
has plenty oftime for everything. With an
eternity behind Him and an eternity before
Him, there is no furry, no precipitation, no
haste But so far as we are conceraed,
what we do must be done in brefer time
and the quickest way. "The Kings bust
ness requires haste"
Christ Our King.
Christ is our king, king of glory, king Of
Zion, king Of saints, king over all the earth,
king over heaven. He is king that shall
never die Where is Louis XIV? Dead
Where is Richard Ill? Dead! Where is
Ferdinand? Dead! Where is Peter the
Great? Dead At the door of the grave
lies whole sheaf of sceptres Death sits
in the palace of the sepulchre, and the
pctentates OF earth are hls cup bearers; and
as the old blind monarch staggers around
- Ais ral~aA, o,'A- "',d s..e-- l'- trims on soma
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mage in his grave and put crown on his
pulseless temples and sceptre in his life
less hand; vet that could not bring back his
kingdom. But our Emperor lives He
existed before the world was made. lie
shall continue after it is burned up
King ImmortaR
The French government thought itself
rich in having so many palaces-St. Cloud
and the Tuilleries and the Versailles and
Palais Royal and the Luxembourg; bat our
king has the whole earth for his palace -
the mountains, its picture gallery; the
ocean, It's fountain; the sun, its chandelier
the midnight heavens, its candelabre; illim
liable forests, its park; the glories OF the
sunrise and sunset, the tapestry about the
windows; the storms, the lightning-hoofed
coursers dashing up and down the heavens;
all the glories Of the land and sea and SKY
his wardrobe; all the flowers of the field
his conservatory; all the fish of the sea
his aquarium; all the birds of the spring
morning his orchestra. But better thar
ell these, the hearts of his people on earth
and Of his saints in heaven, are the palaces
-, which he 1eEohtS IN reign
King Universal.
Like other kings, he has his army and
tavy. Fighting on his side are the hurri
canes Of the great deep-ss in the breaking
up of the Spanish armada; the volcanoes o
the earth-as in the burial of infamous
Herculaneum; the 6re-as when Sodon
was deluged with conhagration; the rocks
az when they crashed their terrors about tht
crucifxioD. The Psalmist counted th'
flaming artillery Of heaven as it came rush
ing down the sky, and cried: The charioti
of God are twenty thousand. EGjah's ser
wants caught glimpse Of them among th'
mountains-a cavalcade of flame. The
cherubim on his side; the seraphim on his
side the archangels on his side,
King Omnipotent.
Our king is wrapped up in the welfare o
his subjects The Sultan of Turkey had {
rule that when riding out on horseback an
of his subjects might approach him anc
state their wrongs and sutferings, and tht
people pressed so close up to the stirrnp
that it was sometimes impossible for th'
Sultan TO proceed But we have NOR,
merciful king We do not have to wait fo
public occasions. Any hour of the daY o.
night, without introduction, we may pres
into his palace, tell our wants and secur'
his hely. Going before other kings, W,
mus have a court dress, rightly cut ant
rightly adorned; but beggers may com,
before this King in their rags; and tn
prodigal, filthy from the swines' herd, i
Immediately ushered in. A pardouinl
King! A condeseending King! A merci
tul King!
o, Jesus, Live Forever.
II is on the business of such king tha
we are all sent 1t is the business of bring
ing the world to God. Compared with it al
other bus ness is holiday and sport.
q man go into some financial operation b,
which he loses hundred thousand dollar
and his house and estate drop out of his pos
session and his failure upset the next maj
and his the next and the next until tn
whole land quails under the panic, the dis
aster is insignificant compared with the ruiz
of that man who despoils his own soul an
| BY example takes down another and an
other until worlds feel the defalcstion
William the Conqueror pulled down forty
six Of the churches Of God in order that b
| might enlarge his park for games So me-
sweep away spiritual things that they ma
I advance their amusements and worldl
/ gains. Bat the great day Of eternity viii re
/ veal the fact that the most important of al
business on earth and in heaven is
The Kings Business.
The Kings business is notpnly impor'
ant, bat immediate. If we do not attenl
to it quickly, we viii never attend to ita
all. Here is a Christian man expectnl
] some day to be thoroughly eonsec1sed
after while he viii bacome diligeft i
searching the scriptures and in Prayer
Meanwhile the day of grace is goisg, !
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