Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-16

riches and his sslfabnegation to secure our
enthronemens and he kneels on the sharp
edge Of humiliation to let Us climb over his
lacerated shoulders into life and heaven.
Men admire Emperor Trsjsn because when
mounted tor battle he got off Of HE horse
TO do justice TO poor woman by the way
side, but cannot see any beauty in the
fact that the conqueror of earth and
heaven dismounted from the white
horse Of heavenly triumph to appease our
spiritual begarry. They are thrilled at the
valor of the Horatii and the Curiatii who
went out, three champions for the Ro-
mans and three champions for the Adams
to decide the fate Of q nation, but have no
quickened pulse as they see our champion,
Jesus, 90 out alone against all the allied for
ces OF earth and hell to battle for the eman.
cipation of the human race. They can even
appreciate the spirit of Bucephalus Alex.
ander's war horse, which after being gashed
and fatally wounded until all his arteries
seemed opened, kept staggering on until
he got his imperial rider clear out OF peril,
and then with one groan expired. More
appreciation for the bravery Of brute IN
behalf of his master than for Him, the
divinely-human, who flung himself from the
highest heaven into the raging seas Of death
to save all those who would lay hold OF his
right arm OF deliverance. BE it ours to
admire and adore these magnificent doc.
tiines of Christ while others
scon and Jeer.
For all those who on infidel platform or
in unconverted pulpiis deride evangelism ]
have nothing but prayer for their recovery.
When during the last century the plague
was raging in London, there was hotel
near the cemetery which excited much
comment. The nation was In agony Of
fright and bereavement Wagons were
driven through the stree's and the bell rung
and the people brought out their dead.
Twenty or thirty corpses in cart would
pass BY. Not in grave, but in great pits
or trenches they were buried; LIZA were
buried in one pit. Churches were open
day and night for prayers and all England
was in woe But at the wayside in near by
The greatest burial place, o writer says q
group Of hardened men sat blaspheming
and initiating the grief Of the sad proces.
sions that went by and when man utterly
2emented by the death Of his entire family
stopped at this hotel on his way from the
grave-trench they ridiculed him and taunted
him with want Of courage in not leaping
into the pit into which the cart had tossed
The bodies OF his household. There they
sat- day after day and night after night
scofiing at men and scoffing at women aad
scoffing at God. After awhile the plague
struck one Of them and within two weeks
all had fallen under il and they had been
dropped into the trench near the mouth Of
which they had INDUCED their ribaldry. Ny
friends, the plague Of sin has ravaged our
world. Millions have died under its power,
while consecrated men and women all
through Christendom are attempting to
stay the plague there are those who have
nothing but derision for the attempt and
they scoff at evangelism ard scott at the
church and scoa at God. let them re.
member the fate Of those who sat the way
side inn when the London plague spread
ont its two black wings OF destruction.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the
counsel Of the upgodly, nor standcth in the
way Of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat Of the
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