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

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haste.
| In ntheiay of the world s. doom what win
become II that man who had thousand
Sabbaths and ten thousand opportunities
for usefulness, and q million chances OF
being made better, but comes in the gates
of eternity pauper in Christian experience,
and viii but one sheaf, though all his life
he was walking in golden harvest fields
You vii have postponed your higher life
until Gd tells me you will not come to it
| If You pstpone 1t any longer. The Kings
businesrequires haste.
There is a great work of comfort to be
done. i it is not done speedily it will never
be dore. Yonder is a heart breaking. Now
is the. tine to say the healing word. Go
next wee with your balsam and it will not
touch Che case. A man yonder came under
your infIence, and you might have captured
him for God. You will never have another
chance him. Tomorrow another man
will be tnder your influence You will
have but one opportunity of saving him.
1t may b at 10 o'clock, at II o'clock or at
o'clock miss that and you miss it forever.
Do not ay; "Wait until the next time.
Next tine win never come. Be prompt and
immedate. The Kings business requires
haste.
In he city of Basle, Switzerland, it was
the custom to have all the clocks of the city
| an holr ahead of time, for the following
reasoi: Once an enemy was moving upon
the city and their Strategy was to take the
city It Il o'clock, noon; but the cathedral
clocB by mistake struck one instead of
twelve; so the enemy thought they were too
late 10 carry out the stratagem and gave up
the assault and the city was saved and
therefore it was arranged that for many
yeas the clock struck one when it was
twebe and twelve when it was eleven. Oh,
mar and woman OF God, engaged in Chris
TEAMWORK set your clocks on if you want to
sayethe city Better get to your work too
earlt than come too late.
The Kings Business Requires Haste.
We are exercising fatal deliberation.
We DIT calmly in church, meditating about
how to save the world. Meanwhile six mil
millDns of people will die this year. You
might start the millennium next year, but it
would do them no good What you do for them
you will have to do within twelve month
What do you do for them you will have to
this nonth-aye, this week Aye this day!
Have you never heard that neighbor was
sick and said to yourself: 81 must go and
talk With him about his soul, for know he
is moi prepared to leave this word" But
that day YOU were busy and the next you
were busy and the third day you went to
see him. You pulled his door-bell; SER
want came out and you said: How is he
today The answer was: HE is dead"
You say: ut cannot be possiblel How
long has he been dead?' She answers:
Five minutes" God have mercy upon
that Christian man who comes to his work
FIVE minutes too late. The Kings business
requires haste.
With Special Power.
pray to God that my text may be
brought home with special power to those
in this audience who have never yet sought
Christ. AS many Of the causes that come
up in court are adjourned sometimes be-
cause the witnesses are not ready, and
sometimes because the plaintiff is not
ready, and sometimes because the Judge is
not ready, until the bill Of costs is ruinous
and hard TO pay-so there are men and wo-
men who have adjourned the cause OF the
souls salvation from youth TO middle life,
and adjourned it from health 10 sickness,
and adjourned it from prosperity to adver.
sity, until there will be an Infinite bill OF
costs tu-ruy. " procrastlnatng dehOer-
ating, halting soul! Let me tell you that
the Kings business requires haste! Before
YOU attend to it your mental faculties may
fail. Your intellect works admirably now;
but in this country the ratio Of intellects
that are giving Out is larger every year.
Something in the climate urges men on to
such extremes, and the pressure on active
men is SO great that before they are aware
of it The brain sofiens, Or, more suddenly
the mind drops
Dead From Its Throne
Pythsgoras, studying philosophy, was so
anxious to keep awake and improve all his
time, that with string he tied the hair o
his head TO beam above, so that the very
moment he nodded in sleep the pain would
awake him. So there are men now who
have such morbid and unhealthy notions
about how much work it is necessary to do,
that they never take any rest. They can
not stand the stress. The most brilliant are
in the most peril What if the mind, that
God has given you for high and holy uses,
should perish before you have found Christ!
| A heavy fall an accidental stroke on the
head. a sudden afiliction for which you are
not ready may kill your intellect, and so
your last chance Of heaven pass away,
though you should live on for many year,
In the great populations that occupy the
| asylums of the country or are carefully
guarded in private dwellings, are hundreds
of men and women who expected some day
to be Christians. They had abundance Of
time. they thought, but mental disorders
dropped upon them before they had decided
the matter, and although now they are ire
sponsible and shall not be brought to ac-
court for anything they do under this men
tai eclipse, yet they shall at last be called
into Judgment for The long years OF mental
| health when they neglected the gospel
What will become Of them l leave you TO
| Judge. While your reason acts put 1t to the
grandest use. Look out how you carry the
magnificent torch of your intellect lest God
put it out in darkness forever. The hings
business requires haste.
would have you regard the text because
you may have come near to the end OF God $
patience. There can be no doubt fiat some
men in youth or mid-life or Old age, SO
aggravatingly reject the gospel that God lets
them alone. They slam the door OF their
soul.in Gods face and tell Hir to be gone;
then when they call after Hum to come
back, He viii not come. Eternal atfront
has been given and in thai book where no
| erssures are made, the mans name Is pat
down among the doomed. Cross the iine
that divides Gods mercy from His wrath
step bat one inch over fnd you are as badly
off as if you went ter thousand furiongs.
Before the iron bolt fsstens the door against
you, you had better goin. Before the last
boat sails for heaven, Jou had better get on
board Haste thee pat OF the sin into the
pardon Of God. TIE Kings business re-
quires haste.
Have regard to he suggestion Of the text
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