Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-31

Who are struck through with unrest. Christ
comes tonight to give you rest. If Christ
comes to you, you viii be indepe ndent OF ell
worldly circumstances. So in the hour Of
soderipg and martyrdom was Rose Allen.
When the persecutor put candle under
ferleath her wrist, and held it there until
Che sinews snapped, she said: IF you see
g. you can burn my feet next, and then
also my head" Christ once Fayng taken
You into His custody and guardianship, you
eau laugh at pain, and persecution, and
trail Great peace for all those whom
Christ has found, and you who have found
Christ. Jesus comes into their sick room.
The nurse may have fallen asleep in the
latter watches Of the night but Jesus watches
Nth slumberless eyes, and he puts His
3entle hands over the hot brow Of the pa
Aent, and says: You will not always be
SICK. / will not leave you, There is
kndwhere the Inhabitants never say: i
I'm sick Hush, troubled soul! PeaceW
Comfort.
Just as sometimes child is so sick that
z cannot lie any longer in the cradle, and
Ie mother has to take it mp, so sometimes
a. fsord's children are 90 troubled that they
cannot lie easy anywhere but in Gods lap
while be bends over them and sings this
sweet song: "As one whom his mother com.
fortetb, so will comfort you.
"The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repoSe,
1 win not, will not, desert 10 His foes;
That SOUL though ell hell should eudeayor to shake,
III never, no never, no never, lOrsake."
Again, remark that we are
Lost to Heaven,
and Christ comes to take US there can
not imagine anything more distresstul than,
without having musical taste, to cit and lis
ten TO an orstorio for two hours and half
Though it be the best Of oratorios, if a man
have no musical taste, it is distress to him,
while it is Joy to others. And | cannot i'm
agine anything more distresstul for man
who has no love for pictures TO be shut up
in the Luxembourg gallery in Paris. Yes,
| can think Of one thing worse than that,
and that will be for man to
enter heaven without any taste for it. !
sometimes hear people talk as though all
q man had to do was just to leave this world
and 20 into heaven and sit down to its en-
ioymepts. Ifs man cannot stand Christian
society here for one day, how would he
stand million ages OF 1t! see
An Unregenerate Soul
entering heaven. 1t enters heaven looks
around, and sees God there, and angels
there, and hears the cry: Holy, holy
and the unregenerate soul says; This Is
no place for me, and he flies to the battle
merits, and he cries 81 can stand it here
DO lopger.' and he leaps off into outer
darkness. In Other words, the worst he'll
for q msn would be heaven, if he has no
qualifcstons-no preparations for it. Bot
Christ comes to take the discord out OF our
soul and string it with heavenly sttuning
He comes to take out that from us which
makes US unlike heaven and substitute that
which assipilates US. Ten thousand times
the gate of heaven has swung back and
forth, but it never swings back and forth
save as Christ opened it, and you will 60 in
Through Him or Not at All.
Christ wants you there How do | know
it? Suppose man lost diamond and he
looked for it eight or ten days, would you
not conclude from the fact that he looked
for it so long that he wanted the diamond?
And when ! find Christ seeking for your
soul, seeking for it ever since it has been
soul seeking for it by day aud By night
seeking for it through heat and through
cold seeking for it with tears in His eyes
and blood upon His brow, and scourges on
his back, and q world Of agony in His
heart know that it is because He wants to
find you Oh, He has prepared a glorious
Heaven for you. 1t is all ready. Not
merely throne, but steps by which to
mount it; not only harp but a song to
play on it; not only q banner procession,
but victory which it is to celebrate. God
wants no vacant chairs al that banquet.
he does not want those who stand around
him in glory to wonder why you have not
been solicited. He does want the Book Of
Life to thunder. Shout till your name is in
it. What do breathe? 1t is the fragrance
Of Him whose garments smell OF myrrh, and
aloes. and casss, out OF the ivory palaces
What do hear? II ia the footstep OF Him
who comes with worn sandal in the journey
from Bethlehem to Nazareth, and
from Nazareth to Jerusalem, and
from Jerusalem to Golgoths, and from
Golgotha TO glory, aud fcon glory here seek
ing that which is lost Oh, iostle Him not
from thy doorstep Do not drive this Christ
away as though He were an unworthy beg
gar soliciting your aims. Hear His voice
Trust His sacrifices Respond to His love
Take His heaven. Do you not know, oh
man, oh woman that you are the lost one
spoken Of in my text? The Son OF Man Is
come 10 seek and TO save that which was
lost You may hide away from Him; but
there are some things. s.which will find you,
whether Christ By His grace fnds you or
not Trouble will find you. Temptation
will find you. Sickness will End you.
Dsath will find you. Judgment will fnd
you. ~
Soon YOU will be gone from sll these
scenes, and if thousand men should come
ont with lanterns, and torches, and ST.
Bernard dogs Used to hunting up missing
travellers and search for your soul, you could
not be found by them. The grave will have
YOUR body. Your heirs will have your
estate. Eternity will have Jour soul.
In the fash Of a second your
last opportunity for heaven may
20 out. Postpone this question Of the
soul, and you are postponing getting into
the last life-bost that shall put out from the
wreck for the beach ere the hulk lurch over
and go down. God forbid that any Of you
should St the last have the dismsy Of the
woman of whom was reading. One night,
che could not sleep because Of her souls
wandering fro n Christ. She got up aud
wrote in her diary: zone year from noz.
/ win attend to the matters OF my soul,
She retired, bat she c11ld not sleep So
she arose again, and wrote a better promise
in her diary: "One month from nov, will
attend to the matters OF my soul" She re-
tired again but found no sleep, and arose
AGAIN and wrote: Next week, will at
tend to the matters of my soul" Then she
slept soundly. The ney, day she vent iato
scenes Of gayety. The following day she
was sick, and the middle Of next week she
died. Delirium lifted from her mind j ist