Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-09


realize the fact that this principle applies to
worldly as well as spiritual success. Ii is
true in all departments, Men rise to high
cffcial positions through Misrepresentation.
Public abuse ID all that some of our public
men had to !, rely - upon for their
elevation. IT, has brought to them
what talent and executive force
cou,d not have achieved. Many oe those
who are making great effort for place and
power will never, succeed, just because they
are not Of enough importance to abuse. 1t
is tie nature of men-thatis of all generous
ard reasonable men-to gather about those
Who are prosecuted and defend them, and
they are apt to forget the fault of those who
are the subjects OF attack while attempting
TO drive back the slanderers. Persecution
is elevation. Helen Stirk, the Scotch
martyr, standing with her husband at the
place of execution, said: Husband, let US
rejoice to-day; we have lived together a
great many happy years; this is the hap
piest time of al our life; you see we are to
be happy together forever. Be brave now;
he brave. / will not say Coed
night to you, for we shall soon be in the
kingdom of our Father together" Persecu-
tons show the heroes and the heroines. |
go into another department and i find that
those great denominations of Christians
which have been most abused have spread
the most rapidly. No good man was ever
more violently maItreated than John Wes-
les-belied and caricatured and slandered
until one day he stood in pul pit in London,
and q man arose in the audience and said,
"You were drunk last nigh" and John Wes-
lev said: Thank God, the whole catalogue
is now complete have been charged with
ever thing but that" bis followers we're
hooted and maligned and called by every
detestable name that internal ingenuity
could invent, but the hotter the persecution
the more rapidly they spread, until you know
what a great host they have become and
what tremendous power for God and the
truth they are welding all the world over |
dc rot wonder they celebrated their biennial
in Baltimore. 1t was persecution that gave
Scotland 10 Presbyterianism. 1t was perse-
cut:on that gave our land first to civil lib
erty and afterward to'religious freedom.
HeIrs Fury.
Yes, l might go further back aud
sar it was persecution that gave the
world the great salvation OF the Gospel. The
ribah mockery,th huDgering and thirsting,
th, unjust charge, the ignominious death,
wi IN all the force Of helS fury was hurled
against the Crcss.was the introduction OF
thal religion which is yet to be the earth's
deiryerance ard our eternal salvation. The
stite souetimes said TO the church, Come,
tai my land ond will help you" What
wa. the result? The church went back and
it st lie estate Of holiness, and it became
i,C. Give. at othir times the state said
20 y, church, ii will crush you" What
has Letn The result? After the storms
haze spent their fury the church
so far from having lost any OF
It's force, has increased and is worth lnil-
nil, " more after the assault than before.
RGd all history and you will find that true.
TIE church is far more indebted to the op'
position of civil government than to its ap-
prcyaI. The fires of the stake have only
be, he torches which Christ held in His
hsI 4, by the light of which the church has
ma -uhed to her present glorious position. In
the sound of racks and implements OF tor.
tur" hear the rumbling of the Gospel
chariot. The scatolds Of martydom have
been the stairs by which the church
mounted.
sin VIII Re Revealed.
Learn also from our subject that sins will
cone 10 exposure. Long, long ago had
tho.s brothers sold Joseph into Egypt. They
had made the old father believe that his
fav.Fi,a child was dead. They had sup
prc:.ed the crime, and it was a profound
h.. lrNt
derlv the secret is out The old father hears
thu, his son is in Egypt, having been sold
there by the malice of his own brothers
Hou heir cheeks must have burned and
their hearts sunk at the flaming out OF this
loig suppressed crime. The smallest IN,
iuuity has thousand tongues. and they will
biab cut exposure. Saul was sent TO destroy
the Canas mites, their sheep and their oxen;
but " hen be got down there among the pas
tmes he saw some fine sheep and oxen too
fat 10 kill. so he thought he would steal
them. Nobody would know it. He drove
these stolen sheep and oxen towards home,
but stopped to report to the prophet how he
had executed his mission, when in the dis
tarce the sheep began to bleat and the oxen
to below. The secret was out and Samuel
said to the blushing and confused Saul:
"N at meaneth the bleating Of a sheep that
III. ar and the believing of the cattle?' Ah!
my bearer, you cannot keep an lniquity snIi'
! 1.-THE Wrong Time
4, lust the wrong time the sheep will bleat
| and the oxen will below. Achau cannot
steal the Babylonish garments without be-
ing stoned to death. Eor Arnold betray his
| country without having his neck stretched.
Lock over tie police arrests. These thieves,
the burglars, these coanterfeiters, these
| biehwaymen, these assassins, they all
thought they could bury their iniquity so
| deem down il would never come TO re3urrec.
| ,ir,. hut there wGs some shoe that answered
IN he pint In the soil, some false keys
| found in their possession, SOME bloody knife
tbvi WHISPERED OF the death, and the public
in, ,:enation and the anathems OF outraged
law hurled them into the dungeon or hoiSt
ed hem on the gaIlows. Francis hing OF
| FIsuce, stood counseling with his oihcers
bos he could take his army into ltsl J, when
Antril, the fool OF the court leaPed out
from a corner Of the room and said . ! ou
he'd better be consulting how you will get
your army back and it was found that
Francis l., and rot Ameril, was the fool
Instead of consulting as to the best way OF
getting into sin you had better consult as to
whether you will be able to get out Of it; It
tie world does not expose you, you will tell
il Yourself. There is an awful power in an
aroused conscience. A highwsymsn
plunged out upon WhiteEeld as he rode
along on horseback, a sock Of money on the
horse, money he had raised for orphan,
asylums, and the highwayman put bis hand
on the gold and Mhiteieid turned 70
him and said: Touch that if you
5are-that belongs to the Lord Jesus
Christ" And the rufian slunk into the
forest. Conscience! Consciencel The
r. ffian had pistol, but Whitefeld shook at
him the finger Of doom. Do not think you
can hide any great and prOtracted gin in
your heart, my brother. In an ungusrded
moment i. wifi slip of the lip; or some
slight action may for the moment set slsr