Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-12

poleon had lost but one before Waterloo
Pride and destruction often ride in the same
saddle.
But notice once more and more than al
in my text, that
God is SO Kind and Loving
that when it is necessary for Him to cut BE
has to 60 to others for the sharp edged
weapon. "In the same day shall the Lord
shave with q razor that ia hired" God is
love. God is pity. God is help. God ID
shelter God is rescue. There are no sharp
edges about Him, no thrusting points. nc
instruments of lsceratlon. If you want balm
for wounds, He has that If you want salye
for divine eyesight, he has that. But il
there is sharp cutting work 10 do which re-
quires q razor, that He hires, God has
nothing about Him that hurts save when
dire necessity demands, and then He has to
90 clear of to some one else to get the In
strument. This divine genislity will be no
novelty to those who have pondered the
Calverean massacre, where God submerged
Himself in human tears, 9nd crimsoned
Himself from punctured arteries and
et the terrestrial and internal
worlds maui him until the chandeliers OF
the sky had to be turned out because the
universe could not endure the indecsucy.
Illustrious for love he must have been To
take all that as our substitute, paying out
of his own heart the crimson price Of our
admission at the gates of heaven. King
Henry H., of England, crowned his son as
king and on the day Of coronation put on q
servants garb and waited, he, the king, at
the sons table, to the sstonishment Of all
the princes. But we know of a more
woundrous scene, the King Of heaven and
earth Offering to put on you His child, the
crown Of life, and in the form Of O servant
waiting on you with blessing. Extol that
love, all painting, all sculpture all music,
all architecture, all worship. In Dresdenian
gallery let Raphael hold Him up as child,
aid in Antwerp Cathedral let Rubens hand
Him down from the cross as a martyr, and
Handel make all his oratorio vibrate around
hat one chord-"He was wounded for our
uaueressions bruised for our iniquity." Bat
net until all the redeemed get home, and
from the countenances Of all the piled.up
galleries of the ransomed shall be revealed
rhe wonders Of redemp ption, shall either man
or sersph or srchangel know the height and
depth ard length and breadth CT the love Of
GCd.
His Monument.
At our national capital q monument in
honor of him who did more than any one to
achieve our American Independence was
icr scores of years in building and most Of
us we're discouraged and said it lever would
oe completed. And how glad We oil were
VI en- in tie presence of the highest officials
o the nation, the work was done! But will
lie monument TO Him who died for the
t.rrsl liberation Of the human race ever be
ccmpleted2 Fer ages the work has been
gcirg up; evapgelis,s and apostles and
r,r'yrs have been adding to the heavenly
pile, and every one Of the millions of the
redeemed, going up from earth, has made
TO it contribution of gladneSs and weight
OF glory is swung to the top of other weight
of glory, ami layers of hosanras on layers Of
hosannss, higher and higher as the centuries
90 BY, higher and higher as the millenuiums
roll, sapphire on the top Of jasper, ssrdonyx
on the top OF cholcedony, and chrysoprasus
above topaz, until fSr bereath shall be the
II HnS 'HSaf '&HSoaSfSsHf f forever and forever
risinr, and yet never done. Unto Him who
hath loved US and washed US from our
al, a in bis own blood, and made US kings
sld priests forever" Alleluia, amen.