Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-11

they had better do with their college, as
they could not make it 60 any longer. One
of them said: "Let US hand it over to the
Presbyterians," prefscipg the the word
Pre- sbyferians" with an unhappy expleive.
The motion carried and that college, built
as fortress of skepticism, has become .
fortress of old, fashioned, orthodox religion.
The devil built it, righteousness captured it.
So there are IN our cities very expensive
club houses, the architecture and the
furniture and all the eqipments
bedazzlement of wealth employed in
making gambling aud dissipation
respectable. But fret not; these buildings
will yet be free libraries or hospitals or gal
leries of pure art Observatories have been
put up at vast expense By monomaniscs OF
atheism, and the first you know they are in
possession of Christian science. God said
he would put hook into the nose of Sem
nscherib and turn him, and all the modern
Sennscheribs Of infdeity and sin have a
hook in their nose aud are turned this way
and that as the Lord wills it. Great mar
BILE halls Low devoted TO sinful amusements
will yet be dedicated tor religious assem-
blage. All these castles OF sin will surren-
der under the battle cry with which Oliver
Cromwell led his army on the field Of Nase.
by. LET God arise, let his armies be scat
teredp After the great London fire there
was found the ruins OF a house with nothing
standing but the arch, showing the name Of
the architect who constructed it, and on
these great ruins of humanity that astound-
ed the world are marked the name Of the
God who built them and blackening sins
that consumed them. Some OF the worst
men God has harnessed for special mission.
Witness Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzsr. With
the bayonet Of bad man the Bsstile was
pried open. Some of the most selfish and
wicked merchants have by their talents
opened new fields Tor lawful commerce.
God sometimes Is the wicked live that
they maybe
Monuments of His Mercy.
II was so with John Newton; it was so with
John Bunyan; it was so with Augustin.
Perhaps it was so with you and me. Those
chiefs OF sinners became chiefs of grave.
Paul the Apostle made out OF Saul the per.
secutor. Baxter, the Evangelist, made out
ot Baxter the blasphemer. Whole squadrons
with streamers Of Emanuel flying from the
mast head, though they were launched from
The dcckyards of disbolism. He lets live be-
cause He is going to make jewels out OF
Il EN- for coronets, tongues of fire out Of
them for Pentecosts, warriors out OF them
for Armageddon, conquerors out of them to
ride at the head Of the White Hprse Guards
in the gr, at review of the last day.
God lers the wicked live that all may un-
ders'and that there must be
Another World for Adjustments.
So many bad up, and so many Of the good
down. There must be place where bril-
liant scoundrelism shall be srraigned, and
innocence arise from under the heel OF op-
preston Common fairness as well as eter-
nal Justice demands it. To the Grand AS
size, we must adjourn the stupendous injus'
iice fthis life They are not righted here.
There must be some place where they will
be righted God cannot afford 10 omit the
Judgment day, or 4 reconstruction OF con-
ditions. You cannot make mo believe that
that man. Stated with denominations, hav.
ing devoured widows houses and digested
them, aud looked with Basiii3k or ugerish
e,es OH his fellows, liking no music so we'll
AS the sound Of breaking hearts, is going at
death 10 gel Out d his i,nds a. the front
door OF The Sepuchre and pass right through
to the back door of the srpulchIe, and there
get into q celestial turnout, already hitched
Up, 10 drive I'd the priuroscd hills, one
glory riding rs l5ck-y ahead, aad another
elory riding as postillion behind, while that
poor woman who supported her
invalid husband and helpless chill
dren by taking IN washing and
ironing, and often putting her hand to
her side where cancerous trouble had al
ready begun its work and falling dead late
one night trying to get one OF the children
garments ready for the Sabbath day and
going afoot into the front door Of the
sepulchre, is to cross to its back door end
find nothing waiting; no one to say: 81 am
glad you have come" and no one to show
her the way to the Kings gate, 1t cannot
be. Solomon bemoaned the princes afoot
and the beggars ahorseback and there must
be time when the right foot shall get into
the stirrup. To demonstrate to all the
world that there must be another state TOR
rearranging these inequalities, God lets the
wicked live.
God lets the wicked I've for the reason
that he has let US ive-to give us
Time for Happiness.
What would you and have been it God
had followed sin with immediate catastro
phe? What mercy that God has, accord
ing to the Canticles, the feet foot OF the
roebuck, when he goes 10 save! he moves
as though hobbled by great lsnguor aud
infinite le,hargies when He comes to pun
ish. I celebrate Gods a3iourannents and
Gods postponements and Gods puttidgs-of
of retrlbution. The slower the rail train
moves the better If the drawbridge ia OF.
Let our impatient criticism Of Providence
because ths. man by watering stock makes
a million bY one swoop and keeps It, and
,hese other men roll on in blosted arrogance
al their dsys. be exchanged fot gratitude
everlasting that God did let dS live when
se deserved nothing, hut capsizes and de
moTilion. How long have you lived unpar
| donsd? Fifteen years Twenty years, Forty
years Sixty years. You have lived through
| great religious awskenings, through domes
| tic calsmi;ies, through business d.:
aster. through alarming illness, through
| providsnces that startled nations and living
ye; strangers TO God and duty, and With no
hope for future into which any m:meH!
you may be precipitated through Jesu.
Christ get your nature revoIutionized and
trsns6gured, for God sometimes changes
his gait, and instead Of the deliberate step
he becomes q swift witness and people in
your state may be suddenly destroyed and
| without remedy. Give up ycur var against
God and have him your eternal ally. When
King Philip of France led bis army With
bows aud arrows to fight King Edward Ill.
of England, at the most critical time in the
battle shower Of rain go dissolved tie bow.
strings that they we're Of no effect aud
Philips s army was vorsted. And, my hear
ers, all your weaponry will be ss nothing
when God rains Upon you discontinue out
of the heavens. But safe are al those who
have
God for Friend
instead Of foe. The chariots Of God are
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