Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-11
WHY Does God Permit Them to Ex-
ist Among Menu
"wHEREFoRE DO THE WICKED LIvE7"
A Powerful Sermon by Dr. Tai
mage---Many Reasons Why
God Permits Sin.
ALL FOR THE GOOD OF MAN AT LAST.
ISnscinl % ths ReQiSter.

BROOKLYN Tabernacle this morning. DR..
Talmsge read passages of scripture, IN
which good and bad character were set OF
in vivid contrast and gave out the hymn:
"Arm Of the Lord, awake, awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake"
The subject discussed was why does GOD
permit Satan and sin to exist when with
one blow He might annihilate themT The
text was Job xxi, l. Wherefore do the
wicked live?" Following is the sermon:
Poor job!
With thrusts with stings, with horns, with
hoofs, all the misfortunes of life came on
him at once. Bankruptcy, bereavementS,
standardization, eruptive disease so irritating
that he had to reinforce his ten finger nails
By q piece of esrthenware to scratch himself
withal His wife took the diagnoses OF his
complaints and prescribed for him protan-
ity. She thought he would feel better if be-
tween the paroxysms of pain and grief he
would swear little. For each boil plas.
ter of objurgation. Probably no man was
ever more tempted to take this bad advice
than was Job when at last his three exas-
perating friends, Eliphay, Bildad and
Zophar came 10 comfort him, saying in sub
stance: "You old sinner. This serves you
right. All this is because you are hypo-
critic. What sight you are God has
chastised you for your wickedness." The
disfgured iuvalid lifts his swoolen eyeids
and puts down the piece Of broken saucer,
with which he had been rubbing his arms
tells his garrulous group of friends that it is
often the wicked who have the best health
and the most prosperity and in this connec-
ZION hurls the question, which every man
and woman that ever existed has at some
coriucture of events asked.
"why do the Wicked Live?"
They build up fortunes that overshadow
the earth and confound all the life insur.
ance tables on the subject Of longevity,
some of them dying octagenarians or per-
haps nonsgensrians or possibly centen-
arians. Ahab in the palace and Nsboth
in the caoin. Unclean Herod on the
throne and Paul, the consecrated, twisting
rove for tent making. Mansssah, the
worst of all the kings Of Judea, lived the
longest While the general rule is that the
licked do not live out half their days, there
are instances where they live to grea! age
in paradises of beauty and luxury with
vi ole college of physicians expendlng It's
skill in the attempt ior further prolongetion
AID then have funeral with casket under
mountains Of Gala lily and procession
with all the finest equipsge of the city
dashing and jiugling into line, taking the
poor angle-worm of the dust out to its hole
in the ground with pomp that might make
tie passing spirit from some other world
y ink that the archangel Michael was dead
Go up among the great residences of our
cities and read the door-plates and see how
many Of them hold the names OF men
mighty for commercial or social iniquity.
Vampires of the nineteenth ;entury. Goeg-
ous Of the ages. Every wheel of their car
riage is juggernaut wet with the
blood of those sacrificed to their
avsrice aud evil design. Men
who are Ike Caligula who wished that all
reople were in one neck that he might cut it
III at one blow Oh, the slain the slain
What a procession Of ibertines, OF uslrers,
of infamous quacks, Of legal chsrlatsus, Of
world-grabbing monsters. What apostles
Of despoilstion What demons incsraate.
Thousands of men who have concentered
all their energies of body, mind and soul
into one prolonged and overintensfed and
unrelenting effort to sacrifice and blast and
consume the world. do not blame you
! for asking the quivering, throbbiug, burn
ing. resouuding appalling question of the
text: "Why do the wicked Iive%
First,
They Live to Demonstrate
beyond controversy the long suffering pa
tience Of God. You rouse up and say, 81
will not stand it any longer" but perhaps
you are compelled to stand it. God, with
all the batteries of omnipotence loaded with
thunderbolts, stands it century after century.
Sometimes | have no doubt an angel comes
up and begs that he may unlimber the bat
feries, crying Now is the time to strike
Nc" says God; wait year "Wait
twenty years" "Wait q century" "Wait
Eve hundred years" What God does is not
20 wonderful as What be does not do. He
hss enough reserve corps to sweep from the
earth MormoDism, Mohaumedsnisn, Pagan.
ism, in one day. He could take all the
frauds in New York City on the west side OF
Broadway and in an hour pitch them into
the Hudson, and all the frauds of New York
| on the east side Of Broadway and in an hour
pitch them into the East River. He under.
stands the combination lock Of every dis
honest money SAFE in christendom and could
blow it up quicker than by any earthly
explosive. Written all over the earth from
east to west and from north to south and
| Sll over history are the words Divine
patience, Divine forbearance, Divine long
suffering II i wonder to me tkat God
! did not burn up the world two thousand
years 8; and scatter the ashes through
iumensity. its aerolites dropping into other
Sorlds and kept in their museums as speci-
mans o! defunc: planet. People talk Of
God as though he we're hasty with his julg.
nents a, d snapped man up quick. MOI
Before the ancient deluge the people were
warned l20 years to get aboard Noah's ark
The Anchor line gives only a mouths
totice Of the sailing Of the Gireassia, the
White Star line only q months notice of
The sailing of the Britanirdca, the GUARD
line only q months notice Of the sailing Of
the Oregon. But the sailing OF that FIRST
'bip auder Noah, the CON nmsnder, God gave
l20 years of notice. Patience aatedilu.
Wan. Patience post diluvian. Patieoce in
times kdsmic, Mosaic, DsVidic, Pauile,
Lutheran, Whitfeldisn. Psheaos wlth
man. Patience with nst;ooa Patience
with barbarians and civilizsioas. six
thousand years Of patience. OTer;owering
attribute Of God al Of whose astr.bd es
are immeasursble:
Why do the wicked live? To max. the
overthrow Of sin more ciimscteTie. They
must pile up their mischief very 6zh 81
that whole communities NAV see II; very
high so that sll continents may see il: very
high so that al the world may see it The
higher it rises the harder it will fall, and
the greater the vindics.ion of righteousness.
Sin is not TO be permitted to sneak out Of
the world in silence. II is not merely to
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