Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-30

power Of the chain Il, my dear brother
you do not know the power q temptation
lit is because you ara bound Ind and foot
of sin and have never made tbe attempt tc
Il be emancipated.
Why,it il easy enough 10 20 Eown stream
in q boat. You can lie upon your oars
You 60 Just as the tide goes. But suppose
you turn around head up stream, then it il
not 90 easy making progress AS long al
You go down with the tide Of ssin and ini
quity, it's easy enough 10 60 tat way bu
when you turn round and head toward Goo
and heaven, then it is q strhg e. an aSfuI
struggle.
Can it be that you have neser tested
THE POWER OF TENPrAh hoS?
YOu have one kind Of tempsad you, an
other; you, another. There is st person
Sin the house bat has been ten }Led, Rheth
er you realize it or not. / atyer like &c
hear q man cay; a0h, ecnidAt be tempt
+ ed the wSy that man ia Hseould not be
tempted the way that man Isl He could
not be tempted the way you re. A hon
cannot understand why Gay should be
caught witha hook, and thst6sh cannot
understand Why the lion Shouts be caught
With trap. You May be free rom certain
kinds Of temptation, but then are other
4 kinds after you. -ss ''sA.iss -
| You see some men with q phlegmstic
temperament. "Why," you say. that man
hasn' any temptations at all, You mistake
him. He has temptations to Incidence, to
consciousness, to sink downinto mere lsti
tude and longitude ot fsttiness, to lie down
on the road Of iife, to stop great enter,
prises. He has Just as many tt temptations
in one direction as you, being OF nervous
and excitable temperament, have tsmp!s'
tons in another direction.
You will see some aged man arise in q
prayer meeting, and at eighty years OF age
he talks 50 sweetly of Christ and heaven,
sou say: THAT man has lived without
temptation" Ask him. He has as many
temptations at eighty years of age as he
had at twenty. They are only different
STYLES of temptation. Ask that aged man
whether ne has lived beyond the reach OF
the powers of darkness in this world, and
he will say it has been conflict all the
way through. ,
Sixtus was q cardinal, and he wanted
the Pontifcal chair, and history says he
pretended to be sick and crippled. He
said: "Now, if you elect me to that char,
[ shall occupy it sud l shall not live long
anyhow, and then you will pat some one
else in the chair" He was elected to that
position. He moved TO it on crutches.
Getting to the chair he threw aside the
ocutches. He said: while was hunting
for the KEYS of St. Peter, it was sPpropri-
ate that stopped; but having found the
KEYS of St. Peter, there iS no reason why
should sLoop any longer" So his
crutches were gone and he was well. Oh,
how suggestive Of temptation! 1t seems
at one time to be wan and weak and Grip
pied, but give it throne and it becomes q
tyraut to grind your soul iuto ruin.
HELP.
Well, now you say: "All persons being
tempted, what are We to do when we are
assailed of temptation? When the wave
dashes against US is there nothing to hold
on to2 Is o man to go into this war with
the world, the flesh aud the devil, with no
helpH will tell you, my friend. The
wises. thing for you to do in the day OF
temptation is, like these disciples of my
text, to go and tell Jesus. luthe eyes that
wept with the Bethany sisters | see shining
hopa. In that voice that broke the silence
of the tomb until the widow of Main got
back her son and stupendous sorrow made
up in the eyes of rspture--Aye IN that
4 voice-frhear the commGnaand the prom
! Use: Cast thy burden on the Lord and he
will sustain thee" He knows all about
temptation. Tempted in all points like as
we are Go and tell Jesus.
Again, commend this bshavior OF the
disciples in my text, to sll those who are
slandered and abused and prosecuted
When these disciples saw that Herod had
taken the head of John the Baptist, they
knew their own heads were not safe
Every John had his Herod There are
people that do not think overmuch OF you.
Your misfortunes would be honeycomb to
them. They hiss a. you through their
teeth and misiuterpret your actions. and
would be glad to see you upset They
would be the most submissive mourners at
your funeral.
PERSECUTION.
Every one comes, during the course Of
life, 10 be, pommeled. Some slander
comes at you, horned and tusked and
hoofed to trsmple and to gore you, and
you think you are peculiar in that respect.
No. "All who live godly in Christ Jesus
mus: suffer persecution" II you are able
this morning to say: 81 haven't an enemy
in all the world" it is proof positive you
have not done your duty; for when a man
does his duty, he challenges all earth and
he'll, and that challenge will bring against
him opposition and scorn and persection.
1t is SO in all circles Of life
One would have thought that if any
man ought to have been free from perse-
cution, it was George Whitfield, bringing
great masses Of the people into the king
dom of God, wearing himself out for
Christ's sake; and yet the learned Doctor
johnson called him mountebank. Rob
ert Hall preached about the glories OF
heaven as no uninspired man erpreached
about them, and it was said when be
preached about heaven, lis face shown like
angels, and yet good Christian John Fos'
ter writes OF Robert Hall saying: Rob
ert Hall is q mere actor, and when he
talks about heaven, the smile on his face is
the reflection Of his own vanity" John
Wesley stirred ell England with reform
and yet he was caricatQred By oil the email
wits Of his day. he was pictoriahzsd, his
, torg SAYS, on the board fences OF London
and everywhere he was the target for the
punsters; yet John Wesley stands TO day
. before all Christendom, his name mightiel
than any other name except "the name
that is above every other name, the name
, of Christ. And can you expect to escsp'
hardship and assault ard abuse aud Sian
der? You will not.
But what are you to do when you are
lied abou! and assaulted Are you go
, ing to hunt up the slander2 While you arr
explaining one falsekood there will be fft!
people who have just that moment hearc
: Of that particular falsehood. While yo'
t are not to omit every opportunity Of setting
yourself right, l want to tell you of On
who had the hardes. things said s5ou