Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-27
WHEELING W.. VA. MONDAY MORNING. 1885.
est man in Uz. But when his property

est man in Uz. But when his property
went and
The Trials Came,
then there were none 90 much that pestered
as EGphaZ the Temsnite and Bildsd the
Shubrte, and Zophar the Naamsthite. Life
often seems to be g mere game where the
successful player pulls down all the other
men into his own lap Let suspicious arise
about q mans character, and he becomes
like bank in q panic, and all the imputa-
tons rush on him and break down in o day
that character which in due time would have
had strength to defend itself There are
regulations that have been half century in
building, which 60 down under some moral
exposure IS q vast temple is consumed by
the touch of sulphurous match. A hog
can uproot century plant. In this world
SO full Of heartlessness and hypocrisy, how
thrilling it is to find some friend IS faithful
in days of adversely as in days
of prosperity. David had such q
friend in Hushai. The Jews had
such q friend in Mordecai who never forgot
their cause. Psul had such q friend in
Onesiphorus who visited. him in Jail. Naomi
had such q one in Ruth who cried out "En-
,reat me not to leave thee or to return from
following after thee, for where thou goest l
swill 90 andRhere thou lodgest i viii lodge;
thy people shall BE my people, and thy God
my God; where thou diest will die, and
there will be buried The Lord do so to
me and more also if aught but death part
thee and me-.
Again learn from this subject that
Paths
which open in hardship and darkness often
come out in places Of Joy. Ruth started
from Moab towards Jerusalem to 60 along
with her mother in,law. l suppose the peo'
pie said: oh what foolish creature to 60
away from her fathers house to 60 of with
a poor old woman toward the land OF Ju'
dab. They won't live to get across the des,
ert. They will be drowned in the Dead Sea
or the jackals Of the wilderness will destroy
them" 1t was very dark morning when
Ruth started of with Naomi, but behold
her in my text in the harvest field of Boaz
to be affisnced to one Of the lords Of the
and and become one of the grandmothers
of Jesus Christ. And go it is thas a pa,
WHICH often starts very darkly
Ends Very Brightly.
When you started out for heaven, oh, how
dark was the hour Of convicuon-how Sinai
Numbered and devils tormented and the
darkness thickened. All the sins Of your
life Iounced npon you and it was the dark
st hour you ever saw when you first found
out our sirs After q while you went into
be harvest field of Gods mercy; you began
o CLEAN in the fields of divine promise and
sou had more shesves than you could carry,
as the voice of God addressed you saying;
Blessed is the man whose transgressions
are foreign and whose sins are covered. A
very dark starting in conviction. A very
bright ending in The pardon and the hope
AID the triumph of the Gospel.
So very often in our worldly business or
in our spiritual career we start OF on very
dark path.
We Must Go.
The flesh may shrink back but there is .
voice within or voice from above saying;
You must g" ard we have to drink the
yall and we have to carry the cross and we
have to traverse the desert and we have to
break through the thorn hedge. and we are
pounded and failed Of Misrepresentation
and abuse, and We have to urge our way
through ten thousand obstacles that have
been slain by our own right arm. We
bave to ford the river, we have to climb the
mountain, have TO storm the castle; but
blessed be God, the day Of rest and
Reward VIII Come.
On the tip top of the captured battlement
we will shout the victory; if not in this
world, then in the wo,ld where there is no
call 10 drink, no burdens to carry, no battles
10 fight. How do know it2 Know it! |
Know it because God says so. They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst OF
the throne shall lead them 10 living foun.
tsins Of water, and God shall wipe all tears
from their eyes" 1t was very hard for Noah
to endure the scofiing Of the people in his
day while he was trying TO build the ARK,
ard was every morning quizzed about his
old boat that would never be of any prsc-
tical use but when the deluge came and the
tops of the mountains disappeared like the
backs of ses-monster and the elements
lashed up in fury, clapped their hands over
drowned world, then Noah in the ark re-.
joiced in his own safety and in the safety Of
his family and looked out on the wreck OF
q ruined earth. Behold Christ, bounded
Of prosecutors, denied pillow, worse NAL
treated than The thieves on either side Of
L.. h..
satisfaction after It had been draining
His last drop Of blooi;
the sheetsd dead bursting from the ss1al.
chres at his cruciGxion. Tell ME, D, & stu
,emane and Golgotbe were there ever
darker times than those2 Like the boo N.
ing of the midnight sea against the rock
the surges Of Christs anguish beat against
the gates Of eternity to be echoed back By
all the thrones Of heaven and all the
dungeons of hell But the day Of reward
comes for Christ; all the pomp and dominion
IF this world are to be hung on his throne,
IT crowned heads ere to bow before him on
Shose head are many crowns and all the
celestial worship is 10 come up at his feet
Ike the burning Of the forest, ike the rush
ing Of the waters ike the laundering Of the
,ess; while ell heaven rising on their thrones
beat time with their sceptres. "Hallelujah
Tor The Lord God omnipetent reigneth. Hal
lelujsb, the kingdoms Of this world have be-
come Of our Lord Jesus Christ"
THAT songoi love now Low and far.
Ere long shall ~ ell from star % star
That light the breaking day which tips
The goldenspirgd Apocalypse"
Again have to learn from my subject
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