Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-06
this arbor for our souls on the way to glory
we ought to have good many
Pine Rrauches.


we ought to have O good many
Pine Branches.
"Now, pine, you know, is healthful, aro-
matte and an evergreen. 1t has often been
the case that 'invaids have been sent into
the regions where the pine grows and they
have come back thoroughly well. 1t is .
frequent prescription on the part Of physi-
clans to say "go for few weeks amid the
pines and you will be better" Now, we
want in this gospel arbor pine branches
We want something that means health, aro-
ma and evergreen. This is very healthy
religion. have known an old christian
with no capital Of physical health and carry
ing about him all the respectable diseases
that one can carry and yet kept alive by no
thing at all but his religion. He did not
est enough to sustain child. he lived on
beverage of hosannas. He lived high be.
cause every day he dined with the King.
l could not understand his exhilaration un.
til found out that he lived in an arbor Of
pine branches-gospel pine branches. Oh,
it is q healthy religion. 1t is healthy for
the head. 1t is healthy for the heart. 1t
is healthy 70. the lungs. 1t is healthy for
the liver. It's heslty for the whole man.
,rees sse isnlessea s's-s-li Of t. Nov )tfcfo
antheSHsSeGpns. They arsei Just enough
religion to make1o;, discolk or to bother
them; but ! meaii, 70 q. <t.halstion-a full
draught from the breatB'of pine branches
in God'smount What is living, bounding
exuberan, undying, immortal health, but
This Gospel is Ever Green
rkat tha
forest care for the snow on it's browH 1t
merely considers it crown of glory. You
cannot freeze out the pine forest, and this
grace of God is Just as good in the winter Of
trouble as it is in the summer OF prosperity
1t is the religion you want-not dependent
upon weather or upon change. There are
some of you who feel that you have had
more than your share Of trouble. All the
troubles seemed to come together in your
life and you may be as badly of as Muckel
backet, the fisherman who was chided for
mending his boat on the same day that his
boy was buried. They said 1T is indecent
for you to be working at your boat when
your child was Just buried this afternoon"
And he looked up in the man 8 face and
said: "What am to do? Shall / allow
the five to starve because one Of them is
drowned2 1t is well enough for you Gen.
tiles to sit in your houses with your hsndker-
chiefs at your eyes, to talk that way when
you have grief, but the like of US maun to
our work though our heart beat like this
hammer" Oh, yes your bereavements and
your poyerties and your distresses may all
have come at once. But want to tell ySu
of
Gospel That is Full of Life,
full of comfort, full o! peace. You have
tried everything else. You have tried the
world, you have tried human sympathy.
Come now and try the holy gospel / have
read OF Cardinal who was very fond Of
money and during bis sickness he used to
ask that basin OF gold be brought 10 him
and then he would thrust his equity hands
in the gold and amuse himself and cool his
hands By turning over the gold in the basin.
What a vain attempt There is nothing in
all the silver and the gold and the honors
and the en- oluments of this world, however
brisBly you may turn them over, TO soothe
a perturbed spirit. You cannot be consoled
in that way. You want something mightier
than the worlds gains to sppesse your sor.
row. Come and get this consolation. A
young prir ce refused to play with any but
kings and | wish you would this day throw
aside all other solsces and try this regal
satisfaction. Come my friends and neigh.
bors and try religion which is as good in
the winter Of troubse as IL is in the summer
Of prosperity. 1t is glorious and evergreen.
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branches and make booths.
The hill of Zion Yields
thousand sacred sweets
Before reach the heavenly fields
On walk the golden strees."
Nv text suggests still further that this sr-
Dor of Christian grace ought to have IN Il q
good many
Palm Branches
You know that is fayorite tree at the
East. The ancients used to make 1t into
800 uses. The fruit is conserved. The sap
becomes beverage. The stones are ground
up as food for camels. The base Of the
leaves is twisted into rope. Baskets and
mats are made out Of it, and from the root
to the tip top of the palm it is all useful
ness. 1t grows eighty.fve feet in height, is
colunnar, its fringed leaves sometimes four
or FIVE yards long, and the sneients used to
carry 1t in professions as synbol ot VIC
tory. Oh, for more palm branches in our
gospel srbor Usefulness and victory!
Head, heart, tongue, pen, money, social po'
sitioL-all employed for God. Counsel is
often given on worldly matters-about in
vestments-that you must not pat all the
eggs in one basket; but IN this matter Of
religion, wish that We might
Give all. to God
and get in ourselves.
Oh" says some msn, my business is to
sell o.!ks and calicoes." Then sell silks
and calicoes a.c:- the glory OF God. Says an.
other man; MY business is to edit news
paper" Then edit newspaper for the
glory of God. Says another man: my
business is to raise corn and carrots.
Then raise corn and carrots for the glory Of
God. Says another mau: MY business is
to manufacture horse shoe nails. Then
manufacture horse shoe nails for the glory
of God. Anything that a man san
not do for the glory of God,
be has 10 right to do. The vast
majority of professed Christians in this day
90 not amount 10 anything. lou neVe W
shovel them eff the track before the chariot
of Gods grace can advance. What we
want in the church now Is not weeping Wi.
lows, sighing and weeping BY the water
courses, adniring their long fringes 10 the
glass of the stream; not bickories tull OF
inots; not wild cherry dropping bitter fruits;
but palm trees adapted to 800 purposes,
root, trunk, branch, leaf producing some.
thing for God and men and angels. Oh,
am sick and tired of this weak, sentimental,
satin-siippered, fussy, hoity-toity religion:
II amounts to nothing in this world and
will amount to nothing in the world TO
come. Five hundred Rsn and women IN
Brooklyn knowing nothing but Christ and
the value Of the soul can capture this city
for God in three years. Ten thousand men
and women Of the faH standard Of Christian
zeal could take this whole earth for Christ
in ten years. Ny brother when are you GO
ing 10 work and when an going to work.
Ledyard, the grest traveller, bad set before
him By geographical society very an.
portant work Of exploration in Africa and
after they had shown him what they wanted