Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-02

Tsrshish bringing cargoes for Jesus, an
the hard, dry, barren, Winter-bleached
storm-scarred, thundersplt rock, -breakinl
into foods of bright water. Deserts int
which dromedaries thrust their nostrils be
cause they we're afraid of the simeon, dea
erts blooming into carnation roses and sil
ver-tipped lilies 1t is the old story. Every
body tells it. Isaiah told it, John told il
Ezekiel told it, Luther told it, Calvin told it
john Milton told il, every body tells it; anc
yet-and yet when the midnight shall fy
the hills, and Christ shall marshal hil
great army, and China, dsshing hel
idols into the dust, shall hear the voice
of God and wheel into line; India, destroy
ing her juggernaut and S1atching up hei
little children from The Ganges, shall heal
the voices of God and wheel into line; and
vine-covered Italy and whea.-crowned Rus.
sia, and all the nations of the earth, shall
hear the voice Of God aud fall into line;
then the church, which has been toiEng
and struggling through the centuries.
robed aud garlanded like bride adorned
for her husband, shall put aside her veil
and look up into the face OF her Lord the
King and say: The halt-the half was
not told mep
Well there is coming
A GREATER SURPRISE
to every Chsistian-a greater surprise than
anything have depicted. Heaven is an
old story. Everybody talks about it,
There is hardly hymn in the hymn.book
that does no; refer to it. Children read
about it in their Sabbath school book.
Aged men put GU their spectacles to study
it. We say 1t is a harbor from the storm.
We cali it our home. We say il is the
house of many mansions. We weave TO-
geiher all sweet, beautiful, delicate, exhil.
arsnt words; we weave them into letters,
and then we spell Ii out in rose and lily
and amaranth. And yet that place is 20,
ing to be surprise 10 the most Intelligent
Christian. Like the Queen of Sheba, the
report has come to US from tar country,
and many of us have started. 1t is q des.
ort march, but we urge on the camels.
What though our feet be- blistered with the
vsy2 We are Fastening 10 the palace
We take all our loves, and hopes and
Christian ambitions as fraukincense and
myrrh aud csssia to the great King We
must not rest. We must not halt. The
night is coming on, aud it is not safe out
here in the desert. Urge on the csmels. l
see the dome against the sky, aud the
houses OF Lebanon, and the temples, and
the gardens. See the fountains dance in
the sun, and the gates fash as they open
10 let in the poor pilgrims. Send the word
up to the palaces that We are coming and
that we are weary Of The march Of the
desert The King will come out end say:
Welcome 10 the palace; ba,he in these
waters, recline On these banks. Take this
cinnamon and frankincerse and myrrh
ard put it upon eenser ard swing il be-
fore the sliar." And vet, my friends,
when heaven burs.1 upon US it will be 4
greater surprise than ,hat--JesuG on the
throne and we made like him' All our
Christian friends surrounding US in glory
All our soSrcws AMI tears and sins gone by
FOREVER! The ihoussnds of thousands, the
one hundred and forty and four thousand,
he great muldtudes that no man can NUN
Der, will cry world without end: The half
the half was moi told us. i"