Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-16
I WHEELINC W. va MONDAY FEBRUARY 16 1885.

and Fepulsiye way and put them out OF as
sociation with other truths. They are Ike
q mad anatomist, who, wishing to demon
strate what Ean is. dissects human
body and hangs up heart in one place and
q pair Of lungs in another place and the
spleen in another place and an ankle bone
ID another place and, says: That is
man. They are only framents of man
and wrenched from. their God-sppointed
places. Evangelical religion is healthy,
Symmetrical, elljointed, roseste, bounding
Lie and you cannot by the scalpel and dis
sect;ng knife of infdelity discover what it
Is II is no more what its enemies repre-
sent it than the scare crow which the farmer
puts in his cornGeld to keep of the ravens
istbe farmer himself
They say for instance that the Presbytsr-
ians believe that God is a savage sovereign
who made some men Just to damn them
and that there are infants in hell span long.
There Is not an infdel on earth though
he had q retainer Of thous-
and dollars day who could
manage in the course of ten years to make
an honest, fair and accurate representation
Of what the Presbyterian Church believes.
II believes that God is loving and just
sovereign, and that man is a free agent.
"No, no, says. the antagonist who has
chewed up the little book Of creeds and has
the consequent .embittered stomach, IF
God is sovereign we cannot be free agents"
But we acknowledge that possibility every
where else. /, Dewitt Talmage, am free
citizen of Brooklyn-that is l 60 where l
please and when please. Yes, but have
four sovereigs over me, the highest court of
my denomination Is my ecclesiastical SOW
reign. The mayor Of the city is my muni-
cipal sovereign, the Governor Of New York
is my State sovereign, the President of the
United States is my national sovereign.
Yet with these four soyereigns in every
faculty of body, mind and soul, am
A Free Man.
II / would tomorrow walk in the corridor Of
the Mercantile Library improve my mind,
or go through the conservatory Of my
friend at Jamaica, who has blooming under
the arches of glass, flowers from all zones
and aquariums asquirm with trout and gold
fish. II l wish to pluck ripe oranges and
bananas from the branches i may
do so. And if want to 90 up to the fur
naces of one of the oil factories in Hoboken
and lump into the flames, or leap Off the
platform Of Philadelp phia express train, or
from the deck OF Fulton street ferryboat,
can do so: III leap into the Hoboken
furnaces, who is to blame? Ny friend out
at Jamaica who offers me his conserva-
tory? That is all there is in Presbyterian
ism about Gods sovereignty and mans free
agency. God rules and reigns, and has
conservatories, and he has blast furnaces.
If you want to walk in the gardens, you may,
and if you want to leap into the red,hot
eauldrons, you may. If you choose the caul-
dron rather than the conservatory who is
to blame? OF course not the one who made
the conservatory, and sent you written in
vitation TO come and spend your life among
the cactus and palm trees. We simply
mean that the empire Of the futnre will
have palace and penitentisry.
All our cities have their penitentiaries.
Suppose some one had a charmed key by
which he could gothrough the United States
and open Raymond street Jail, and New
York tombs, Moyamensing prison OF Phila-
delphia, and all the dungeons and peniten.
tiaries, what would become Of this country
in three weeks2 Now the empire Of the
future has its penitentiary. Suppose all
the culprits of that penitentiary should be
let out and enter the new Jerusalem.
The first morning the gate OF pearl would
be found of its hinges. The Inch pins
would be out of. the chariot wheels. The
house of many mansions would be burglar
lied. Angels of God would be insulted on
the street Assault and battery and liber-
tinism and assassination in the capital OF
the skies. Heaven will be failure if there
be not somewhere a great lookup, il all
get TO Heaven without reference to what
their character was when they left the earth
wonder if in the heavenly temple Charles
Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth occupy
The Same Pew.s
saw a photograph in Arkansas Of cap.
sised railroad train. Some villains had
taken up the track near railroad bridge
and the train had gone thirty feet down and
killed about twenty people mostly women
and children. When the desperadoes who
pulled up the track get to Heaven | wonder
if their thrones will be anywhere near the
people they slswP If a murderer breaks
into house and massacres q whole family
and the police hearing the disturbance,
rush upon the scene and PIT bullet
through the skull Of the rufisn, will they
all, the slain and their slayer, arrive in
glory about the same time? Hou all see
that il is only common sense that there
should be two destinies. And as to infants
in bell a span long, that is falsebood that
comes down from the past and there is no
sign that its longevity will ever fail II
you will, bring me Presbyterian in sound
mind and of good morals who believes that
there has ever been a baby or ever will be
baby in the lost world will make over to
that man deed of all the property i have
and he can take possession tomorrow.
The ANTAGONISTS Of evangelical religion
say that the Episcopal church substitutes
forms and ceremonies for heart religion
and il is all a matter Of liturgy and genutec.
tions. False again. All genuine Episco-
palians will tell you that the forms and cere-
monies of their church are nothing unless
the heart be in them. / never have been
more overwhelmed with religious feelings
than when heard at Sharon Springs our
neighbor, DR.. Schenck, with voice like
band of music, read that passage from the
prayer book than which nothing sublimer
was ever written: "By the mystery Of thy
holy Incarnation; by thy holy Nativity and
circumcision; by thy Baptism, Fasting and
Temptation; by thine agony and bloody
sweat; by thy cross and passion; BY thy
precious death and burial; BY thy glorious
resurrection and ascension and BY the COM
ing of the Holy Ghost. In all time Of our
tribuIation; in all time of our prosperity; in
the hour Of death and in the day Of judg-
ment,
Good Lord Deliver U.s."
The antagonists Of the Baptist church say
that they believe only those will go to heay-
en- who are baptized by immersion. False
again. They believe that all who accept
Christ, whether they be baptized BY one drop
on the forehead or bya pianse out Of sight in
the Ohio or SusQaehanha, viii reach heaven.
although the latter mode Is the only gate