Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-13

Irving was dead, they found little box that
contained braid OF hair and miniature
and the name of Matilda Hoffman and a
memorandum of her death and remark
something like this: The world after that
was blank 10 me. ! went into the coun.
try but found no place Of solitude. | tried
TO 60 into society but found no place in
society. There has been horror hanging
over ne by night and by day and | an
afraid to be alone"
How many
Unuttered Troubles
at this hour! No human ear has ever
heard that sorrow. o troubled soul | want
to tell you that there is one salve that can
cure the wounds of the heart and that is
the salve made out of the tears Of sym
pathetic Jesus. And yet some OF you will
not take this solace; and you try chlorsl,
and you try morphine, and you try story
drink, and you try change OF 81 enc. and
you try new business associati" ma and sny.
thing and everything ra.E or than to take
the Divine cOmpani'' ship and sympathy
suggested by the " ords Of nv text when i
says; "Oh that Iii might understand some.
.n,Gg @ oi ;ae eight, and depth, and length
ana a. n pfeaV H. and immensity and infnity Of
uCu ".ernal consultations
e. further and fndip my subject hint
astO
~. Wy so Many People Fail of Heaven.
''e are teld that heaven has twelve gates
ard some people inter from that fact th..t
all the people will 60 in without reference
TO their past life; but what is the use OF hsv.
ing gate that is not sometimes to be shut.
The swinging Of a gate implies that our
entrance into heaven is conditional 1t is
not monetary condition. If we come to
the door OF an exquisite concsrt we are not
surprised that we must pay a fee. for we
know that fine, earthly music is exeripence,
but all the oratorios of heaven cost nothing.
Heaven pays nothing for its music. 1t is
all free. There is nothing 10 be paid at that
door for entrance: hut the condition Of our
getting into heaven is our bringing our
divine Benjamin along with us. DO you
notice how often dying people ca..l upon
JESUS? It's the usual PRAYER offered, the
PRAYER offered more than all the other
prayers put together.
Lord Jesus, hecsiye My Spirit.
One Of my congregation when asked in the
closing moments of his hre, "Do you know
rst' taid "Oh yes, know you God bless
YOU. Good bye Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit" and he was gone. Oh, yes; in the
closing moments of our life we must have
Christ TO call upon. If Jacobs sons had
gone up toward Egypt and had gone with
the very finest equipsge and had not taken
Benjamin along with them and to the quea'
lion they should have been obliged to an
swer, "Sir, we didn't bring him, as father
could not let him go; we didn'r want 10 be
bothered with him." A voice from within
would have said, "Go away from US; you
shall not have any Of this snpplyi you shall
not see my face because your brother is not
with YOU And if we come up toward the
door OF heaven at last, though we come
from all luxuriance ard briiiiancy oi sur
roundings, and knox for admittance and il
ia found thst Christ is not -ilh us, The police
of heaven will beat Us back from the bread.
house, saying
"Depart, Never Kn~w lo1."
Il Jacobs aona coming loSGrd Egypt had
lost everything on the way; il thcy had ex
pended their Ian shekel; if ihey bad come
up utterly exhausted to the corn cribs OF
Egypt, and it had seen found that Benjamin
was with them, al the storehouses would
have swang opc2 before them. And 50
though bY fatal casualty we may be ashercd
into the eternal world; though We may be
weak and exhausted by prOtractei sickness,
if in that last moment we can only just stag.
ger and fairt AID fail into the gate of hea"cn
it seems that eli the corncr!bs OF heaven
will open for our need and all the palaces
w:ll open for cur reception; and the Lord OF
that place seated at his table and all the
angels Of God seated at their table and the
martyrs seated at their table, and all our
glorifed kindred seated at our table, the
King shall pass . portion from his table 10
ours and then, while we think OF the fact
that il was Jesus who started us On the road,
and Jesus who kept ms on the way, and
! Iesus who at last gained admittance for our
.oul, we shall be glad il He has seen Of the
travail Of His soul and been satisfied, and
20; be at all Jealous If II be found that our
divine Bsnamins nIsss is five times larger
than all the rest. Hail, anointei Of the
Lord Thou art worthy.
Ny friends, you see it is either Ch.ist or
famine. II there were two banquets spread
and to one Of them only you might
20, you night stand and think for
good while as to which invitation you had
better accept; but here it is teastng or
starvation. If there were two mansions OF.
fered and you might have only one, you
might think Tor long while saving: "I'er-
haps ! had better accept this gift and per
taps I had better accept that gift. Dlt
hc-e it is choice between palaces of light
and novels of despnir. l. it were a choic"
between oratorioa you might say: i prefer
the Creation or ] prefer the Messiah
Sat here it Is choice between eternal har-
mony and everlasting disccrd. oh, will you
live or die? VII you sail into the harbor
or drive on the rocks VIII you start ior
he Egyptian ccrn cri5 or vii you perish
amid the empty barns OF she Canaanit:sh
iumne?
What shall be the
Destiny
OF all my aude-ce? misht peer into TIE
a&i see here and :here "a per
son that / we'll ,tnOw and make up my
mind as to wha- direction or street they
may take in yong home. Some Of thsm
may never have met before. some of then
NAV never meet again We just touch
and pass of. Sod, beiiaye, through this
sermon, has shown you your need, and the
only source Of ,apply; and yet some as de-
libe7stely make their ogn choice as though
they had ths;r pocket certificate trcm
throne Of heaven war-antinS that they
would haze a hundred years yet in which TO
discuss this Cuesrion and decide it. There
is but a step between you and death. There
is but a step between you and your last coll
Of mercy. There is but one step between
yaa and the loas OF an eternal soul. And
70 meet you and put my haad on Jour
shoulder and beg you 10 accept Chris; and
prepare 70. heaven. Ca, the two records
,he record made on earth and the record
made in heaven. Oh, what q tremendous
moment this Gates of mercy cloalng.
Messenger angels rstrcatiag. The Holy
Spirit oeasing his last plea to the heart.
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