Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-23

not how you can stand it down in
that moping, bilious, saturnine, worldly
association. Come up into the sunlight OF
Christian sOciety-those people for whom
all things are working right now, and will
work right forever. tell you that the
sweetest japOnicas grow in the Lords gar
den; that the largest grapes are from the
vineyards of Canaan; that the most spark
ling floods break forth from the Rock OF
Ages. Do not too much pity this Ruth OF
my text; for she is going to become joint
owner of the great harvest fields of BOaz.
3. Once more: If we want TO become
Christians, we must like Ruth in the text,
CHOOSE THE CHRISTIANS DEATH AND
| BURIAL.
| She exclaimed: ''Where thou diest will /
die, and there will be buried" think
we all, when leaving this world, would
like to be surrounded by Christian inhu-
ences. You would not like to have your
dying pillow surrounded by caricaturists,
and wine bibbers. How would you like
| TO have John I.eech come with his London
pictorials, and Christopher North with his
! loose fun, and Tom Hood with his rhyming
| jokes, when you are dying! No! No!
! No! Let me have Christian nurse i'll my
| last sickness. Let me have q Christian
physician TO administer the medicines.
| Let it be 4 Christian wife, or parent, or
child, that watches the going out OF the
tides of the mortal existence. Let Chris
tian men come in the room and read OF the
Illuminated valley, and the eXtinguishmcnt
of grief, and drown the hoarse blasts OF
death with the strains Of Mount Pisgah'
and Saint Martin"
In our last moment we will all be chill
dren. Said DIR. Guthrie, the famous
Scotch clergyman, when dying; Sing me
bairn's hymn" Yes,
WE WILL ALL BE CHILDREN THEN.
In that hour the world will stand con-
founded around us. Our frien ds may cry
over us; tears will not help us. They may
look sad; what We want is radiation in the
last moments, thinking it will help them
TO die. In our last moments we want that
bread which came down from Heaven.
Who will give it to us? Oh, we want
Christian people in the room 50 that If our
hope begins to struggle they may say:
Courage, brother! All is we'll! Courage"
In that expiring moment want to hear
the old songs that we used to sing in
church and prayer-meeting. In that last
moment want to hear the voice Of some
Christian friend pleading that the sins and
shortcomings of my life may be forgiven,
and the doors of heaven may be opened be-
fore my entranced spirit.
Come sing me of Heaven,
When I'm about To die;
Sing songs of holy ecStacy,
To wait my soul on high.
Yes; Christian people on either side the
bed, and Christian people at the foot Of the
bed, and Christian people to close my eyes,
and Christian people to carry me out, and
Christian people to look after those whom
leave behind, and Christian people 10 re-
member me little while after Am gone.
"Where thou diest, will die and there
will be buried
Sometimes an epitaph covers up more
than it expresses. Walking through
Greenwood Cemetery | have sometimes
seen
AN INSCRIPTION
which impressed me how hard the sculptor
and friends were trying to make out a
good story in stone | saw from the III
ScriptiOn that the man or woman buried
there had died without hope. The lnScrlp-
tion told me the man was member OF
Congress, or bank president, Or some
prominent citizen, but said nothing about
his souls destiny. The body is nothing.
The soul! the soul! And here by this in
scriptiOn see that this man was born
II 49, "a tINH,.
years on earth, and no Christian hope
oh. if in all the cemeteries of your city the
graves OF those who have gone out OF tins
world unprcpared should SighOn the wind,
who would have the nerve to drive through
such place? all those who have gone
out of this world unpreparcd could come
back to-day and float through this All,
telling the story of their discontinue, this
audience would fall Hat on its face, asking
TO be rescued from the avalanche OF horror.
My hearers, do you wonder that this
Ruth of my text made the Christian'S
choice aud closed it with the ancient form
of imDrecation upon her own soul, 1t she
ever tOrSOOk Naomi: The Lord do 80 10
me and more also, if aught but death part
thee and me-" They Were TO live together.
Come the iackalS, come the bandits, roll
on Dead Seal My hearers, would You not
like to be with your Christian friends for
ever? Have there not gone out persons
from your household whom you would
like to spend eternity with? They
were mild, and loving and gen
tie, and beautiful, while here.
You have no idea that the joys OF heaven
have made them worse, Choose their
Christ, and you may have their heaven.
They went in washed through the blood OF
the Lamb. and you must have the same
glorious ablution. With holy violence
put my hands on you to-day, to push you
ON toward the Immediate choice Ct this
only Saviour. Have Him you must, or
perish world without end. Elect this mo-
ment as the one of cOntritiOn and trans
port. Oh, give one intense, earnest, be-
iieving, loving gaze into the wounds open
ed for YOUR eternal salvation.
Some of you | confront for the first and
the last time until the Judgment, and
then We shall meet. Will you he ready?
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