Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-16

world; not sitting along small Creek
where eight or ten other persons are sitting
with hook and line, but, like the fisher
men of Newfoundland, sailing of and
dropping net away outside forty or nifty
miles from shore. Yes, there are non-church-
goers here who will come in. Next SAD
bath they will again be in the religious
service. They are this moment being
swept into Christian associations. Their
voice will be heard in public prayer They
will die in peace, their bed surrounded by
Christian sympathies, and be carried out
by devout men to be buried, and on their
grave be chiseled the words: Precious IN
the sight of the Lord is the death OF his
saints" And on Resurrection Day you
will get up with the dear children you
have already buried, and with your Chris
tian parents who have already won the
palm. And all that grand and glorious
history begins now. Other sheep l have,
which are not of this fold" !"
III. remark again The heavenly shep-
herd is going TO find great many OF his
sheep among those who are positive re-
iectOrs of Christianity. l do not know
how You came to reject Christian
ity. 1t may have been through hearing
Theodore Parker preach, or through read
ing Remains Life of Jesus" or through
the infidel talk of some young man i'll
your store. 1t may have been through the
trickery of some protessed Christian man
who disgusted you with religion. l do
not ask you how you became so; but you
frankly tell me that you do not reject 1t.
You do not believe that Christ is Divine
being, although you admit that He was a
very good man. You do not believe that
the Bible was inspired of God, although
YOU think that there are some very fine
things in it. You believe that the Scrip
tural description of Eden was only an allie
CORY. There are fifty things that / be-
leve that you do not believe.
And yet You are
AN ACCOMMODATING MAN.
Everybody that knows you says that OF
YOU. If should askyOu to do kindness
for me, or ifany one else should ask of you
a kindness, YOU would do it. Now have
a kindness to ask Of you to-day. 1t is
something that will cost you nothing and
will give me great delight. want YOU by
experiment to try the power OF Chrlst's
religion. If should come to you and you
were very sick, and doctors had given you
up and said there was 10 chance for you,
and ! should take out little bottle and
say: 'IIere is a medicine that will cure
YOU; it has cured fifty people, and it will
cure you;' yOu would say: Il have no
confidence in it," would say: Won't
you take it to Obligc mc?' 'Wcll,' you
would say, ''ifit's any accommodation to
YOU I'll take it," My friend, will you he
lust Us accommodating in matters of rcli-
gion?
/ IThcrc are some of you who have found
out that this world cannot satisfy your
soul. YOu are like the man who told me.
after the service was over: IL have tried
this world and found it an insufficient pOr-
tion. Tell me of something better You
have come to that You are sick tor the
need ofdivinc medicine. Now, comcand
tell you of Il physician who will cure you;
who has cured hundreds and hundreds who
were sick as You are. 'Oh, you say, Il
have no confidence in Him. Accommodate
me in this matter; ohligrmc in this matter;
lust try Him. | am very certain He will
cure YOU You reply: Il have no special
confidence in Him, but if you ask me rs 4
mattcrOt accommodation, introduce Him. "
So Introduce Him, Christ, the physician
who has cured more blind eyes and healed
more CHASTITY wounds, and bound up more
broken hearts. than all the doctor scince
the time Of AeSculapius.
THAT DIVINE PHYSICIAN
is here. Are you not ready to try Him?
Will yOu not rs pure matter OF expert
mcnt state your case before Him now?
Hold nothing back from Him. If you
cannot pray, ifyOu do not know how to
pray any other way, say: "Oh, Lord Jesus
Christ, this is a strange thing for me TO do.
| know nothing about the formulas of re-
ligion. These Christian people have been
talking 81 long about what Thou COM
mandcSt me to do. | am ready to take
whatever Thou cOmmandcSt me to take
Ii there he any power in religion, rs these
people say, let me have the advantage Of
it
Will you try that experiment? | do not
at this point of my discourse say that there
is ANYTHING in religion; but | simply say,
try it-try it. DO not take my counsel or
the counsel of any clergyman, II you deS-
pisc clergymen. Perhaps we may be talk
ing professionally; perhaps we may be pre-
iudiced in the matter; perhaps we may be
hypocritical in our utterancc; perhaps our
advice is not worth taking. Then take the
counsel of some very respectable laymen-
us John Milton, the poet; rs William
WilbertOTce. the statesman; as Isaac New
ton. the astronomer; rs Robert Boyle, the
philosopher; rs Locke, the metaphysician.
They never preached or pretended to
preach; and vet putting down, one his
telescope. and another his parliamentary
scroll. and another his electricians wire,
they all declare the adaptedncSS Of Christ's
religion to the wants and troubles of the
world. Ifyou will not take the recon-
mendatiOn of ministers of the Gospel, then
take the recommendation of highly respect
able laymen. Oh men skeptical and
struck through with unrest. would you
not like to have some of the peace which
broOds over our souls to-day? | know
ALL ABOUT YOUR DOUBTS.
| have been through them all. have
gone lIIOu4ll ill lilt NNl AltlN Z
doubted whether there is God, whether
Christ is God. have doubted whether
the Bible was true. | have doubted the
Immortality of the soul. | have doubted
NV own existence. ! have doubted every
thing; and yet, out of that hot desert of
doubt. | have come into the broad, luXur-
liant, sunShiny land of Gospel hope, and
peace, and comfort; 80 have confidence in
preaching to You and asking yOu come in.
However often You have spoken against the
Bible, or however much yOu may have
caricaturcd religion, step ashore from that
rocking and tumultuOus sea. If you go
away adhering to your infidelities, you will
not sleep one wink tonight, You do not
want your children to come up with your
skepticism. You cannot afford 10 die in
that midnight darkness, can you? If you
do not believe in anything else yOu believe
in lOve-a fathers love, a mothers love, a
wife's love, a child's love. Then let me
tell you that God loves you more than
them all Oh, you must come in. You
will come in. The great heart of Christ
aches to have YOU come in, and Jesus
this moment-whether you sit or stand
looks into your eyes and says: Other
sheep have, which are not of this fold. y
JTI Apain 7 renarE fbat the Heavenly