Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-29

other not, the one n Christian is hound 10
90 anywhere to q church where the uncon-
verted companion is willing TO 80, II he or
she will 90 to no other. You, of the con-
nubial partnership, are 4 Christian. You
are safe for the skies. Then it is your first
duty to secure the eternal safety of yOur
lifetime associate. Is not the everlasting
welfare of your wife impcnltent, or yOur
husband im7enitent, OF more Importance
than your church relationship? l.. not the
residence of your companion for the next
quadrillion of years mightier considera-
ton to you than the qualification OF your
ecclesiastical taste for forty or fifty years?
4 man or woman that would stop half a
minute to weigh preferences rs to whether
he or she had better 20 with the uncon-
verted companion to this or that church or
denomination, has no religion at all, and
never has had, and fear never will have.
You are loaded up with what you
SUPPOSE TO BE RELIGION,
but you are like Captain FrObisher, who
brought back from his voyage Of discovery
shipload Of what he supposed valuable
minerals, yet, instead of being silver and
gold, were nothing but common stones OF
the field, to be hurled out finally rs Use
less Mighty God In all Thy realm is
there one man or woman protesting relig-
ion, vet so stOlid, so untitled, so far gone
unto death that there would be any hesl-
fancy in surrendering all preferences be-
fore such an opportunity of salvation and
heavenly reunion? If you, Christian
wife, are an attendant upon this Brooklyn
Tabernacle, and your unconverted husband
does not come here, because
he does not like its preacher, or
its music, or its architecture, or
its uncomfortable crowding, and
goes not to any house of worship, but
would 90 if you accompany him some
where else, change your church relations.
Take your hymn book home with you to-
day. Say goodbye to your friends in the
neighbOring pews, aud go with him to any
one of hundred churches till his soul Is
saved and he joins you in the march to
heaven. More important than that ring
on the third finger of your left hand, it is,
that your Heavenly Father command the
angel of mercy concerning your husband
at his conversion, ~ in the parable OF old:
"Put ring on his hand"
No letter of more Importance ever came
to the great city of COrinth, situated on
what is called the
"BRIDGE OF THE SEA"
and glistcning with sculpture, and gated
with style of brass the magniticence OF
which the following ages have not been
able successfully to initiate, and over
shadOwed by the Aero -COrinthuS, n fortress
of rock two hundred feet high-l say no
letter ever came to that great city OF more
Importance than that letter III which Paul
puts the two startling questions: What
knOwcSt thou, . wife, whether thou shalt
save thy husband? Or how knowest thou,
o man, whether thou shalt save thy wife,
The dearest sacrifice on the part OF the one
is cheapif reScues the other. Better 90 to
the smallest, weakest, most insignificant
church on earth, and be cO-partncrs in
eternal bliss, than paSs your earthly mem
oership III most gOrgcOusly attractive
church while your companion stays out
side Of evangelical privilege. Better have
the drowning saved by 4 scow or sIoOp
than let him or her 80 down while you sail
by in the gilded cabins of Il Brtanic or n
Great Eastern.
Second remark: lfboth OF the married
couple bc Christians, but one is 50 natural
~ constructed that il is impossible to en-
low the services of particular denOmina-
lion and the other is not 80
sectarion or pmctilious, let the one less
n,rticulor 90 with the other who is very
narticular. AS for myself | feel rs much
at home in one denomination of evangeli-
cal Christians as in another, and think |
must have been born very near the line. |
like the solemn roll of the Episcopal
liturgy, and like the spOntaniety of the
McthodiSts. and | like the importance
riven to the ordinance of Baptism by the
Raptists, and | like the freedom Of the
CunrrrrationalistS, and like the govern
mcnt and sublime doctrine of the l'rcsby-
terianS. and like many of the Others Just
as GOOD as any have mentioned and |
could happily live, and preach, and die,
and he hurled from any of them. But
others are horn with so stout, and unbend-
;n~ and incyorablc n liking for some de-
nomination, that it is 4 positive necessity
they have the advantage of that one. What
they were intended to be in ccclesiasticism
yos
~, u,,.,n cn,n,
WRITTEN IN HE S'''tS VT mn" : "'. ''''h
if the father and mother had eyes Keen
enough to see it. They would not stop
crying until TINY had put INTO their handS
us playthlngS Westminster DatecniSm
or the lhirty-hlhe Artcies' Inc "noic
current OF their temperament, anu 'houSh',
and character, runs INTO one sect oi
rcligi0nists as naturally as the James
River into the chesapeake. IL would DE
torture to such persons 10 De anything
outside ofthat one church. Now, let the
wife or husband iwho Is not SO constructed
sacrifice the milder preference for the one
more inileXible and rigorous. Let the
grapevine follow the rugosltleS and SlnuoS-
tiles of the oak or hickory. Abram, the
richer in tlocks OF Christian grace, should
say to Lot, who IS Duilt on 4 smaiier sc',ie'
Let there be no strife, pray thee, De
tween me anu 'hgt' "n'' DIt"ee. I'm, my 'LaI, iI,
land before thee?" And you can he
edited and happy anywhere, go with your
companion to the church to which he or
she must 20 or be miserable.
Remark the third: If both the married