Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-22

Scr;pture is as a two edged sword 10 an
ether sitting by his side, it is the bread OF
life and INV condition, morally, determines,
which II is:-whether it is bread or wheth-
or II is a sword. The Bible itself Is like
Christ himself
AN OPEN SECRET.
Jesus stood before a company OF men on
one occasion and he said to some OF them:
''Whom say We, that ami" And they
said. YOU are the son of harlot, ana an
imnosfor. He turned to Simon Peter, stand
ing by, and said, Simon Peter, whom say
We that l amp / wish l could have
looked at Simon Peters face as IL flashed
with heavenly radiance and light as he an
swered: ''Thou art the Christ, the Son oil
the living God" Oh! what blessed Scrip
ture that is, that turns every sword IN
the word of God into bread and
lets me eat it and rejoice. Brethren, II you
be children of God there is a great deal OF
comfort in this text. Now, this is a par
tieularly difficult text, and you must ald
me by your prayers; and trust COD Will,
by His spirit, throw light on His word: 1
believe l would rather make partial fall-
ure ON this text than to succeed on any
other text. ''WhosOeyer is born OF God
doth not commit sin; for His seed remain
eth in him and he can not sin. reckon
we might as we'll spend n moment here on
what we call
THE NEW BIRTH,
or regeneration. The divine side of this
question, | never touch at all. believe
nv Savior never touched it but once, and
He did it on that occasion, at midnight,
when there was but one man to hear HIM.
And when he mentioned it to him, giant
i'm intellect, he staggered back and Shd,
How can these things be?' And Jesus
seemed sorry he mentioned it at all. Oh!
the wonderful things God would impart to
us, if we Just had the eyesight to see, the
ears to hear, and the minds to understand
them! think know what the human
side of being born again is.
We have wonderful country over here,
our America. We have thrown our doors
open to the world. Weinyite to the liber-
ties and blessings of America every nation
ality.. am sorry anybody shoHld lie so as
to saw that don't believe 4 German has q
soul, and that German was brute. We
throw our doors open and invite all man
kind as our brethren to come in. am
clad to say that some of the best friends
have in the world are Frenchmen, Irish
men, Germans and Italians. Thank God
for friends of every nationality. We
THROW OPEN OUR DOORS
TO these. our brethren. They can never be,
,itiyapc until fhAN- n "a horn
again. How do they do that? The day
they step upon American soil and
renOunce their allegiance to the mother
country, the Frelchman to France, the
Irishman to Ireland, the German to Ger
many,-they all renOunce their allegiance
to that old government, and tOrSwcar it,
and take the oath of allegiance to Oul
Grand government. Just rs soon rs they
renOunce their government and swear al
| leriance to our government, an lriShman
German or Frenchman, rs the case may
be, dies Oh the spot, and free American
is born. And the day Il sinner stands NJ
| before God, and renOunceS his allegiance Il
the devil, and swears allegiance to JeSu
Christ. that day sinner dies, and q saint i
| born to God That is what we mean b.,
/ being born again. There are great man!
people in the church that have never beel
! born again. There are too many German
come over here that have never been bOrl
again They interject their ideas into on
social life and all Of the trouble We have il
this country
GROWS OUT OF THAT FACT.
Look at these Communists and Anarchists
and | see by the morning papers that sevel
of them are to forfeit their lives for thei
bad conduct. Thank God that We still
have power in this country to enforce th
laws. Cries of amen" You know tina
was no American idea, that dyna
mite business. You know tina
Socialism and Anarchy were no
born in this country. If every IOreigne
had been born again when he stepped upol
this soil, we would not have had this
AMI if everybody bad been born agail
when they entered the Church, we wOulC
not have had 80 many liars, card player
and whOremongers in the Church
"WhOSOever is born of God; whOSOever ha
renowned his allegiance to the world, the
| flesh and the devil, turned his back on i
all, and sworn eternal allegiance to Jesu
| Christ and the right, that man Is bOrl
again; and he cannot commit sin. A lOya
| American can never commit treason againS
! the United States He must renOunc
his allegiance first Let us take com
mon sense view of this matter this morn
ing. brethren; every Christian that ha
been born again; every foreigner tina
stands on American soil to-day, who is a
American, let him be Chinaman, French
man or Italian. Thank God for every
FOREIGNER ON AMERICAN SOIL.
that is born again. And thank NOBODY
but the devil for the other class; Laugh
ter. and am not in the habit of thank
inc him for anything, 50 there is no thank
ing about it. My home and native lanC
are as dear to me as the apple of my eye
| know the newspa pers can garble what
say and misrepresent me, but | tell yOl
the congregations to which | preach be
lieve they understand me. If newspaper
could have hurt me j would have bee
dead long ago. If such little whippcr
snapper, One-horse editors rs tn
one here on the grOun
yesterday with his
| SHIRT-TAIL FULL OF TYPE,
could have their way, would have bee
dead long ago. have been swallowed b.
whales and guawed at by mmnOws, bu
this is the first place | have ever bee
troubled with ants. Brother BOdley hal
lOoS amen; and expect many one wOul,
hallOO the same, if he would halloo his sen
timents. Right is right, and know broth
rem, that if l please the politicians an,
newspapers of this country, will diSpleas
God. am going to please God. Let tn
newspapers and politicians howl. That
my doctrine. Cries Of Amen, Amen.
The newspapers say they made me, an,
l asked an editor one day if he
COULD MAKE ANOTHER ONE LIKE Me;
and he said he couldn't Said they hadn'
any more dirt. If there is anything
despise it is n dull time. Stagnation is tn
last station this side Of damnatiOn. Thi
country is nearly to the last station +
stagnation. God, waken us up
Born again. Called the son
of God. Therefore the worlC
knows us not, because it knew him not
Here called the Sons of God, and it does no
yet appear what we shall be, but we know
that when He shall appear We shall be lik