Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-10
WHEELING W. VA, MONDAY MORNING MAY 10, 1886

and comfort and satisfaction and Christian
reward in your soul You are dividing the
spoil.
On Sabbath night at the close Of the
service / said to ssme persons: when
did you first become serious about your
isoulY' and they told me: Tonight
And l said to others: when did you give
your heart 10 GodH' and they said: TO.
night" And l said to still others: When
did you resolve to serve the Lord all the
days of your hfeH' aud they SAID ITO.
night" saw by their apparel that when
the grace OF God struck them they were
devouring the prey; but saw also in the
food Of joyful tears and in the kindling
rsptures on their brow and in their exhiIar-
ant and Transporting utterauces that they
were dividing the spoil. At night with one
touch OF electricity all these lights blaze.
Oh, ] would to God that the darkness Of
your souls might be broken up and that
by one quick, overwhelming, instantaneous
flssh OF illumination you might be brought
into the light and the liberty Of the the sons
OF God
You see that religion .-..
IS A DIFFERENT THING
from what some of you people supposed
You thought it was decsdence; you thought
religion was emscistion; you thought it
was highway robbery; that it struck one
down and left hun half dead; that it pluck
ed out the eyes; that it plucked out the
plumes of the soul; that it broke the wing
and crushed the beak as it came clawing
with its black talous through the air No,
that is not religion. What is religion2 1t
is dividing the epoil, 1t is taking de.
fenseless soul and panoplying it for
eternal conquest 1t is the distribution OF
prizes by tie kings hand, every medal
stamped with coronation. 1t is an exhil.
aration, an expansion. 1t is imparadisa.
ton. 1t is enthronement Religion makes
man master of earth and death and hell.
1t goes forth 10 gather the medals OF vic.
tory won by PRINCE Emmanuel, and the
disdems of heaven and the glories of
realms terrestrial and celestial, and then,
sfter ranging all worlds fer everything
that is resplendent, it divides the spoil
What was it that James Turner, the fam.
Gus English evangelist, was doing when in
his dying moment be said: Christ is all
Christ is all" Why, he was entering into
light; he was rounding the Cape of Good
II 1pe: he was dividing the spoil. What
was the aged Christian Quskeress doing
when at eighty years of age she arose in
the meeting one day and said THE
time of my departure is come. My grave
clothes are falling of" She was
D.yDNG THE SPOIL.
She louged with wings to fly away,
and mix with that eternal day
What is Daniel now doing, the lion
tamer2 and Eni4h who was drawn by the
flaming courssrs and Paul, the rafting Of
whose chains made Kings quake? and all
the other victims of flood ard FIRE aud
wreck aud the guillotine? Where are they2
Dividing the spoil.
"Ien thousand times ten thousand
In sparkling rairnent bright
The armies OF Iha Iansomed saints
ThrJng up the sleeps OF light.
"'Tis finished all is finished,
Their fight with death and sin;
LIT high your golden gates
Aqu lei the VlCtOIs III,
Oh, what grand thing it is TO be a
Christainl We begin on earth to divide
the spoils, but the distribution will not be
completed to all eternity. There is poV.
erty stricken soul, there ia beresved soal
why do you not come and get spoils of
Christian character, the comfort, the joy,
the peace, the salvation that am sent to
offer YOU in my Masters name2 Though
YOUR knees knock together in weakness,
though your hsndtremble in fear, though
your eyes rain tsars Of uncomfortable
weeping-come and get the spoils Rest
to- all the weary. Pardon for all the
guilty. Labor for all the bsstormed. Life
for all the dead | verify believe that there
are some who have come in here outcast
because the world is against them, and be
causs they feel God is against them, who
will go away today saying:
Il came 10 Jesus as vas,
Weary ant WON and sad
/ found in Him a resting-p'A?e,
And He has msde me glad
Though you came in children OF the
world, you may 60 away heirs of heaven.
Though you were devouring the prey, now,
all worlds witnessing, you may divide the
spoil.