Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-04
COMING TO THE CROSS.
Mr.. MOODY'S GREAT WORK INCREASING IN
POWER,
And Many Sinners Drawing Nearer Home After
JOurneying Many Days in the Dark
Two Fine Sermons Yesterday.

Mr.. MoOdy's methods of bringing PEG.
pie to Christ are rapidly telling in Wheel
ing and already great good has been &C
complished, while the great awakening is
increasing in volume every day and there
is no telling what grand result will be at,
tanned before the close of the series.
Gradually, but surely the cold, cynical un'
believers who have never taken any stock
in such movements and have always hung
OH the outside of the crowd, are being
drawn closer and closer to the magnet, and
before the week is over we may hope Ia
see many of them brought under the full
influence of the word of GOO and saved
| from sin.
THEIR EYES BEING OPENED.
Even people who thought they were
Christians before are having their eyes
opened still wider to the grand and glor-
iOus possibilities of the good work, and
becoming awakened are entering into the
work of saving souls rs they never imag-
iued they could, at each afternoon
llitll SiN$'iNi
and clearer to them.
Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock the
First Presbyterian church was crowded to
the doors, all the seats being occupied and
all available standing room rs well.
Chapline street, from Fourteenth to
Twelfth was lined with carriages,
while number of people came in
on the trains. The meeting
was q grand one and was undoubtedly pro-
ductive of more good than any meeting
yet held under Mr. Moody's direction.
His talk was something convincing as well
as beautiful and he talked right to the
hearts of Christian workers and gave them
the advice they are so much i'll need OF.
Mr.. Moody's afternoon talks show them
selves in the night meetings. The service
was opened by singing, Hank, Ifark, My
Soul" after which prayer was offered by
Rev. Barr, of the Third Presby terian
Church 4 solo and chorus, 80, Lord Je-
sus, How Long" by Prof TOwneT
and the choir, followed. Rev Donublaser
offered fervent prayer and, 81 am Thine,
I q, Lord, have heard Thy voice. was sung
SIR. MOODY's TALK.
Mr.. Moody began by remarking that he
/ had spoken on the Word of God and this al
ternoon the Spirit of God would he taken
up. We must have both together, said he,
for the Word without the Spirit would
prove unavaiing There is no man or wO-
man but has desire to work TOR God.
Show me q man full of the Spirit and
will show you man with power. The
Spirit is in the world for purpose Christ
came into the world to teach and convince
the world Of sin. Many people don't like
to be shown themselves and therefore
don't like Holy Ghost preaching, and
have seGu people get Up and 90 GGt nf The
church when you'd preach the Holy Ghost
to them. That is the Spirit of God
ut work, when he make.
people feel badly. 1t ISM
bad sign when man becomes cross after
! listening TO n sermon. / would rather have
him feel badly than TO sae him "a 90 sleep
It is q Sigh that he has heen touched. My
difficulty is TO get people TO believe, because
very seldom people think II is themselves
the Spirit of God is at work upon, but al
ways think the sermon would exactly suit
some of their neighbOrs. What we want
is the Holy Ghost in our preaching. Gabrie
might come down
FROM THE GLORY OF HEAVEN
and if the Holy Ghost wasn't here his ser
mons wouldn't have any effect. 1t take
the Holy Ghost to make people believe il
the terrible sin of unbelicf. There wOuldu't
he thief, murderer or villain II 1t wasn't
for unbelief. Many people try to make
themselves love God, but not unit
the Holy Ghost sheds His love abroad ear
we love God. If n man is full of the Holy
Ghost he will be full of Joy, meekness and
love- You might as we'll tell man tC
Jump over one Of your highest mountain:
as to tell him to pray for one of his enc
mics if he hasn't tho love of God in his
heart 1t takes the love Of God TO love q
man who abuses and ISLANDERS his fellow
man. If man is full o
the Holy Ghost he is full OF hope. ia
minister goes into the pulpit devoid o
hope he cannot expect to do any good Will
his congregation, rs they will soon he il
the same condition. You never saw Coo
use 4 man that wasn't full of hope. Chris
has decided that every man shall bow
down 10 Him and the voice Of man shall
be the echo of the voice of God. The
Spirit of God gives liberty, which is one Of
the essentials Of good work. We have tot
much stiffness and
NOT ENOUGH LIBERTY.
Go into the pulpit and You find no liberty
Go into the prayer meeting and you fine
the same state of things. There is Away:
liberty where the Spirit of God is, tn,
trouble is, you don't lie
the Spirit have the. right of way
We have fallen into an age of criticism
We are beginning to think that all tina
constitutes Christian is TO hear two ser
mons week, then pick them all TO pieces
one don't like this and another don't Xix,
that-If n new minister comes to preach
they criticise him and discuss him, never
paying attention to the truths in his ser
mons. Then after they pick the sermons
and the preacher to pieces, they turn
around and wonder why there isn't NOR,
conversions. The Spirit is not dowr
here to teach about himself but abOut
Christ. You may preach with the elo
Of DemOsthenes, but if you havn't
the Sn;Si' ofGNd YOU will make no CONVEX
sions sympathy for, or faitl
in n, SSes to be Christian
goipd ing departed spir
of getting int
tables and chair