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

expect IL, 100. Anu dnOtueI tulnS II yOu
are what you profess to be you will not be
very sensitive. have quit getting mad.
I love everybody that walks the earth.
You find me man that / don't love and
bring him up here and will hug him till
he halloos on the spot think the Lord
loves everybody, but 1 think there are
some people he don't admire much. There
is nobody don't love, but there are some
people can't admire much. If they tell
a lie on me, am so glad it is lie, that
can't get mad. And when they tell the
truth on me, am so sorry it is the truth,
that can't get mad. And l just stay in
a good humOr
ALL THE TINE.
Once a crowned Prince of Europe turned
his boy over to tutor to manage and edu-
Gated him: and the tutor was at loss to
know how to manage the boy. Of course
he could not use the rod ON the son of a
King, and he made bow of ribbon and
pinned it on the lapel of the boys coat.
The boy said, what is that for?" The
tutor said, that is a sign that you are the
son of King" And whenever the boy
did wrong the tutor took it from
him, and when he saw this
likely to be done he would beg the
tutors pardon, and ask that this badge OF
princely character should not be taken
from him. And st. Paul says: II bear
about with me the marks" &c And what
do we want to curse and gamble and dance
and carouse with this world for? Let us
oct where saints and angels and God live.
Thank God there are joys that satisfy and
sanctify the mind. We have noticed, first,
the princely character Of the Christian
secondly, we notice his purity. like a
pure mana pure woman.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they
shall see God. The religion that comes
from above is pure, then peaceable, and
then gentle and easy to be entreated.
Purity of heart and life, that is what we
want. About the hardest thing ever
man tried to do is to be good man with a
bad heart, to be
A CHRISTIAN WITHOUT RELIGION.
A sort of mugwump anomaly. There is
no mugwumpism about religion; you have
| got TO be it out and out or nothing. Purity.
Now there is Il great deal said i'll this coun-
try about holiness. InOtice another thing,
it is pretty hard to keep in good humor
with fellow that has more religion than
he has sense. When one of these holiness fell
! lows gets up and says he can't sin, you
! Jump on him in minute. And yet God
SAYS you can't sin. And they are higher
up than YOU are. Common sense ana re-
| ligion That old brother that prayed for
that combination was about right. The
old fellow got down one night and COM
menced to pray, "0h, Lord, give us COM
mon sense" And | hallOOed, amen"
And he prayed the same prayer, and |
hallooed, "Amcn." And l would have
halloocd amen if he had stayed there and
prayed that prayer until morning. We
have some good people that are very mod
est.
Twill give youanillustration. Ipreach-
ed once on
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
and of course | said some things pretty
rough. Yes, sir, said some pretty rough
things | expect if Jesus hadn't had
pretty rOughcrOwd around him hewouldnt
have said word about adultery. There was
an old Colonel there, and when his wife
walked out and took his arm, he said to
her: Il wouldn't have had you hear that
vulgar sermon for anything" "Why,"
said she, II thought it was one of the
sweetest sermons | ever listened to- DO
you see, he the carnal old wretch, and she
his pure wife, He saying the sermon was
vulgar, and she declaring it to be the
sweetest sermon she ever heard. TO the
pure all things are pure. Igave my views on
the ball room once. That is all ever do,
and repeated what Bishop of New York
said, that nineteen out of every twenty
fallen women, in the confessional, said
they got their downfall in the ball room.
| give it to them pretty lively. Some
of the girls went home mad. But they
come back the next day. 1t is strange
how fellow will como hack and listen TO
one he don't like | was preaching along.
] said, Young ladies, you got mad at
what | said last night. Yes. | said, that
young lady out yOndcr who enters the ball
room and waltzcs, has the lccheTOuS arms
of damnatiOn about her and the passion Of
hell in her heart. And some of them got
offended and left, but sweet, pure Christ
ian girl came to me, and said she, "Oh, it
was Il grand sermon to me. | thank you
SO much for tat Sermon DO you see?
To the pure all things are pure. You can
find preachers who
PREACH NICER SERMONS THAN l,
but you can't find one purer in his life.
What little smut you see about me lget OIL
the crowd that am rubbing up against.
And if you will give me congregation of
five thousand angels will give you my
hat with my head in it if | talk as | am
talking to-day.
We must come down to bottom facts.
This country is all wrong, and we all know
it. You know, mother, how uneasy you
are about your son, your daughter. And
this world is all wrong, and the sooner we
get to talking about it in that shape the
better. You have large whitewaShed
rock in your yard. 1t lies there looking
very nice. But yOu 20 out and turn it
over, and all under it are bugs and
worms and snakes, maybe. And one
of these days those things will
come out and bite you. We got up ter
rible stir little time back, down be-
low. | said something they didn't like
very well. "Well, said |, 'brethren,
was trying to get little water out of your
well of salvation, and went little too
deep and stirred the bottom, and ii was
muddy. 1t was my bucket,
But IT WAS YOUR MUD
There are great many preachers in this
country don't mean West Virginia, |
mean down lowcr--whO put me in mind
of the man who went down below
the spring and tried to clear
the water. An old woman asked
him what he was trying to do. "Why, l
am trying to clear the water to get a
drink" said he. Well said she, you
had better go up to the spring above you
and drive the hog out of the spring and
you will have clear water And now,
brethren, let us run the devil out of the
fountain head of our hearts and the stream
of life will clear itself. You had better be
careful how you 20 about 1t. Just as sure
as Jesus Christ had His PonUus PLATE,
His Judas IscariOt and His cross, Just that
certain is every man that exposes the
corruption of this world going to have his
POntius PLATE, his Judas Iscariot and his
cross. And if you think different you
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