Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-12

of water. l came to the latter place,
Chatsworth, one day when strangers are
not to be admitted; but by an inducement
which always seemed as applicable to an
Englishman as to an American / got in,
and then the gardener went far up above the
stairs of stone and turned on the water.
/ saw il cleaning on the dry pavement,
coming down from step to step until it
came 50 near / could hear the musical
rush, and all over the high, broad stairs il
came f0aming, flashing, roaring down, un-
til sunlight and wave in gleesOme wrestle
tumbled at my feet. So it is with the
Church of God. Everything comes from
above: pardon from above, joy from above,
adoption from above, sanctification from
above. o, that now God would turn on
the waters of salvation, that they might
flow down through this heritage, and that
to-day we might find this very place to be
''Elim, with twelve wells of water and
three score and ten palm treeSm
Hark hear
THE LATCH
of the garden gate, and look to see who
is coming. hear the voice of Christ. Il
am come into my garden" 1 say: Come
in, o Jesus we have been waiting for
Thee; walk all through the paths. Look
at the flowers; look at the fruit; pluck that
which Thou wilt for Thyself." Jesus comes
into the garden and up to that old man,
and touches him, and says: almost home,
father, not many more aches for thee; |
will never leave thee; take courage a little
while longer and / will steady thy totter-
ing steps, and / will soothe thy troubles
and give thee rest. Courage, old man."
Then Christ goes up another garden path
and he comes to a soul in trouble and says:
"Peace! all is well. have seen Thy tears
l have heard thy prayer. The sun shall not
smite thee by day nor the moon by night
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil;
He will preserve thy soul Courage o
troubled spiritr' Then see Jesus going
up another garden path, and | see great
excitement among the leaves, and hasten
up that garden path to see what Jesus is
doing there, and 10! he is breaking off
flowers, sharp and clean from the stem,
and say stop, Jesus, don't kill
those beautiful flowers" He turns to me
and says: Ihave come into my garden to
gather lilies, and mean to take these up
to higher terrace, for tie garden around
my palace, and there / will plant them;
and in better soil and in better air they
shall put forth brighter leaves and sweetcr
rendolence, and no frost shall touch them
forever" And / looked up into his face
and said: ''Well, it is His garden and He
has a right to do what He will with it. Thy
will be done" hardest prayer q man
ever made.
1t has seemedas if Jesus Christ
TOOK THE BEST;
From many of your households the best one
is gone. You know that she was too good
for this world: she was the gentlest in her
ways, the deepest, in her affections; and
when at last the sickness came you had no
faith in medicines. You knew that the
hour Of parting had come, and when,
through the rich grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, YOU surrendered that treasure,
YOU said: Lord Jesus take ii
it is the best we have; take
it. Thou art worthy The Others in the
household may have been of grosser mould.
She was Of the finest One day man was
takin. me from the depot to village. He
was very rough and coarse, and very
blaSphemOuS; but after awhile he began
to talk of his little son whom he had lost.
so. sir" he said, that boy was different
from the rest of us. lie never used any
bad languagey no sir, | never heard him
use bad word in my life. He used to say
his prayers and we laughed at him, but he
would keep on saying his prayers, and !
often thought: Il can't keep that child,
and | said to my wife Mother, we can't
keen that child But. sir, the day he was
drowned and they brought him in and
laid him down on the carpet, 80 white and
so beautiful, my heart broke, sir. | knew
we couldn't keep him.
THE HEAVEN OF YOUR LITTLE ONES WILL
NOT BE FAIRLY BEGUN
until you get there. All the kindnesses
shown them by immortals will not make
them forget you. There they are, the
radiant thrOngs that went out from
your homes. | throw kiss to the sweet
darlings. They are all well now in the
palace. The crippled child has a sound
foot now. A little child says: ma, will
/ be lame in hcaven?" NO. my darling,
YOU wont be lame in heaven" A little
sick child says: MA, will | be sick in
heayen?" NO, my dear, you won't be
sick in heaven" A little blind child says:
"Ma, will be blind in heaven?" mo,
my dear, you won't be blind in heaven
They are all we'll there"
notice that the fine gardens sometimes
have high fences around them, and can
not get in. It is so with a kings garden.
The only glimpse you ever get of such a
garden is when the king rides out in his
splendid carriage. 1t is not so with this
garden, this Kings garden. ! throw
wide open the gate and tell you
all to come in. No monopoly in
religion. WhosOever will, may. Choose
now between a desert and garden. Many
of YOU have tried the garden Of this
worlds delight. You have found ii has
been chagrin. So it was with Theodore
Hook. He made all the world laugh. He
makes us laugh now when We read his
poems; but he could not make his own
heart laugh. While in the midst of his
festivities he confronted looking glass
and he saw himself, and said: There, that
is true / look just as | am, done up In
BODY, mind and purse" So 1t was OF
Shenstone, Of whose garden / told you at
the DeElOHluS vi III oCiAhoh" ~ 80 -
amid those bowers and said: II have lost
my road to happiness. / am angry and
envious and frantic, and despise every
thing around me just as it becomes mad
man to do" o, We weary souls! come
into Christ's garden to-day and pluck
little heartsease. Christ Is the
only rest and the only par
don for q perturbed spirit. Do yoa not
think your chance has almost Gomez
You men and women who have been wait
ing year after year for some good opportu-
nifty in which to accept Christ, but have
postponed il, five, ten, twenty, thirty
years-do you not feel as if now your hour
of delivelance and pardon and salvation
had come? o man, what grudge hast thou
against thy poor soul that thou wilt not let
| it be saved? | feel as if salvation must
come to-day in some of your hearts,
Some years ago vessel
STRUCK on THE ROCKS,
They had only one lifeboat. In that life
boat the passengers and crew were getting
ashore. The vessel had fOundered and was
I SINKING deepar and deeper, and that one