Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-09


at that table came the yeomanry of New
Hampshire, and the lumbermen of Maine,
and the tanned Carolinan from the rice
swamps, and the harvesters of Wisconsin,
and the Western emigrant from the pines
of Oregon, and we were all brothers
brothers at banquet.
SUDDENLY THE FEAST ENDED.
What meant those mounds thrown up at
Chickahominy, Atlanta, Shiloh, Gettys-
burg, South Mountain? What mean those
golden grain fields turned into pasturing
ground for cavalry horses? What meant
the eorn-ields quilted with the wheels of
the heavy supply trains? Why those rivers
of tears, those lakes of blood? God was
angry. Justice must come. A handwrit-
ing on the WALL The nation has been
weighed and found wanting. Darkness!
Darkness! Woe to the North! Woe to
the South! Woe to the East! Woe to the
Vest Death at the banquet!
". have also to learn from the subject
that the destruction of the vicious and of
those who despise God will be very sudden.
The wave of mirth had dashed to the
highest point when that Assyrian army
broke through. 1t was unexpected. Sud
denly, almost always, comes the doom of
those who despise God and defy the laws
of men. How was il at the
Deluge? Do you suppose it came through
n long northeast storm, so that people for
days before were sure it was coming? No;
| suppose the morning was bright; that
calmness brOOded OH the waters; that
hA WI
suddenly the heavens burst, and the noun
tainS sank like anchors into the sea, that
dashed clear over the Andes and the Him.
alayas.
TIE RED SEA WAS DIVIDED.
The Egyptians tried to cross 1t. There
could he no danger. The lsraelites had
Just gone through; where they had gone
why not the Egyptians? o, it was such a
beautiful walking-place! n pavement OF
tingcd shells and pearls, and on either
side two great walls of water, solid. There
can be no danger Forward great host of
the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals and
blow the trumpetS of victory! After
them! We will catch them yet
and they shall be destroyed. But
Bile. They rock. They fall. The rushing
waters, The shrek of drowning men, The
swimming of the war-horSes in vain for
the shore! The strewing of the great host
on the bottom of the sea, or pitched by the
angry wave on the beach, battered,
bruised and lOathSOme wreck! Suddenly
destruction came. One half hour before
they could not have believed it. Destroyed
and without remedy.
am Just setting forth fact which you
have noticed as well rs |. Ananias comes
YOU sell the land for 81 much?" He says:
YES II was q lie. dead! As quick
rs that! Sapphira, his wife, comes in.
"Dd you sell the land for so much?'
"Ycs" 1t was lie, and quick Us that
she was dead Gods judgments are upon
those who despisc and defy him. They
come suddenly.
The destroying angel went through
Egypt Do you suppose any OF the people
knew that he was coming? Did they hear
the flap OF his great wing. No. No. Sad
denly, unexpectedly, he came,
Skilled sportSmcn do not like to shoot
4 bird standing an sprig near by. II
they are skilled they pride themselves on
taking it on the wing, and they wait till
it starts. Death is an old sportsman and
he loves TO take men flying under the very
sun. He loves to take them on the wing.
Are there any here who are unpreparcd
for the eternal world? Are there any here
who have been living without God and
without hope? Let me say " you that
you had hetter accept Of the Lord Jesus
Christ, LEST suddenly your last chance bc
gone. The lungs will cease 10 breathe, the
heart will stop. The time will come when
Won shall go no more to the office, or to
the store, or to the shop. Nothing will he
left but death, and Judgment, and ctcr-
nitv. Oh. flee to God this hour! II there
be one in this presence who has wandered
iar away from Christ, though he may not
have heard the call o! the gospel for many
a wear, invite him now 70 come and be
saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee u the
stronghold OF the gospel!
To-day
INVITE YOU no uHANDER BANQUET
than any have mentioned. My Lord,
the King is the banquctor, Angels are
the Oup-Gear6rS. All the redeemed are the
guests The halls of eternal love. ircs-
coed with light, and paved with joy, and
curtaincd with uniading beauty, are the
place The harmonicS of ctcr-
nitv are the music The ChaliccS of hcav
en- are the plate; and ! am one uf the sor-
wants coming out with both hands filled
with invitations, scattering them every
where: and OF that, for yourselves, you
might break the seal of the invitation and
read the words written in red ink of blood
bv the trcmulOus hand of a dying Christ:
Come now, for all things are ready"
After this day has rolled hN and the
night has come may you have rosy sleep
guarded hy Him who never slcmbcrS.
MAY YOU awake in the morning
strong and well. But, oh! art thou a de
spiser OF God? Is the coming night the
last night on earth? ShOuldest thou lac
awakened in the night by something, thou
knowest hot what, and there DC shadows
floating in the room, and handwriting
on the wall. and you feel that your last
hour is come and there be a taintinG at
the heart. and a ttcmOr in the limb, and
catching of the breath-thcn thy doom
would be hut IN echo of the words of my
text: ''In that night was sBelhazzar, the
King of the Chaldcans, slain.
Use the great specific for cold in head
and Cltarrh-Dr. SIgc's Catarrh Remedy.