Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-25
THE CONSULTATIONS
OF THB REDERNED-AN INTERESTING SIR.
MON By TALMAGE.
The Great Brooklyn Preacher 10 tho West-He
Dsc)uSes at Vas! Outdoor Meeting
d! Kansas City - Christians
as th5 Stars.

WISFIELD, KAN, June II -Uncounted
multi,udes were present to-day at a great
outdoor meeting held IN this place, where
the Rev. T Dewitt Talmage, ID was
the preacher Not only this hut adjoining
States were represented in the congrega-
tiOn, and the occasion will be long remem-
beTed. The text was: They that turn
many to righteousness shall shine az the
stars for ever and ever. DANIEL xii. 3;
and the subject The Consultations Of
the Redeemed" DR.. Talmage said
Every man has Thousand roots aud Il
! thousand branches. Hls roots reach down
through all the earth; his branches spread
| through all the hcavens lie speaks with
voice, with eye, with hand, with foot
! His silence often is thunder and his life il
an anthem or a doxOlngy. There is no
such thing az negative influence.
WE ARE ALL POSITIVE
in the place We occupy, making the world
better or making it worse, on the Lords
side or on the devils, making mp reasons
! for our blessedness or banshment and
we have alLeady done mighty work III
peopling heaven or hell. | hear people
! tell Of what they are going to do. A man
who has burned down city might aS well
| talk Of some evil that he expects To dJ, or
a man who has saved an empire might az
well talk of some good that be expects 10
do BY the force of your evil influence
| yOI have already consumed infinite val
ucs, or you have, by the power of right
influence, won whole kingdoms for Col
! 1t would he absurd for me 10 stand
here, and by elaborate argument pTov-
that the world is of the track. You might
az well stand At the foot of an embank-
mrnt, amid the wreck OF cIpSizsd rail
| train, proving by elaborate argument that
something is out of order Adam tumblcd
over the embankment sixty centuries ago,
and the whole race, IN one long train, has
gone on tumbling in the same direction.
Crash crash The only question now il,
by what leverage can the crushed thing BE-
| lifted? by what hammer may the frag
meHt5 he reconstructed?
want 10 show you how We may turn
many to righteousness, aud what will he
our future pay for 10 doing.
First: We may turn them hv.
THE CHARM or \ RIGHT EXAMPLE.
4 child, coming from a filthy home waR
taught at school to wash i's face 1t went
home 40 much improved in appearance
| that its mother washed her face. Aud
when the father of the household came
home, Hnd saw the improvement IN domrs
| tic appearance, he washed his fee The
neighDoTs happening in, saw the change,
and tried the same experiment until all
| the street waH purified, and the next
street followed it, example, until the
whole city felt the result nt our scnoGlung
| washi2g hia face That * a fable, by
winch we st forth tHat the best way h.
get the world washed ut IT. sins aad urllu-
ZION is to have our own heaFt aud lie
cleaused AMI PARTED. a nan with gracs
IN his heart, and Christian cl: erWlu'ss IN
Ms face, aud holy consistency ~ hl- h.
havior is p perpetual sermon, aud the scr
mon differs fem others IN that il has INT
one head aud the lnugrr II ruus th" hril"r.
Again: We may turn many to right
COusu,s5
~ PRAYER
There il no such detective a. prayer, for
no one can hide away from IT. 1t puts iis
| hand on the sh0UldcT ul man ten thOuS-
and miles oil. Ita!ights GA "A ship mid
| Atlantic. The little child cannot under
stand the hw Of electricity, or how the
telcgraphic operator, hy touching the in-
-trumeut here, may dart mt age under
the s,a TO another continent; nor can we,
with our small intellect, understand how
the touch ola Christians prayer shall in
s.antly strike i soul ou the other side ui
! the earth. You take snip aud 90 TO some
other Cuutry, and get there At eleven
o'clock in the morning. You telegraph TO
| New York, aud the message gets here at six
o'clock in the same morning. In other
words, it seems to arrive here five
! hours before it started. Like that il
| prayer. 4 boy running away from home
may take the midnight tram from the
country village, and reach the seaport in
time to gain the ship that sails on
the morrow; but i mothers prayer will
he or the deck TO meet him, and i'll the
hammock defore he swings into it, and at
the Capstan before he winds the rope
around t. and Ou the sea, against the SKY,
rs the vessel ploughs on toward it. There
is mightlness in prayer Prayer, in Dan
iel's time, walked the cave ~ a liun-lamer
It reached mp, and took the sun by it's
golden hit, and atnpped it, We have all
yet to try the full power OF prayer The
time will come when the American
Church will pray with its face
toward the west, aud all the prairies and
inland cities will surrender to God; and
will pray with face toward the sed, aud all
the islands and ships will become CHRIS
tian. Parents who have wayward sOns
will get down en- their knees gnd say
Lord, send my hoy home, and the boy
in Canton shall get right up from the gam
ing table, and 20 down to the wharf to
lind out which ship starts first for America.
Not one of us vet knows how TO pray.
All we have done ~ yet has only been pot
tering. and guessing, and experimenting
GOD CARES NOT FOR THE LENGTH
Of our prayers, or the number of our pray
crs, or the beauty of oUr prayers, or the
place Of our prayers; hnt it il the faith in
them that tells. Believing prayer scars
higher than the lark ever sang: plungss
deeper than diving bell ever sank darts
quicker than lightning ever ll97hed
Though We have used only the hsrE OF
this weapon instead # the edge, what mar
veIs have been wrought, Ifsaved We are
all the captiVes Of. some earnest prayer.
Would God that, in desire for the rescue
OF souls, we might in prayer lay hold Of the
resources of the Lord Omuiputent.
We may turn many to righteousness hv
Christian admonitOn. Do not wait until
Won can make formal speech. Address
the one next to yon You will not -
home alone to-day. Between this and
your place OF stopping you may decide the
eternal destiny of an immortal spirit.
Just one sentence may do the work. just
one question. Just one lock. The for
NAL talk that begins with a sigh, and ends
with canting snUllla il not what i
wanted, hut the heart throb Of a man in
dead earnest. There is not a soul on
earth that you may not bring to God if
you rightly 20 ut it..
Bat ia all this admOnitOn, and prayer,
and Christian work
FOR NUTHINGf
Nv text promises to al the faithful etcr-
nal !ustre. "Thry that turn many to
righteousness shall shine as the stars for
ever.
As stars the redeemed have borrowed
light. What makes Mars, and Venus, and
Jupiter 80 luminous: When the sun