Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-19

| urea, and without eingie m,stake, anu
with great cslerity. announce the aggIe-
gate. Now, in the last great settlement
:here will be correct account presented.
God has KEEP: long line of sins, Q long
line Of broken Sabbstbs, long line Of
profsne words, q long line OF ddcuded
sacrameats, long line Of misimproved
privileges.
THEY WILL BE ADDED UP,
Aud before angelo, ard devils, aud men,
the aggregits will be announced. Oh,
that will be tie great day Of settlement I
have TO ask the question: "Am resdy
for i,P" 1t is Of more importance to me
to answer that question in regard to my
self than 10 regard to you; aud it is OF
more importance for you to answer it in
regard to yourself than in regard to me-
Every man for himself in that day. Every
woman for herself ID that day. ''If thou
be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; II
thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. 1"
We are apt to speak OF the last day as an
occasion Of votiferalioa-a great demon
stration OF power aud pomp; but there
will be on that day, / think, o
few moments of entire silence
l think tremendous, an over
whelming silence. think it will be such
q silence as the earth never heard. 1t will
be at the moment when all nations are
listening for their doom.
learn slso from this parable of tie text
that our degrees OF happiness in heaven
will be graduated according to our degree
of usefulness on earth. Several Of the
commentators agree in making this para
bic the same one as in Luke, where one
man was made ruler over FIVE cities and
another made ruler over two cities. Would
it be fair aud right that the professed
Chr stan man who has lived very near the
line between the world and the Church he
man who has often Compromhed ed his
Christian cbaracter-the man who has
never spoken ont for God-the man who
has never been known as Christian only
on commuuion-dsys- man whose great
struggle has been to see how much OF the
world he could get and yet win heaven-is
il right to suppose that that man will have
as grand and glorious seat in heaven %
the man who gave all his energies Of body,
mind, and soul to the service CT God?
THE DYING THIEF ENTERED HEAVEN,
but not with the same startling acclaim as
that which greeted Paul, who had gone uu-
der scorchings, and across dungeons, and
through msltreatments into the kingdom
of glory. 0Ie star differs from another
star in glory, and they who toll nightly
for Christ on earth shall have ftr greater
reward than those who have rendeTei only
half q service.
Some OF you are fastening on toward the
reward of the righteous. / want to cheer
you up at the thought that there will be
some kind of reward waiting for you
There are Christian people 10 this house
who are very near heaven. This week
some Of you may pass ont into the light OF
the unssting sun. saw blind man go
ing along the road with his staff, and he
kept pounding the earth and then stsmp-
ing with his foot. said TO him: What
do you do that for?" oh" he ea'd. 81
can tell by the sound of the ground when
am near a dwelling" And some of you
can tell by the sound of your earthly path
way that you are coming near to your
fathers house. j congratulate you oh.
weather-beatsn voysperP, the storms
are driving you into the harbor. Just
o. when you were looking for q
friend, you came up 10 the gate of his
houss, and you were talking with the ser
want, when your friend hoisted the win.
dow and shouted: Come in! come In y"
Just so, when yOu come to the gate Of the
fature world, and you are talking with
death, the black porter st the gaze, me.
thinks Christ viii hoist the window and
say: Gene in! come in! / will make thee
ruler over ten cities" In anticipation Of
that land do not wonder that August us
Toplady, the author OF Rock Of Ages, +"
declared in his last moment: 81 have
nothing more TO pray for; God has given
me everything. Surely no man can live
on earth sf,er the gloriss have Wit
messed" Oh, nv brrtheIs and sis'ers.
how sweet it will all be, aftsr the long
wilderness march, to get home. That was
a bright moment for the tired dove in the
time of the Delugs when it found its way
safely into the window of the ark.