Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-02

were scattered. God only knows what
they suffered They are an AMUSEMENT to
themselves that they have been able to
stand it. They look at their once happy
home, surrounded by all comfort Gone
They think of the time when they used to
rise strong in the morning. and walk Wig
orously down the street, and had expert
encsd health they thought inexhaustible.
Gone Everything gone but Jesus. he
has pitied them. His eye has watched
them. His omnipotercs has defended
them. They have gone through disaster,
and He was pillar of fire BY night. They
have gone across stormy Galiiee, bat
Christ had His foot on the neck of the
storm. They felt the
WAVES OF TROUBLE
coming up around them gradually, and
they began to climb into the strong rock
of Code defense, and they then sang, as
they looked over the waters: "God is
our refuge and strength, and ever present
help in time and trouble; therefore, we
will not fear though the earth be removed,
though the mountains be carried into the
midst Of the sea, though the waters there
of roar and be troubled, though the noun
tains shake with the swelling thereof.
Selah" The other day there was sailor
who came into the Bethel of New York
and said: my lads (he was standing
among sailors) don't know what's the
matter with me. ! used to hear good
deal about religion and about Jesus
Christ. I don't know that I have any re.
ligion, or that 1 know anything much
about Christ; but when I was in
mid-Atlantic looked up one day through
the rigging and there seemed to come light
through my soul. have felt different
ever since, aud / love those that / once
hated and feel joy that can't tell you.
I really can't tell what is the matter Of
me-" A rough sailor got up and said:
my lad, know what is the matter Of
you. You have found Jesus. 1t is
enough TO make any man happy"
"Eis worth itall the nations knew.
Sure the whole earth would love Him too
Iremark again: Christ is precious to
the believer, as final deliverer. You and |
must after while get out of this world.
Here and there, one perhaps may come on
to eighty, to ninety years of sge, but your
common sense tells you that the next
twenty-five years will land the majority
of this audience into eternity. The next
ten years will thin out great many Of
these family circles. This day may do
the work for some of us. Now why do |
say this? To scare your No; but just as
I would stand in your Office, if were a
business man and you were business
man, and
TALK OVER RISKS.
You do not consider it cowardly TO talk in
your store over temporal risks. Is it base
in us this mo ming to talk O little while
over the risks Of the soul, that are for
eternity? In every congregation death has
the last year been doing a great deal OF
work. Where is your father? Where is
your mother? Your child? Your brother?
Your sister? o. how cruel does death seem
to be. Will he pluck every flower? Will
he poison every fountain? Will he put
black on every door-knob? Will he snap
every heart-string? Can / keep nothing2
Are there no charmed weapons with which
10 90 ont and contend against him? Give
me some keen sword, sharpened in Gods
srmory, with which I may stab him
through. Give me some bsttle-axe that
may clutch it, and hew him from helnet
to sandal. Thank God, thank God, that
he that rideth on the pale horse hath more
than a match in Him who rideth on the
white horse. st. John heard the Contest,
the paving Of the steeds, the rush, the
battle-cry, the onset, until the pale horse
came down on his launches, and his rider
bit the dust, while Christ, the eonqueror,
with uplifted voice declared it: 20 death,
I will be thy plsguei o grave, 1 will DO thy
destruction"
The sepulchre is lighted castle on the
shore of heavenly seas, and sentinel angels
walk up and down at the door to guard it.
The dust and the dsmpness OF the grave
are only the spray Of the white surf OF
celestial seas, and the long breathing Of the
dying Christian, that YOU call his gssping.
is only the long inhalation Of the air Of
heaven. O, bless God for what Christ is
to the Chrstisn soul, here aud hereafter !!
heard man say some time ago that
they never laugh in heaven. l do not
know where he got his authority for that.
| think they do laugh in heaven.
WHEN vICToRs COME HOME
do we not lsaghs When fortunes are won
in day, do we not laugh? After we have
been ten or fifteen years away from our
friends, and we greet them sgaiu, do we
not laugh? Yes, we will laugh in heaven.
Not hollow laughter, but full, round,
clear, deep, resonant outbreak of eternal
gladness. o, the glee Of that moment
when we frst see Jesus think we will
take the first two or three years in heaven
to look at Jesus and II, in ten thousand
years, there should be moment when the
doxology paused, ten thousand souls would
cry out ''Singw SingW and when the
CRY was: "What shsll we sing?" the
answer would be: Jesus Jesus !" o.
you may have all the crowns in heaven
do not care 80 much about them. You
may have all the robes in heaven; ] do not
care 10 much about them, You may have
all the sceptrss in heaven; do not care 30
| much about them. You may have all the
thrones in heaven; do not care 80 much
about them. But give me Jesus-that 10
enough heaven for me. O, Jesus, long
to see Thee, Thou ''Cbief among ten thou
sand, the One altogether lovely"
There may he some here who have come
hardly knowing why they come. Perhaps
il was as in Psul's time-you have come
to hear what this babbler sayeth; but |
am glad to meet you face to face, and TO
strike hands with you in one earnest talk
about your deathless spirit. Do you know,
my friend, that this world is not good
enough for you7 1t cheats; IL fadss; II
dies. You are immortal. / see IL in the
deathlsss spirit looking out from your eye.
Il Is . mighty spirit. 1t is an immortal
spirit. 1t beats against the window Of the
cage. come out to feed IL. During the
past week the world has been trying 10
feed IL with husks. ] come out this morn.
ing to feed it with that bread of which Il
man eat
HE WILL NEvRR HUNGER.
What has the world done for you? Has
| il not bruised you? Has IT not betrayed
your Has il maltreated youS Look me
in the eys, immortal man, and tell me II
that is not 80. And yet, will you trust iii
n vi.h that van eauld Es~oof ma The