West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-04-19


you, he has sheltered you, he watched you
/ last night, he will watch you tonight. He
wants 70 love you, wants 20 help you, wants
| To save you, wants TO comfort you. He was
your fathers God and your mothers God
he has housed them from tho blast, and Ia
wants TO shelter you. VIII you spit in his
face by an imprecation VIII you ever
thrust him back by an OATH
w no Is this Jesus whose name i heard In
the imprecation Has he pursued you all
your life long - What vile thing has ne done
70 you that you should so dishonor his name 7
Why, he was the Lamb whose blood sim
mered in the fires of sacrifice for you. He is
the brother that took Off his crown that you
might put it on. He has pursued you all
your life long with mercy. He wants you
To love him, wants you to serve him He
comes with streaming eyes and broken heart
and blistered feet 10 save you. On the craft
OF our doomed humanity no pushed out into
the sea 20 take you of the wreck.
Where is the hand that will ever be lifted
I'm imprecation againl Let that hand, now
blood tipped, be lifted that may see it. Not
one. Where is the voice that will ever DO
uttered in dishonoring the name of that
Christi Let IL speak now. Not one. Not
one. oh, am glad 20 know that all these
vices OF the community. and these crimes OF
our city will be gone. Society is going 10 b.
bettered. The word by the powerof Christ's
gospel is going to be saved and this crime,
this iniquity, and all the other iniquities will
vanish before the rising OF the sun Of right
eousness upon the nation.
There was one day in New England memoir
able for storm and darkness. / hardly ever
saw such an evening The clouds which had
been gathering all day unlimbered their bat
teries. The Housatonic, which flows quietly,
save as the paddles Of pleasure parties rattle
the oar locks, was dashed into foam and
the waves hardly knew where to lay them
selves.
Oil what n time IL vast The hills iarred
under the rumbling OF Gods chariot Blind
ing sheets of rain drove the cattle to the
bars, or beat against the window pane as
though to dash 1t in Tho grain fields threw
their crowns of gold at the feet of the storm
king. When night came in it was n double
night Its mantle was torn with the light
nings, and into its locks were twisted the
leaves of uprooied oaks and the shreds of
c.sOsx tJra from tho r-as;s OF the hcechcI
shipping. IL was such night a. makes you
thank God for shelter, and open the door 10
let in the spaniel bowling outside with terror.
We went to sleep under the full blast of
heavens great orchestra, the forests with up
lifted voices, in chorus that filed the noun
tains, prajsing the Lord. We woke not until
the fingers of the sunny morn touched our
eyelids. We looked out the window and the
housatonic slept as quiet as an infants
dream. Pillars OF cloud set against the sky
looked liked the castles of the biest built for
heavenly hierarchs on the beach Of the azure
sea. All the trees sparkled as though there
had been some great grief in heaven and
each leaf had been God appointed to catch an
angels tear. IL seemed as If our Father had
looked upon the earth, His hayward child
and stopped TO her tear-wet cheek and kissed
IL. So will the darkness OF sin and crime
leave our world before the dawn of the morn
ing. The light shall gild the city spre and
strike the forests of Maine and the masts Of
Mobile and all between And one end rest
ing ON the Atlantic coast and the other REQ
ing on the Pacific beach, God will spring a
great rainbow arch of peace, in token of
everlasting covenant that the world shall
never more see a deluge of crime.
But says some one, preaching against
the evils OF society will accomplish nothing
Do you not see that the evils go right onln I
answer, we are not at all discouraged
1t seemed insignificant for Moses 70 stretch
his hand over the Red sea. What power
could that have over the waters, But the
east wind blew ali night; the waters gath
cred into two glittering palisades on either
side. The pillows reared as Gods hand
pulled back upon their crystal bits Wheel
into line, oh Israel! march, Marchi Pearls
crash under their feet The shout of hosts
mounting the beach answers the shout of
hosts mid sea, until as the last line of the
lsraelites have gained the beach, the shields
clang and the cymbals clap and hs the wa
ters whelm the pursuing foe the swift fin
gered winds on the white keys Of the foam,
play the grand march of Israel delivered
and the awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow
80 we go forth, and stretch out the hand of
prayer and Christian effort over these dark.
boiling waters of crime and sin. "Ahal
AhaW says the deriding world. But wait.
The winds of divine help will begin to blow;
the way will clear for the great army of
Christian philanthropists; the glittering
treasures Of the worlds benefcence will line
the path of our feet; and 20 the other shore
we will be greeted with the clash of all
heavens cYmbals; while those who resist
and deride and pursue us will fall under the
sea, and there will be nothing left of them
but here and there, cast high and dry upon
the beach, the splintered wheel of n chariot
and thrust out from the surf, the breathless
noStril Of riderless charger.