Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-21

Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. l
think have less sectarianism in me than
any man living. II / thought had drop
of it in me would take q lance at once
If the blood we have shed for creeds, the
lives we have taken for dogmss. Let us
down with this selfishness and get down
to the business of saving souls
hate to see = fellow going q
fishing with 70 or 80 kinds Of bait
He spends all his time In seeing which
bait is the best, and then while he is fool
ing to find his bait the fab steals IL.
Some ministers fish the same way. While
they are hunting the right way TO save, the
sinner goes to hell.
Brethren. let rs 20 into the great ocean
of ain and reform the world. like those
whole-souled fellows that bring the ship
Of salvation through waves and breakers
and shout all on board He acts like
he had common sense, which ! tell you
is the rarest thing in all this world.
Brethren, believe In holiness as much a.
any man in all this world, but never 20
to bed at night without being sorry for
something / have done. Ifyou don't, you
are better man than ] am.
II wish was the worst man in all this
world. Wouldn't we have good world
TO live in. No man would drink or sell q
drop of whisky. No one would break the
Sabbath. We would need no jails or PEN
itentiaries. Oh, how / wish i was the
worst man In all this world.
Salvation is not q song, o sentiment.
It is divine principle that makes man
good through and through. 1t means
everything God loves the absence of every.
thing God hates. 1t is being 20 busy for
God you have not Q moment Of time 70
give to the devil. That something that
makes q man respect and honor his
mother. That makes q wife the joy and
pride of her husband. That makes Q man
tell the truth and stick TO II.
If that be that be true, amt good many
of you here left tonight?
Mem pray, Lord, free us from the wicked.
ness of the world, but they have things 90
mixed up you can't tell saint from sinner.
You are afraid 10 fire the cannon Of truth
into the crowd, for fear you kill half your
own members. The saint GOES down 10 the
bar room to the theatre through the week,
and then the sinner comes mp with the
saint on Sunday.
There used TO be lines drawn 70 You could
tell the saint from the sinner, but you have
run back and forth 90 much you have
tramped them all out. II the preacher tries
to draw the line you are ready 10 club the
preacher, and say he Is talking politics. II
you try to build . wall, some pious church.
member yells stop, my head il on the other
side.
"They say the blood of the martyr 10 the
seed of the church. We need little seed
now. The church is about out. The
Methodist has this salvation and lives
right, because he Ii afraid of losing u, and
the Presby searisn Is afraid he has not and
lives right because he wishes 10 make peo-
pie think be has. So we have the dead
wood on them sure believe every man
on earth is justified by faith here and BY
works above.
"Not one word is said in all the Bible
about any other way Of getting to Heaver
except faith In Christ. don't think any
man ought 70 60 to Heaven In any otbeI
way. II he did be must have died th<
moment after be was converted. Why Dc
they dun us 90 much IL be IN not Cons
up, old fellow, and plank down oil yoc
have, and Christ will pay the balance.
Many o fellow has been knocked
into hell with half truth
II Ia like half brick, only good 70 knocl
some fellow in the head with. It make
me tired TO see . big fellow down prsyins
for faith. I pray for my daily brssd, bul
must earn every potato and ear Of corr
with hoe with the sweat running dowr
in streams from my brow. Men ssy fAitl
10 the gift Of God. So b taste, but tastini
is my part Of the performances, and On
always glad of il when ! it down 10 {
square meal.
"Suppose I put my hands before my eye
and Say Lord let me 80 the light An,
little boy here would say take down you
hands and it will $50 itself.
'There II but one road In al this world
and heaven h ut Que end and hell st tb
other. All men sre On IL, going ons ~,
or the other. Many In this world csnn0
tell whether they are on the rod 70 90
or the other. How many hsrs arc sur
which way they are going
'Some Of you are getting your theoloE
all mixed up. like theelegy Like ted
scope, % straight you can ga. ] en- -
through IL, and not only - but fssl
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for splitting raib but mt ffty cssts
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