Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-19
HAPPY CHRISTIAN PEOPLE.

religion makes Us" Diu IL luhho 1ou
gloomy and sad? Did you go with your
head cast down? / do not think you got
religion, my brother. That is not the ef-
feet of religion. True religion is Joy. Her
ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her
paths are peace"
Why, religion lightens all our burdens.
1t smcoths all our way. It interprets all
our SORROWS. 1t changes the jar Of earthly
discord for the peal Of festal bells. In
front of the flaming furnace Of trial it sets
the forge on which sceptres are hammered
out. Would you not like to-day to come
up from the swine-feeding and try this re-
ligion? All the joys Of heaven would come
out and meet you, and God would cry from
the throne: "Put ring on his hand"
You are not happy. l see 1t. There Is
no peace and sometimes you laugh when
you feel great deal more like crying. The
world is cheat. 1t first wears you down
with it's follies, then il kicks you out into
darkness. 1t comes back from the mas
sacre of a million souls to attempt the de,
struction of your soul to-day. No peace
out of God, but here is the fountain that
can slack the thirst. Here Is the harboI
where you can drop safe anchorage.
Would you not like, ask you-not per
functorily, but as one brother might talk
to another-would you not like to have
A PILLOW OF REST
to put your head on? And would You not
like, when you retire at night, to feel that
all is we'll, whether you wake up to-mor-
row morning OF six o'clock, or sleep the
sleep, that knows no wakingP Would you
not like to exchange this awful uncertainty
about the future for a glorious assurance
of heaven? Accept Of the Lord Jesus TO-
day, and oil is we'll. If on your way home
some peril should cross the street and dash
your life ont, it would not hurt you. You
would rise up Immediately. You would
stand in the celestial streets. You would
be amid the great throng that for
ever worship and are forever
happy. If this day some sudden disease
should come. upon you, it would not
frighten you. If you knew you were
going you could give calm farewell to
your beautiful home on earth, and know
that you are going right into the compan'
ionship Of those who have already got be,
yond the toiliDg and the weeping.
You feel on Saturday night different
from the way you feel any other nights oi
the week. You come home from the bank,
or the store, or the shop, and you say
"Well, now my weeks work ia done, and
to morrow is Sunday" 1t is pleasant
thought. There is refreshment and re
construction in the very idea. Oh, how
pleasant it will be, If, when we get through
the day of our life, aud we go and lii
down in our bed OF dust, we can realize
"Well, now the work is all done, and to
morrow is Sunday-an everlasting San
day"
| oh, when, thou city fmy God,
Shall thy courts ascend?
| Where congregations ne'er break up,
| And Sabbaths have no end"
There are people in this house to-day
who are very near the eternal world. i
You are Christians, bid you be of goot
cheer. Bear with you our congratulations
to the bright city. Aged men who vii
soon be gone, take with you our love TO
our
KINDRED IN THE BETTER LAND,
and when you see them, tell them that W
are soon coming Only few more ser
mons to preach and hear. Only few
more heartaches. Only few more tolls
Only few more tears. And then, wha'
an enhancing spectacle will open bsfor'
Us!
Beautiful heaven, where all IL light,
Beautiful angels clothed In white,
Beautiful strains that never tire,
Beautiful harps through all the choir;
There shall ] !Oin the chorus sweet
WOrshipping at the sayiour's feet"
Iapproach you now with general in
vitation, not picking out here and there
man, or here and there q woman, or her
and there child; but giving you an IN
} limited invitation, saying Come, 70
all things are now ready" We invit
you TO the warm heart Of Christ, and th
inclosure of the Christian Church.
know great many think that the ChurcI
does not amount to much, that it is obsC
lete; that it did its work and is gone now
so far as all usefulness Is concerned. 1t !
the happiest place have ever been in, e1
cept my own home.
know there are some people who "a
they are Christians who seem to get alon
without any help from others, and wb
culture solitary piety. They do not war
any ordinances. do not belong to tbs
class. / can not get along without then
There are 80 many things In this worl
that take my attention from God. an
Christ, and heaven, that l want all th
helps of all the symbols end OF all th
, Christian associations; and want aroun
about me q solid phalanx Of men who loy
God and keep His commandments. Al
. there any here who would like to entf
into that association? Then bya
SIMPLE, CHILD-LIKE FAITH,
apply for admission into the visible Church
,, and You will be received. No question
, asked about Your past history or preser
surroundings Only one test-do you lo1
Jesus?
Baptism does not amount TO anything
say a great many people, but the Lord j
, sus declared: HE that believeth and
, baptized shall be saved" putting baptis'
, and faith side by Ede. And an apostl
declares: 'tRepent and be baptized. ever
, one of you" do not sickle for any pa
ticular mode of baptism, but ] put gre,
> emphasis on the fact that you ought TO
baptized. Yet no more emphasis than Il
Lord Jesus Christ, the Great Head of Il
Z Church, puts upon it.
The world is going to, after Will
, lose great many Of its yotsries. The
are to be reviyals Of religion that vi
shake the earth. We give you warnin
There Is q great host coming in to star
0 under the banner Of the Lord Jesus Chris
!, Will you be among them? WIN you
o among che gathered sheayes?
Some of you have been thinking on th
: subject year after year. You have four
r out that this world Is a poor portio
e You want to be Christians. You ha'
4 come almost into the kingdom Of God; b