Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-26
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able and full of glory" Oh, choose earth
or heaven! Make mp your mind whether
you will walk in earthly joys, or fly With
heavenly expectations. Be not Q bat, fit
neither {, walk nor fly, having just enough
Of heaven to spoil the world, and 90 much
of the world as to spoil heaven. Christ
says that your present condition nauseatas
him to positive sickness: because thou
art neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee
out Of my mouth" In the ruins Of Pom.
peii there was found q pst,ified woman,
who, instead Of trying to fly from the de-
stroyed city, had spent her time in Rather-
ing up ter swels. She saved neither her
life nor her Jewels. There are multitudes
making the same mistake. In trying to
get earth and heaven they lose both. "Ye
can not serve God and Mammop." Be one
thing or the other. Tread the earth like .
Ion, or mount the air like the eagle; tor
my text says: "Ye shall have in abomina-
tion among the fow,s, the bat"
Again: taking the suggestion Of the text,
drive out the chameleon from your sonl.
There is some difference among good men
as to the name Of this creeping thing which
God pronounced unclean, but shall take
the opinion which seems best suited 70
nv purpose. The chameleon Is reptile,
chiefly known by its chaugeable color, tax
ing the color Of the tbirg next to il, some
times brown, sometimes red, and some
time, gray, but always the color Of its sur
roundiugs, q typo Of that class Of Chris
tians who are now one thing in religious
faith, and now another, Just to suit cir
cumstances, always taking their color OF
religious belief from the man they are
talking to. They 90 TO one place, aud are
firstIate UnitaIians. Jesus wa, good
man, but nothing more" They 20 to
Princeton, and they are Trinitarians, al
most willing to die for
THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.
Among the UniveIsalists they refuse the
idea of future punishment; and going
among those Of opposite belief, amour ee
that there is a hell with gus.o that
makes you think they are glad Of it.
Drive ont that unclesn chameleon from
YOUR soul. Do rot he ever changing the
color of your faith My friends, Liberal
Christianity, falsely so.callled believes
in nothing. God is any thing
you want TO make him. The Bible
TO be believed in 30 far as you
like it. Heaven grand mixing up OF Ne
ros and Pauls. The man who dies by sui.
eide in his right mind in 1893 bsatns into
glory by ten years the Christian man who
die. Christian death in 1s9S; the suicide
growing himself Wiser than the Christian.
Oh, my friends, let US try TO believe 10
something. An infdel was cal'ei to the
bedside Of his daughter. TIE daughter
said: Father, which shall believe, you
or mother? Mother took the religion Of
Christ, and died in its embracs. You say
that religion ia humbug. Now am go
ing to die, and am very much perpleIed; !;
shall believe you, or take the belief Of
my motheipr The father said: Choose
for YOURSELF" She said: "No; am too
weak TO choose for myself; want you to
choose for me-" "Well," said the father,
after much hesitation and emb nrassmeut:
"Mary, think you had better take the re-.
liyion of your mother" The time will
come when we shall have to bslieve some.
thing. We cannot afford TO be on the fence
in religion. Truth and error are set oppo-
site to each other. The one Is infinitely
right, and the o!her infinitely wrong. 10
the msnt-day we must give an account
OF what we believed as well az for what we
acted. The difference between believing
truth and believing error is the difference
between
PARADISE AND PERDlTIoN.
beg you, in the light OF the Bible, and on
your knees be fore Gcd, TO form your re.
ligious opinion and then stick to it.
,hough business companions scoa, and
wits caricature, and the air crackles with
the fires of mattyrdom. Surely truths In
behalf of which Christ died, and angels Of
God troopsd forth, and the whole uuivArse
is marshslsd, are worth living for and
worth dying for. Amidst the most un-
clean things is this evsr-changing chams-
leon Of religious theory. Away with the
reptile! God abhors IL with an all con.
suming abhorrsnce.
Once more: Take the suggestion Of the
text, aud drive out the snail from your
soul God has declared it uuclean. II Ia
an smimsl 70 he found everywhere between
The coldest north and tBe' hotttsss so,... soo".s -,
There are fifteen hundred species Of the
sbail. They hove no backbon,, and they
arc 40 slow tina. thsir movement !,
almost impsrcsp,ib'e. You ses a snail
in one place to-day; 70 Tomorrow
and you will find il has advanced only .
few Inches. IL becomes 40 emblem Of that
large class of Christian people who 90 TO
work with slownesj and sluggishnes,
that is wonderful. They are stopped by
every little obstacle, because, like the snsil,
they have no backbone. Others mount up
on eagles wings but they 90 at O snail q
pace
Ochild Of God, arouse! We have apothe.
otized Prudence and Caution long enough.
Prudence is beautiful grace, bot OF all
the family Of Christian graces ! like her
the least, for she has been msri'd 90 often
to Lazinesa, Sloth and Stupidity. We
have q million idiers in the Lords vine
yard who pride themselves on their pru'
dsnue. "Be prudent" said the disciples
to Christ, "and stay away from Jerusa.
lem;' but he went. Bs pradent," said
Paul's friends, "and look out for wha.
YOU say TO Felix" but he thundered away
| until the rulers knees knocked together.
In the eyes Of the world, the most impru-
dent men that ever lived were Martin Lu.
ther, and John Oldcastls, and Wesley, and
Knox. Ny opinion is that the most Inn
prudent and reckless thing is TO stand
still. II ia we'll 10
HEAR OUR COMMANDERS VOICE
when he says "Haltr' bat quite N i'm.
rortant to hear IL when he says "Foi'
wardr' This Gospel ship made TO plough
the sea at fiftetn knots an hour, 10 Eo'
making three. Sometimes IL is most pru'
dent 70 ride your horse slowly and p'ch
out the way for his feet, and not striks
him with the spur; but when band o.
Shoshsnee Indians are after you In. fu'I
tlt, the mot prudent tbiog for you 10 Dc
is TO plunge in the rowels snd put youl
horse to a foil run, shouting: go 'lonep'
until the Rocky Mountains echo IL. Th'
foes Of God are pursuing us. The world
the aesh, and the devil are after you; and
our wisest course is TO 20 sdsad at swittesl
speed.
When the Church Of God gets 10 advauc
ing tco fast, II will be time enough 10 us'
caution. No need Of putting on the bfAks'
while goiog up hill. Do not le. rs 81
down wai.iog for something ITO turn up,
bat % ahead in the name Of God and turl
lie up. The great danger TO the CnuIcl