West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-07-12

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SIT down and they weep as the IIsht goes ont
from the bright eyes and the white petals OF
tho lily are scattered In the blast OF death
They watch through the long night by the
| dying couch, and then, when the spirit has
| gone, sooth you with great comfort They
| say: Don't cry Jesus pities Won All IL
we'll You Will meet the lost one again.
Then, when your son went or, breaking your
| heart, did they not come and put the story in
the very best shape and prophecy the return
| OF the prodigal3 Were they not in your
house when the birth angel tapped it's wings
over your dwellngf And they have been
Family friends but have to tell you that
| Christ IL the best family friend Oh,
blessed is that cradle over which Jesus
bends Blessed is that nursery whore Jesus
| walks. Blessed Is that sick brow from which
Jesus wipes the dampnesS Blessed Is that
table where Jesus breaks the bread. Blessed
Is that grave whore Jesus stands with His
SCARED feet on the upturned sod, saying; ~
am the resurrection and the life; he that be
/ lieveth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall
| he live" Have you babe in the houses
| Tut It into the arms OF the great Child
Lover. Is there a sick one in the housed
Think or Him who said: "Damsel, arise.
Are you afraid you will come 10 wanti Think
| OF Him who fed the five thousand. Is there
little one in your house that you are afraid
| will be blind or deaf or lamef Think of
Him who touched tho blinded eye and
snatched back the boy from epileptic con.
vulsion. oh, He is the best friend. Look
over your family friends TO day and find an.
other that can be compared TO Him When
we want our friends they are sometimes
out OF town Christ Is always I'm town
we find that some will stick TO us in
prosperity who will not in adversely
| But Christ comes through darkest nfOht
and amid chastity sorrow, and across
toughest sea, 10 comfort you. There are
men and women here who would have been
dead twenty years ago but for Jesus They
have gone through trial enough to exhaust
ten times their physical strength. Their
| property went. their health went their fami-
lies were scattered. God only knows what
they suffered. They are an amazement TO
themselves that they have been able to stand
It, They look at their once happy home,
surrounded by all comfort. Gonel They
think of the time when they use to rise
strong in the morning. and walk vigorously
down the street, and had experienced a
health they thought inexhaustfble. Gone
everything gone but Jesus. He has pitied
them His eye has watched them. ON
| Impotence has defended them. Yes has
been with them. They have gone through
disaster and He was pillar Of fire by night.
Ihey have gone across stormy Galilee, but
+ Christ had His foot on the neck OF the stc I'm.
lhey ielt the waves OF trouble coming up
around them gradually, and they began to
climb into the strong rock of Gods de-
Tense, and then they sang, as they looked
/ over the waters: GOOD is our refuge and
strength, an ever present help I'm time OF
| 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 thereof roar and be troubled
though the mountains shake with the SWELL
ing thereof. Selah.n The other day there
was sailor who came into the Bethel in New
/ y ork and said: "My lads (he was STANDING
among sailors, don't know what's the
matter with me. 1 used to hear good deal
about religion and about Jesus Christ
ION know that have any religion or that
| l know anything much about Christ: but
when was in mid-Atlantic looked up one
| n hNsFaN NrrI NN..n A.
come light through my soul have felt dtf-
| terent ever since, and / love those / once
hated, and feel JOY / can't tell you. 1
really don't know what is the matter of me -
| a rough sailor got up and said: 'My lad,
know what's the matter of you You have
found Jesus. 1t is enough TO make any man
happy"
His worth II all the nations knew
| Sure the whole earth would love him too.
remark again: Christ is precious to the
believer, as a final deliverer. You and l
must after awhile get out Of this world.
Here and there, one perhaps may come on TO
! eighty, 70 ninety years OF age, but your com
mon sense tells You that the next twenty-fiv
/ years will land the majority OF this audience
In eternity. The next ten years will thin out
a great many OF these family circles This
day may do the work for some of Us. Now,
! why do say thist To scare your No: but
| Just as | would stand in your office, IL were
business man, and talk over risks You do
/ not consider it cowardly to talk in your
/ base
this morning to talk a little while over the
risks OF the soul, that are for eternityl In
| every congregation death has the last
year been doing a great deal Of
/ work Where is your fatherl Where
| is your motheri Your childi Your brotherl
! Your sister. o, how cruel does death seem
| to be- Will he pluck avery howerl Will ne
! prison every fountainl viii He put black on
every door knobi VIII He snap every heart
stringl Can keep nothingl Are there ne
| charmed weapons with which to go out and
/ contend against Hint Give me some keen
sword, sharpened in Gods armory. with
| which L may stab him through. Give me
| some battle ak that may clutch it. and hey
/ him from helmet 10 sandal Thank God
\ thank God, that he that rideth on the male
/ horse hath more than match in Him who
| rldeth 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 con-
] queror, with uplifted voice, declared It: ooh
death, will be thy plague; o grave, / will
| be thy destruction"
| The sepulcher is lighted castle on the
shore OF heavenly seas, and sentinel angels
walk up and down at the door to guard IL
! The dust and the dampness 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 gasping. is only
! the long inhalation Of the air Of heaven Oh
/ bless God for what Christ is TO the Christian
[ soul. here and hereafterl
] heard man say some time ago that they
/ never laugh in heaven. i do not know where
! he got his authority for that. / think they
/ DO laugh in heaven. When victors come
/ homo do we not Taught When fortunes are
! won in day, do we not Taught After we
I have been ten or fifteen years away from
/ our fn nds and we greet them again, do wo
/ not Taught Yes, we will laugh in heaven
/ not hollow laughter, Sot Eesaningless
/ laughter, but full. Sodsrli eisar
/ ep, resonant outbreak Of eternal
! gadness. 81. ne CLEO Of that moment when
! we first Sc Jesusi think We will take the
I first two or three years IN heaven 20 look at
/ Jesus. and ii, in ten thousand years, there
I hould be a moment when the dOxology
/ paused, ten thousand souls would cry out.
I Sing singI" and when the cry was: "What
I snail we singf the answer would BE-. ''Jesusf
/ Jesusw On, you may have al the crowns in
heaven; DO not care 50 much about tbeun
on may have oil the robes in heaven. do
/ not care so much about them You NAV
I nave ail the sceptres In heaven: do not care
I 50 much about them. You may have All fhe
! thrones in heaven; I do not care 80 roucb
apout them. But give me Jesus-that ia
enough heaven for me. o jesus / lone 10
see nee. Thou "Chief amone, TEN fbouqsod
7 the One altogether loveiyn
tnero may be some here who have come
/ nhIdiy KNOWING Why they come. pcrhapq he
was as pa fnulAAime--yOu have come 20 hear
what this babbier sayeth. but am clad 10
I meet you face % face. and to strike hands
WIN you in one earnest talk about vour