Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-23

of Jesus Christ is the only sweetenlng
mower that is sufficient. 1t sweetens the
disposition. 1t sweetens the manners. IL
sweetens life. 1t sweetens mysterious
providences 1t sweetens atfiicaons. IL
sweetens death. 1t sweatens everything
have heard people asked in social COM
pany: '.If you could have three wishes
grntified what would your three wishes
b.?' If could have three wishes met
this morning tell You what they would
be. First: More of the grace OF God.
Second More of the grace of God. Third:
More of the grace of God. In the door
yard of my brother John, missionary IN
Annoy, China, there is a tree called the
emperor tree, the two characteristics oi
which are that it always grows higher
than its surroundings and its leaves take
the form OF a crown. II this emperor tree be
planted by it rosebush it grows a little
higher than the bush, and spreads out
above il O crown. II it be planted by the
side of another tree it grows little higher
than that tree and spreads above 1t q
crown. Would God that this religion OF
Christ, a more wonderful emperor tree,
might overshadow all your lives; are you
lowly in ambition or circumstance, put
ting over you is crown; are you high IN
talent and position, putting over you It's
crown? On, for more OF the saccharine IN
our lives and less of the wormwood!
Whist il true afindiyiduals is true OF
nations. God sets them up to reyolye as
stars but they may fall wOrmwood.
Ipray that our nation may not copy the
crimes of the nations that have perished,
and eur cup of pleasing turn to wolmwood,
and like them we go down. am by ma
ture and by grace an optimist, and ex-
pect that this country will continue to sd-
vance until the world shall
PUT on MILLENNIAL ERE,
and that when Christ comes again he will
set his throne somewhere between the
Alleghanies and the Sierra Nevada. But
be not deceived! Our only safety is in
Righteousness toward God and justice to-
ward man. If we forget the goodness Of
the Lord to this land, and break his Sab
baths and improve not by the dire dhisters
that have again and again come to rs as
q people, and we learn saving lessons
neither from civil war nor raging epidemic,
/ nor drouth nor mildew nor scourge OF To-
Gust and grasshoppers, If the political cor
ruption which has poisoned the fountains
of public virtue and beslimed the high
places Of authority, making free govern.
meut at times a Kissing and byword in all
the earth, if the drunkenness licentious-
ness that stagger and blsspheme in the
streets of our great cities as though they
were reaching sitter the fame OF a
/ Corinth and Sodom ore not re-
pepted of we will yet see the smoke OF our
nations ruin; the pillars of our National
aud State capitals will fall more dsas
! trously than when Sampson pulled down
/ Dagon; and future historians will record
upon the page believed with generous
tears the story that the free nation of the
West arose in splendor which made the
world stare. IL had magnificent possibili
ties. 1t forgot God. 1t hated justice. II
hugged It's crime. 1t halted on Its
high march. 1t reeled under the blow oi
calamity. II fell. And as it was going
down all the despotisms Of earth from the
top of bloody thrones began to shout
"Aha, so would we have it," while strug
Cling aud oppressed peoples looked out
from dungeon bars with tears and groans
aud cries of untold agony, the scorn o
those and the woe of these uniting IN the
exclamation: "Look yonder! There fell
great star from heaven, burning as il
were q lamp, and IT fell upon the third
part Of the rivers and upon the fountains
of waters; and the name of the stAr Ii
called WOrmwooa"