Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-03

SOmetnlpS Cettof tuhu tnnt II yco ohAy Aos
Christ introduce you. From that plsce
He came, and to that place He proposes TO
transport you, for His garments smell OF
my1rh, and aloes, and csssia, out OF the
ivory palaces"
Oh, what o place heaven must be! The
Tuileries of the French. the Windsor Gas.
tie of the English, the Spanish AlhAmbra,
the Russian Kremlin, dungeons compared
with it! Not 30 many castles on either
side the Rhine as on both sides OF the river
of God the ivory palaces! One for the an
gels, insufferably bright, winged, ire
eyed, tempsst-cbariotsd; one for ths mar
tyrs, With blood-red Iobts, from under the
altar; one for the King, the steps Of His
palace the crowns Of the church militant;
one for the singers, who lead the one hum
dred and forty and four thousand; one Tor
you Iansomed from sin; one for me
plucked from the burning. oh, the ivory
palscss. 4.
HEAVENS WINDOWS ILLUMINKD.
To. day it seems to me IS if the windows
of those palaces were illumined for some
great victory, and 1 look and zee climbing
the stairs of ivory, and walking ON foors
of ivory, and looking from the windows OF
ivory some whom we knew and loved on
earth. Yes, l know them. There are
father and mother, not eighty.two years
and seventy nine years q, when they leit
us. but blithe and young
az when on their marriage day. And
there are brothers and sisters, merrier than
when We used to romp across the meadows
together. The cough gone. The carcsr
cured. The erysipelas healed. Ths heart
break over. oh, bow fare they are in the
ivory palaces! Aud your dear little chill.
dren that went cut from you-ChIist did
not let one of them drop as he lifted them.
He did not wrerch one Of them from you.
No. They went as from one they loved
we'll 10 One whom they loved better. II i
should take your little child and press lite
soft face against my rouge cbesk, i might
keep il o little while; but when you, the
mother, came along, it would struggle 10
90 with you. Aud 30 you stood holding
YOUR dying child when Jesus passed by In
the room, and the little one sprang out to
greet Him. That is all. Your Christian
dead did not 20 down into the dust and the
gravel and the mud. Though 1t rained
all that funeral day, and the water came
up to the wheels hub rs you drove ont to
the cemetery, it made no difference to
them, for they stepped from tie home here
to the home there, right into the ivory
palaces. All is well with them. All is
well.
THE CHRISTIANS BED.
It's not dead weight that you lift when
Won carry q Christian out. Jesus makes
the bed up soft with velvet promises, and
lie saws: "Put her down here gently. Pat
that head, which will never ache again, on
this pillow of ballelpia abs. Send up word
that the procession is coming. Ring the
BELLS Ring! Open your gates, ye ivory
palaces" And so your loved ones are
there. They are just as certainly there,
having died in Christ, as that you are
here. There is only one thing more they
want. Indeed, there IL one thing in
heaven they have not got. They want II.
What is il? Your company. But, oh,
my brother, unless you change your tack
Won cannot reach that harbor. You might
as well take the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, expecting in that direction to reach
Toronto, az TO 20 on in the way some Of
you are going and yet expect to reach the
ivory palaces. Your loved ones are look
ing out of the windows of heaven now,
and yet You seem to turn your back
upon them. You do not seem to
know the sound of their voices as
we'll as You ussd to, or to be moved by the
sight of their dear faces Gall louder, ye
departed ones. Call louder from the ivory
PALACES. When ] think Of that palace,
aud think of my entering it, feel awk.
ward: I feel as sometimes when / have
been exposed to the weather, and my shoes
have bsen bemired, and my coat Is Boiled,
and nv lair is disheveled, and stop In
front of some fine residence where have
an errand. feel not fit 10 90 in as am
and sit among polished guests. So some
of rs feel about heaven. We need to be
washed-we need to be rehabilitated be.
fore we 20 into the ivory palaces. Eter-
nal God, let the surges Of Thy pardoning
mercy roll over Us. want not only TO
wash my hands and my feet, but, like
some skilled diver, standing on the pier.
head, who leaps into the wave and comes
up at 8 far.distant point from where be
went iu, 60 went to 70 down and 90
want TO come mp. o Jesus, wash me In
the wave, Of Thy salvation.
THE LOGIC or CHRIsT's CRUCIFIXIoH
| And here 1 AK you to solve mystery
that has been oppressing me for thirty
years. have asked IL Of doctors Of divin
| ity who have been studying theology hal
q century, and they have given me no sat
isfsctory answer. / have turned over sl
the books In my library, but got no solu
! ton TO the question, and to-day come
, and ask you for sn explanation. BY wha
, logic was Christ induced TO exchange th'
. ivory palaces Of heaven for the crueifxior
sgonies Of earth2 / shall take the hrs
: thousand million years in heaven 10 study
out that problem. Meanwhile snd now
taking il IA the tenderest and mightisst o
ell facts that Christ did come, that III
csme with spikes in His feet, csms will
thorrs in His brow, came with spears In Iii
|, heart 10 save you and TO save me. Goo
60 loved the world that lie gave his onl!
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth IL
Him should not perish, but have eyerlsst
ing life." Christ, whelm this audience
with Thy compassion. Now them dow
like summer grain with the harvesting
.ickle of Thy grace. Ride through to.da!
: the conqueror, thy garments smelling 20
myrrh, and sllce,, and oaAis, out Of tb
ivory pslsces,"
o sinner, fiipg everything else sway snt
, take Christ! Take Him now, not 10 NOR
row. Daring the night following this yer.
day there may be an excitement In you
! dwelling. and tremulous pouring out Q
drops from an unsteady and sfiifghte'
,, hand, and before tomorrow morning you
! chance may be gone
B Boulanger Talks Rsvolution.
. PARIS. December 2.-GeD. Boulapgsl