Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-28

our c0untry-nOW IoN nppAoSanse
is! This generation tramping on to the
praye-we will soon all be gone. What
next?
An engineer on a locomotive going across
the western prairies day after day, saw
little child come out in front OF q cabin
and wave to him; so he got in the habit 6i
waving back to the little child, and 1t was
the dsy g Joy to him to see this little one
come ont in front Of the cabin door ana
wave to him, while he answered back. :.
One day the train was belated and II
came ON to the dark Of the evening. AS
the engineer stood at his post he saw by
the headlight that little girl on the track
wondering why the train did not come,
looking for the train, knowing nothing oil
its peril. A great horror seized upon the
engineer. He reversed the engine. he
gave it in charge of the other man on
board, and then he climbed over on the
engine, and he came down on the COW.
catcher. He said, though he had reversed
the engine, it ceemed as though it were
going at lightning speed, faster and faster,
though it was really slowing up, and with
almost supernatural clutch he caught that
child by the hair and lifted 1t up, and
when the train stopped and the passengers
gathered around te see what was the mat.
ter, there the old engineer lay, fainte1
dead away, tho little child alive and In
his swarthy arms. =,
"Oh ~ you say, "that was we'll done. "
But want you to exercise some kindness
and some appreciation toward those in
community who are snstching the little
ones from under the
WHEELS OF TEMPTATION
and sin snatching them from under thun'
dsring rail trains Of eternal disaster, bring
ing them up into respectability in this
world and into glory for the world to come.
You appreciate what the engineer did
why cin you not appreciate the grandeI
work done by every Ssbbath.school teacher
this afternoon?
Oh! my friends, want TO impress upon
myself and upon yourselves that it is not
the number Of talents We possess, but the
use we make of them.
God has royal family in the world.
Now, if should ask: "Who are the royal
family Of history" you would soy: "House
of Hspsburg, House of Stuarts, House ol
Bourbone." They lived in palaces, and
had great equipage. BIT VINO are the
Lords royal family? Some Of them may
serve you in the household, some
of them are in unlighted garretts,
some of them will walk this afternoon
down the street, on their arm a basket el
broken food; some Of them are 10 the
almshouse, despised and rejected of men,
yet in the last great day, while it will be
found that some of us who Jared sumpt
uously every day are hurled back into
discontinue, there are the lame that will
take the prey.
Oae step farther: There are great
many people discouraged about getting u
Heaven. You are brought up in good
families, you had Christian parentage; bul
you frankly tell me that you are thou
sand miles away from the right track.
My brother, you are the one want tc
preach TO this morning. have been look
ing for you will tell you how you got
astray. It was not maliciousness on youl
part. 1t was perhaps through the gsniality
and sociality Of your nature that you fsl
into sin.
YOU WANDERED AWAY
from your duty, you unconsciously left
the house of God; you admit the G0spe
to he true, and yet you have 40 grievously
and 70 prolongsdly wandered, you say
rescue is impossible.
1t would take a week to count up the
names of those in Heaven who were on
earth worse than you tell me You are
They went the whole round of iniquity,
they disgraced themselves, they disgraced
their household, they despaired of eturr
because their reputation was gone, theii
property was gone, everything was gone
but in some hour like this they heard the
voice of God, and threw thems Ives on the
divine compassion, md they rose up more
than co1querors. And tell you there is
the same chance for you. That is one rea
son why like TO preach this Gospel, &c
free Gospel, so tremendous Gospel. II
takes man all wrong, and makes him
all right.
In q former settlement where preached
q member Of my congregation quit the
house Of God, quit respectable circles, wen,
into all styles Of sin, and was slain Of his
antiquity. The day for his burial came
and his body was brought to the house o.
God. Some Of his comrades who had de.
stroyed him were overheard along the
street, on the way to the burial, saying
Come, let US go and hear Talmage damn
this old sinnerw Oh! had nothing bu,
tears for the dead, and had nothing but
invitations for the living. You see could
not do any otherwise. Christ Jesus came
to seek and save that which was lost. u
Christ in his lying prayer said: Father
forgive them," and that was q prayer fol
you and for me. Oh start on the road tc
heaven to-day. You are not happy. Tht
thirst Of your sonl will never be slaked by
the fountains of sin. You turn everywhere
but to God for help. Right where you are
call on Him.
HE KNOWS YOU,
He knows all about you, He knows all the
odds against which you have been con
tending in life. Do not 90 to Him with Q
long rigmarole of q prayer, bot Just look
up and say Help! Helpw
But you say: my hand trembles &c
from my dissipatiops, l can't even take
bold Of hymn-book to sing" Do mol
worry about that, my brother I will Civ.
out hymn at the close 30 familiar you
can sing it without book. But you say
II have such terrible habits on me, CAM
get rid OF them" Ny answer is, Almighty
Grace can break up that habit, and will
break it up. Bat you cay THE wrong ]
did was to one dead and in Heaven now
and / can't correct that wrong" You car
correct it. By the grace of God, 20 into
the presence Of that one, and the apologize.
You ought to have made on earth make in
Heaven.
"Oh" says some man, 'if ahould try
to do right, If should turn away from nv
evil unto the Lord, I would be iostled.
would be driven back, nobody would hay.
any sympathy for me-" You are mistaken
Here, in the presence Of the church or
earth and In heaven, give you to day the
right hand Of Christian fellowship. God
sent me here to-day to preach this, and III.
sent you here to hear this: LET the wick.
ed forsake his way and the unriphteou,
man his thought and let him return unto
the Lord, who will have mercy, and untr
our God, who will abundantly pardon ),
Though you may have been the wors. sin.
ner, you may become the best saint, and
IN the great Day Of Judgment 1t viii b.
found that where sin abounded, pracs
docs much more abound, )" and yhile tbs
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