Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-24
CALL UNTO THE LORD.
THBPRATBR OF THE RIGHTEOUS ArAILBfH
MUCH.
Dr. Tdnags's Eloquent Tabernacle Ssrnou-1hs
Supernatural Character Of RAligiOn-Gd
the Crest RsalE Of all Ills Phys
ica and Spiritual.

chapter about the multiplication of loaves
and fshee. The opening hymn was:
THE morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears"
DR.. Talmage took as the subject of his
sermon, "a Bad Boil Cured" The text
wa': Il have heard thy prayer; behold, l
will heal thea. Aud Isaish said Take Q
lump Of figs. And they took and laid it
on the boil, and he recovered. III. Kings
XXX, 81.
Luxurious living is not healthy. The
second generation Of kings and queens and
lords aud princes is apt 10 be brainless and
invalid. The second crop of grass is al
most always short. Royal blood is gen.
orally scrofulcu& You will not be sur
prised, then, to hear that King Hezekiah mad
disorders which broke out in caIbuncle,
yiTulent and deathfal. The Lord told h'm
he must die; be did not want to die. He
turned his face to the wall, 80 that his
prayer would not bs interrupted, and cried
TO God for bis life. God heard the prayer
and answered it, saying: Behold, will
heal thee" But there was human instru-
mentality to be employed. This csrbunCle
needed ''cataplasm." That is q tough
word we use to show how much We know.
If in the pulpit we always u'ed words the
people understood, we never should have
any reputation for learning. Well, this
carbuncle needed cataplasm, which is q
poultice. Your old mother, who doctored
her own children in the time when physi-
clans ere rot as plenty as they are now, will
tell you that the very test poultlce is fig,
and that WAS what was used upon the csr.
buucle of King Hezskiah. The power Of
God, accompanied by this human instru-
mentality, cured the king.
in this age of discovery, when men
know so much it almost kills them, and
write so wisely that it almost kills us, il
has been found out that prayer to God is
dead failnre. All things are arranged
according to inexorable law. There is no
nee in praying to God for rain in time Of
drought The weather probabilities" in
the morning papers will decide the ques-
tiou, rain or no rain, and the whole
natiCn in prayer before God would not
bring down drop. am not now speak
ing Of an imaginary theory, but Of that
which is believed by ten Thousand times
ten thousand men.
THE AGE OF RATIoNALIsM.
If sickness comes 10 your household, il
will depend entirely upon ventilation,
uood Il ;.t and tha pl III oF Tho 1o,toro ~
to whether your chrld gets we'll. The
father might pray all day, ard the mother
might pray all night-it would not have
any effect upon the case Ifsquills, bell
adOuns, partgoriC, aud Cruel do the work,
your child will get well if not, rot. There
is cat iron God seated at the head Of
the universe, holding in the cold grasp Of
His metal fingers band Of law from which
nothing can break away.
Men aud women Of God, at this point
the great battle of Christianity to-day is
schools, and univertilies, and magazines
and newspapers, to scoff at Bible truth and
csricsturs The old religion of J,suP. L,
says Jesus is not GUd for il is impossible
TO explain how he can he divine and
human at the SAME time. Tho Bible ia not
inspired, for there are things in it that
they don't like. Regeneration il q farce
there is good enough in us, and the only
thing is to bring it cut Development is
the word development The Garden OF
Edenis fairy story, and DO more TO be be-
lieved tha1 The Arabian Nights, or Gul.
liver's Travels, or Robioson Crusoe. We
all started "a bthOOns aud are blood Tela-
tioI 10 that monkey squirmiDg about on
the top of that handorgan. Lazirus was
not dad when Christ pretended to raise
bin; he was only plsyiug dead. The
water YVES not changed into wine at the
wedding, but CHRIST brought in some wine
that he bad found elsewhere TO make uy
the deficiency. Christ did not walk on
the sea, but en- the shore, so rear that il
seemed a. if be really were on the water,
THE POWER or PRAYER.
Ny first address, therefore, is TO those
who do believe ia tie Bible | want "a
tell you that prayer is the mightiest Of all
remedies and that the sllopsthic 9nd
! homeopathic, and the eclectic schools will
yet acknowledge it. Here are two cases
OF sickness precisely alike; the same kind
of medicine is given to both Of th"m, and
in the same quantities The one patisn,
recovers, and the other does not Why
God b'e,ses the one remedy, and does moi
bless the other. Prayer has h. lpsd many
q blunGcrinR doctor through with Gaze
that would have otherwise become com.
p,etely uumsnagesble. There is such q
thing ~ Gospel hygiene, az Christian
pharmacy, as divine materia medics. THAI
ia fSolish man who, in Gaze Of sickness
COS Cnly to human resources, when W,
We have these instances of the Lords helI
in the sick.rocm Before you clll th,
doctor, while he is there and after he goe
away, look up TO him who cured HszekIaa
Let the sp)thecary send the poultic., IN
Col maktsit draw. Oh, ! am glad to hav,
q doctor who knows how to pray. Coz
send salvation To all the doctors
Sickness would be ofteper briked. deatl
would be Oftener hurled back from th,
door.silI, If medical men came into th,
sick-rcom, like Isaiah Of ths text, with I
prescription in th,ir hsr ds and the wore
of the Lord in their mouths.
John Abercrombie, tbe most celebrated
physician of Scotland, p-sytd wheu b.
went into the sick-room, and he wrote d
more ably about diseases of the brain
than about "the philosophy OF the m0rs
feelings." ] don't know how much OF th
medical success of SydenhsD, and Cooper
and Harvey, and Rnsh, depended upon th
fict that they knew low TO pray a. well s
to prescribe don't want physician
who sess no God in humsn anatomy +
doctor my broken bones. If God made o
and | think he did and If the Bible !
true land am rather disposed to think j
isl, then it is not strange that prayer doe
traverse natural cause; sy, that it intro
duces a new cause. When GOi made th
law, He did not make il 70 strong II
clud not break IT, II God made on
bodies, when they are broken He is the on
10 mend them; and il il reasonable that W
should call Him in to do il.
THEKISD OF PRAYER
would have you also SEE, for il is a.
other lsfs'n Of the suhject-that our prsyt
must also be accompanied by mfana |
is sn outrsga to ask God 10 Go q thin
while we SIT iodolent. The prayer, to b
acceptable, must come not only from III
heart, but from ihs hsnds. We must vor
while we pray, devotion and work eoiD
together. Luther came 10 Melancthon'
bedside and prayed for his recovery, 80
insisted, at the came time, that be sh 'ul
take some warm coup, the soup beipg jus
as important as the prayer. In t5e tin