Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-27
THE LAST DAY
OF fHB MoUNDSyILLB CANPMBBTING-A
BIG CROWD PRESENT.
Raw Sam Small breaches Two Sermons and Re
aiss His gxperisncs-A General Desire 10
Have Him Return Next Ysar-Great
Interest Awakened.

its guests and the cottagers had many
visitors, while the majority of those who
went to the meeting yesterday took their
dinners along.
The order on the grounds was splendid
during the entire day, for which much
credit is due the marshall and his sssis-
tants. Yesterday was virtually the last
day of the meeting, but services will be
held this morning.
Rev. Sam Small preached in the morn
ing from Matthew, 26th chapter, 6Oth and
6lss verses, taking for his text: "This fell
low was one of them" from which he
preached splendid sermon At the after
noon services Rev. Small related
THE STORY OF HIS LIFE,
which was exceedingly interesting, and
was listened to with the closest attention
In the evening the tabernacle held one
Of the largest congregations ever assembled
there, and one that listened with undated
attention to the remarks Of Rev. Small.
He said in the beginning that he didn't
know whether his voice would reach all
present and he hoped that the assemblsge
would be quiet ~ possible. In response
to q request he said he would preach on
this closing night from the text. 81 am
the Rose of Sharon and the Lily Of the
Valley"
More than !, 200 years before Christ came
before us, said he, God said these words to
solomon They come before rs az sweet a.
at that day when they represented the bril-
dial of Christ to the Church. / love the
name of Jesus because was saved by Him
and He will savs sill sinners. The Rose
of Sharon embodies lines of thought and
beauty that the Lord would have us fol-
low. Christ said, i am the Rose Of
Sharon, because the rose is the head Of
the flower kingdom and the most beauti-
ful flower that grows. There are lines Of
beauty and oder about the natural rose
that cannot be successfully initiated.
Jesus would have us, when we understand
the mechanical construction of the rose,
and see its perfection, to look from the rose
TO Him and see that
HE IS PERFECTION.
There is nothing about the character of
God that you cannot find in Jesus Christ,
He is the express development Of God In
the flesh. He is what God wanted as to
be and what God intended Us to be had it
not been for that unfortunate mistake in
the Garden of Eden. The Jews could find
40 fault in Jesus Christ and they were
compelled to bride one of his Disciples to
deny Him. Jesus Christ is without an
equal in the world, and he will remain
forever the leader in the religious world.
To-day with saints and sinners with
bishops and ipfdel and around the whole
world no one, / care not what they may do
with his divinity, can deny the perfsc-
ton of His character.
The perfection CT Jesus Christ consists
in the beauty and orderly grouping of all
His powers and attributes around the
stem. God has given Us the same powers
50 he gave to Jesus, and the only way we
can make ourselves perfect is to cultivate
these powers.
All roses are characterized by their
sweet perfume. Jesus would show us tine
sweetness of His character, and oh, how
sweet it was. How the poor people hocked
around Him to hear Him preach. They
won't come around us that way; that's the
worst part of the thing. I'll tell you how
you can make them come. Make the
church as perfect as Christ, and then
they'll come to you. can tell you how
you can do it, bat not how to make you
do it.
You remember when Christ came along
aud felt Matthew's eyes bent eagerly upon
Him Is Matthew sat by the roadside, while
out collecting the
INTERNAL TAXES
from the fishermen and others? Christ
said: Come, Matthew, follow me- and
Matthew threw up his position as internal
revenue collector and followed Jesus.
That was something of q miracle, wasn't
it2 Well, it would be great thing to see
an internal revenue collector throw up his
position nowadays, and follow Jesus.
Il would be great item for you newspa-
per men, wouldn't it? You could make q
whole column of q and put scare head
on it. -
las climbed tfee because Ne Was O little
man and he wanted to see, Christ. Christ
felt those eyes looking down upon Him,
and He looked up and said, Come down,
Zschiss, and Zschias came down and was
converted en- the spot. Zachias was a
tax-collector, and some of the taxes
stuck to his pocket like good
many Of those over here. Zschias
wanted TO redeem himself, and he said he
would repay to those from whom he had
taken money unlawfully four times the
amount. Now, since have been con-
verted, it is all can do to pay one hun
dred cents on the dollar, and there was
Zschias wanting to pay four-fold.
Whenever you see person who is
Christian You find sweet disposition
One thing that is keeping SHINE away
from Jesus is the unlovable, unsympsthe-
tic character of many Of those who pro-
tess Christ.
Another characteristic of the rose is the
universally of its growth. 1t is the only
flower that can bloom anywhere man can
live. So il is with some kinds of religion.
| don't believe q Christian can 90 any
place without having Christ with him.
You can no more
RAISE ORANGES IN ALASKA
than you can raise Christians outside of
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he ia everywhere. No matter where / 90
Christ is with me. Christ wants us to be
Christians all the time. He wants you to
be ss religious when you are selling sugar
a. when you are taking the sacrament, or
"a religious when You are selling calico as
when when you are putting money |
in the collection box. never |
saw 9 case of Intermittent religion yet that |
ever amounted to anything. Some people |
are never religious except in church or on |
Sunday. Others are only religions in the |
summer time. If they 70 out in the win
Ter they freeze to death. Jesus was the |
brsvest man and the humblest that ever
lived. Still he never taught pusilanimity.
Do you think because / am Christian |
hat am going to lay down and let people
walk over me. If some Of these nsmby-
,amby Christians who preach and criticize
ne through the newspapers think they
an walk over me they are mistaken. II
hey try it they'll find they have run
against slate.
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