Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-28


preached the sermon. That is regenera-
tion, that is Iegenerationl If there are
any dry husks Of technicality IN that,
where are they? All made over again by
the power of the grace of God.
A SEA CAPTAINS CONVERSION.
A few years ago ship captain came in
here and sat yonder under the gallery
He came in with acOntempt for the Church
of GOd and with an especial dislike for
Talmage. When an opportunity was Civ
en- he arose for prayer, and as be was more
than six feet high, when he arose for pray
er no one doubted that he arose! That
hour he became Christian. He went out
and told the ship owners and the ship COM
manders what great change had been
wrought in him, and scores and score have
been brought to God through his instru-
mentality.
A little while after his conversion he
was on ship off Cape Hatteras in a thick
and prolonged fog, and they were at their
wits ends and knew not what to do, the
ship drifting about hither and thither, and
they lost their bearings ard the convert
cd ecu captain went to his room and asked
God for the salvation OF the ship, and God
revealed il 10 him while
he was on his knees that
at certain hour, only little way of, the
fog would lift; and the converted sea cap.
tain came out on the deck and told how
God heard his prayers He said: ''It Is
all right. boys, very soon now the fog will
lift,' mentioning the hour. A man who
stood there laughed aloud in derision at
the idea that God would answer pray er;
but at Just the hour when God had assured
the captain the fog would lift there came
a fash Of lightning through the fog, and
the man who had jeered and laughed was
stunned and fell to the deck. The fog
lifted. YOnder was Cape Hatteras light
house. The ship was put on the right
course, and sailed on TO the harbOr OF
safety.
THAT IS REGENERATION.
When in seaport the captain spends most
Of his time il evangelical work. He kneels
down by one who has been helpless in the
b2d for many months, and the next day
she walks forth in the streets well. He
kneels bsside 01e who has long been de-
crepit, and he resigns the crutches. He
kueel5 beside one who had not eeen
enough to be able to read for ten
years, and 9te reads the Bible that
day. Consumptions 90 away, and those
who had diseases that were appalling TO
behold come up to rapid convslescence and
to complete health. lam rot telling you
any thing second-handed. have had the
story fcom the lips OF the patients in this
very house, those who were brought to
health of body while at the same time
brought to God. No secOnd-handed story
this. have heard the testimony from
man and women who have been cured.
You may call it faith-cure, or you may
call it the power of God coming down in
answer 10 prayer; do not care what you
call it, it is fact. The scOfling sea cap
tain, his heart full Of hatred for Christian
ity, now becomes follower of the meek
and lowly Jeeva, giving all the time to
evangelical labors, or all the time he can
spare from other occupations. That is re-
generation, that is regeneration. Man all
made over again.
ADMIRE, ADORE THESE DOCTRINES.
Be it ours 10 admire and adore these
doctrines at which others jear. Ol the
depths of the riches both of the wisdom
and knowledge OF Cod How unsearch-
able is His wis iom, and His ways are
past finding out On the height, the
depth, the length, the breadth, the in
finiiy, the immensity, the eternity of tina,
love Let our earnest prayers 20 out in
behalf Of all those who scoff at these doc
trines of grace. When the London plague
was raging in the year 1865, there was
hotel near the chief burial place that ex-
cited mach comment England was in
fright and bereavement. The dead carts
went through the streets day ard night,
and the cry: Bring out your dead"
was answered by the bringing out OF
the forms Of the loved ones, and
they were put twenty or thirty in cart,
and the wagons went on to the cemetery;
and these dead were not buried in graV e.
but in great trenches, in great pits, in one
nit eleven hundred and fourteen buriAls!
The carts would come up with their great
burden OF twenty or thiIty to the mouth
Of the pit, aud the front OF the carts was
lifted end the dead shot into the pit. All
tue churches in London were open for
prayer day ard night. and England was in
a great anguish. At that very time, at
hotel, at a wayside inn near the chief
burial-place, there was group of hardened
men, who Eat day after day and night
after night disappearing God and initiating
the grief-struck who went by to the burial
place. These men sat there day after day
and night after night, and they scoffed at
meu, and they scOffed at women, and they
scoffed at God. But after q while one of
them was struck with the plague, and in
two weeks all Of the group were down in
the treuch from the margin of which they
had uttered their Iibaldry. Ny frierds, a
greater plague is abroad in the world
Millions have died of it. Millions are
smitten with it now. Plague Of sin, /.
plague of soTrow, plague of wretchsduess, |
plague OF woe. And consecrated women /
and men from sll Christendom are going
out trying TO stay the plague aud alleviate /
the anguish, and there is a group of men |
in this country base enough TO sit and de- |
ride the work. They scOff at the /
Bible, and they scoif at evan /
gelism, and they scott at Jesus |
Christ, and they scott at God. II these
words shall reach teen, either while they |
are sitting here to-day, or through the
printing press, let me tell them to remem'
ber the fate of that group in the wayeide
inn while the plague spreads its two
black wingl over the doomed city of Lon
don. Oh, instead of being scofera let us
be disciples! "Blessed is the man that
walke.h not in the counsel Of the ungodly, /
nor slandeth in the way Of sinners, nor |
sitteth in the seat of the scofnful-"
Gen. spInnsr's Cancer.
FoRT PLAIN, y. Y. January 27.-Nr.
Kehco, of this city, has just received the