Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-08-18
At THE CAMP-GROUND.
An Outline Of the Services Yesterday Morn
ing and Evening.
TWO SERMONS BY BISHOP JOYCE.
he breaches Powerful DiscOurses at 10 and 8
O'clock.
FuP SRRVJCES DURING The DAY.
The SERVICES DURING THE DAY.

THE SERVICES DURlAG The DAI'
There was a Large attendance at the
Moundsville Camp Ground, yesterday.
The morning services were opened by the
hymn No. 248. The congregation was led
in prsyer by Rev. Layton, and this was
followed by another hymn, the choir being
led by Mr.. Fitzpatrick. Bishop Joyce
took for his theme, what God has done
for u.s." the text being st. Mathew, vi, 3:
"After this manner, therefore, pray ye,
'Our Father, which art in heaven, halloWed
be Thy name:'
He said Jesus Christ was positive
teacher. and these positive teachers are
gradually but certainly revOlutionizing
the character of the world. Everythin
that Christ said was Of the most decided
and positive character, and all that ne
ssid YOU can take out of the New Tesla
ment and print in tract for three cents
and carry in your vest pocket. And this
little thing will contain the foroetul eie-
ments that are gradually undermining all
the false PHILOSOPHERS and religions OF the
earth. Christ only taught about
three years, and yet he has made
reputation that has gone to every land
nm earth. Some of US have been preach
ing for more than thirty years and are
hardly known outside of the place where
we were born.
No name on earth is go well known as
that of Jesus Christ.
r.. ka
W at he is, where he is going and what
kind of a book he ought to read while on
the way. Christ has covered all this for
us. All the grand and endearing things
of this world have two great elements;
God and conscience.
There can be nothing infinitely great
without these.
So that we have on the one hand God,
nm the other conscience: When We are
that. we are in contact with the source OF
all things; we are az rest mentally, and,
man is at his best.
No man is at his best when he is mentally
disturbed. Mental rest is the rest of con-
science. No man can do really great things
until his conscience is at rest with God
Mind lives on what God gives it, and no
gtudy that leaves out God makes US bet
ter. Intelligence grows when we put God
INTO it. There can be 10 great thinking
unless YOU have God in it somewhere.
All thinking that has God and His
glory as an object is thinking in straight
line. All thinking that leave God ont is
in circle and you will come around some-
where. That which has God in it is IN a
straight line, and Christ IS at the other
end.
The man that goes about in this world
without thinking of God does no good IN
the world or for the world. Better be
a wide-swake, opsn-eyed man thinking
on the line that leads you into the pres
ence of the Divine one. 1t is always
with this wonderful thing called
mind to have upward aspirations.
IT must be fed all the time. A human
heir is the only thing under heaven that
ia 90 constructed physically that he can
Look toward heaven all the time. In my
physical baing | have reached my maxi
mum. am as tall as l shall ever be, bat
who shall say my mind has reached its
mould. 1t must and will grow one way
or the other, and our souls will grow and
we cannot prevent them, either for God or
the Devil. You are either growing to be
a devil or an angel To direct it in its
course should we not conform our work
like that large class of people in this coun-
trv who are teachers, who work not so much
for the money as for the good they can do.
II is a glorious thing to train the human
mind and blessed be that teacher who can
lock arms with thu mental and moral
sense and can lead in the heavenly way.
If were a lsymsn would give my last
dollar to that teache. or preacher who
could capture my boy from the paths of
the world. To capture hearts and train
souls is the highest mission of human
being. Happy is that father who can see
his how Incoming mentally and morally
stronger. The State as we'll as the parent
expect men to grow and has In many in
stances used compulsion to enforce it.
God expects man TO grow. / am glad l
did not die when l was baby. like to
live to be a man and to 90 into heaven
with scars giving evidence of struggls
that have sought the path of duty; have
availed myeelf of his spiritual teachings
God provides for the growth and he never
nuclects. He likes to see ne 60 up, up, up,
in Christian purity.
I have heard men say it did not pay to
live. and it don't if the only result and
end of life is the cradle and the grave. l
am sorry for the man who sets in the same
old spot all the time. l am sorry for the
preacher who has the same old com
plaint and for the brother IN the
church who has the same old whine, and
looks as lank as one of Phsraoh's kline.
There is a supreme moment in the his
tory of a human soul, and that is when II
discovers that God is father, when he
leads us up and makes as like Him. When
this truth is allowed to have its full IN
fiuence we have great desire to talk with
God. I like that better than prayer. l
know prayer is a good thing. 1t don't
change the nature to change the name. 1t
is lust as easy for His children TO talk with
God as to talk with a man. There 10 only
one thing that can can lift us out Of the
mires of sin, and that is to be able to talk
with God.
Mary, Queen of Scotq, said she was more
afraid of the prayers OF John Knox than
Of all the armies in the land.