West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-05-30

man IN tno poorhouSe cry out: ,blceS tho
and said: what has this man got TO thank
God forr' IL makes the lame man leap
like the hart and the dumb sing. They say
that the old Puritan religion Is a juiceless and
joyless religion but remember reading OF
DIR. Goodwin, tho celebrated Puritan, who in
his last moments said: els this dying7 Why,
my bow abides in strength am swallowed
up in God" "Her ways are ways OF pleasant
ness, and all her paths are peace" oh, you
who have been trying to satisfy yourselves
with tho "couth land of this world, do you
not feel that you would, this morning, like
to have access to the neither springs OF
spiritual comfortf Would you not like 10
have Jesus Christ bend over your cradle and
bless your table and heal your wounds, and
strew flowers OF consolation all up and down
tho graves OF your deadS
IT'S religion that can give
Sweetest pleasures while we live;
It's religion can supply
Sweetest comfort when die.
But have something better TO tell you,
suggested by this text 1t seems that old
father Caleb on the wedding day of his daugh-
ter wanted TO mako her just as happy as pos
sible Though Othniel was taking her away.
md his heart was almost broken because sh,
vas going, yet he gives her a south land;
lot only that, but the neither springs moi
,nly that, but the upper springs. O God, mi
Father, thank Thee that Thou hast given mt
south landn in this world, and the nethe
VI In JnlS WOrlu
but, moro than all, / thank Thee for Thu
upper springs in heaven.
lt Is very fortunate we cannot SEQ HEAVIER
lntil we get into IL. Oh, Christian man, Il
you could SEQ what place 10 is, we wouk
never get YOU back again to the Office or stor,
Or shop and tho duties you ought to perform
would so neglected. l am glad shallnot Sc,
that world until enter il. Suppose we were
allowed 10 go ON nn excursion into that good
and with the idea of returning. When we got
there, and heard the song, and looked AZ
Cheir raptured faces, and mingled in the su.
pernal society, We would cry out: Let us
stayl We nre coming here anyhow. WHY
take the trouble of going back again TO that
old world? We arc here now; let us STAY
And IL would take angelic violence TO put
as out of that world, if once we rot
There. But as people who cannot az.
ford TO pay for an entertainment some
times come around it and look through the
door ajar, or through the openings in the
fence, SO we come and look through the
creVlces IN that good land which God hos pro-
vlded for us We can just catch glimpse of
IL. Wo come near enough TO hear the
rumbling of the eternal orchestra, though
not near enough to know who blows
the cornet or who fingers the harm
My soul spreads out both wings and claps
them in triumph at the thought of those
upper springs. One of them breaks from
beneath tho throne; another breaks forth
from beneath the altar OF tho temple: an
other at the door of "the house of many
mansions" Upper springs of gladnessl Up
per springs of light Upper springs of Lowell
lt is no fancy of mine. "The Lamb which is
I'm the midst of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains of waterp Oh, Savior de-
vine, roll in upon our souls one of those an
ticipated rapturesl Pour around the roots of
the parched tongue one drop OF that LIQUID
life! Toss before our vision those fountains
OF God, rainbowed with eternal victory.
dear 1t. They are never sick there; not so
much as headache, or twinge rheumatic,
or thrust neuralgia The inhabitant never
says, 81 am sick" They are never tired there.
Flight to farthest world is only the play of a
holiday. They never sin there. 1t is as easy
for them to be holy as it is for us to sin. They
aever die there. You might go through all
the outskirts OF tho great city and find not
one place where the ground was broken for
grave. The eyesight of the redeemed is
never blurred with tears. There is health in
every cheek. There is spring in every foot.
There is majesty on every brow. There
Is JOY IN every heart. There is hosanna
ds as they look over and down and see
us, and say: Poor things away down in that
world" And when some Christian is hurled
into n fatal accident they cry: "Goodi he is
comingW And when we stand around tho
couch OF some loved one Whose strength is
going away and we shake our heads fore
bodingly, they cry: 81 am glad he is worse;
he has been down there long enough There
he is deadl Come homel Come homer
oh, If we could only get our ideas about that
future world unswisted our thought of trans
fer from here to there would be as pleasant to
as as it was to little child that was dying.
She said Papa, when will / go home ?n
And no said (: To-day, Florence" "To-
day So sooni / am so glad !"
wish could stimulate you with these
thoughts, oh Christian man, to the highest
possible collaboration. The day of your de-
hverance is coming, is coming It isrolIinp
on with the shining wheels of the day, and
the jet wheels Of the night. Every thump of
the neart IS only hammer stroke striking of
another chain of clay. Better scour the deck
and coil the rope, tho harbor is only six miles
away. Jesus viii come down in the "Nar-
rows TO meet you. Now is your salvation
nearer than when you believed.
Unforgiven man, unpardoned man will
you not to-day make choice between these
two portions, between the south land" of
this world, which slopes TO the desert and
this glorious land which thy Father offers
thee, running with eternal water courses?
Why let your tongue be consumed with thirst
when there are the neither springs and the
upper springs, comfort here and glory here.
after2
l.et me tell you, my dear brother, that the
silliest and wickedest thing a man ever does
IS TO reject Jesus Christ. The loss of the soul
is a mistake that cannot be corrected. It Is
n dOWnfaIl that knows no alienation: it is n
rum that is Temediless: IL is a sickness that
mas no medicament; it is a grave into which
man goes but never comes out. Therefore,
putting my hand on your shoulder as one
bfOtner puts his hand on the shoulder of n
brother, 1 say this day, be manly, and sur
render your heart 10 Christ You have boon
long enough serving the world; now begin 10
serve the Lord who bought YOU You have
Tried long enough ~ carry these bnrdans: let
Jesus Christ put His shoulder under your
burden. DO / hear any ono in tho audience
say: II mean TO attend to that aftor ayvhiTe.
u - not just the timer 10 is the time. for
the simple reason that You are gIre OF
no other; and God sends Won hero
this morning. and Ho sent mo hero
10 comfort you with this ncs-
sage and you must hear now that Christ
oied 70 save your soul, and that n
y9n want to b. saved you may be saved
~ ho5oeyer will, let him come" You
VIII never find any moro convenient
season than this. Some of you have been
waiting ten, twenty thirty, forty. fifty
ma s,1ty years On some Of YOU tho
snow has fallen. i sec 30 on v0ur brow
and yet you have not attended 10 fbo1a,
uutle5 which boioug 10 the very spring
time Of life 10 is September with yCs,
now, 30 IS October with you. b is December
with you. om no alarnist i simply know
llls. III @ man does nlt repent iu this world
pc never reponts 1t oll mud chat now IS tho
nccepteI time. aud now b. tho day Of galva-
hpn On, put OF ihis matter no LONGER DO
hpO Turn your back ON Jesus Christ who
cpilea 70 save gov. lest you should lose your
On Monday morning. O friend OF mine
aInrte1 from New York tp celebrate her
birthday with bier daughter in virginia On