Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-02-25

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NebuchadDezzar, so every part of the TEN
ple of Christian achievement is stamped
with the letter T, standing for trouble.
He HAD REASONS.
Interrogation third: Why did a goot
God let sin and trouble come into thu
world when he might have kept them out
Ny reply is, he had a good reason. II,
mad reasons that he has never given US
He had reasons which he could no NOR,
make us understand in cur finite STATE
than the father starting ont in some grea
and elaborate enterprise could make tht
2-ysar-Old child in his armed chair com
prehend it. One was to demonstrate wha
grandeur of character may be achieved OF
earth by conquering evil. Had there beer
20 evil to conquer and 40 trouble to con
sole, then this universe would never have
known an Abraham or Moses or a Joshul
OF an Ezskiel or a Paul CT a Christ or {
Washington or q John Milton or Johr
Howard, and a million victories which
have been gained by the cOnseorated spirits
of all ages would never have been gained
Had there been no battle there would have
been no victory Nine-tenths Of the an
thems Of heaven would never have
been sung. Heaven could never have beer
a thOusandth part of the heaven that it is.
will not say that l sm glad that sin and
sorrow did enter, but l do say that l am
glad that after God has given all his reas
ons to an assembled universe he will be
more hOnored tn "A If sin and sorrow had
never entared, and that the unfaleu celes.
tials will be outdOne and will put down
their trumpets to listen and it wilt be in
heaven when those who have conquered
sin and SORROW shall enter, as it would
in a small singing school on earth If Thai
berg and GOttschalk and Wagner and
Beethoven and Rheinberger aud Schumsnn
should sll at once enter. The immOrtsle
that have been chanting ten thousand
years before the throne will say, as they
close their hbTe.tos: "Ob, il we could
oalv sing like thatm Bot God will say to
those who have never fallen and conse-
Quently have not bsen redeemed: 'Y0u
must be silent now; you have not the
qualification for this anthem" 50 they
SIT with closed lips and folded hands and
sinners saved by grace take up the har-
mony, for the Bible says mo man could
learn that song bat the hundred and forty
and four thousand which we're redeemed
from the earth.
THROUGH TIE GATE.
Bat must confess | am q little per
plexed bow some of you good Christians
are going TO get through the gate. because
there will be so many there 20 greet y0u
and they will all want 70 shake hands at
once aud will all want The e., kiss They
will have beard that you are coming, and
they will all press around to welcome you
and will all want yo1 say whether you
Know them after beiDg IOng parted.
Amid the tussle and romp of reunion !
tell you whose hand you had better first
clasp and whose cheek is entitled TO the
first kiss. Il is the hand and the cheek
Of Him without whom you wO1ld
never have got there at oil, the Lord
Jesus, the darling of the skies, as he
cries out, II have loved thee with
an everlasting love and the fires could not
burn il and the floods could not drown it. "
Then you my dear p ople, having no more
use for my poor baTp on which l used to
open your dark sayings aud whoae chords
sometimes snapped, despoiling the sym
phony. vou will tske down vour own harps
from thu willows that grow by the eternal
water courses and play together those CO
astial airs, come of the names Of which
are entitled, ''The King 10 His Beauty"
''The Land That Was Far OF, "Jeru-
salem. the Golden" "Homs Again, " ''Tne
Grand March of God, " 1.-THE Life Ever
asting." And as the last dark curtain OF
mystery il forever lifted it will be rs
though sll the oratorios that were ever
heard had been rolled into one and Israel
n Egypt and "Jeptha's Daughter" and
Beethoven's "Oyerture in C' and Ritter's
irst sonata in d minor and the Creation" !"
and the Messiah" had been blown from
the lips of one trumpet or been invoked by
the sweep of one bow or had dropped from
the vibrating chords Of one harp.
DARK SAYINGS on THE GOSPEL HARP.
But now I come nearer home and put
dark saying on the gospel harp, style OF
questions that is asked million timea
svery year. Interrogation the fourth:
Why do l have it so nard while others
have it 30 easy? or, why do 1 baye so much
difficulty in getting a livelihood while
others 20 around with afull pOrtemo1naie?
or. wny must wear these plsin ciOthe7
while other5 have to push hard TO get their
wsrdrobes closed, so crowded are they with
brilliant attire? OF, why should l have
to work so hard while others have
three hundred and sixty-fve hol-
idays every year? They are all practical
lv one question. answer them by say
inc. IT is because the Lord has his favor
ties and he puts extra discipline upon You,
and extra trial because he hiss for you ex-
ira glory, extra enthronement and extra
felicities.
ADDED A MYSTERY.
But here must slow up, lest in trying
TO solve mysteries l add TO the mystery we
have already wondered at, namely: Why
preachers should keep on after all the
hesrers are tired. So / gather up into one
great srmful all the why's, and hows, ana
wferefores Of your life snd mine, which
we have not bad time OF the ability to an
swer. and write on them the words 'ad-
ionrned TO eternity" l rejoice that we do
NOT understand all things now,
for if we did, what would we
Iesrn in heaven? If we knew 1t
AM down here in the freshman and sopho-
more class, what would be the use of our
Doing M ta stand amid the juniors end
Ihe seniors? If we could put down one
leg of the compass and with the other
s,yeep circle clear around all the lnscru-
Iables if we could lift our little steelysrds
md weigh the throne of the Omnipotent,
il we could with our seven day clock
eternity, what would be left for
heavenly revelation? So move that we
,heerfuily adjourn what is now be-
yond our comprehension, and as
according to Rollin, the historian,
Alexander the Great, having obtained
fbe Gold casket in which Darius had kept
mis- rare perfume, used that aromatic cask-
et thereafter to keep his favorite copy OF
Homer in, and called the book, therefore,
the edition of the casket, and at night
he mt the cssket snd his sword under his
pillow. so put this day into the perfumed
casket of your richest affections and nopss
this promise, worth more than anything
Homer eAer wrote or sword ever conquered;
What do thou knowest not now, but
thou shat know hereafter" and that call
the edition celestial" "
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