Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-09
.LIGHT IN THE EAST.
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ago New Haven was; Bombay, Moscow,
Madras, Melbourne within speaking dis
lance. Purchase tslegrsphic chart, and
BY the blue lines see the telegraphs OF the
| land. and by the red lines the cables under
the ocean. You see what opportunity this
is going to give for the final movements OF
Christianity. A fortress may be months
or years in building, but after 1t iS con-
structed it may do all its work in TWEEN
tv minutes. Christianity mas been
planting its batteries for nineteen
centuries, and may 20 en- IN the
work through other centuries but
when those batteries are thoroughly plant
ed. those f0rtresses are fully built, they
NAV all Go their work 10 twenty four
hours. The world sometimes derides the
church for slowness of movement. Is sci
ence any quicker? Did it not take science
five thousand six hundred and ffiy-twO
years to ind cut so simple thing as the
circulation Of the human blood? With the
earth and the sky full of electricity, sci
ence took five thousand eight hundred
years before it even guessed that there was
any practical use that might be made Of
this subtle and mighty element. When
GOOD men take possession OF all these sci
entifc forces, and all these agencies Of in
vention. do not know that the redemp-
/ ton of the world will be more than the
work Of half day. Do we not read the
| Queens speech at the prOrougiDg OF parlia-
ment the day before in London? II that
be so, is it anything marvellous to believe
/ that in tWenty-four hours divine cOmmu-
-, 10, f.,1o
pose Christ should descend on the nations
many expect that Christ will come
among the nations persOnally-suppcse
that tomorrow morning the
SON OF GOD FROM A LOWERING CLOUD
should descend upon these cities. Would
not that fact be known all the world over
in twenty-four hour? Supposa he shOu!d
present his Gospel in few words saying:
/ 81 en- the Son of God; I came to pardon
all your sins aud to heal sll your sorrow
to prove that 1 am a supernatural being, l
| have lust descended from the clouds; do
son believe me, ard do you believe me
noW2n Why, all the telegraph stations of
the earth would be crowded Gs none OF
them were ever crowded just after ship
wreck. I tell you oil these things to shO@
YOU it is rot among the imp0ssiblities or
even the imprObabilities that Christ will
conquer the whole earth, and do it in
stanler, when the time comes. There are
/ ioretokenings ia the air. Something great
Is going to happen. do not think that
Jupiter is going to run Us down or that
the axle of the world is going to break;
but I mean something great for the worlds
blessing and not for the worlds damage is
goisg To happen. l think the world has
had it hard enough. Enough, the London
plaques. Enough, the Asiatic choleras.
Enough, the wars. Enough, the
shipwrecks. Enough, the ccnhagra
tions think our world could
| stand right well q procession OF properties
| and triumphs. Better be on the lookout.
/ Better have your observatOries open tc-
ward the heavens, and the lenses OF your
most powerful telescopes we'll polished.
Better have al your Lsyden jars ready for
| some new pulsation Of mighty influence.
Better have new fjnis of type in your
printine offices 90 set up SINE astounding
coed news. b tier have some new banner
| that has never been carried, ready for sud
den professions. Better have the bells in
your church towers well hung, and r0pe
| within resch, that you may ring out The
marriage Of the Kings Son. Cleanse all
your court houses, foe the Judge OF all the
earth may appear LIT all your legisla-
tive halls be gilded, FIR the great Lawgjver
NAV be about 10 come. Drive off the
thrones OF dsspoiem all the occupants, for
| the King OF heaven and earth may be
about 10 reign. The darkness Of the night
is blooming and whitening into the lilies
ofmorning cloud aud the lilies reddeninR
! into the rcss Of stronger day-ht gar
lands. whether white or red, fer Him on
whose hsad are many crowns. Tie day
is at hand"
CHRISTIANITY MARCH.
One more ray Of the dawn l see in facts
chrouologicsl AMI mathematical. Come
now. do not let us do another stroke OF
work till we have settled one matter
What is going TO be the final issue of this
great contest between sin and righteous
ness? Which is going to prove himself the
stronger God or Diabolus? Is this world
going to be ell garden or all desert? Nov
| let us have that matter settled. II We be
lisve Isaiah and Ez.kiel and Hosee, and
| Micah aud Malachi, and John and Peter
and Paul and Christ we believe that it If
going 10 be all garden, But let us have II
settled. Let Us know whether we are
/ working on toward a success or a dead
failure. If there is g child in your house
sick. and Won are sure be is going to get
well, You sympathiz3 with present pains,
bat au the torebodiBg il gone. II you
are in "a cyclone OF the FlOrids
coast, and the captain assures
YOU the vessel is stauuch and
The wirds are changing for a better quar-
ter, and he is sure he will bring yOu safe
into the harbor, you patiently submit to
present distress with the thought Of safe
arrival. Now I want to know whether We
are coming on toward dismay, darkness
and defeat. or on toward light and bless
edness. You and believe the latter, and
if 80, every year We spend Is one year sub
tracted from the worlds woe, and every
event that passes, whether bright or dark,
brings us one event nearer happy con
summation, and by ell that is inexora5le
in chronology and mathematics 1 COM
mend Won to good cheer and courage. i
there is anything in arithmetic, If you
subtract two from five and leave three
then by every rolling sun We ere coming
toward a magnificent terminus. Then
every winter passed is one severity less for
our poor world Then every summer
gone by brings us nearer unf4ding aTbor-
escence. Pat your algebra down on the
top Of your Bible and r'joice.
Il is nearer morning at o'clock than it
is at .. if it is nearer morning at o'clock
than it is at 8. then we are nearer the dawn
of the worlds deliveTancs. Gods clock
seems to 50 very slowly, but the pendu-
lum swings and the hands move, aud it
will vet strike noon. The sun and the
moon stood still once; they will never stand
sill sgain until they stop forever lfyOu
believe arithmetic as well as your Bible,
Won must believe we are nearer the dawn.
The day is at hand"
! THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.
There is class of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and the
heavenly world may, after awhile, make a
demonstration in this world which will
bring all moral and spiritual things to q
climax Now, I am no sBiriiualist; but
every intelligent man has noticed that
there are are strange and mysterious things
which indicate to him that perhaps the
| sniljtual world is not so far cti as some.
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