Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-01-20
The Natural and Subterranean Disturbances Of Earth
Compared to The Vicssitudss Of Human
Liie-A DsoOurssRsplsis With
Noble Thoughts.

Der their fathers house, and mourn ovel
their wasted estatesP Listen again. It il
the cough OF a cOasumptive, or the strug
gle Of one in nightmare of great horror
You listen again, and hesr culprit, his
chains rattling as he rolls over in hi
dreams, and you say;
"GOD PITY THE PRISONER. -
1 see tue Ailer running through the dus
and amid the ruin of that prison, and
see him throwing himself down at the fee
of these prisoners, crying out: "Whst shall
l do? What shall do? Did Paul answer
''Get out of this place before there ii
another earthquake; put handcuff and hop
pies On these other prisoners, les. they ge
swey2n
No word of that kind.
Compact, thrilling, tremendous answer
answer memorable all through earth and
heaven: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved"
Well. we have sll read of the earthq uakt
in Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo and IN Ca.
raccas; but we live in a latitude where in
all our memory there has not been one Sc.
we're volcanic disturbance. And yet We
have seen fifty earthquakes. Here is a
man who bas been building up large fer
tune. His bid on the money market was
felt in ell the cities. He thinks he has
got beyond all annoying rivalries in trade,
aud he says TO himself: NOW / am free
and safe from all possible perturbation. "
But national panic
STRIKES THE FOTNDATIONs
of tie commercial world, and crash goes
oil that magnificent business establish
ment.
So. my friends, we have all felt the
shaking down of come great trouble, and
there was a time when we were ss much
excited IS this man of the text, and W.
cried out as he did: "Whst shall do?
What shall doP" The same reply that
ebe spostlo made 90 hiaA - aPyiUprlaJe 10
us. '.Bslieve on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved" There are
some documents Of so little importance
that YOU do not care to put any more than
your last lame under them, or even your
| initials; bat there are some documents
Of 80 great importance that you
write out your full name. So the
Saviour in some parts of the Bible il
called ssLord," /" and in other parts of the
Bible he is called "Jesus," and in other
parts OF the Bible he is called Christ
but that there might be no mistake about
this passage, all three names come in
toee,her-'the Lord Jesus Christ" Now,
who is this Being that you want me tC
trust in and believe IMP Men sometimes
come TO me with credentials and certif'
oatls OF good character but cannot
trust them These is some dishonesty in
their looks that makes me know l shall be
cheated if l confde in them, You cannot
put your hesrt's confidence in man until
you know what stuff be is made OF, and
am [ unreasonable this morning, when
stop 10 ask you who this is that you want
me TO trust ip2 No man would
THINK OF vRNTURINa
mis- life on a vessel going out to sea, that
had never been inspected. No, you must
have the certificate hung amidships, tell
ing how many tons il carries, and how
long ago it was built, and who built 1t, and
ali about it. Aud you cannot expect me
to risk the cargo Of my immortal interests
on board any craft till you tell me what it
Is made of, ard where it was made, and
what il is. When, then, ask you who
this is you want me 10 trust in, you tell me
Re vas a very attractive person. You tell
me that the contemporary writers describe
him, aud they give the color Of his eyes, and
the color Of bis hair. and they describe his
whole appearance as being resplendant
Christ did not tell the children to come to
him. "Suffer little children to come unto
me- was not spoken to the children; 1t
was spoken TO the Pharasees. The child
ren bad come without any invitation. No
sooner did Jesus appear than the little
ones pitched from their mothers arms, an
avalanche Of beauty and love, into his lap.
"Snffsr little children 10 come unto me" "
Tha, was addressed to the Pharasees; rot
to the children. Christ did not ask John
to put his head down on his bosom. John
could not help but put his head there.
Such eyes. such cheeks, such chin, such
hair,
SUCH PHYSICAL CONDITION
and appearauce-why, it must have been
completely captivating and winsOme.
Ia addition to this sOftness of character,
there was a fiery momentum. How the
old hvpocrites trembled bsfOre him. How
the kings of the earth turned pale. Here
ia plaiu man with a few sailors at bis
back. coming off the S3a Of Galilee, going
m 10 the palscs of the C@ ars, maklrg
that palace quake to the foundations, and
utteripg a word of mercy and kindness
which throbs through all the earth, ana
through al the heavens, and through all
the ages. o! he was loving Christ. But
it was not effeminacy, or insipidity oi
character; il was accompanied with ma
iesty, infinite end omnipotent. Lest the
world should not realize his earnestness,
this Christ mounts the cross. You cay
IF Christ has to die, why not let him take
some deadly potion and lie on couch IN
some bright and beautiful bomt? II be
must die, let him expire amid all kindly
attentionsD No, the world must hear
hammers on the heads Of the spikes. The
world must listen to the death rattle oi
the sufferer. The world must feel his
warm blood droppiog on each cheek, while
it looks up into the face OF his anguish,
And so the cross must be lifted, and the
hole is dug on the top of Calvary. II
must be dug three feet deep, and then the
cross is
LAID on THE GROUND,
and the sufferer is stretched upon it, and
the nails are pounded through nerve, and
muscle, and bone, through the right hand
throl b the left hand; and then they shake
his ut hand to see If it is fast, and ther
thew shake his left foot to see il 1t IS fast
and hen they hesye up the wood, bali
dozen shoulders under the weight, and they
put the end OF the cross to the mouth o
the hole, and they plunge it in, oil th'
weight Of his body coming down for th'
first time on the spikes and while som'
hold the cross upright, others throw in th'
dirt and trample it down, and trample i
hard. o. plant that tree well and thor
oughly. for it is to bear fruit such as NJ
other tree ever bore. Why did Christ en-
dure it? He co1ld have taken those rock
and with them crushed his cruciiers. ID
could have reached up and grasped tn
sword of the omnipOtent Gcd and with on
clean cut have tumbled them into perdi
ton. But no, he was to die. BE must die
His life for nv life. His life for your LIE