Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-30

VIII bc iOunu thdJ you udN' no O'o"N i'I
your.Sin
OUTWARD MORALITY WILL BE 80 COVER
for the hidden lniquity of the spirit.
The Gospel of Christ makes no assault
upon good works. They arc IS 0eaut-
ful i'm Gods eve as i'm ours. Punctual-
its. truthfulness, alms-giving, affection
and many other eXccllcnceS OF life that
might bee mentioned viii always be adj
mircd OF God and man, but We take the
position that good works cannot be the
ground of our salvation. What we DO
rightcaunot pay for what We do wrong.
Admit that You have all those traits OF
character which give merely worldly
responsibility and influence, you must
at the same time acknowledge that dur
ing the course of your life YOU have done
many things you ought not TO have done.
How are these difficult matters to Toe
settled? All my friends. We must have
AN atOucmcut. No Christ. no salvation.
The great Rcdccmer comes in and says,
II will pay your Indebtedness. So
chat which was dark enough before, is
bright enough now. The stripes that
We deserve are fallen upon Christ. On
His Scourgcd and bleeding shoulders He
carries us mp over the mountain of our
sins and the hills Of our iuiquitics.
Christ's good works accepted are Suiii-
cient for us, but they who reject them,
dcDcnding upon their own, must perish.
Traits of character that may make us
influential ON earth will not necessarily
omen 90 us the gate of heaven. The
plauk that will DE strong enough for "a
house floor would not do for a ships
hulk. Mere morality might be enough
here but cannot take You through
deaths storm into heavens harbor
Christ has announced for all ages. Il
mn tine way. the truth and the life, him
that comrth unto me | will I'm no wise
east out. but pitiahle I'm the day oil
accounts will bc the condition of that
man. though ne may have given
an his estate to benevolent
purposes and passed his life in the Wis
itiug of the distressed and done much
to excite the admiration OF the good ana
the great. if ne have no intimate rcla-
tion 10 Jesus Christ. There is a pride
and dcpravity I'm his soul that he has
never discovered. \ brilliant outside
will be no apology for a dcpraved IN
side. To is mo- theory of mine, but an
announcement of God, who cannot lie,
..Bv thc deeds of the law shall no flesh
living Doe Justified Open the door OF
heaven and look ia. Howard Is there
but he did lot secure his entrance
hy the dungeons ne illumiued and the
lallarrcttos into which ne carried the
medicines. Paul is there, but he did
not earn his way in by the Shipwrcck>
and impriSonmentS and ScOUrgingS. ON
the throne overlapping perhaps all
others. except Christ'S, the old mission
urv cNclaims: by the grace OF God !
ann what ! am.
FURTHERMORE: MEEE SoUNpNE>> OF
RELIGIOUS
belief will NOT hide riniquitieS. There
are men whose heads are as sound as
Jonathan Edwards or John Wesley
whose hearts are as rotten as Tom
Paine's or Charles Guiteau'S. 1t Is I'M
portant that we be theoretical Chris
tians. Itis utter folly In thi, day, for
"a man o. have uo preference forany one
form of faith. when 10 Is so easy To bee
come couycrSaut with the faith of the
different >ect,. An intoxicated man
staggered into my house one night beg
cling for lodging. lie made great pre-
tensions TO religion. asked where lac
won't 10 church. lie said: Nowhere;
1 belong 90 liberal Christianity. But
there are those who never become Chris
tians because their obStiuacy pre-
vents them from ever taking "a
fair view of what religion is. They
are like q brute beast IN the fact
that their greatest strength lies ia their
horns. They are combataut. and all
they are ever willing 10 do Tor their
~0u's is To- enter an ecclesiastical fight.
have met men who would talk all day
uuou tine ninth chapter of Romans. who
were thoroughly helpless before the
fourteenth chapter of John. But there
are those who. having escaped from this
condition. are now depending entirely
upon their somdncSS OK religious the
ory. The doctrines OF mans depravity
and CArist'> atonomcnt aud Gods SOW
crriguty are Theoretically received 10y
them. But alas. there they stop. 1t Is
ONLY the shell of Christianity contain
ing mo- evangelical life. They stand
looking over i.t0 heaven and admire its
beauty and It's song, and are so pleased
with the looks from the outside that
they cannot be- induced TO cntor. They
could make q better argument Tor the
truth than ten thousand Christians who
hav, I'm their hearts received IT,. II syl-
l0.sislrS and dilcmmaS aud sound prOp0-
>itious and logical deductions couid
save their souls, they would bc among
the best of Christians. They could cor
rcctlv define repentance and iaith ana
the Atoncmeut. while they have never
felt one sorrow for sin nor exercised
moments confidence i'm the great Sacri-
fee. They are almost immova0le IN
their position. We cannot present any
thing about the religion of Christ they
do not know. The Savior described the
fate of such one in His parable: And
that servant which knew his Lord IS
will. and prepared not himself, neither
did according TO His Will. snail DC peat
en- with many stripes. Theories IN re-
igion have q beauty of their own out
If they result i'm mo- warmth of Cal1Stian
life it is the beauty OF hornblende ana
f,MSpar. DO not call such GOODNESS ana
hardness religion. The River OF Life
never freezes over. lcicleS never hang
ON the caves Of heaven. SouudneSS OF
belief is a beautiful CLOAK,
we'll woven and we'll cut, but in the hour
when God shall demand our souls IL VIII
NOT of itself bc sufficient to hide our IN
iquitics.
THE HOPE OF CHRIST
Ny friends. can it be that have been
unkiud. and torn from You some hope
upon which you were resting for time
and eternity? Verify. would be UNI
Kind if, having taken away your cloak
] did not offer you something better.
This is a cold world and YOU want some
thing 10 wrap around your spirit. Christ
offers YOU robe to-day. He wo'e II I
Himself and lie will now with His own
hand prepare it just 10 tit your soul.
The Righteousness He offers is like the
coat lie used 10 wear about Judea, with
out seam from top TO bottom. There
is "a day of doom. Coward would l be
i'll did not dare tell you this. 1t shall