Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-05

There are others who in attempting
TO come to God must run between a
great many business perpleXities. If a
man go over TO business at 10 o'clock in
the morning, and comes away at 3
o'clock in the afternoon. he has some
time for religion; but how shall you find
time for religious contemplation when
YOU are driven from sunrise 10 sunset.
and have been for five years going be-
hind in business. and are frequently
dunned by creditors whom you cannot
pay. and when, from Monday morning
until Saturday night, you are lodging
bills that you cannot meet? You walk
day by day i'm uncertainties that have
kept your brain on fire for the past three
years. Some with less business troubles
than you have gone crazy. The clerk
has heard a noise in the back counting
room, and gone in and found the chief
man of the firm raving maniac, or the
wife has heard the bang OF a pistol
in the back parlor, and gone in, stumb-
ling over the dead body of her husband
"a suicide. There are in this house to-
day three hundred men pursued. har-
aSsed, trOdden down, and Scalped, Of
business perpleXitieS, and which way TO
turn next they do not know. Now God
will not be hard on you. He knows
what obstacles are in the way of your
being a Christian. and your first effort
i'm the right direction he will crown
with success. Do not let Satan, with
cotton bales and kegs and hogSheadS
and counters and stocks of unstable
goods block up your way to heaven.
Gather up all your energies. Tighten
the girdle about your loins, Take an
agonizing look into the face of God, and
then say, Here goes one grand effort
for life eternal and then bound away
for heaven, escaping As with the skin
of your teeth"
IN THE LAST DAY
il will be found that Hugh Latimer and
John Knox and IIuss and Ridley were
not the greatest martyrs, but Christian
men who went up incorrupt from the
combinations and perpleXtieS of Wall
Street, Water Street. Pearl Street,
Broad Street. State Street, and Third
Street. On earth they were called bro
kerS, or stockholders, or retailers, or
importers: but i'm heaven, Christian he
rOcS No fagotS were heaped about
their feet: no inquiSition demanded
from them recantation; no soldier aimed
a pike at their heart; but they had
mental torturcS. compared with which
all physical consuming is aS the breath
of a spring morning.
| find in the community large class
of men who have been SO cheated, so
lied about. 50 outrageouSly wronged,
that they have lost their faith in every
thing In world where everything
seems 50 tOpSy-turVey, they do not see
how there can be any God. They are
COMPOUNDED and frenzied and miSanthro-
pic. Elaborate arguments to prove to
them the truth Of Christianity, or the
truth of anything else, touch them no.
where. Hear me, all such men. |
preach TO You no rounded periods, no
ornamental discourse; but put my hand
on your shoulder. and invite you into
the peace of the Gospel. Here is rock
on which You may stand firm, though
the waves dash against it harder than
the Atlantic. pitching its surf clear
above EddyStOne Lighthouse. Do not
charge upon God all these troubles Of
the world. As long as the world stuck
TO God, God stuck to the world; but the
earth seeded from His government, and
hence all these Outrages, aud all these
woes. God is good For many hundreds
of years He has been coaXing the world
to come back to him: but the more He
has cOaXcd. the more violent have men
been i'm their resistance, and they have
stepped back and stepped back until
they have dropped into ruin.
Try this God, We who have had the
blood-hOundS after you, and who have
thought that God had forgotten you.
Try Him, and see if He will not help.
Try Him. and see if He will not pardon.
Try Him. aud see If He will not save.
The flowers of spring have no bloom so
sweet as the towering of ChriSt'S aiec-
lions. The sun hath no warmth com
pared with the glow OF His heart. The
waters have no rcfreShment like the
fountain that will Stake the thirst of
thy soul. At the moment the reindeer
stands with his lip and noStril thrust in
the cool mountain torrent the hunter
may be coming through the thicket.
Without cracking stick under his
foot, ne comes close by the stag, aims
his gun. draws the trigger, ana the poor
thing rearS in it's death-agony and falls
backward, its antlcrS crashing on the
rocks; but the painting heart that drinks
from the water-brooks of Gods promise
shall never be fatally wounded, and
shall never die.
THIS WORLD Is \ POOR PORTION
for your soul, oh business mani An
Eastern king had craven on his tomb
two fingers, rcl@cScntcd as sounding
upon each other snap. and under
them the motto, "All is not worth
that" Apicius CWliuS hanged himself
because his steward informed him that
that he had only eighty thousand
pounds sterling left. All of this worlds
riches make but a small Inheritance for
"a soul. RobcSpicrrc attempted TO win
the applause of the world; but when he
was dying. woman came rushing
through the crowd, crying To him.
Murderer OF my kindred, descend 10
hell. covered with the curses of every
mother i'm France Many who have
expected the plauditS Of the world have
died under its Anathcma Maranatha.
Oh. find your peace in God. Make
one strong pull for heaven. No half
way work will do it. There sometimes
comes time on Shipboard when every
thing must be sacrificed to save the
passengers. The cargo is nothing, the
rigging nothing. The captain puts the
trumpet to his lip and shouts, Cut
away the mast. Some Of you have
been tossed and driven. and you have,
i'm your effort to keep the world, well
nigh lost your soul Until You have de
cided this matter. let everything else
90. Overheard with all those other
anXictieS and burdens. You will have
To drop the sails of your pride,
and cutaway the mast. With our earn
est cry for help, put your cause into the
hand of Him who helped Paul ont OF the
breakers Of Melita, and who, above the
shrill blast of the wrathieSt tempest that
over blackened the sky or shook the
ocean. can hear the faintcSt implora-
tion for mercy.
| shall 90 home to-day feeling that
some Of YOU. who have considered your
case as hopeless. will take heart again,
and that. with blood-red carnestneSS.
such as you have never experienced be-
fore. YOU will start for the good land Of
the Gospel-at last to look back, say
ing. "What great risk ran. Almost
lost. but saved. Just got through, and
no more, Escaped by The skin Of my
teeth"
The Season Opens at Mingo.
Nfinro nnened the season SATURDAY with