Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-11
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Christ, and all the fails of Satanic fury
beat him long and fast, was not the
corn threShed? When the mills of
Gods indignation against sin caught
Christ between the upper and neither
rollers. was not the corn ground? When
Jesus descended into hell, and the
flames of the lost world wrapped him
Iall about, was not the corn baked? Oh,
yes. Christ is ready. His pardon all
ready: His peace all ready; everything
ready in Christ.
ARE YOU READY FOR HIM?
You say, THAT is such simple Cos
.pel"' I know it is. You say you
thought religion was a strange mixture
of elaborate compounds. No; il is so
plain that any abecedarian may under
stand it. In its simplicity is its power.
II YOU could, this morning, realize that
Christ died 10 save from sin and death
and hell, not only your minister and
your ueighbor and your father and your
child, but you, il would make this hour
like the judgment-day for agitationS,
and, no longer able TO keep your seat,
you would leap up, crying, For me!
FOR ME- God grant that you, my
brother, may see this Gospel with your
own eyes, and hear it with your own
ears, and feel with your own heart that
you are lost soul, but that Christ
comes for your eXtrication. Can YOU
not take that truth ana digest il, and
make il a part of your immortal life?
10 is only bread.
GOu have noticed that inyalids can
not take all kinds of food The food
that will do for one will not do for an
Iother. There are kinds of food which
will produce, i'm eases of invaldiSm,
very speedy death. But you have no
ticed that all persons, however weak
they may be, can take bread. Oh, soul
sick with sin, invalid i'm your tranSgrcS-
SionS, l think this Gospel will agree
with You. l think if you cannot take
anything else, YOU can take this. Lost
found, Sunken-raiSed Condemned
I-pardoned. Cast out-invited in. That
is the old corn of the Gospel.
You have often seen a wheel with
SpOlleS of different cOlOrS, and when
the wheel was rapidly turned all the
c0lorS blended into a rainbow of cX-
IquiSite beauty. | wish | could to-day,
take the peace and the life and the JOY
and glory of Christ and turn them be-
fore your soul with such speed and such
strength that you would be enchanted
with the revolving SplcndOrS of that
name which is above everything-the
name written once with tears OF exile
and in blood of martyrdom, but written
now in FURNISHED crown and lifted Scep
/ tire and transangcic throne.
THERE Is ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC
about bread, and that is, you never get
tired of il. There are people here Sey-
euty years of age who find il just as APP
prOpriate for their appetite as they did
when. iu bOyhOod. their mother cut
slice of 10 clear around the loaf. You
/ have not got tired of bread. and that is
"a characteristic of the Gospel. Old
Christian man, are you tired of Jesus?
L SO, let Us take His name out of our
Bible, and let MS with pen and ink erase
that name wherever we see it. Let us
east 10 out of our hymnOlogy, and let
There is q Fountain" and Rock of
tear down the communicable where
we celebrate His love. Let Us dash
down the baptiSmal bowl where we
were conSecrated TO Hope. Let Us hurl
Jesus from our heart aud ask some other
hero 20 come i'm. Let us say, Go away,
Jesus: / want another companion, an
other friend. than thou art. Could
YOU DO TO? The years of your past life,
aged man, would utter protest against
I &c. and the graves OF your Christian
/ dead would charge you with being an
/ migrate. and your little grandchildren
would say, "Grandfather, don't do that,
Jesus is the one 10 whom We say our
PRAYERS ut night. and who is 10 open
I heaven when we die. Grandfather,
don't 90 that. Tired of Jesus? The
/ Burgundy rose you pluck from the gar
/ den is not SO fresh and fair and beauti-
/ full. Tired OF Jesus? As well get weary
/ of the spring morning, and the voices
LOT the mountain runnel, and the quiet
|of your own house. and the gladneSS OF
Your own children. Jesus Is bread. and
the appetite for that is never obliterated.
! notice, in regard TO this article OF
food. YOU take 10 three times day. 1t
is ou your table morning. noon and
might. and If it is forgotten, you say,
"Where is the bread?" Just so GER
.taiulv Won need Jesus three times
day. Oh, do not start ont without Him;
lido not dare 90 60 out of the front door;
DO not dare 10 go of the front steps with
out first having cOmmuned with Him
Before noon there may be perilS that
will destroy body. mind and soul forever.
/ You cannot afford TO do without Him.
You will. during the day, be amidst
sharp hOOfs and swift wheels and dan
gerous ScafToldingS threatening the
body. and traps for the soul that have
taken some who are more willy than
YOU. When they launch ship they
break against the side of il a bottle of
wine. This is sort of superstition
among sailors. But oh, on the launch
inc OF every day. that we might strike
|aroiust IL at least one earnest prayer for
divine protection. That would not be
superstition: that would be Christian.
Then AT TIE APEN OF THE DAY,
lat the tiptop of the hours, equidiStant
from morning and night, look three
WAYS Look backward TO the forenoon;
look ahead to the afternoon; look up to
THAT SaviuOr who preSldeS ONOr all
IYou want bread at noon. You may
Find mo- place I'm which to kneel amidst
1.-The cotton bales and the tierceS OF rice;
Ibut If Jonah could find room to pray in
1.-The whales belly, most certainly you
will never DE I'm such 4 crowded place
that YOU cannot pray. Bread at noon
When the evening hour comes, and your
head is buZzing with the days engage
.ments. and your whole nature IS sore
from the abrasion of rough life, and YOU
see a great many duties you have neg
|lccted. then commune with Christ, ask
ing His pardon. thanking Him for Ills
. love. That would be a queer repaSt at
, which there would be no bread
This is the nutriment and life OF the
. plain Gospel that I recommend YOU
do not know how some of our ministers
, make it so intricate and elaborate and
/ myStifying a thing. 1t seems as II they
had sort of mongrclSm, in religion
part humanitarianiSm, part spiritual
ism. part nothingarianism; and some
: times you think they are building their
temple out OF the Crock of Ages, but
b You find there is no rock i'm it at all. IL
e is stucco. The Gospel is plain. 1t Is