Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-03-31

work of engineering freight train. say,
Il never will again mount an engine
unless | can run 4 vcStibule cxpress?''
Take what you have of opportunity left.
Do your best with what remains. Your
shortest winter day is worth more to
YOU than can be the longest day OF a
previous summer Your opportunity
now. as compared with previous oppor-
tuniticS. may be small as rat-terricr
compared with the lion which at Malta
boSa. fatally wounded by the gun of
David Livingstone, in its death agony
leapcd upon the missionary explorer.
and with its jaws crushed the bone of
his arm to SplinterS, and then rolled
over and expired, but. Better is liv-
ing dog than dead lion.
What thing to congratulate You on
is your life. Why, it is worth more
than all the gems of the universe kim
Killed. into one precious stone. | am
alive, What does that mean? Why, il
means that | still have all opportunity
of being saved myself. and helping
others to be saved. To be alive. Why,
it means that have yet another chance
To correct my past mistakes. and make
sure work for heaven. Alive, are we?
Come, let us celebrate it by new reSolu-
| tionS, new determination, new cOnSe-
Grafton. and a new career. The small
est and most insignificant to-day is
worth to us more than hundred yeSter-
days. Taking advantage of the pres
cnt,
LET Is GET PARDON
for all the past, and security for all the
future. Where are our forgiven sins?
| don't know. God don't know, either.
He says, Your sins and iniquities will
| remember no more"
What encouragement in the text for
all Christian workers, Despair Of no
ones salvation. While there is life
there is hope. In the great day it will
be- found that the last shall be first.
There are in the grog-ShopS and in the
haunts of iniquity to-day those who will
yet be models of holiness and preach
Christ to the people. In yonder group
of young men who came here with no
useful purpose, there is one who will
vet live for Christ and perhaps die for
Him. In % pulpit stood stranger
preaching. and he said: The last time
was i'm this church was fifteen years
ago. and the circumstances were pecu-
liar. Three young men had come, eX-
pccting To disturb the service. and they
had stones in their pockets which they
expected TO hurl at the preacher. One
OF the young men referred to refused TO
take part i'm the assault, and the 9th
crS. i'm disgust at his cowardicc. left the
building. One Of the three was hanged
for forgery. Another is in prison,
CONDEMNED TO DEATH
for murder. / was the third. but the
grace of God saved me-" My nearer,
give no one up. The case may seem
desperate. but the grace Of God likes to
undertake dead lift. l proclaim it
this day to all the pcople-Frec Grace.
Living and dying, be that my theme
Free Grace, Sound it across the cont-
.neut. sound it across the ScaS-Free
Grace. Spell out those words in flow
.ers. lift them i'm arches, build them in
thrones. roll them in oratorioS-Free
Grace, That will yet Edcnizc the earth
and people heaven with nations re-
deemed. Free Grace.
salvation. ON the joyful sound.
Ills pleasure to our ears.
a sovereign balm for every wound.
a cordial FOR our fears.
BARRED In sorrow and in sin
At deaths dark door We lay.
BUT Wc arise boy grace divine.
no see q heavenly day.