Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-15
WHEELING DAILY REGISTER, MONDAY, JUNE 15 1891.

men about to entire the ministry that
soon the greatest novelty in the world
will be the unadultered religion Of Jesus
Christ. Preach that and you will have
a crowd. The world is sick to regurgi-
tation with the modern quackS in re-
ligion. The world has been swinging
off from the old Gospel bnt it will
swing back by the time you young men
go into the pulpitS the cry will be COM
ing up from all the millions Of mankind:
"Give us the bread of life: no sweet
ened bread, no bread with sickly raisins
stuck here and there into it, but old
fashioned bread as God our Mother
mixed it and baked it,"
THE SAME GOD.
You see, God knew as much when he
made the Bible as he knows now. He
has not learned single thing in six
thousand years. He knew at the start
the human race would go wrong and
what would be the best means of its res
toration and redemption. And the law
which was Numbered on Mount Sinai,
from whose top | had the two tables of
stone, in yonder wall transported, is the
perfect law. And the gospel which
Christ announced while dying on that
Mount from which | brought that stone
in yonder wall and which Paul preached
on that hill from which brought yon-
der granite, is the Gospel that is going
to save the world. Young man, put on
that Gospel armor. No other sword will
triumph like that. No other shild will
protect like that. No other helmet will
glanceS off the battle-aXes like thai.
Our Theological SemlnarieS are doing
glorious work, but if ever such Theo-
logical Summaries shall cease to pre-
pare young men for this plain Gospel
advocacy, and shall become more philo-
sophica schools for guessing about
God, and guessing about the Bible, and
guessing about the soul they will cease
their usefulness, and young men, as in
olden times, when they would study for
the Gospel ministry, will put them
selves under the care OF some intelli-
gent and warmhearted pastor, and
kneel with him in family prayer at the
parsonage, and go with him into the
room of the sick and the dying, and
see what victories the grace of God can
gain when the couch Of the dying
saint is the Marathon.
That is the way the mighty ministers
of the Gospel were made in olden times.
Oh, for great wave Of revival to roll
over our theological seminaries and our
pulpits and our churches and our eccle-
siastical courts ard over all Christen-
dom! That would be the end of cOntro-
versy. While such deluge would
float the ark of God higher and higher,
it would put all the bears and tigers
and reptiles of raging eccleSiaiciSm hf-
teen cubits under.
Now what is the simple fact that you
in the pew and Sabbath school class and
reformatOry association and we in the
pulpits have to deal with? Ii Is this:
that God has somewhere, and it mat
tiers not where, but somewhere, provi-
vided a great heaven, great for quiet
ness for those who want quiet, great for
vast assenblage for those who like mui-
titudes, great for architecture for
those who like architure, great for
beautiful landscape for those who like
beautiful landscape great for music for
those who like music, great for process
ions for those who like armies on white
horses, and great for anything that one
especially desires in such rapturOus
dominion; and through the doings of
One who was born about five miles south
of Jerusalem. and died about ten min
utes walk from its eastern gate. all may
enter that great heaven for the earnest
and heartfelt asking. Is that all? That
is all. What then is your work and
mine? Our work is to persuade people
to face that way and start thitherward
and finally 90 in. But has not religion
something to do with this world as well
as the next? Oh. yes: but do you not see
that if the people start for heaven
on their way there they will do allothe
good they can? They will at the very
start Of the Journey get so much OF the
spirit of Christ which is spirit of kind
ness and Self-SacrIiice and generosity
and burden bearing and helpfulneSS,
that every step they take they will re-
sound with good deeds. Oh get your
religion off of stills. Get it down out of
the high towers Get itOn the level with
the wants and woes of our poor human
racel Get it out of the dusty theological
books that few people read and put it
in their hearts and lives. Good thing
is it TO profess religion when you join
the church but every day somehow we
ought to profess religion.
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