Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-05

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iii ye be embued with the power from
on high"
For few months, in the province of
God, have two pulptS. one in Brooklyn
and the other in New York, and through
the kindness OF the printing press an
overwhelming opportunity. To all such
hearers and readers | come with an eS-
pecial message. The time has arrived
for a forward movement such as the
Church and the world have never seen.
That there is need for such religious
movement is evident from the fact that
never since our world was swung out
among the planets has there been such
an organized and determined effort TO
overthrow Righteousness and make the
Ten Commandments obsolete and the
whole Bible deriSion. Meanwhile
alcoholism is taking down its victims
by the hundreds of thousands, aud the
political parties get down on their
knees, practically saying: 30 thou al
mighty Rum jug, we bow down
befor thee. Give us the offices, city,
State and National. Oh. give us the
offices and we will worship thee for
ever and ever, Amen" The Christian
Sabbath meanwhile, appointed for phys
ical, mental and spiritual rest, is being
Seculari1ed and abolished. As if the
bad publishing houses of our own cOun-
try had exhausted their literary filth,
the French and Russian sewers have
been invited TO pour their Scurrlty and
moral Slush into the trough where our
American swine are now wallowing.
Meanwhile, there are enough houses Of
infamy in all our cities, open and unmo-
Tested Of the law, to invoke the Omnipo-
tent wrath which buried SOdom under
deluge of birthstone. The pandemoniac
world, l think, has maSSed its troops
and they are this moment playing their
batteries upon family circles, church
circles, social circles, political circles
and national circles. ApOllyon is in the
saddle and riding at the head of his
troops and would capture this world for
darkness aud woe.
THE GOSPEL MACHINERY.
That is one side of the conflict now
raging. On the other side we have the
most magnificent Gospel machinery that
the world ever saw or heaven ever in
vented. In the first place, in this coun-
try there are more than eighty thousand
ministers of religion, and, take them as
a class. more consecrated, hOlier, more
consistent, more self-denying, more
faithful men never lived. l know them
by the thousands. / have met them in
every city. l am told, not by them, but
by people outside our profession, people
engaged in Christian and reformat0ry
work, that the clergy of America are at
the head of all good enterprises, and,
whoever else fail, they may be depended
on. The truth of this is demonstrated
by the fact that when 4 minister of re-
ligiOn does fall, il is so exceptional that
the newspapers report it rs something
startling, while Il hundred men in other
callingS may go down without the mat
ter being considered as especially worth
mentioning. In addition to their equip
ment in moral character the clergy of this
country have all that the schools can
give. All archaeological, rhetorical,
scientific. scholastic, literary attain
ment. So much FOR the Christian min
| istry of all denominations. In the next
place on our side OF the conflict we have
the grandeSt churches of all time and
higher style of membership, and more
| of them, and host without number OF
splepdid men and women who are doing
their best to have this world purified,
elevated, gOSpelized. But we all feel
that something is wanting. Enough
hearty songs have been sung and enough
earnest sermons preached within the
last six months TO save all the cities OF
America, and saving the cities YOU save
the world, for they overflow all the land
either with their religion or their in
fanny.
But look at some of the startling
facts. II is nearly nineteen hundred
years since Jesus Christ came by the
| way of Bethlehem carayanSary to save
! this world, yet the most of the world
/ has been no more touched by this most
stupendouS fact of all eternity than If
on the first Christmas night the beasts
of the stall amid the bleatingS of their
own young had not heard the bleating
OF the Lamb that was 10 be slain. Out
| of the eighteen hundred million OF the
human race fourteen hundred million
are without God and without hope in
the world, the camel-driver Of Arabia,
Mahomet. with his nine wives, having
half as many disciples as our blessed
| Christ. and more people are worship
ping chunks of painted wood and carved
stone than are worShipping the living
and eternal God. Meanwhile, the most
of US who are engaged In Christian
work. speak for myself as well as
others-are toiling up to our full capac-
/ itv of body, mind and soul, harneSsed
up to the last buckle, not able to draw
| a pound more than we are drawing, or
| lift an ounce more than we are llttlhS.
NEED POWER FROM on HIGH.
What is the matter? My text let's
out the secret. We all need more OF the
power from on high. Not musical pow
er. not logical power, not scientific pow
er not social power, not financial pow
er. not brain power, but power from on
high. With it we could accomplish
more in one week than than without 1t
i'm hundred years. And am going to
get il. if In answer to prayer, earnest
and loug-continued, God will grant II to
me. his unworthy servant. Men aud
women who know how to pray, when
YOU pray for yourself, pray for me that
may be imbued with power from on
high. l would rather have it than al
the diamond fields Of Golc0nda, and al
the pearls OF the sea, and all the gold
of the mountains. Many OF the might
est intellects never had 4 touch OF 1t
and many Of the less than ordinary IN
teliects have been Surcharged with II
And every man and woman on eartt
has a right TO aspire to it, right u
pray for it, and, properly persistent
will obtain it. Power from on the leYe
Z is a good thing. such power as ! ma!
give you, or you may give me, by en-
couraging words and actions. Powel
from on the level, when we stand b.
each other in any Christian undertak
ing. Power from on the level whei
other pulpitS are in accord with ours
b Power from on the level when the re
DligiouS and secular press forward oul
, Christian undertakings. But powe
p from on the level is not sufficient
r Power from on high is what we need u
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