Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-15

FOURTH You go up to that old Metho-
dist Church, which has, through her re-
viVals, sent millions to heaven, which
we would otherwise have added to
our population, the church OF Wesley
and Matthew Simpson, against which
we have and especial grudge, and
get them so absorbed in discussing
whether women shall take part in her
conference, that they shall not have so
much time to discuss how many sons
and daughters she shall take TO glory"
A SATANIC MOVEMENT.
What amazes me most is that all
people do not see that the entire move
ment at this time all over ChriStendom
is Satanic. Many of the internal at
tackS are sly and hidden and strategic
and so ingenious that they are not
easily discovered. But there is bold
and uncovered attempt of the powers
of darkness to split up the churches, to
get ministers to take each other by the
throat, TO make religion a laughing
stock of earth and hell, to leave the
Bible with no more respect or anthem
ticity than an old almanac of 1922,
which told what would be the
change of weather six months ahead and
in what quarter of the moon it is best
to plant turnipS. In word, the effort
is TO stop the eyangeliZatiOn OF the
world. II seems to me very much like
this: There has been railroad acct
dent and many are wounded and dying.
There are several drug-stOreS near the
scene of casualty. All the doctors and
druggists are needed and needed right
away. BandageS, StimulantS, an2S-
theticS, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing?
Discussing the contents Of some old
bottles on the top shelf, bottles of med
icine which some doctors and druggists
mixed two or three hundred years ago.
"COme doCtorSl" Come druggistSw cry
the people, land help these wounded
and dying that are being brought from
beneath the timberS of the crushed
rail train. In little while it will be
too late. Come for Gods sake! Come
right away NO" says doctor, mot
until we have settled whether the medi-
cine on that top shelf was rightly mix
| ed, | say there were too many drops
! of laudanum in it and this other man
says there are too many drops Of camp
! hire, and we must get this question set
1 tied before we can attend TO the rail-
road accident" And one doctor takes
another doctor by the collar and pushes
\ him back against the counter, and one
. of the druggists says: IF you will not
admit that am right about that one
| bottle, will smash every bottle in your
/ apOthecary store" and he proceeds to
( smash. Meanwhile, on the lower shelf,
plainly marked and within easy reach,
are all the medicines needed for the
helping of the sufferers by the accident,
I and in that drawer, easily opened, are
bandageS and Spints, for the lack Of
which fifty people are dying outside the
drugstore. Before apply this
/ thought, every one sees its application.
! Here is this old world, and it is off
track. Sin and sorrow have collided
with il. The groan of agony is fourteen
hundred milliOn-voiced. God has opened
1 for relief and cure great Sanitarium, a
great House of Mercy, and all its
! shelves are filed with balSamS, with
catholicons, with help, glorious help,
| tremendous help. help so easily admin
I iStored that you need not get upon any
| step-ladder to reach it. You can reach
| it on your knees and then hand it TO all
the suffering and the SHINING and the
dying. Comfort for all the troubled.
Pardon for all the guilt. Peace for all
the DYING But while the world is need
| ing the relief and periShing for lack Of
it, what of the church.? Why, it is full
/ of fighting doctors. On the top shelf
are some old bottles which several hun
/ dred years ago, Calvin, or ArminuS or
! the members of the Synod of bort, or
! the formers of the Nicene creed filled
with holy mixtures. and until We get a
revision of these old bottles and find
/ out whether we must take q teaspoon
/ full or tablespoonful, and whether be-
/ fore or after meals, let the nations
suffer and grOan, and die. Save the
bottles by all means, if you cannot save
anything else.
TAKE NO SIDES.
/ Now, what part shall you and l take
/ i'm this controversy which ills all Chris
tendon with clangOr? My advice Is:
/ Take no part. In time of riot all may
ors of cities advise good citizens to stay
az home or in their places of business,
and in time of religious riot advise you
to 20 about your regular work for God.
Leave the bottle on the higher shelves
for others to fight about, and take the
two bottles on the shelf within easy
reach, the two bottle which this dying
world needs; the one filled with potion
which is for the cleansing of all sin, the
other filled with potion which is for
the soothing of all suffering. Two Cos
pei bOttleSl Christ mixed them out Of
his own tears and blood. In them is no
human admiXture. Spend no time on
the mysteries! You, a man of only five
or six feet high ought not to try to wade
an ocean thousand feet deep. My own
experience has been vivid. | devoted
the most of my time for years in trying
TO understand Gods Eternal DEGREES,
aud l was determined to find out why
the Lord let sin come into the world,
and | set out TO explore the doctrine
of the Trinity, and with a yardStck to
measure the throne of the Infinite. As
with all my predecessors, the attempt
was dead failure. For the last thirty
years have not spent two minutes in
studying the cOntrOverted points of the
olOgy, and if | live thirty years longer
| will not spend the thouSandth part of
a second in such exploration. | know
two things, and these | will devote all