Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-11


THE Just shall live by faith" Do you
know what it was that brought Angus
tine from his horrible designations? 1t
was that one verse: Put we on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and make no pro-
vision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts
thereof" Do you know what 1t was
that saved Hedley Wears, the cele-
brated soldier? 1t was the one passage:
''Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved" Do you know
what it was that brought Jonathan Ed
wards to Christ? 1t was the one passage:
Now unto Him be glory forever and
ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
1 read my text, 20, give thanks unto
the Lord, for he Is good" and young
man stood in the gallery and said TO
himself: 81 have never rendered one
acceptable offering of gratitude to God
in all my life. Here, Lord, | AN thine
forever" BY that one passage OF
Scripture he was brought into the king
dom, and if l might tell my own expert
ence, | might tell how one Sabbath al
ternoon l was brought TO the peace OF
the Gospel by reading of the Syro-
Phenician's cry to Christ where she
said: Gwen the dogs eat of the crumbs
that fall from the masters table" Phil
oSophic sermons never saved anybody.
Metaphysical sermons never saved any
body. An earnest plea going right out
of the heart blessed OF the Holy Ghost,
that is what saves, that is what brings
people into the kingdom Of Christ.
THE CHURCH Is READY.
Then l go on and tell you the church
is ready. There are those here who say:
mo one cares for my SOUL" We do
care for it, You see man bowling his
head in prayer and you say: THAT
man is Indifferent" That man bows
his head in prayer that the truth may
go to every heart. The air is full of
prayers. They are going up this morn
ing from this assembly. Hundreds OF
PRAYERS straight TO the throne of list
ening God. The air is full of prayers
prayers ascending noon by noon from
Fulton Street prayer meeting, Friday
night by Friday night all over this land,
going up from praying circles. Yea,
there is not minute OF an hour OF
any day that there are not Supplica-
tions ascending To the throne OF mercy.
The church is ready. And If you
should this morning start for your
Fathers house, there would be hun
dredS and thousands in this aSSemblage
who would say if they knew it: make
room for that man, make room Tor him
at the holy sacrament; bring the silver
bowl for his baptism; give him full
right to all the privileges of the Church
of Jesus Christ.
Oh, | know there are those who say
the Church i: a mass OF hypocriteS, but
they do not really think so. 1t is glo-
riouS Church. Christ purchased it.
Christ built it. Christ swung all its
gates. Christ curtained it with uphol-
stery, crimson with cruciiXion carnage.
Come into it. Come into it. do not
pick out this man or that man and say:
''YOu may come" | say all may come
whatsoever will. Come with us and
we will do you good. The Lord hath
promised good concerning Israel"
We are n garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground.
4 little plot enclosed by grace
Out OF the worlds wild wilderness.
Do not say you have never been in
vited. l invite you now to the Kings
feast. One and all. All! All. But l
go further and tell you that the angels
are ready. Some people think when we
speak about angels We are getting into
the region of fancy. They say it is very
well for man when he has lust entered
the ministry to preach about the angels
of heaven, but after he has gone on fur
Their it is hardly worth while. My
friends, there is not any more evidence
in the Bible that there is a God than
that there are angels. Did they not
swarm around Jacobs ladder? When
Lazarus soul went up did they not es
cort it? Did not David say: The char
lots of God are twenty thousand, even
thousands of angelS?' Are they
not represented as the chief har-
vesterS of the judgment day? Did
not one angel in one Dight Stay 5000
of Sennacherib'S troops? Oh, yes, our
world is in communication with TWO
other worlds. All that communication
is by angels. When bad man is to die,
a man who has deSpised God and re-
jected the Gospel, the bad spirits come
on ulphurouS wing and they shackle
him, and try to push him of the prec-
ipiceS into the ruin, aud they INT
guffaw of diabOlical eXultation. But
there is line of angels, bright and
beautiful and loving angels, mighty an
gels. reaching all the way from earth to
heaven, and when Others gather like
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