Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-27


on more speed and energy. Instead OF
the Church converting the world, the
world is converting the Church. Here
is great fortress. How shall it be
taken? An army comes and sits around
about it, cuts off the supplies, and says:
"Now we will just wait until from ex-
haustion and starvation they will have
to give up" Weeks and months, and
perhaps year, pass along, and finally
the fortress surrenders through that
starvation and exhaustion. But, my
friends, the fortresses Of sin are never
to be taken in that way. II they are
taken for God it will be by storm; you
will have to bring up the great seige
guns Of the Gospel TO the very wall
and wheel the flying artillery into line,
and when the armed infantry OF Heaven
shall confront the battlements you will
have TO give the quick command,
Forward! Charged"
All, my friends, there is work for you
to do and for me to do in order to this
grand accomplishment! Here is pull
pit, and a clergyman breaches In 1t.
Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit
is the store. Your pulpit is the edi-
-torial chair. Your pulpit is the anvil.
Your pulpit is the house scaffolding.
Your pulpit Is the mechanics shop. l
may stand in this place and, through
cowardice or through self-seeking, may
keep back the word l ought to utter;
while you, with your sleeve rolled up
and brow besweated with toll, may
utter the word that will jar the founda-
ton Of heaven with the shout of great
victory. Oh, that to-day this whole
audience might feel that the Lord AL
mighty is putting upon them the hands
of ordination. Every one, go forth and
preach this Gospel. You have as much
right to preach as 1 have, or as any
man has. Only find out the pulpit
where God will have you preach, and
there preach. Hedley Wears was
wicked man in the English army. The
grace Of God came to him. He became
an earnest and eminent Christian. They
scoffed at him, and said: "You are
hypocrite; you are as bad as ever you
were." Still he kept his faith in Christ;
and after awhile, finding that they
could not turn him aside by calling kim
a hypocrite, they said to him: "Oh,
you are nothing but fanatic" That
did not disturb him. He went on per-
forming his Christian duty until he had
formed all his troop into a Blble-class,
and the whole encampment was shaken
with the presence of God. So Havelock
went into the heather temple in India
while the English army was there,
and put candle into the hand OF
each of the heather gods that stood
around In the heather temple, and by
the light Of those candles, held up by
the idols, General Havelock preached
righteousness, temperance, and judg-
ment to come. And who will say, on
earth or in heaven, that Havelock had
not the right to preach?
In the minister's house where l pre-
pared for college, there was man whe
worked, by the name of Peter Croy. He
could neither read nor write, but he was
a man Of God. Often theologians would
stop in the house-grave theologians-
and at family prayers Peter Croy would
be called upon TO lead; and all those wise
men sat around, wonder-Struck at his
religious efficiency. When he prayed
he reached up and seemed to take hold
of the very throne of the Almighty, and
he talked with God until the very
heavens were bowed down into the sit
ting-room. Oh, if I were dying would
rather have plain Peter Croy kneel by
my bedside and commend my immortal |
spirit to God than some heartess eccles- |
iaStic arrayed in costly canonicals.
GO preach this Gospel. You say you
are not licensed. In the name Of the,
yST:d AGA6 6oipIrse acn 'thfs "GospeI-preach it
in the Sabbath schools, in the prayer
meetings, in the high ways, in the |
hedges. Woe be unto you If you preach
it not.