Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-01
BRIaHTER THAN THE LIGHT,

on the human veil.
BRIGHTER THAN The LIGHT,
fresher than the fountains, deeper than
the seas are all these Gospel themes.
Song has no melody, flowers have no
sweetness, sunset sky has no color COM
pared with these glorious themes.
These harvests Of grace spring up quick
er than we can sickle them. Kindling
pulpits with their fire, and producing
revolutions with their power, lighting
up dying beds with their glory, they are
the sweetest thought for the poet. and
they are the most thrilling Illustration
for the orator, and they offer the most
intense scene for the artist, and
they are to the ambassador OF the
sky all enthusiasm. Complete pardon
for direst guilt. Sweetest comfort for
ghastliest agony. Brightest hope for
grimnest death. GrandeSt resurrec-
ton for darkest sepulchre. Oh, what a
Gospel to preach! Christ over all in it,.
His birth, his suffering, his miracles,
his parallels, his sweat, his tears, his
blood, his atonement, his interceSsion-
what glorious themes! Do we exercise
faith? Christ is its object. Do we have
love? 1t fastens on Jesus. Have we
fondnesS for the church? 1t is because
Christ died for it. Have we hope OF
heaven? IL is because Jesus went
ahead, the herald and the forerunner
The royal robe Of DemetriuS was so
costly, so beautiful, that after he had
put il of no one ever dared put it on;
but this robe of Christ, richer than that,
the poorest and the meaneSt and the
worst may wear where sin abound
ed grace may much more abound.
"Oh, my sins, my sins, said Martin
Luther TO StaupitZ, my sins, my sins"
The fact is, that the brawny German
student had found a Latin Bible that
had made him quake, and nothing else
ever did make him quake; and when he
found how, through Christ, he was par
doned and saved, he wrote TO friend,
saying: Come over and join US great
aud awful sinners saved by the grace
of God. You seem to be only slender
sinner, and you don't much eXtol the
mercy of God; but we who have been
such very awful sinners praise
his grace the more now that
WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED.
Can it be that you are so desperately
egotiStlcal that you feel yourself in first
rate spiritual trim, and that from the
root OF the hair to the tip Of the toe
you are scarleSs and immaculate? What
you need is a looking-glass, and here it
is in the Bible. Poor, and wretched,
and miserable, and blind, and naked
from the crown of the head to the sole
of the foot, full Of wounds and putre-
fying sores No health in US. And
then take the fact that Christ gathered
ND al the uoteS against us and paid
them, and then offered us the receipt.
Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in
the door Of a heather temple, said:
GLORY to thee, O Cod" What did dy-
ing Wilberforce say 10 his wife2 "Come
and sit beside me, and let U talk Of
heaven. | never knew what happiness
was until found Christ" What did
dying Hannah Moore say? ITO go TO
heaven, think what that is. To 90 TO
Christ, who died that might live! Oh,
glorious grave. On, what a glorious
thing il is to die, Oh, the love of Christ,
the love OF Christi What did Mr. Top
lady, the great hymn-maker, say in his
last hour? "Who can measure the
depth of the third heaven? Oh, the sun
shine that fills my soul. l shall soon
be gone, for surely no one can live in
this world after such glOrieS as God has
manifested TO my soul.
What did the dying Faneway say? 81
can as easily die as close my eyes or
turn my head in sleep. Before few
hours have passed l shall stand on
Mount Zion with the one hundred and
forty and four thousand, and with the
Just men made perfect, and we shall
aScribe riches and honor, and glory, and
majesty, and dominion unto God and
the Lamb" DR.. Taylor, condemned to
burn at the stake, on his way thither,
broke away from the guardsmen and
went bounding and leaptng and jump
ing toward the fire, glad to 90 70 Jesus
and to die for him. Sir Charles Hare,
in last moment, had such rapturous
vision that ne cried:
UPWARD, UPWARD, UPWARD"
And so great was the peace OF one Of
Christ's disciples that he put his fin
gers upon the pulse in his wrist and
counted IL and observed IL; and so great
was his placidity that after while be
said: stopped" and his life had ended
here TO begin in heaven. But grander
than that was the testimony Of the
WORKOUT first missionary, when, in the
Mamartine dungeon, ne cried: Il am
now ready to be offered, and the time of
my departure is at hand; have fought
the good fight. l have finished my
course. I have kept my faith; hence
forth there is laid up for me a crown OF
righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will give me in that
day, and not to me only, but to all them
that love his appearing" Do you not
see that Christ is above all in dying al
leviationS?
Edward I. was so anxious 10 90 TO the
Holy Land that when he was about 10
expire he beQueathed $4,000 to have
his heart. after his deceaSe, taken TO
the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his
request was complied with. But there
are hundreds to-day whose hearts are
already in the Holy Land OF Heaven.
Where your treasures are, there are
your hearts also. John Bunyan, OF
whom l spoke at the opening OF the dis
course, caught glimpse Of that place,
and In his quaint way he said: And l
heard in my dream, and 10. the bells OF
the city rang again for JOY; and as they
opened the gates to let in the men l
looked ia after them, and 10! the city
shone like the sun, aud there were
streets Of gold;and men walked on them,
harpS in their hands, to sing praises
with all; aud after that they shut up the
gates. which when l had seen l wished
myself among them"
AT MOUNTAIN LAKE