Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-13
CHRISTIAN ADVICE
AM HIGH IN TEg GREAT BATTLE
YOU WILL NOT Be BETTER
Tan As Model Yoa Select to Follow
Take The Best Oas--Dr. Tslnass's Prae-
heal Cdristaa Advice

be would sail on Wednesday next for
Europe and might be able TO be present
atthe distribution in the famin-StrieEen
districts of Russia of the Christian Her
ufd relief cargo, consisting OF three
million pounds Of -four and other sup
plies which goes out this week on the
1teamship Leo, chartered for the pur-
nose. He congratulated the American
people on the generous spirit evinced oy
this magnificent gift 90 the starving peO-
pie. His sermon was from the text
Eubes. 6: II: put on the whole ar NOR
Of God
There is in this text great rattle OF
shields, and helmets, and swords. Sol
diers are getting ready for battle. We
have bad recently ia this church new
eunstments aud j shall address myself
10 those la this and other churches VINO
are putting on the armor Of God, and
who nav feel themselves TO be as yet
pnlv raw recruits. Mastery retreat
lsa term often used In military circles,
but I'm religion there Is no such thing.
u il either glorious advance or disgrace
fDl and ienominious falling back. II
v,onld be a strange thing n all our anX,-
etv about men ceased the moment they
were converted. You would almost
5oubt the sanity Of that farmer
who having planted the corn and
seen "a lust sptout above ground, should
sav. .AIv work Is an done. ! have no
more anxiety for the field" No. There
is work for the plough and the hoe, and
there must be careful keeping up OF
the fences, and there must be a fright
euipg away Cf the birds that would pill
age the field. And / say the entrance
upon Christian life is only the lmpiao-
tation of grace in the heart. There Is
earnest, hard work yet 20 be doue, aud
perhaps many years OF anxiety before
there shall DO heard the glorious
shout Of
HARVEST HOME
The beginning 20 be a Christian Is on
lv putting down the foundation; but az
ter that there are years OF hammeriug,
polishing, carving, lifting, before the
structure Is completed. 10 takes nve
wears % make q Christian character, 10
takes twenty years; 10 takes forty years;
10 takes seventy years, n a man shall
live go long. Ia other words, 3 man
diving after half century Of Christian
experience feels THAI hs has only learned
the "A B C's' OF a glorious alphabet.
The next year will decide great deal
in YOUR Christian history, young Chris
tian man. 10 vii. decide whether you
are 90 be o burning and shining light
of the church, or a spark OF grace COW
cred uD 10 a barrel Of ashes. lt will de-
eide whether you are % be a strong maa
90 Christ Jesus, with gigantic blows
striking the iron mali Of darkness, or a
bedwarfed, whining, grumbiiug soldier,
that ought % be drummed out Of the
Lords camp with the "ROgueS March"
You have only Just been launched; the
voyage is TO be made Earth and heav-
en- and hell are watching 90 see how fast
YOU will sail, how we'll you will weather
the tempest, and whether 40 last amid
the shouting of the angels, you shall
come into the right harbOr. May God
help me this morning 20 give you three
or four words ~ Christian counsel, as l
address myself more especially TO those
who have just now entered the Chris
tian life.
MY FIRST WORD or COUNSEL Is
hold before your soul a very high mod
al. Do not say, SCI wish 1 could pray
like that man, OF speak like this man,
or have the conservation OF this one"
Say. "Here is the Lord Jesus Christ, a
perfect pattern. by that / mean, with
Gods grace, 20 Shape all my life In
other words you will never be any more
q Christian than you strive 90 be- III you
build foundation twenty by thirty feet
you will only have a small house. II
you build a foundation one hundred by
one hundred feet, you will have a large
house. If you resolve 20 be only mid
ding Christian, you will only be mid
ding Christian. III you have no high
aspiration in q worldly direction you
will never succeed 10 business. III you
have no high aspiration in religious
things you viii never succeed In religion,
You have right % aspire 20 the very
highest style of Christian character.
From your feet there reaches out path
of Christian attainment which you may
take, and I deliberately say that you
may be "a better man than was Paul, or
David, or Summerield, or DOGdridge-a
better woman than Hannah Moore or
Charlotte Elizabeth. Why n0t2 DID
they have monopoly Of Christian
grace? Did they have "a private key %
the stOrehOuse of Gods mercy? Does
God shut you out from the gladness
aud goodness 90 which they were In
troduceE Oh, 40. You nave Just the
same pomises, just the same Christ,
FHE SAME HOLY GHOST,
just be same offers Of present and ever
lasV6g love, and IN YOU fan short OF
WHIT they wcre-ay, IL you do not come
- 90 the point, which they reached aud
10 beyond lit is not because Christ
mas shut you out from any point OF
moral and spiritual elevation, but be-
cause you deliberately refused to take
10. admit that man cannot become
Christian like that without struggle;
but what DO you get without fighting
Tor 10? The iOrtreSseS Of darkness are
20 be taken by storm. You may by
acute strategy laDk the hosts OF temp
tatiOn; but there are temptations, there
evils, 10 the way that you will have
rect face 20 face, and il will be shot
rot, gun for gun, grip for grip,
tier for slaughter. The Apostle
yer and over again represents the
liie as a combat,
the War-vessel OF Christ's
comes into glory bringing It's
~ It's passengers, 10 will not
'ouN Ike a North River yacht. beau
aiulN painted and adorn ed, swinging
uto the ooathouss after a pleasure ex.
ursiol. Oh, no. It will be like a
'essei coming with heavy car
20 from China or India, the marks
pr the wave aud the hurricane up
on .it-Sails rent. riggings spliced
pumps all working to keep her anoat.
buiwarks knocked away. see Surb "A