Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-23

mers. dramatic; Thomas Guthrie, dram
attic: John Knox, dramatic; Bobert Nc
Cheyne. dramatic; Christmas Evans,
dramatic: George Whitefield, dramatic;
Robert Hall, dramatic; Robert South,
dramatic; Fenelon, dramatic; John
Mason, dramatic; DR.. Mott, dramatic.
WHEN YOU GET INTO
The ministry, if you attempt to culture
that element, and try to WELD 1t for
God, you will meet with mighty rebuff
and caricature, and ecclesiastical coun-
CT! will take your case in charge, and
they will try to put you down; but the
God who starts you will help you
through, and great will be the eternal
rewards for the assduous and the
plucky.
Next, I speak of the Selah, Of perpet-
uity. The Targum, which is the Bible
in Chaldse, renders this word OF my
text forever" Many writers agree in
believing and stating that one meaning
of this word is forever" In this very
verse from which l take my text Selah
means not only poetic significance, and
intermission, and emphasis, but 1t
means eternal reverberation-forev
Gods government forever, Gods good
ness forever, the gladDeSS OF the righte-
Gus forever. OF course, you and have
not surveyors chain with enough links
TO measure that domain of meaning. In
this world we must build everything on
a small scale. A hundred years are a
great while. A tower five hundred feet
is a great height. A journey OF four
thousand miles is very long. But eter-
nifty! If the archangel has not strength
OF wing to fly across 1t, but futters and
drops like a wounded Sea-gull, there Is
no need of our trying in the small shall
low of human thought to voyage across
it.
A sceptlSdesiring to show his con-
tempt for the passing years, and to show
that he could build enduringly, had his
own sepulchre made Of the finest and
the hardest marble, and then he had put
on the door the words: "For time and
eternity" but it so happened that the
seed OF a tree somehow got into an un-
seen crevice of the marble. That seed
grew and enlarged until 1t became a
tree, and split the marble into pieces.
There can be no LIBERALIZATION OF any
tnlng earJnly. but lOTeVeI!
WILL YOU AND LIVE
as long as that? We are apt to think of
the grave as the terminus. We are apt
to think of the hearse as our last We
hicle. We are apt to think of seventy
or eighty or ninety years, and then a
cessation. Instead of that we find the
marble slab Of the tomb is only mile
stone, marking the first mile, and that
the great journey is beyond. We have
only time enough in this world to put on
the sandals and to clasp our girdle and
to pick up our staff. We take our first
step from cradle to grave, and then we
open the door and starJ-great God,
whittier? The clock strikes the passing
away Of time, but not the passing away
of eternity. Measureless! Measureless!
This Selah of perpetuity makes earthly
inequalities so Insignificant, the diff
ference between sceptre and
needle, between Alhambra and
hut, between chariot and
cart, between throne and curbstone, be-
tween Administer and bare floor, be-
tween satin and sackcloth, very trivial.
This Selah OF perpetuity makes our
getting ready so important. For sue h
prolongation of travel, what outfit of
guidebooks, Of passports, and Of escort?
Are we putting out on a desert, simeon
swept and ghoul-haunted, or into re-
gions of sunlight and spray-sprinkled
gardens? Will it be Elysium or Gehen-
ma? Once started into that world, we
cannot stop. The current is so swift
that once in, no oar can resist it, no
helm can steer out Of it, no herculean
or titantic arm can battle it. Hark to
the lorg-resoundlng echo, "foreverw
o wake up to the interest of your death
less spirit! Strike out for heaven.
Rouse ye, men and women for whom
Jesus died. Selah! Selah! Forever! for
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