Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-04
TRUST In JESUS.
gHR BROOKLYN DIVINE breaches THROUGH
THE PRESS
uWhas Shall / Do With Jesus Christ Sacrificed
on the Funeral Pyre Of a Worlds Trans
uession-How Every One Dis
poses Of His Savior.


greetings. The work OF arranging MS
tour has been exceedingly diihcult 80
numerous were the invitations awaiting
him that TO accept some and decline
others equally pressing seemed inVio-
ious. Wherever he has gone the largest
churches in the cities have been crowd
ed 10 excess and could have been tlled
many times over. Among the sermons
he has preached, the one selected for
publication this week is from the text,
Matthew 27:22: "What shall l do with
Jesus2"
plate was an unprincipled politician.
He had sympathieS, convictions Of right,
and desires 70 DO honest; but all these
were submerged by a wish TO be popu-
lar, and TO please the people. Two dis
tlnguiShed prisoners were in the grasp or
the government, and the proposition
was made to free one OF them. There
stands BaraObas, the murderer; there
stands Christ, the Savior Of the world.
At the demand Of the people the rene
Rade is set free, but Jesus is held. As
the hard-visaged and cruel-eyed Barab-
has goes among his sympathizers, re-
-eeiving their coarse congratulations,
Plate turns 10 his other distinguished
prisoner-mid, meek, inofenSive, low
ing, ACKNOWLEDGMENT he is con-
founded as to what course he had better
take, so he impanels the mob as a jury
TO decide, saying 70 them, what shall
do then with Jesus?"
II Is NO DRIED QUESTION,
but one that throbs with warm and
opick pulse in the heart Of every man
aud woman here. We must do some
thing with Jesus. He is here. You and
/ are not so certainly here as be is, for
he fills all this place-the loving, living,
diving Christ--and each one Of US will
have 10 ask and answer for himself the
question. what shall do then with
Jesus?n Well, my friends, there are
three or four things you can do with
him.
You can, in the first place, let him
stand withOu word of recognition;
but do not think your sense OF COM
mon courtesy will allow that He comes
walking on such long journey, you
will certainly give him chair on which
he may sit. He Is so weary, you would
not let him stand without some recog-
milton. II beggar comes TO your door,
you recognize him and say, what do
you want?" If you meet a strange r
faint in the street, you say, What is
the matter with your" and your COM
mon humanity, and your common sym
patty, aud your common sense OF pro-
A priety will not allow you 10 let him
ktand without recOgnitlon-the wound
ed one Of the hills. You will ask, What
makes him weep? where was he hurt?
who wounded him? whence he came?
whittier he goes? I know there have
been men who have with outrageous in
difference hated Christ, but l know
very we'll that that Is not what you will
do with Jesus.
ANOTHER THING
that you can do with him-you can
thrust him back from your heart, and
tell him 70 stand aside. IL an inOffens-
i've person comes and persists in stand
ing close to you, and you have in vari-
Gus ways given him to understand that
you do not want his presence or his so
clety, then you ask the reason OF his
impertlnence and bid him away. Well,
that is what we can do with Jesus. He
has stood close by US a great while-ten,
twenty, thirty, forty years. He has
stood by you three times a day, break
ing bread for your household, all night
watching by your pillow. He has been
in the nursery among your children, he
has been Ia the store among your goods,
he has been in the factory amid the fly
ing wheels, and now il you do not
like his society you can
bid him away; ay, IL he
will not 90 you can take him by the
throat and tell him you do not want his
interference, that you do not want his
breath on your cheek, that you do not
want his eye on your behavior. You can
bid him away, or If be will not 90 in
that way, then you can stamp your foot,
as you would at a dog, and cry, "Be-
gomez Yet ] know you will not treat
Jesus that way. When PLATE could not
do that, you could not. DesperadOes
and outlaws might do so, but L know
that is not the way you will treat him,
that that is not what you will do with
Jesus. There is another thing you can
do with him; YOU can look on him mere
~ as an optician TO cure blind eyes, or
an aurist 20 tune deaf ears, a friend, q
good friend, a helpful companion, a
cheerful passenger on shipb0ard: but
that will amount TO nothing.
YOU CAN LOOK UPON
him as a God, and be abashed while he
rouses the storm, or blasts a fg-tree, or
heaveS rock down the mountain-side.
That will not do you any good; no more
save your soul than the admiration you
have Tor John Milton or William Shakes
peare. / can think Of only one more
thing you can do with Jesus, and that
Is TO take him into your hearts. That
Is the best thing you can do with him;
and may the Lord Omnipotent by his
Spirit help me to persuade you TO do
that. A minister of Christ was speak
ing to some children, and said, Il will
point You to Christ" A little child
arose in the audience, and came up and
pus her hand in the hand OF the pastor,
and said, "PleaSe, sir, take me TO Jesus
now. want to go now" oh, that it
might be now with such simplicity of
experience that you and l join hands
and seek after Christ and get an ex-
preston of his bene!action and his
mercyi
You may take Christ into your conf
dence. If you cannot trust Him, whom
can Won trust? ] do not offer you dry,
theological technicality. l simply ask
YOU TO come aad put both feet on the
Crock of Ages" Take hold OF ChriSt'S
hands and draw him 20 your soul with
perfect abandonment, and hurl yourself
into the deep sea Of his mercy. He
comes and says, 81 will save YOU" If
Won do not think be is a hypOcrite and
liar when be says that, believe him, and
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