Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-08
TnE GLORIOUS MARCH.
DR. TALNAGES SERMON IN LONDON YES
IERDAY.
SPAR as the Moon, Clear as the Sun and Terrible
as an Army with Banners'-Ihe Wonderful
Popularity Of the Great American d.
vine Across the Sea-

beginning or Rev. Or. I0lmage lOI-
eign preaching tour, has been very
busy one. Indeed, since July "a, when
be preached In the English and Ameri-
can church In Berlin, while en- route
from Russia 20 Scotland, DR.. Talmage
can scarcely be said 20 have had a mo-
ments leisure. Services have been held
al Edinburgh, Inverness, Aberdeen,
Dundee, Glasgow, Newcastle and sun
derland. The sermon for this week Is
entitled, The Glorious March" the
text being from SOl0mOn's Song o; 10;
Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and
terrible as an army with banners"
The fragrance OF Splkenard, the uaSn
Of jewels, the fruitiuIneSS Of orchards,
the luxuriance Of gardens, the beauty OF.
HeshbOn tSh-pOOis, the dew or the
night, and the Spleudor Of the morning
all contribute TO the richness Of Solo
mons style when be comes 70 speak OF
the glory OF the Church. In contrast
with mis- euloglum of the Church, look
at the deuunciatOry things that are said
in our dav i'm regard 10 10. II one stock
holder become a cheat. does that destroy
the whole company? IL one soldier be
a coward, does that condemn the whole
army? And yet there are many in this
day so unphilOsophic, SO illOgiCal, so dis
honest. and so unfair as TO denounce the
entire Church of God because there are
here and there bad men belonging TO 10.
There are those who say that the
Church of God is not up 70 the spirit OF
the day in which we lived; but have 10
tell YOU that, Notwithstanding all the
swift wheels, and the flying shuttleS,
and the lightning communications, the
world has never yet been able 10 keep
up with the Church. As high rs God is
above man. so high is the Church Of
GOd-higher than all human instltu-
tions. From her lamp the best diScOy-
cries of the world have been lighted.
TIE best of our inventors have believed
i'm the Christian rehgion-the FultonS,
the MOrses, the Whitneys, the PerryS
and the LivingStOues She has owned
the best of the telescopes and Leyden
lars; and while iuiideiity and atheism
have gone blindfOlded amOnk the most
startling discoveries that were about 10
be developed, the earth and the air and
the sea have made quick and maEniti-
cent responses to Christian philoso-
piers. ~,
The world will not be up to the
Church of Christ until the day when all
merchandise has become honest mer-
chandiSe, and all governments have be-
come free governments, and all nations
evangelical nations, and the last deaf
ear of spiritual death shall be broken
omen by the milli0n-voiced shout OF na-
lions born Inn day. The Church that
q, hrr- frsr kEa Frf r.
mace, aud Darius % tear 20 pieces with
the lions, and Lord ClayerhOuSe 10 cut
with the sword, has gone on, wading
lhe floods and enduring the tire, until
,he deepest barbariSm, and the iercest
sruelties, and the blacklist supersti-
lions have been compelled 20 look 10 the
East, CRYING, "WhO is she that lOoketh
forth as the morning, fair as the moon,
clear as the sun, and terrible as an army
with banners?
Yet there are people who are Shamed
to belong 20 the Church Of Christ, and
If YOU ask them whether they are In
such associations, they say Yes, i
sometimes attend the church; instead OF
realizing the fact that there as no honor
compared with the honor of being a
member of the Church OF God. / look
back with Joy 20 the most hOnored mo-
ment OF my life, when in the old cOun-
try Westinghouse the minister OF Christ
announced my name as q follower OF the
Lord.
You who are floating about In the
world seeking for better associations,
why do you not join yourself TO some CT
the churches? An old sea-captain was
riding i'm the cars toward Philadelphia,
aud a young man sat down beside him.
He said: Young mau, where are you
going?" 81 am going TO Philadelphia
10 live" replied the young man. "Have
YOU letters OF intrOduCuOn?' asked the
old captain. Eyes" said the young
man; aud he pulled some OF them out.
"Well," said the old Sea-captain,
haven't you o church certihcate?'
son, yes" said the young man: Il
didn't suppose you would want TO look
M that" Yes" said the seG-Captain;
Il want TO see shat. As soon as you get
10 Philadelphia present il to sons Chris
tian church. / an an old sailor, and /
have been up aud down In the world,
and its my rule, as soon as l get iatO
mort 10 fasten my ship fore and aft to
the wharf. although it may cost little
wharfage, rather than have my ship out
i'm the stream floating hither aud thith-
or with the tide"
o men and women, by the tides Of fri
volity and woridlinesSS swept this way
and swept that way, seeking for aSSo-
Citations and for SatiSfactiOns for the
immortal soul, come into the Church Of
Jesus Christ. Lash fast TO her. She is
the pillar and the ground Of truth. l
propose TO speak Of the threefold glory
of the Church, as it is described In the
text:
First, "Fair as the moon" God, who
has determined that everything shall be
beautiful in its season, has not left the
night without charm. The moon rules
the night. The stars are only set as
gems in her tiara. Sometimes before
the sun has gone down the moon mounts
her throne, but it is after nightfall that
she sways her uudispCted Sceptre over
island and continent, river and sea.
Under her shining the plainest maple
leaves become shiverlng silver, the lakes
from shore TO shore look like shining
mirrors, and the ocean under her glance
with great tides comes up painting upon
the beach, mingling, as il We're, foam
and IRE.
Under the witchery OF the moon, the
awful sleeps lose their ruggednesS, aud
the chasms their terror. The poor man
blesses God for throwing so cheap a
light shrough the broken windOW-pane
OF his cabin, and 70 the sick t seems
like light from the other shore that
bounds this great deep Of human pain
and woe. II the sun be like song,
fun and loud and poured forth from