Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-03-07

congregation Of the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle this morning sang with fervor the
hymn beginning
Ny faith looks Up 90 Thee,
Thou lamb oi Calvary.
Or. Talmage'S subject was the refuge
offered by the Christian religion 70 peo-
pie Of al ages and every variety OF
character. His text was Ezekiel 1923,
"A gOOdly cedar and under 1t snail
dwell all fowl of every wing
The cedar of Lebanon is . royal tree.
II stands 5000 feet above the level OF
the sea. A missionary counted the con-
centric circles and found one tree $500
years d-lOng-rOOted, broad branches,
all the year in luXuriant foliage. The
same branches that bent in the hur-
ricane that David saw sweeping over
Lebanon. rock to-day over the head OF
the American traveller. This monarch
OF the forest, with its leafy fingers,
plucks the honorS of q thousand years,
and Sprinkles them upon its own uplift-
eli brow, as though some great halle
lujah of heaven had been planted upon
Lebanon, and 10 were rising up with all
its ioug-armed strength 70 take hold OF
the hills whence il came. Oh. what
fine place for birds 20 nest in. Ia hot
DAYS they come thither-the eagle, the
dove, the swallow, the sparrow, aud the
raven. There is to many Of Us COM
plete fascination in the structure and
habits Of birds. They seem not more
Of earth than heayen-eyer yacillating
between the two.
40 WONDER AUDUBON,
with his gun, tramped through all Of
the American forests in search OF new
specimens. Biologists have spent years
in finding the track of birds claw In
the new red sandstone. There is
enough Of Gods architecture in snipe'S
oil or a grOuce's foot TO cOnfouud all
the universities. Musicians have, with
clefS and bars, tried 10 catch the sound
Ofthe nightingale and robin. Among
the first things that child notices Is q
swallow al the caves; and grandfather
goes out with @ handful OF crumbs 10
feed the Snow-birds. The Bible is FULL
Of archaeological illusions. The birds
of the Bible are not dead aud
stuffed. like those OF the museum,
but living birds, with 1utterinS
wings and plumage. "Behold
the fowls of the air." says Christ.
Though thou eNalt myself as the
eagle, aud though thou set thy nest
among the stars, thence VIII l bring
thee down" eXclaimS Obadiah. "Gayest
thou the gOOdly wings unto the pea
cooke" says Job. David describes his
desolation by saying, i am like peli-
can Of the wilderness; am like an owl
of the desert; / watch, and am as
sparrow alone upon the houSetop.
"Eea, the StOrk in the heaven knOweth
her appointed tiIe; and the turtle, ard
the crane. and the swallow observe the
time Of their coming; but my people
not the Judgment OF the Lord'-So says
Jeremiah.
EZEKIEL ~ MY TENT
intimatcs that Christ is the cedar, and
the people from all quarters are the
birds that lodge among the branches.
1t shall be good cedar, and under 1t
shall dwell al fowl Of every wing" As
In Eze Eiel's time, so nOw-ChriSt IS
g0odly cedar, and 10 Him are flying all
kinds OF peOple-yOung and old, rich
and Door; men high-sOaring as the
eagle, those fierce as the raven, and
those gentle as the dove. CAL fowl Of
every wing
First, the young men come. OF the
eighteen hundred and nineJy-tw0 years
that have passed since Christ came,
about sixteen hundred have been wasted
by the good i'm miSdiTected efforts. I'm
al Robert Raikes came there was
10 organized effort for saving the young.
We spend all our strength trying TO
bend old trees when little pressure
would have been sufficient for the
sapling. We let men 20 down 20
the very bottom OF sin before we
Try 90 lift them up. IL is a great deal
easier % keep train on the track than
10 get il on when it, is of. The eXper-
fenced reinSman checks the fiery Steed
at the first Jump, for when he gets in
fun swing, the swift hoOfS clicking fire
from the pavement, and the bit between
his teeth, his momentum is irresistible.
10 is said that the young must be al
lowed 70 SOW their wild oats" l have
noticed that those who SOW their wild
oats seldom try 10 raise any other kind
OF crop. There are two opposite deS-
TIMES. II you are going TO heaven, you
had better take the straight road, and
not try 10 go 20 Boston by the way Of
New Orleans. What is 70 be the his
tory OF this multitude Of young people
around me to-day? l will take you by
the hand and show you
GLORIOUS SUNRISE.
will not whine about this thing, nor
grOar about il; but come, young men
aud maidenS, Jesus wants you. His
hand is love; his voice is music, his
smile is heaven. Religion will put no
handouts on your wrist, no hOpp,eS on
your feet, no brand on your forehead.
Again: I remark that the old may
come. You say, suppose a man has
70 60 on crutches; suppose he is blind;
suppose be IS deaf; suppose that nine
tenthS OF his life has been wasted"
Then answer, Come with crutcheS;
come. old men, blind and deaf, come TO
Jesus. II you would sweep your hand
around before your blind eyes the first
thing you would touch would be the
Cross. Ii is hard for an aged man or
woman 90 have grown old without re-
hgiOn Their taste is gone. The peach
aud the grape have lost their flavor.
They say that somehow fruit does
not taste as 10 used 10. Their hear
ing gets defective and they miss
great deal that is said in their presence.
Their friends have all gone, and every
body seems so strange. The world
seems 60 20 away from them, and they
are lett all alone. They begin 70 feel
I'm the way when You come into room
where they are; and they move their
chair ueryously, and say, Il hope 1 am
not IN the way Alas. that father and
mother should ever be in the way.
When you were sick, and they sat up all