Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-13

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I'm heaven" Aim high.
Do NOT BE SATISFIED
like the Christians all around about
YOU. BE more than they have ever
been for Christ. An old Arabian king
was showing a beautiful sword that had
been given him, when one OF his
rourtiers said: This sword is too
short. You cannot do anything with
II. Said the kings son; ITO a brave
man no sword is too short. II 1t be too
short, take one step in advance, then II
is long enough" So l say 10 any
Christian who may feel that he has
poor weapons with which 10 fight
against sin and darkness and death:
advance upon the enemy. la the
strength Of Christ go forward. God Is
for you, and II God be for you, who can
be against you? Remember that God
never puts you In battle but he gives
weapons with which to fight"
NV next word OF counsel is that you
be actively employed. | see a great
many Christians with doubts and per-
plexlties and they seem 70 be proud OF
them. Then entire Christian life Is
made up o; gloom, and they seem to
cultivate that spiritual dependency,
when I will undertake TO say that Ia
nine cases out OF ten spiritual deSpond-
ency Is judgment OF God upon idle
ness. Who are the happy people in the
church to-day? The busy people.
Show me a man who processes the reli-
qion Of Jesus Christ and is idle, and
will show you an unhappy man. The
very first prescription that give to
man when I tHd him full Of doubts and
fears about his eternal interest is 10 go
10 work for God. Ten thousand voices
are lifted up asking for your help. Go
and help. Here Is a wood full Of sum-
mer insects.
AN ANEMAN GOES
into the wood 10 cut, tirewood. The
insects do not bother him very much,
and every stroke OF the axe makes them
ny away. But let man go and lie
down there and be is bitten and mauled,
and thinks 10 is q horrible thing TO stay
i'm the wood. Why does he not take an
axe and 60 TO work? So there are
thousands of Christians now in the
church who go out amid great annoy
ances in life-they are not perplexed,
they are al the time busy; while there
are others who do nothing and they are
StunV and stung and stung and covered
from head to foot with the blotches OF
Incidence and inactivity, and spiritual
death.
The first thing, then, you have to do,
o Christian young man, Christian
Young woman, Is 70 60 TO work In the
service Of the Lord IL you want 10 be
happy Christian. When an army goes
out, there are always stragglers falling
of here aad there, some because they
are faint and sick, but great many be-
cause they are afraid 10 fight and too
lazy 20 march. After awhile the lazy
men on the road hear the booming OF
the guns for hours, aud they hear the
shouts Of victory, and a man on horse
back comes up and says: I'VE have won
the dayl" Then they hasten UP. How
brave they are after the battle is over.
Poor at lighting but grand at "huzza'
So there are strsgglers going after the
Lords hosts. There come days OF dark
ness aud battle. Where are they? We
call the roll OF the host. They make no
answer, but after while there comes
DAY Of triumph in the church and, and
they are all about. "HuZzal huzza!
Didn't we give il to them"
Another word OF counsel l have to
give. Be faithful in Bible research.
great many good books are now coming
out. We CanuOt read half Of them. AT
every revolution OF the printing press
they are coming. They cover our par
Tor tables, and in our sitting rooms and
Libraries. Glorious books they are. We
thank God every day for the work Of
the Christian printing press. But
have thought that perhaps the follow
ers of Christ sometimes allow this re-
Iigious literature 70 take their attention
from Gods Word, aud that there may
not be as much Bible reading as there
ought TO be.
HOW IS IT WITH
your own experience? Just calculate
in your minds how much religious liter
AZURE you have read during the year,
and then how large a portion OF the
Word OF God you have read, and then
contrast the two aud answer within
your own soul whether you are giving
more attention to the books that were
written by the hand Of man or that
written by the hand of God. Now, you
20 20 the drug store and you get tho
mineral waters; but you have noticed
that the waters are not so fresh or
sparkling or healthful as when you get
these very waters at Saratoga and
sharon getting them right where they
bubble from the rock. And | have
noticed the same thing in regard to the
truth OF the Gospel; while there is
good deal of refreshment and health OF
the Gospel of God as il comes through
good books, l hnd it Is better when l
come 70 the eternal rock Of Gods Word
and drink from that fountain that
bubbles up so fresh and pure 70 the
life aud the refreShmeut aud the health
of the soul.
Read the btble and Ia brings you into
the association Of the best people that
ever lived. You stand beside Moses,
and learn his meekness, beside Job and
learn his patience, beside Paul and earch
something OF his enthusiasm, beside
Christ aud you feel his love. And yet
how strange il is that a great many men
have given their whole lives to the as
saulting OF that book. l cannot uuder-
stand IT, Tom Paine worked against
that book as though he received large
wages and was inspired by the very
powers Of darkness, conieSsing that all
the tine he was writing he did not have
the Bible anywhere near him, How
many powerful intellects have endeav-
ored TO destroy il. Hume, Bolingbroke,
VO,taire, have been after it. Ten
thousand men now are warning against
the truth of Gods Word. What do you
think Of them? ] think II Is mean and
will prove il. will prove it is the