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

lean on. 1t is the cane that the Bible
speaks OF when it says, "ThY ROD and
thy staff they comfort me. l want 10
give you better spectacles than those
you now look through. IL is the spir-
itual eyeSight OF divine grace. Christ
Will not think that you are in the way.
Does your head trenble with the palsy
of old age? Lay il on ChriSt's bosom.
Do YOU feel lonely now that your COM
panions and children are gone? think
Christ has them. They are safe in his
keeping.
Again: The very bad, the outrage
ouSly sinful, may come. Men talk OF
the grace of God as though it we're so
many yards long and so many yards
deep. People point 10 the dying thief
as an announcement to the sinner.
How much better it would be TO point
TO our ow? case and say, "If God saved
us, he can save anybody" There may
be those here who never had one earnest
word said TO them about their souls.
Consider me as putting my hand on
your shoulder and looking in your eye.
God has been good 10 you. You ask
"How do you know that? He has been
very hard on me-" "Where did you
come from?" Home" Then you
have a home. Have you ever thanked
God for your home? Have you chill
dren?" YES" "Have you ever thanked
God for your children? Who keeps
them safe? Were you ever sick?"
YES"
WHO MADE YOU WELL?
Have you been fed every day? Who
feeds yau? Put your hands on
YOUR pulse. Who makes it throo?
Listen TO the respiration of your lungs.
Who helps you TO breathe? Have you q
Bible in the house, spreading before
you the future life? Who gave you
that Bibe?" Oh. il has been a story OF
goodness aud mercy all the way
through. You have been one Of God
pet children. Who fOhdled you, and
careSsed you, and loved you? And when
you went astray, and wanted TO come
back, did he ever refuse? | know OF
father who, after his son came back the
fourth time, said: 'No; forgave you
three times; but l will never forgive you
again" And the son went of and died.
But God takes back His children the
thouSanth time as cheerfully as the
first. As easily as with my handker-
chief strike the dust off book, God
will wipe out all your sins.
Again: all the dying will find their
nest In this goOdly cedar. Ii Is cruel
to destroy a birds nest, but death does
not hesitate TO destroy one. There was
IN
Lovingly the parents brooded over 1t.
There were two or three little robins in
the nest. The scarlet fever thrust its
hot hands into the nest, and the birds
are gone. Only those are safe who
have their nests IN the goodly cedar.
They have over them 1.-The feathers Of
the Almighty. Oh! 10 have those soft,
warm, eternal wings stretched over u.s.!
Let the storms beat, and the branches
OF the cedar toss on the wind-no dan
ger. When storm comes, you can see
the birds flying 10 the woods. Ere the
storm OF death comes down, let US fly 10
the goOdly cedar.
OF what great varieties heaven will
be made up. There come men VINO
once were
HARD AND CRUEL
and desperate in wickedness, yet now,
soft and changed by grace, they come
into glory: "All fowl of every wing"
And here they come, the children who
were reared in loving hOme-circleS,
docking through the gates OF life: "All
foTl Of every wing" These were white,
aud came from Northern homes; these
were black, and assembled from South
ern plantations; these were cOpper-col-
ored, and went no from Indian reServa-
tions: ''All fowl OF every wing" So
God gathers them up. 1t is astonishing
how easy il is for a good soul to enter
heaven. A prominent business man IN
Philadelphia went home one afternoon,
lay down on the lounge, and said, ut
is time for me to 60" He was very
AGED. His daughter said TO him, Are
you sick?" He said, No; but it is time
for me 10 go. Have John put it in two
OF the morning papers, that my friends
may know that am gone. Good-bye:'
and Is quick as that God had taken
him.
1t is easy to go when the time comes.
There are no ropes thrown out 70 pull
US ashore; there are no ladders let down
10 pull US up. Christ comes and takes
us by the hand and says, you have
had enough OF this; come up higher.
Do you hurt lily when you pluck IL?
Is there any rudeness when jesus
touches the cheek, and the red rose OF
health whitens into the lily Of immortal
purity and gladness?
WHEN AUTUMN COMES
and the giant of the woods Smltes his
anvil and the lealy sparks fly on the
autumnal gale, then there will be thou
sands of birds gathering in the tree at
the corner of the field, just before de-
parting TO warmer climes, and they will
call and sing until the branches drop
with the melody. There is a better
cline for US, and by-and-by we shall
migrate. We gather in the branches OF
the goodly cedar, in preparation for de-
parture. You heard our voices in the
opening song; You will hear them in the
closing song-voices good, voices bad,
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