Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-04

a matter Of gratitude 10 God that in these
% wears / have missed but one Saooatr
through physical indisposItion, ana ou
three in the 50 years Of my ministry
And. now, having reached this 2Srd mile
stone, start anew have IN my mem
orandum books analyses OF more ser
mons than I have ever vet ~ aHnAn
and have pr ached, as near as can tell
ahOut $3.50. During these past years 1
have learned two or three things. Among
others. l have learned that "all things
work together for good. My positive mode
OF preaching has sometimes seemed 10 sur
the hostilities OF all earth and he'll. teel-
ing called upon fifteen years ago 70 explore
underground New York CITY NE, tnas I
might report the evils 10 be comoatteo 1
took with me two elders OF my church aud
n New York Police Commissioner, and a
policeman, and | explored, and reported
The horrors that needed removal and the
allurements that endangered our young
men. There came upon me an outOurst OF
assumed indignation that frightened al
most everybody but myself.
THAT EXPLORATION.
nut into nv church thirty or forty news
neutrality-suspicious., from north. south,
east ana west; which opened for me new
avenues in which TO preach the gospel that
otherwise would never have been opened
Years passed on, and preached series
of sermons on AmusementS, and false re-
port of what did say--and one Of the SER
mons said 10 have been preached by me
was not mine in single word-rouseo a
violence that threatened me with poison
and dirk and pistol and other forms OF eX-
tinguishment, until the Chief OF Brooklyn
Police, without any suggestion from me,
took possession of the church with twenty
four policemen, 10 see that no harm was
done. That excitement opened many doors,
which l entered for preaching the
gospel After while came an
ecclesiastical trial, in which l was ar
raigned by people who did ike tue
way did things, and, although / was &C
Quilted OF all the charges, the contest
shook the American Church. That battle
made me more friends than anything that
ever happened and gave me Christendom
and more than Christendom for my weekly
audience. On the demolition OF each
church, we got better and larger
church, and not disaster, not a carlcature,
not a persecution, not an assault, during all
these twentv-three wears, but turned out TO
our advantage, and ought | not TO believe
that all things work together for good!'
Hosaunah,
The people of my third charge in Phila-
delphia. And the people of all these three
BROOKLYN TABERNACLEs.
Look at them, and all those whom, through
theprinting press, we have invited to God
and heaven, now seeming to sit in galleries
above galleries. fifty galleries, hundred
galleries. a thousand galleries high / greet
them all in YOUR name andin Christ's name,
an whom I have confronted from my first
sermon in nv first village charge, where
nv lips tremoled and nv knees
knocked together from alright, speak
ing from the text Jeremiah l:6:
All. Lord God, behold can
not speak, for am childn' until the ser
mon preach to-day from Luke 9:3S: Let
us make three tabernacles," those Of the past
the preeent all gathered in imagination,
and il not in reality, all of US grateful to
God for past mercies, all Of us sorry for
misimproved opportunities, ali hopeful for
eternal raptures, and while the visible and
the invisible audiences Of the present and
the past cOmmingle, / give out TO be sung
bv those who are here to-day, and to those
who shall read of this scene Of reminis-
cence and congratulation, that hymn which
has been rolling on since Isaac Watts
started it one hundred and fifty years ago;
our God, our help in ages past
Our hope for years to come;
Our shelter from the stormy blast
and our eternal home.