Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-15

tue mountain VI lACC1tbt AA~'-AN-
O.d DIR. Stephen II. Tying, great on
earth aud In heaven, once said 10 me-
II am in favor Of a change. l DO not
know what is the best way OF doing
things in the churches, but | know the
way we are doing now is not the pest
way, or the world would be nearer us
salvation than it seems 70 be. 30 l
feel; so we an feel, that there needs 20
be a change. The point at which we
all come short is not presenting CnriSt
on the plain, Christ on the level with al
the worlds woes and wants and neceS-
sites.
COME OK, YOUNG MEN
OF the ministry. Take this pulpit
take all the pulpitS, and In the IAN
guage OF the street aud the market
place and the family circle preach Christ
ON the plain. As soon as the Churcn
saws by It's attitude, not necessarily oy
its words. "My one mission is 10 help
for this life and for the life to come all
the people" and it proves its earnest
ness in the matter, people on Ioot
aud on horseback and in wagons ana
in carriages will come to the churches
In such numbers that they VIII
have TO be met at the door by ushers,
saving: 'You were here last Sunday;
you cannot come in to-day. Gentlemen
and ladies, you must take your turn.
Aud, il will be, as in the youngstown
freshet and disaster, when govern
ment station was opened for the supply
of bread, aud il took the officers or the
law 10 keep the sufferers In line, De-
cause Of the great rush for food. Wnen
this fsmine-struck world realizes that
the Church is a Government station SET
I'D by the Government OF the Universe
10 provide the Bread OF Eternal Lie ior
an the people, the rush will be unpre-
ceiented and unimaginaoie.
Christ on the plain. l care not from
what side you approach Him, you can
touch Him and get His help. is IL men
tai depression you suffer? RememC Ger
him who said: My God, my God why
hast thou forsaken me?' Is X Strug
Gle for bread? Remember him VINO Ied
the five thousand with two minnowS
and FIVE biscuits, neither OF the biscuits
larger than your fist. Is it chronic an
ment? Remember the woman Tor elgh-
teen years was bent almost double, ana
he lifted her face until she could look
into the blue sky. Are you sailor and
spend your life battling with the tenn
pests? Remember him who flung the
tempest OF GeueSareth flat on Jne crys-
tai pavement Of u quiet sea.
That Christ is in sympathy with all
who have trouble with their eyes, ana
that Is becoming an almost universal
trouble through much reading In ran
cars, and the Over-pressure or study IN
the school where children are expected
10 be philosophers at ten, boys and girls
at fourteen with spectacles. l say with
all such trouble Christ is in sympathy.
Witness blind BsrtimeuS.
WITNESS THE BLIND MEN
in the house. Witness the two blind
men near Jericho. Witness the man
born blind. Did be not turn their per-
petual midnight into midnoon, till they
ran up and down Ciapping their hands
and saving, II see, / see,' That Christ
is in sympathy with those who stammer
or have Silenced ears, notice how
promptly he came TO that man with I'M
pedimeut OF speech and gave him
command Of the tongue so that he could
speak with ease, and, putting his I'm
gers into the ears, returned the tym-
Danum. Is there lack Of circulation
in your arm, think Of him who cured
the defective circulation and the mac
tive muscles Of a patient who had lost
the use OF hand and arm, by saying,
stretch forth thy hand" and the
veins aud nerves and muscles resumed
their offices, and though in doing so the
Joints may have cracked from long dis
use, and there may have been a strange
sensation from elbow 10 tinger-tip, he
stretched IL forth. And nothing is the
matter with you, but you may appeal
TO a sympathic Christ. And II you feel
yourself To be a great sinner, hear what
he said 10 that repenting Magdaien,
while with a Scaiding sarcasm ne dash
ed her hypocrtical purSuers.
And see how he made sn immortal
liturgy out Of the publican'S cry, God
be merciful 20 me a sinner" prayer so
short that the most overwhelmed often
der can utter it, and yet long enough 20
win celestial dOminionS. II was well
put by man who had been converted,
and who remembered that in his disSO-
Lutte days ne found IL hard to get occu-
patton, because he could not present
certificate for good character. In COM
meniiug Christ 10 the people he said,
"BleSS God, | have found out that Jesus
will take a man without a character"
Christ on level with suffering human
ity. My text says: He came down
with them and stood in the plain" No
climbing up through attributes you
cannot understand. No ascending of
the heights of beautiful rhetoric of
prayer. No straining after elevations
you cannot reach. No hunting for
God that you cannot find. But going
right straight to him and looking into
his face and taking his hand and asking
for his pardon, his comfort, his grace,
his heaven.
CHRIST ON THE LEVEL.
When during the siege OF Sebastopel
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