Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-22


pose that news would be carried to
heaven? 1t would not be of enough
Importance or significance 10 be carried
heavenward. II at the next quadren-
NAL election you are made
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
do you suppose that news would be car
ried to heaven? Do you suppose that
| the news of revolution in France or
/ Spain would be carried to heaven?
/ These things are not Of enough impor-
lance, but there is one item that is sure
to be carried. 1t is the salvation OF your
| soul, IL is your repentance before God.
The flying hoofs Of Gods couriers clash
| through the gates and the news goes
| from gate TO mansion, and from mansion
to temple, and from temple TO throne,
aud "there is Joy in heaven" among the
/ angels of God over one sinner forgiven.
II must be Of vast Importance to be OF
any moment in heaven, your salvation
| in that land where gladneSS are the
everyday occurrence, in that land
where the common stones OF the field
are jasper, and emerald, and chryso
prsSus, and carbuncle, and sardonyx.
And yet, the news Of your salvation
makes Joy before the throne Of God.
You remember years ago, a stage
driver in the White Mountains became
very reckless. He had a large number
/ Of passengers on the stage, and the stage
was Drawn by six horses, wild and IN
goyernable and he drove near the prec-
ipice, and he drove off, the stage with
its precious freight rolling down the en-
bankment, and many were slain, but few
were saved. suppose when they wrote
home, they wrote with congratulations
at their rescue. The angels Of God look
down and they see men driving on the
edge of great preipices Of ruin and dan
ger, drawn by wild, leaping, foaming,
and ungOvernable pearls in this life,
and If any shall escape before they cap
size, do you not suppose the angels of
God rejoice, crying: "Good. good
Saved from sin, saved from death, saw
ed from hell, saved fOrever?"
THE SUPREME COURT
Of the United States does not adjourn
for anything triaing. 1t must be the
death of a Cabinet Minister, or the
death Of a President, or some matter OF
very great moment. When | find all
deaven adjourning its other joys for
this one joy, l make up my mind it IS
OF very great Importance il heaven can
afford 10 adjourn all other festivities TO
celebrate this one triumph. Do you
wonder that so many of these Christian
people have toiled night and day in this
work Of SOul-saving, il it is of such
vast importance? Do you wonder
that Nettleton and Finley, and Bishop
ASbUry, and John Wesley, and George
Whitefeld, and Paul, and angels, and
Christ, and God stripped themselves for
the work? Around that one soul circles
the mist, the fire, the darkness, the Joy,
the anthem, the wailing, the hallelujah,
and the woe of Gods universe. If the
soul is saved, then lip comes to trumpet
and fingers to harp and hammer to bell
and There is JOY among the angels OF
God over that one soul forgiven" For
such a soul plead. =
Having found in my own experience
that this religion is comfort and a
Joy, stand here TO commend it to you.
In the days of my infancy | was car
ried by Christian parents to the house
of God, and consecrated in baptism to
the Father, and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost: out that did not save me. In
after time I was taught to kneel at the
Christian family altar with father and
mother and brothers and sisters, the
most OF them now in glory; but that
did not save me. In after time read
Doddridge's Rise and Progress, and
Bakers CdH to the URcOnUCYted, and
all the religious books around my
fathers households; but that did not
save me. But one day the voice Of
Christ came into my heart saying,
REPENT, REPENT;
believe, believe, and l accepted the Of
fer of mercy, and though no doubt
there was more Joy in heaven over the
conversion of other souls because OF
their far-reaching influence, l verify
believe when l gave my heart TO God
there were some spirits in heaven the
gladder for the deed. There is Joy in
heaven among the angels Of God over
one sinner that repenteth." Turn this
day TO the Lord who bought you. Let
this whole audience surrender them
selves to Jesus Christ, If for ten,
twenty, fifty years you have not prayed,
begin now to pray. co." you say, 81
can't pray" Can you @noJ say,
God be merciful to me, sinner"
NO" you say, 81 can't say that. l"
Then can you not look to the throne OF
mercy? NO" you say, 81 can't look
up" Can you not then give some sig
nal like that which was given by the
lad i'm the hospital? He was sick and
suffering and dying, and wanted speed
lily to go away from all suffering and
pain, and he said to his comrades in the
hospital: at is strange to me that
Jesus doesn't see me when he goes
through here nights and takes others to
himself. He goes through here and he
doesn't see me. l must be asleep and
he doesn't know / want to 90.
Now, l tell you how I'll arrange
it. IN 90 to sleep with my hand
up, and then, when Jesus comes
through the hospital by night He