Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-11

tract societiesl We hail them, aud we
hall these others. 1 say IL would have
been impossible few years ago.
HUNDREDS OF LETTERS
would have come to the secular news
paper offices, saying: "Stop my paper;
we have religion on Sunday; don't give
US any through the week. Stop my pa
per-" But have been told that many
OF the secular papers have their largest
circulation on Monday morning, and
the whole population Of this country
are becoming sermon readers. Besides
that, have you not noticed that papers
proclaiming themselves secular almost
every week have religious discussion in
them?
Go back few years, when there was
not decent paper in the United States
that had not discussion on the doct-
rne OF eternal punishment, Small wits
made merry, know; but there was not
an intelligent man In the United States
that as result OF that controversy In
regard to eternal punishment did not
ask himself the question, "What is to
be my eternal destiny?" and so some
years ago, when Tyndall offered his
prayer gauge, there was not secular
paper In the United States that did not
discuss the question: "Does God ever
answer prayer? May the creature i'm
press the Creator?" Are not all these
facts encouraging to every Christian and
every philanthropistP Besides that,t the
rising generation are being saturated
with Gospel truth as no other genera
| ton, by this International Series OF
Sunday School lessons. Formerly the
children were expected only to nibole
az the little infantile Scripture stories,
| but now they are taken from Genesis to
Revelation,
THE STRONGEST MINDS
of the country explaining the lessons
| to the teachers, and the teachers e1-
| planning them TO the classes; and we are
going to have in this country I'VE mill
lion youth forestalled for Christianity.
Hear I'll Hear 1t!
Besides that. you must have noticed
| II you have talked on these great
themes, that they are finding out that
while science is grand in secular derec-
tions, worldly philosophy grand In secu-
| lar directions, they cannot give any
| comfort to soul In trouble.
Talking with men on steamboats, and
in rail-cars. find they are coming back
TO the comfort of the Gospel. They
say: Somehow human science don't
comfort me when have any tro uole,
and 1 must try something else;" and
they are trying the Gospel. Take your
! scientific consolation to that mother
who has lust lost her child. Apply the
| doctrine OF the Survival OF the Ftttest;"
| tell her that her child died because its
| life was not worth as much as the life
of one that lived. Try that, II you
dare. Go to that dying man with your
transcendental phraseology, and tell
! him he ought to have confidence In the
great "to be-" and the everlasting
NOW" and the eternal what is it?"
and go on with your consolation and
| see If he is comforted.
GO TO THAT WOMAN
who has lost her husband, and tell her
| il was a geological necessity that that
man passed out Of existence, just as
the megatharium disappeared in order
10 make room for higher style OF Gre
alton, and 60 on with your consolation
/ ana tell her that there is possibility
that ten million years from now we our
selves may be geological specimens on
the geological shelf, petrif1ed specimens
OF the extinct human race! And after
YOU have got all through with your
consolation, II the poor afflicted soul is
not utterly crazed, l will send out the
plainest Christian from my church, and
/ with one-half hour OF prayer and the
reading of Scripture promises, the tears
will be stayed, aud the consolation and
the 10Y in that house will be like the
calmness OF an Indian summer sunset
There will be glory flooding the house
from floor to cupola. Oh! people are
finding out themselves-and they all
have troubles-they find that philos-
ophy and science do not help them
when there is dead babe in the house.
They are coming back TO our glorious
old fashioned sympathetic religion.
Oh, young man! do not be ashamed
TO be found on the side OF the Bible. Do
not Join those young men who In this
day put their thumbs in their vest, and
swagger about the streets aud stores,
talking about the glorious nineteenth
/ century, about its light being sufficient
without any Bible, and without any
Christ, and without any God. Tne time
is coming-we may not live to see ii,
but | should not be surprised II We did
see it-whsn this whole country Is TO
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