Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-24

reavements! Hardly a family OF the
church that has not been struck with
sorrow. But God has sustained you In
the past, and be will sustain you in the
future. I exhort you TO be Of good
cheer, o thou Of the broken heart.
"Weeping may endure for night, but
10y cometh in the morning" wish
over every door OF tais church we
might have written the word 'sympa-
thy" sympathy for all the young.
We must crowd them in here by
| thousands, and propose radiant Cos
pei that they will take on the spot. we
must make this place so attractive Tor
the young that a young man will come
here on Sabbath morning, put down his
hat, brush his hair back from his fore
! head, unbotton his overcoat, and look
around wondering II he has not by mis-
take got into heaven. He will see In
the faces of the old people, not the
gloom which some people take FOR relig-
ION, but the sunshine OF celestial peace,
and he will say: "Why. 1 wonder II
that isn't the same peace that shone out
on the face OF my father ard mother
when they lay dying?" And then there
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through which he can hardly see, ana
he will close his eyes TO imprison the
emotion; but the hot tear Will break
through the fringes OF eyelashes and
/ drop upon the coat-sleeve. He will put
his head on the back Of the pew in
front and sob, Lord God OF the old
/ people, help mev' We ought to lay
plot here for the religious capture Of
I all ~~sS
THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN.
Pro6ting by the mistakes OF the past,
I must do better work for you and bet
ter work for God. Lest might, through
some sudden Illness or casualty, be
snatched away before have the oppor-
| .unity of doing so, | take this occasion
TO declare my love for you as a people.
II is different work If pastor is placed
in a church already built up, and he Is
surrounded by established circum-
| stances. There are not ten people in
church that have not been brought into
the church through my ministry. You
are my family. feel as much at home
here as do In my residence on Oxford
street. You are my family-my father,
my mother, my sister, my son, my
daughter. You are my JOY and crown,
the subject of my prayers.
Your present and everlasting welfare
is the object OF my ambition. Ihave no
worldly ambition. had once. / have
not now. / know the world about as
well as any one knows it. have heard
the handclapping Of its applause, and |
, have heard the hiss of its opposition, and
! 1 declare TO you that the former is not
especially to be sought for, nor Is the
latter TO be feared. The world has
| given me about all the comfort and
| prosperity il can give man, and l
| have no worldly ambition. l have an
all-consuming ambition to make full
proof my ministry to get to heaven my
self, and to take great crowd with me.
| Upon your table and cradle, and arm
chair, and pillow, and lounge, and nur-
sery, and drawing.room, and kitchen,
may the blessing Of the Almighty God
come down.
DURING THESE TwENTY-FoUR YEARS
there is hardly family that has not
been invaded by sorrow or death.
Where are those grand old men, those
glorious Christian women who used to
worship with us? Why, they went
away, into the next world so gradually
that they had concluded the second
stanZa or the third stanZa In Heaven
before you knew they were gone. They
had on the crown before you thought
they had dropped the staff Of the earth
ly pilgrimage.
And then the dear children. o! how
many have gone out OF this church.
You could not keep them. You folded
them in your arms and said: 80! God,
I cannot give them up. Take all else,
my property, take my reputation, but
let me keep this treasure. Lord, l can
not bear this"
Off we could all die together, If we
could keep all the sheep and the lambs
of the family fold together until some
bright spring day, the birds achant and
the waters aglitter, and then we could
altogether hear the voice of of the good
Shepherd, and hand in hand pass
through the flood. No, no, no, no! o!
if we only had notice that we are all to
depart together, and we could say to
our families: 1.-THE time has come. The
Lord bids us away" And then we could
take our little children to their beds,
and straighten out their limbs, and say:
Now, sleep the last sleep. Good night
until it is good morning" And then
we could go TO our own couches, and
say: Now, altogether we are ready to
go. Our children are gone, now let us
depart" No, no! 1t is one by one. 1t
may be in the midnight. 1t may be In
the winter, and in the snow coming
down twenty inches deep over our
grave. 1t may be in the strange hotel,
and our arm, too weak to pull the bell
for help. 1t may be so suddenly we
have no time even to say good-by.
Death is bitter, crushing, tremendous
curse.
PLAY you THREE TUNES
on the Gospel harp Of comfort. "Weep-
ing may endure for a night, but JOY
cOmeth in the morning" That is one.
"All things work together for good to
those who love God" That is the
second. "And the lamb that Is In the
midst Of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains of water, and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes"
That is the third. During these TWEEN
ty-four years / have tried, as far as 1
could, by argument, by illustration and
by csricature, to Gil you with disgust
with much of this modern religion
which people are trying to substitute
for the religion OF Jesus Christ and the
religion Of the apostles. I have tried to
pursuade you that the worst of all cant
is the cant of scepticism, and instead Of
your apologlzing for Christianity, it was