Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-24

he lies. Lie muSiO eAt1o -
rroan. The fruits burst the rind Win
rank poison. The flagree Is MADE up
of
TWISTED SNAKES.
The couch Is q grave. Small allowances
Of rest, small allowance OF peace, small
allowance OF comfort. Cold, hard. rough
-uothipg but file. So 1t was Win
Voltaire, the most applauded man OF
his day.
The Scripture was his jest-6Ook' whence nc
Ron snots 70 gall the Christian and the Jew.
Id inndel when well but what when SICK!
ON, then text would touch him to tne quloA'
Seized witk hemorrhage Of the lungs
In Paris, where he had gone to DC
crowned In the theatre as an IDOL OF al
France. he sends messenger TO get =
priest that he may be reconciled to the
Church before he dies. A great terror
falls upon him. He makes the place all
round about him so dismal that the
nurse declares that she would not LOT
all the wealth of Europe see another
infideI die. Phiiistine iniquity had
promised him all the worlds garlands,
but in the last hour Of life when ne
needed solacing, sent tearing across nls
conscience and his nerves q Me-
80 It was with Lord Byron, his unclean-
ness in England only surpassed oy MS
uncleanness In Venice, then going on 10
end his brilliant misery at Missolonghl'
fretting at his nurse Fletcher, frettlnR
at himself, fretting at the world, Iret-
ting At God; and he who gave to the
world "Childe Harold" and "Sardanap-
aims" and "The Prisoner OF Chillon,
and 1.-THE Siege Of Corinth, " reduced 10
nothing but file!
Oh, sin has great facility for making
promises, but IL has just as great FACILITY
for breaking them. A Christian lie IS
the only cheerful life, while a life OF
wicked surrender is remorse, ruin and
death. It's painted glee is sepulchral
Chastliness, In the brightest days OF
the Mexican Empire, Montezuma SAID
be felt gnawing at his heart something
like a canker. Sin, like monster WiId
beast of the forest, sometimes IKE all
over it's victim in order that the victim
may be more easily swallowed; but gem
orally sin rasps, and gals, aud tears,
and upbraids, and files. Is IL not so,
Herod? 1t is not so, HIdebrand? 1t
is not so, Robespierre? Aye! aye! 1t is
so; IL is so. 1.-The way Of the wicked he
turneth upside down. History tells
US that
WHEN RoNIE-wAS FOUNDED
on that day there were twelve vultures
flying through the air; but when
transgressor dies, the sky is black with
whole flocks OF them. Vultures! When
| see sin robbing so many people, and
see them going down day by day, and
week by week, l must give plain warn
ing. dare not keep IL back lest risk
the salvation OF my own soul. Rover,
the pirate, pulled down the warning
bell on Inchcape Rock, thinking that
he would have chance TO despoil YES
sells that were crushed on the rocks; but
one night his own ship crashed down on
this very rock, and he went down with
all his cargo. God declares: when
say to the wicked, thou shalt surely die,
and thou givest him not warning, that
same man shall die in his iniQuity; but
his blood will require at thy hands.
learn from this subject, what sad
thing it is when the Church OF God
loses its metal These Philstines saw
that Il they could only get all the me-
tallic weapons out Of the hands or the
Israelites, all would be well, and, there
fore, they took the swords and the
spears. They did not want them to
have a single metallic weapon. When
the metal OF the Israelites was gone,
their strength was gone. This Is the
trouble with the Church OF God to-day.
1t is surrendsring It's courage. IL has
has not got enough metal. How sell
dom il is that you see man taking his
position in pew, or in pulpit, or in re-
ligious society, and holding that posi-
ton against slloppresson, and all trial,
and all persecution, and all criticism.
THE CHURCH OF GOD
to-day wants more backbone. more deh-
ance, more consecrated bravery, more
metal. How often you see man start
cut IN some good enterprise, and at the
first blast Of newspaperdom he has col
lapsed, and al his courage gone, for
getfnl OF the fact that II man be right,
all the newspapers Of the earth, with
all their columns pounding away at him,
cannot do him any permanent damage.
Ii is only when man is wrong that he
can be damaged. Why, God is going to
vindicate his truth, and he is going to
stand by you, my friends, In every eff
fors you make for Christ's cause and the
salvation Of men. l sometimes say TO
my wife: There Is something wrong;
the newspapers have not assaulted me
for three months! | have not done my
duty against public iniquities, and /
will stir them up next Sunday" Then
I stir them up and all the following
week the devil bowls, and bowls, show
ing that have hit him very hard. Go
forth in the service of Christ and do
your whole duty. You have one sphere.
have another sphere. 1.-THE Lord or
Hosts Is with Us, and the God OF jacob
Is our refuge. Selah." We want more
of the determination Of Jonathan. do
not suppose he was very wonderful
man; but he got on his knees and clam
bered up the rock, aud with the help OF
his armor- bearer he hewed down the
Phillstines; and q man Of very ordinary
Intellectual Attachments, on his knees,
can storm anything for God and for the
truth. We want something Of the de-
termination of the general who went In
to the war, and as he entered his first
battle, his knees knocked together, his
physical courage not quite up to
HIS MORAL COURAGE;
and he looked down at his knees, and
said: "Ah, il you knew where | was
going to take you, you would shake
worse than thatw There is only one
question for you to ask and for me to
ask. What does God want me to do?
Where is the field? Where Is the work?
Where is the anvil? Where 10 the
prayer-meetng? Where is the pulpit?
And, finding out what God wants Us to
do, go ahead and do tt-all the energies