Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-27
solves 4 viii seek after higher
FROM THAT TINE

/ spun, NJ they naQ tue rOOe OF the oaN-
/ iour's righteousness; nor II they were
/ sandalled with morocco or calf-skin, IL
/ they were shOd with the preparation Of
the Gospel. Now you see peace on
/ their cOuntenance. Now that man
/ says: what a fool I was to be en-
/ chanted with this world. Why, / have
more satisfaction In five minutes 10 the
service OF God than / had in all the first
/ years of my life while l was gain get
/ ting. like this evening of my day a
great deal better than did the morn
ing. In the morning l greedily de-
vOured the prey; but now it is evening,
and / am glOriOusly dividing the spoil. J"
Ny friends, this world Is a poor thing
20 hunt IL is bealthtul 10 go out in
the woods ard hunt. 1t rekindles the
lustre Of the eye. 1t strikes the brown
Of the autumnal leaf in to the cheek.
/ 10 gives 70 the rheumatic limbs the
/ strength 10 leap like a roe. Christopher
North's pet gun, the muckle-mou'd-
| Meg, going off ia the summer 10 the
| forests, had It's echo in the winter-time
In the elOQuence that rang through the
university halls OF Edlnburg. 1t is
/ healthy 20 90 hunting 10 the fields; but
tell you il is belittleing and bedwarf-
ing and belaming for man go hunt
this world. The hammer comes down
on the gun-cap, and the barrel eXplOdes
aud kills you instead Of that which you
are pursuing. When you turn out to
hunt the world, the world turns out to
hunt you, and as many a sportsman
aiming his guu at pantner's heart has
gone down under the striped claws, so,
while you have been attempting to de-
your this world, the world has been de-
YOUR YOU. So il was with Lord Baron.
So 10 was with Coleridge. So it was
with Catherine OF Russia. Henry IL.
went ont hunting for this world, and It's
iandes stuck through his heart. Francis
l. aimed at the world, but the assasin's
dagger put an end to his ambition and
his life with one stroke Mary Queen
OF Scots wrote on the window Of her
castle:
From the top of all my trust
Mishaps has laid me in the dust
THE QUEEN DOWAGER
of Navarro was offered for her wedding
day a costly and beautiful pair Of
gloves, and she put Thorn on; but they
were poisoned gloves, and they took her
life. Better q bare hand Of cold priva-
ton than q warm and poisoned glove
Of ruinOus success. "Oh," says some
young man 10 the audience, II believe
what you ara preaching. / am going TO
do that very thing. Ia the morning Of
my life I am going to devour the prey,
aud 10 the evening / shall divide the
spells OF Christian character. / only
want a little while to SOW my wild oats,
aud then 1 will be good" Young man,
did Won ever take the census OF all the
old people? How many old people are
there in your house? One, two, or
nOne2 How MANY 10 a vast aSsemblage
like this? Only here and there a gray
head like the patches Of snow here and
there 10 the fields on late April day.
The fact Is that the tides Of the years
are so strong, that men go down under
them before they get TO be sixty, before
they get to be fifty, before they get to
be forty, before they get to be thirty;
and If you, my young brother,
resolve now that you will
spend tue morning OF your days In
devOuring the prey, the probability is
that you will never divide the spells in
the evening hour. He who pOstpones
until Old age ths religion Of Jesus
Christ, postpones it forever. Where
are the men, who, 30 years ago, resolved
to become Christians In an old age,
putting 10 of q certain number OF years?
They never got to be old. The railroad
collision, or the steamboat explosion,
or the slip on the ice, or the falling
ladder, or the sudden cold put an end
TO their opportunities. They have never
had an opportunity since, and never
will have an opportunity again. They
locked the door Of heaven against their
soul, and they threw away the keys.
They chased the world, and they died
in the chase. They failed to take
the game they pursued. Mounted on
swift courSer, they leaped the hedge,
but the cOurser fell on them and crush
ed them. Proposing TO barter their
soul for the world, they lost both and
got neither.
WHILE THIS IS AN ENCOURAGEMENT
10 old people who are still unpsrdOned,
10 is no ENCOURAGEMENT TO the young
who are putting OF the day of grace
This doctrine that the old may be re-
peutant is % be taken cautiously. II
is medicine that kills or cures. The
same medicine, given 10 different pa
tieuts, in one case 10 saves lie, and In
the other it destroys 1t. This posi-
bility of repentance at the close OF life
may cure the old man while it kills the
Young. Be cautious in taking IL.
Again: my subject is descriptive OF
those who come to a sudden and radical
change. You have noticed how short
time it is from morning to night-onIy
seven or eight hours. You know that
the day has a very brief life. It's heart
beats twenty-four times and then 1t is
dead. How quick this transition In the
character of these Beujamites. I'm
the morning they shall devour the prey,
and at night they shall divide the
spoils." Is it possible that there
shall be such a transformation In
any Of our characterS2 Yes, a man
NAV be at seven o'clock in tho morn
ing an all-devouring wording, and at
seven o'clock at night he may De
peaceful, diStributive Christian Con-
version is instantaneous A man passes
into the kingdom OF God quicker than
down the sky runs zig-zag lightning.
A man may be anxious about his soul
for g great many years; that does not
make him q Christian. A man may
pray great while; that does not make
him a Christian. A man may resolve
on the reformation Of his character
and have that resolution going on
-,oot ,,,bFia. that does not make him q
Christian. But the very Instant When
he filings his soul on the mercy OF Jesus