Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-08

1--WE minutes than you 90 IN nye years
These people, gifted men, who have
great expansion OF manner, and seem
10 be very different from what they
should be, really have in their souls
that which eommends them TO the Lord.
Mexican cactus all the time. So man
SAID 70 me years ago, "Do you think |
ought to become amember OF the church
II have such violent temper?
Yesterday was crossing Jersey City
Ferry. Il was very early in the morn
ing, and saw a milkman putting
large Quantity of water into his can,and
/ said, That is enough, sir, and ne GOT
OF the cart and insulted me, and
knocked him down. Well" said he,
''dO you think l could ever become
Chrlstian?' That man had in his soul
the grace Of the Lord Jesus, but out
side he was full of thorns, and full OF
brambles, and full of exssperations;
but be could not hear the story OF a Sa-
yiour's mercy told without having the
tears roll down his cheek. There was
loneliness within, but roughness outside.
Mexican cactus all the time.
But remember In boyhood that we
had ia our fathers garden what we
called the Giant Of Battle, peculiar
rose, very red and very fiery. Sugges-
tive flower, 1t vas called the Giant OF
Battle. And So in the garden OF the
Dord we find that kind Of flower-the
Pauls and Martin Luthers, the Wyclif-
fes, the John Knoxes-Giants OF Battle.
What in other men is spark, in them
is q confederation; when they pray,
their prayers take fire. When they
suffer they sweat great drops Of blood;
when they preach IL is a pentecost;
when they fight it is q Thermopyl9;
when they die it is martyrdom-Giants
of Battle. You say, "Why have we not
more OF them in the Church Of Christ
at this timer" l answer your question
by asking another: "Why have we not
more Cromwells and Humboldts in the
world?" God wants only few Giants
OF Battle; they DO their work.
AND THEY DO IT WE'LL.
But l find also in the Church of God
a plant that l shall call the snowdrop.
Very beautiful but cold; it is very pure,
pure as the snowdrop, beautiful as the
snowdrop, and as cold as the snow
drop. No special sympathy. That
kind Of man never loses its patience; he
never weeps, be never flashes with an
ger, he never utters rash word. AL
ways cold, always precise, always pas
sive, beautiful snowdrop, but l don't
like him; ! would rather have one Giant
Of Battle than 5000 snowdrops.
Give me man who may make some
mistakes Ia his ardor for the Lords
service, rather than that kind OF nature
which spends It's whole life doing but
one thing, aud that Is keeping equilib-
rum. There are snowdrops in all the
churcheS-men without any sympathy.
Very good; they are in the garden Of
the Lord, therefore / know they ought
TO be there; but always snowdrops.
You have seen in some places perhaps
a century plant. do not suppose there.
is a person in this house who has ever
seen more than one century plant ia
full bloom, and when you see the CEN
fury plant your emotions are stirred.
You look at il and say, "rhis flower has
been gathering up its beauties for q
whole century, and it will not bloom
again for another hundred years.
we'll i nAN0 " AEiA lOu Nn6N III WIS
den OF the church, spoken OF in my
text, there is a century plant. 1t has
gathered up its bloom from all the ages
OF eternity, and nineteen centuries ago
il put forth its glory. 1t is not only a
century plant, but passion tlower-the
passion flower OF Christ; crimson
flower, blood at the root and blood on
the leaves, the passion flower OF Jesus,
the century plant of eternity. Come,
o winds from the north, and winds from
the south, and winds from the east and
winds from the west, and scatter the
perfume of this flower
THROUGH ALL NATIONS.
His worth, II all the nations knew,
sure the whole earth would love him too.
Thou, the Christ Of all the ages, hast
garments smelling of myrrh, and aloeS,
and cassia, out OF the ivory palaces.
l 90 further, and say the church of
Christ is appropriately compared to
garden because OF its thorough irriga-
ton. There can be no luxuriant gar
den without plenty OF water. l saw
garden in the midst OF the desert, amid
the Rocky Mountains. said: How is
il possible you have so many flowers, so
much rich fruit in a desert for miles
around? / suppose some OF you have
seen those gardens. Well, they told
me they had aQueducts and pipes reach
ing up TO the hills, and the SHOWS melt
ed on the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky
Mountains, and then poured down in
water to those aqIeducts, and it kept
the fields in great luxuriauce. And
thought to myseli-hOw like the gar
den OF Christi All around il the bar
renness Of sin and the barrenness Of the
world, but our eyes are unto the hills,
from whence cometh our help. There
is river the streams whereof shall
make glad the city Of our God, the
fountain Of gardens and streams from
Lebanon. Water to Stake the thirst,
water TO refresh the fainting, water to
wash the unclean, water to toss up in
fountains under the sun OF righteous
ness, until you can see the rainbow
around the throne.
! wandered 10 a garden OF Brazilian
cashew-nut, and / saw the luxnriance OF
those gardens were helped by the abun'
dant supply Of water. came to it on
day when strangers were not admitted,
but,b strange coincidence, at the
moment l GOT in, the kings chariot
passed and the gardener went up on the
hill and turned on the water, and 1t
came flashing down the broad stairs
Of stone, until the sunlight and wave
in gleesome wreStle
TUMBLED AT MY FEET.
And so it is with this garden of Christ.
Everything comes from above-pardon
from above, peace from above, comfort
from above. Streams from Lebanon,
oh! the consolation in this thought.