Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-13

one wear old, fifteen years old. While
An the heavens were ascribing to him
glory and honor and power on earth,
/ men said, ''WhO is this fellow" Wnile
All the heavenly hosts, with folded wing
about their faces, bowed down before
Him, crying "HOly, holyF on eartn
/ they denounced Him as blasphemer
and a sOt. Rocked in boat on Genne-
I saret, and yet lie it is that undirked the
lightning from the stOrm-clOUd, ana dls-
masted Lebanon Of its forests, and holds
the five oceans on the tip Of his finger,
as a leaf holds the raindrop. On, the
complete Saviour, rubbing His rand
over the place where we have the pain,
| vet the stars OF heaven the adjoining
gems OF His right hand Holding US In
| His arms when we take the last view or
our dead. Sitting down with us on the
/ tombstone, and while we plant roses
there He planting consolation 10 our
/ heart. every chapter stalk, every verse
I a stem, every word a rose. A complete
/ Saviour. a complete Bible, complete
universe, a complete Jordanic passage.
Everything that God does is complete.
Again, l learn from this Jordanic
passage that between US and every
/ Canaan of success and prosperity there
/ is a river that must be passed. "On,
how / would like some OF those grapes
I on the other side!" said some OF the
/ Israelites 70 Joshua. "Well, says
Joshua, lii you want the grapes, why
don't you cross over and get them|
/ There is river Of difficulty between
rs and everything that is worth hav-
/ ing. that which costs nothing is worth
nothing. God didn't intend this world
for an easy parlOr, through which we
are 10 be drawn in rocking chair, but
we are 10 work our passage, climb
masts. fight battles, scale mountains,
and ford rivers. God makes everything
valuable difficult 10 get at, for the same
reason that he put the gold down In tho
mine. and the pearl clear down in the
sea, 20 make US dig and dive for them.
We acknowledge this principle in world
w things: on. that we were only wise
enough to acknowledge IL In religious
things.
Why does that man know so much
about the Scriptures He was studying
the Bible while you were reading nov
al. lie was on fire with the Sublimitles
OF the Bible, while yon we're sound
asleep. BY tug. tussle, pushing and run
ming In the Christian life that man got
so strong for God; in a hundred Solferi-
nos be learned how 10 fight; in hun
dred shiDwrecks he learned how to
swim. Tears over sin, tears over lions
desOlation, tears over the impenitent,
tears over the graves made, are the
Jordan'which that man had passed. Sor-
row pales the cheek, and fades the eye,
and wrinkles the brow and witherS tbsC
hands; there are mourning garmentTin
the wardrobe, and there are deatHs IN
every family record, all around (are the
RELICS OF THE DEAD,|
What a heaven it will OS'it we have
aud see all the childrepI are present
You would rather haYe them all there,
and you go with bar& brow forever, than
that one should be /miSsing, to complete
the garlands Of heaven for your coronal.
hhe Lord God g5f Joshua give them a
safe JordaniS Passage! .l
Even cbSfdren will ,rsnrough dry
shod. Tb4OSe Of US who were brought
up in thS country remember, when the
summer was coming on IN our boyhood
days, 1--WE always longed for the day
wheH we were to go barefOoted, and,
afger teasing our mothers in regard to
iE for q good while and they consented,
1--WE remember the delicious sensation Of
4 the cool grass when we put our uncov-
cred foot on it. And the time will come
when these shoes we wear now, lest we
be cut of the sharp places Of this world,
shall be taken of, and with unsandalled
foot we will step into the bed OF the riv-
er, with feet untrammelled, free from
| pain and fatigue, we will gain that last
| Journey, when, with one foot in thu bed
Of the river and the other foot on the
other bank, we struggle upward. That
/ will be heaven. Oh, pray for all my
dear people safe Jordanic passage.
| That is what the dying Christian nus
band felt when he said. chow the can
die fickers, Nellie Put 1t out; shall
sleep well tonight, aud wake in the
morning.
One word Of comfort on this subject
/ FOR all the bereaved. You see, our de-
/ parted friends have not been submerged
/ have not been swamped in the waters;
\ they have only crossed over. These
/ Israelltes were just as thoroughly alive
/ on the western banks OF the Jordan as
| they had been on the eastern banks OF
| the Jordan; and our departed Christian
/ friends have only crossed over-not
/ sick, not dead, not exhausted, not eX-
/ tinguished, not blOtted out. but with
] f,E raeNFrakfNr, a Nd nnIcaG
and keener eyeSight, and better pros
poets; crossed over! their sins, their
| physical and mental dsQuiet, all left
! clear this side. an eternally.fowing, i'm
paSsahle obstacle between them and all
human and Satanic pursuit. Crossed
/ overt Oh, shake hands Of cOngratula-
/ ton with all the bereaved In the consid-
Grafton that our departed
CHRISTIAN FRIENDS ARE SAFE.
Why was there SO much joY in certa
/ circles In New York when people heard
from the friends who were on board that
/ belated steamer. IL was feared that
vessel had gone 10 the bottom OF the
sea; and when the friends on this side
/ heard that the steamer had arrived
safely ia Liverpool, had we not right
/ 10 congratulate the people in New Nork
that their friends had got safely across?
/ And Is Is not right this morning that L
congratulate you that your departed
| friends are safe on the shore Of heaven?
/ Would you have them back again?
Would yOu have those old parents back
again? You know how hard 1t was
: sometimes for them to get their breath
I Ia the stiied atmosphere OF the summer;
would you have them back in this
weather. Didn't they use their brain
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