Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-17


corrupt superstitions and religion, while
he taught the chosen people the reii-
! gion OF this BIble-and all because ne
wanted it pure and free from the cor
rupting influences OF the world ABOUT
them.
lam glad this book was not written
among the Arabians and tainted with
their senseless superstition ana tradl-
tions; that Ii was not written among
the Greeks and mixed upwith their
heather mythology, or among the
Romans and their mythology.
The Bible was strongly written
and guarded as no other book. It's
prophecy reads like history, and have
been kept and finished through all his
tory. If God prepared all these things,
why did the Jews reject Christ? l can
not answer all things but know what
I think; II the Jews had not rejected
| Christ where would we Gentiles be to-
day? The rejection OF Christ by the
Jews meant the preaching OF Christ TO
| the Gentiles and the salvation OF the
world. But do you know this: there Is
strange work going on among
the Jews of the old world;
| thousands OF them are being
brought to Christ, and some sweet day
the chasm between the Jew and the
Gentle will be built over with beau
tiful bridge that shall bind all the world
to Christ.
The world was in strange condition
ut the time il had been deluged with war
for twenty years, but at this time IL
seemed as though the great ruler OF the
world had said let their be peace when
the Prince of Peace is born. The ex-
terna religions OF the world were In q
strange condition at this time. They
had lost their hold on the people, but
God was preparing the way in the
birth of John the Baptist, who was born
in priests family, and the rights and
ceremonies of the old law and then sent
out under the chalk cliffs Of the Jordan
to be brought up alone with God away
from the dress and forms and ceremo-
MES of the old law and temple-fed on
tie coarse food Of. the desert-clothed In
the hide OF its beasts, and taught OF
God In spiritual things, and when the
tine arrived sent him to the edge OF the
desert to preach, and when by his sharp
wGsis and strange attire ne had drawn
the people TO him from all the sur
rounding nations together with scrloes
and the rulers Of the Jews
he introduced Christ unto them
as the Lamb of God, and faithful to the
end. When he had accomplished his
mission he sealed it with his blood and
departed.
History at this time was In the per-
lection Of the Angostan age, and Tao
itas lived and wrote that such man as
Christ was reported to have lived, died
and rose again. Pliny lived contem-
porary with Christ and wrote that such
man was reported TO have lived, dled
and rose again. Josephus, the Jew,
also wrote Of him, and thus the histor-
ians of Rome, Greece and judah throw
their crowns of history at His feet;
but Ia order 10 complete the
chain of evidence Christ chose plain
men who were not tied up or concerned
in the political complications of the
times to write the story Of the facts as
they appeared In their daily life and
conversation with Him, and so we have
the gospels. Thank God for the his
torical facts of the life Of Christ. Inf
deity TO hurt the cause has dug into
the dust of the past, but only to estao-
lish more firmly that Christ Is fact In
history. Infideity has never hurt the
Church. The Church has hurt herself
by the Inconsistency OF her own mem
bers.
Language was IN q strange state-at
that period the Greek language, the
most beautiful and precise language
the world has ever seen, was at the
height Of its perfection, and as soon as
the gospels were written Is died, and
its grammar has never changed, and
like a crystal-casket closed over its
priceless gem, holding it secure and
chanQeless. I thank God that the
story was written in Greek, for II IL had
been written in any other language
we would never have ceased
ouarrelinc about It's meaning.
Do you think that accidental?
Not only did God touch the earth hut
IL seemed as though the heavens got
Jealous at the honors bestowed upon III
and God touched star and sent 1t to
represent the considerations OF the uni
verse; Then it seemed as though the
angels plead to take part and God SAID
yes, and they flocked over the emoat'
Elements OF heaven and found the
grand chorus celebrating the most re-
markable event In the worlds history.
Nothing in the sky, earth or heaven
that God did not touch to corroborate
the birth OF His Son.
But why the old rock stable. Christ
came TO introduce a spiritual kingdom
that was TO last till time should end
and that should reach TO the lowest
mem Der of the human race, He and
wanted to break once and forever from
all the forms aud ceremonies OF all the
external religions of the world, so he
was born in poverty, so as not 10 be tied
to any Of these useless trapplngs we
were away from God. Jesus Christ
wanted to bring US up to God, aud so
He entered life on the lowest
plane in order that he might put His
| arms beneath the whole human race
and lift il up to God. The preacher
then related in q very touching man
ner the story of four brothers whose
father died and left the farm, which
was divided among them. They built
four houses and were happy, but they
got the Texas fever and sold ell and
went away. Misfortune followed them
and after awhile they returned TO their
old homes, and though very poor
lived in contentment, bat one
| OF their wives died and left
two beautiful girls. "a rich
gentleman adopted her ADD took her to
New York, where she was educated.
After some years he let her go to her
| fathers house, who, be told her. was
very poor. and instead Of wearing her