Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-14
ON THE CAMP GROUND.
4 LARGE ATTENDANCE AT YESTERDAYS
SERVICES.
A Powerful and Eloquent Sermon by Rev. Fsrran,
Of ChattanOogs-Ths Meeting Of
Last Evening.

Yesterday morning dawned on the
I'D camp ground with every indication
# a beautiful day. The showers OF
saturday laid the dust and everyth Ing
looked as though swept and garnished.
A fine breeze was blowing and at
very early hour the people from town
and country began to assemble. Quietly
and orderly the people began to attend
TO the necessary duties of the day and
with cordial greeting congratulate each
other on the earnest feeling and assur-
ances Of success that are manifested on
every hand.
The first meeting Of the day convened
promptly at six o'clock with praper SER
vice at the Young Peoples Temple.
Fully an hour was spent in earnest
prayer for the success of the days SER
vices.
These prayer and young peoples SER
vices are in charge of "Adjutant Wray,"
as Miss Wray is known, and are the
source of a great deal Of power and
benefit to those who attend. Miss
Wray is an excellent prayer meeting
leader. and under her supervision these
meeting are always relieved from con-
straint and induces freedom OF speech
and prayer.
The morning service commenced at
1O:45. Prof. Excel asked the audience
10 ioin with him in the singing or the
Doxology. After prayer the choir sang
"Where lie leads me l will follow" the
congregation joining in the chorus.
The Rev.J. p. McFerran then preached.
His subject was Christ Cruciied." His
text was I. Cor, chap. l, xiii and xiv:
"But we preach Christ crucltied unto
the Jews a stumbling block and unto
the Greeks foolishness."
"But unto them which are called both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the power OF
God, and the wisdom of God"
He said Christ was the theme OF the
Apostolic preaching. The meaning OF
Gods mercy and justice are exemplitied
and illustrated in Christ crucifed.
Take Christ out of prophecy and 1t is
as voiceless as an Egyptian mummy.
Chrfst's the only power for the saliva
ton of men. The Apostle, fired with
this spirit, dared even death to preach
Christ and Him crucified. This is the
gospel which by the grace OF God we
preach unto you to-day. Paul glowed
in it's preaching for he said, ~ am
determined to know nothing save
Christ and sHm crucifed." He
did not teach Christ as a teacher
the world had got beyond that. What
IL needed was deliverer. Paul preach
ed faith In veritable JeSus-son OF
msn, son OF God. The other disciples
did not understand Jesus until after his
resurrection, but in the light Of the
resurrection morning they saw that to
Jesus they owed all. The preaching OF
Christ had different effects upen differ
ent hearers then as now. To the Jews
a stumbling block. While it is re-
sponsible thing to preach Christ, it is
more responsible 10 hear Christ preach
ed. No man is the same after hearing
Christ preached as he was before-it
will either lift him up and make him
better or sink him lower. "Take heed
how ye hear" To the Jews stumbling
block. In order to understand how
we must know something Of the charac-
ter Of the Jewish mind-oi the strange
past Of this nation. Grand and glorious
as il was it was but as the shadow as
they looked forward TO the glory that
should come upon the nation with the
advent OF the Messiah, to whom they
looked forward as the great temporal
ruler OF the earth, the Lord OF Lords
and the King of Kings.
So when Christ came as simple man
thank God for that-they were Of
Tended. Their hope of the restoration
OF the temporal kingdom was blasted.
He protested TO be priest, but He had
no robe-He profesSed to be king, but
had no throne. Aaron was their ideal
of priest Solomon Of king.
"Show us a subject" they cried, and
though in His own person He was the
embodiment of the kingdom Of heaven,
they could not see.
To the Greeks foolishness.-The
Greeks were very refined and very
learned-This world has never seen
brighter day than the days Of which
Greece was boosted. Aritottle has
never been eQualed, Demosthenes not
surpassed by the philosophers and ora
tors ef this boosted coutrry. Those
classic days Of Greece have had form
ing influence upon all subsequent
ages.
Though the sun Of Greece be set the
afterglow enlightens the occident and
its glory shall cOntiue until time shall
be no more. Bot the Greeks made them
selves foolish in their wisdom and en-
pioyed themselves in telling or hearing
some new thing. The preaching OF
Christ and Him crucified was too sim
pie TO their philosophical minds. But
in the foolishness Of the preaching OF
Christ there was a wisdom compared
with which all the wisdom OF the an
clients was the height of fooliskness.
Oh, We wise in the wisdom OF this
world, learn from Christ crucified. God
has found the panacea Of the worlds
suffering. We preach free Gospel
all men are caled-all the Worldwide
soever will come. Let the Jew give up
his prejudice. the Greek get down from
his learning, and become as a child and
behold the wisdom Of God How is
Christ crucifed the wisdom Of God? A
brief history Of man-and ii Is brief
and If any man can get any comfort out
Of the belief that he sprang from tad
pole, he is welcome, but prefer to be-
lleve that l was created 10 the image OF
God, created under law, an expression
OF His will. Law to be
effective must impose penalty.
We are nation Of law breakers. iod's
law must be executed. In the realm OF
physical law every violation is attended
with punishment. 1t is so in the moral
law. Man was made under the law,
able to stand, liable to fall. MaR sue
cumbed to mptstion-the law must be
expected. What shall satisfy Gods