Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-03
'OP CONTRAST.
bES TABERNACLE SERMON
YESTERDAY.
ltlyn Divine Places Arrogance
be 81 Side in a Touching
Discourse

OntraSts "ArfOAUDCd uuN
le text being Luke xviii.
lerciful to me a sinner"
ever had q more brill
Khan Mount Moriah. The
ancient temple blazed
mountain top was not
re enough TO hold the TEN
wall six hundred feet high
and the mountain was
o that wall. IL was at that
atan met Christ, and tried
Him to cast himself down
fred feet. The nine gates
Ie flashed the light Of silver
nd COrlnthian brass, which
brass was mere precious
ed and mixed and crystal
temple itself was not so very
tructure, but the courts and
Its OF the architecture made
bile in circumference.
d and lock upon that won
ructure. What's the matter?
hnge appearance In the tenn
fire? Why, II seems as il IL
sasion all kindled into flame.
he matter?. Why, it's the hour
ng sacrifice, and the smoke on
rlses aud busts out Of the
and out of the door, aud
the mountaln-top with folds
through which glitter prec-
es, gathered and FURNISHED by
uiilcence.
I ZEE TWO MEN
the steps Of the building;
de by side; they are very I'M
ymDashy between them-the
harisee, proud, arrogant, POM
roes up the steps OF the build
MS by his manner TO say,
Neck Never before came
such goodness and con-
the publican, bowed
with o load on his
enclosure for
be temple; the
he gate Of the
he IS worthy TO
actically, 81 am
INTO the Holy of
I'm very good man;
kably good man, why, two
week eat absolutely moth
B good: I'm very generous In
! toward the poor; have no
With the common rabble, es-
Ave | none with this poor, mis-
monplace, wretehed publican,
pened to come up the stairs be-
knbllcan went clear to the other
Inc enclosure, az far away from
of the Holy of Holes as he
for be felt unworthy to stand
Aacrea place. And the Bible
afar OF. Standing on the
OF this enclosure he bows
I'd as Orientals when they
SOuble beat their breasts, so
TO pound his breast, as he
I'd be merciful TO me a sinner"
Vas there ever a greater contrast?
Hncense that waitad that morning
In the priests censor was not so
Nd as IL publlcan's prayer floating
5bening heavens; while the
the PhariSqe died on his CON
Is LIPS, and rolled down into his
heart. Norshipping there,
Din each other, and 60 side by
ydOwn the steps, the Pharisee cross,
ched, aerid, saturning; the publi-
with his face shining with the very
of heaven; for Il tell you that this
IN went down to his house justified
RATHER THAN THE OTHER"
Nov, / put this publIcan's prayer I'M
er analysis, aud / discover in the first
lace that he was persuaded Of his sin
Illness. He was an honest man, he was
tax gatherer; the publicanS were tax
ltherers, aud Cicero says they were
10 adOrnment of the State. or course
hey we're somewhat unpopular, because
sople then did not like TO pay their
lxes any better than people now like
) pay their taxes, and there were many
no disliked them. Still, / suppose this
aOlican, this tax-gatherer, was an hon
-able man; he had an Office of trust;
lere were many hard things said about
Ina; aud yet, standing there in that en-
Osure OF the temple. amid the demon
EUNIVUN Oh AHNM q AOlAMNcN 4AlA N0hNAs
3 cries out from the very depths Of his
ricken soul, God be merclinl 70 me a
nnerp By what process shall l prove
lat am siEner2 by what process
\ali prove that You are a sinner?
MI / ask you 20 weigh your motives,
scan your actions, TO estimate your
avior? / viii do nothing Of the kind;
4 ll draw my argument rather from
q plan OF the work that God has
ieved for your salvation.
lou 90 down In a storm to the beach,
! you see wreekers put on their rough
kets, and launch tho life-bOat, and
n shoot the rockets to show that
% is coming, out into the dark break
and you Immediately cry, "A ship
Ak!" And when / see the Lord
Christ putting aside robe and
Nd launch out on the tossing
Aan suffering and satanic hate,
AptO the numbering surge
"a shipwreck."
ut OUR SOULS
by the work that
hem. Are you
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francisco or
ing him
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