Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-17

'sWhat shall it profit man II ne gain
the whole world and lose his soul!
However fine your apparel, the winds
of death will futter it like rags. Home
spun and threadb bare coat have some
times been the shadow OF coming robes
made white in the blood Of the Lamo.
The pearl of great price is worth more
than any gem you can bring from tue
ocean, than Australian ana braLIIiau
mines strung in one carcanet. seek
after God; find his Righteousness, ana
all shall DE we'll here; all shall be wen
hereafter.
Bnt / must have a word with those
who during the present commercial ca
lamitles have lost heavily, -or perhaps
| Iost all their estate. II mao lose his
property at thirty or forty years OF age,
| IL IS only a sharp discipline generally
by which later he comes 10 larger sue
cess. 1t is all folly for man to SIT
down in mid-life discouraged. The
marshals of Napoleon came TO thelr
commander and said: 1--WE have lost the
battle and we are being cut TO pieces.
Napoleon took his watch from his pocket
aud said: sit is only two o'clock In the
afternoon. You have lost that battle,
but we have time TO win another.
Charge upon the foem Though the me-
ridian of life has passed with you, and
YOU have been routed in many con-
Aict, give not mp in disbursement
There are victories yet for you TO gain.
But sometimes monetary disaster comes
10 a man when there Is something III MS
age. or something in his health, or
something in his Surroundings which
make him know well that he will never
get up again. In 1857 it was estimated
| that, for many years previous 70 thaS
time, annually there had been 3o,Ooo
failures in the United States. Many OF
those persons never recovered
FROM THE MISFORTUNE.
But let me give you word of comfort
In passing. The sheriff may sell you
out. He cannot sell out your health.
He cannot sell out your family. tie
cannot sell out your God. He cannot
sell out your heaven! You have more
than you have lost. Sons and daughters
of God, children of an eternal aud all
| loving Father, mourn not when your
property goes. The world is yours, lie
| yours, and death is yours, and immor-
! tality is yours, and thrones OF Imperial
grandeur are yours, aud rivers OF glad
ness are yours, and shining mansions
| are YOURS, and God is yours. Inc
eternal God has sworn it, and every
time you doubt it, you charge the hlng
OF heaven and earth with perjury. In
stead of complaining how hard you have
il. 90 home, take up your Bible full OF
promises. get down on your knees be-
! fore God and thank him for what you
have instead Of spending so much time
in complaining about what you have
not.
Some of you remember the Shipwreck
of the Central America. This noble
steamer had, l think, about FIVE hun
dred passengers aboard. Suddenly the
storm came, aud the surges trampled
the decks and swung into the matches,
and there went up hundred-voiced
death. shrek. The foam on the the
Jaw of the wave. The
PITCHING OF THE STEAMER
as though it.were leaping mountain
The dismal fare of the signal rockets.
The long cough of the steam pipes.
The hiss OF the eXtinguished furnaces.
The walking OF God on the wave! The
steamer went not down without a strug-
gle. As the passengers stationed them
selves in rows, to bail out the vessel,
bark to the thump OF the buckets, as
men unused to toll, with bistered
hands and strained muscle, tug for
their lives. There is sail seen
against the sky The flash Of the dis
tress gun sounded, its voice Is heard
not. for il is choked in the louder BOOM
ing Of the sea. A few passengers es-
capped; but the steamer gave one great
lurch and was gone SO there are some
men who sail on prosperOusly In life.
AIS well, Gll'S well. But at last, some
financial disaster comes: eurociydon.
Down they 90 the bottom Of the COM
mercial sea strewn with shattered
hulks. But because your property
goes, do not let your soul go. Though
all else perish, save that; for l have to
tell you OF more stupendous ship
wreck then that which | just mention
ed. God launched this world six thous-
and wears ago. 1t has been going on
under freight of mpuntains and i'm
mortals; but one day 1t will stagger at
the cry OF fire. The timbers Of rock
will burn, the mountains flame like
masts, and the clouds like sails in the
Judgment hurricane. Then God shall
take the passengers off the deck, and
from the berths those who have long
been asleep In Jesus, and he will set
them far beyond the reach of storm and
peril. But how many shall go down;
that shall never be known, until it shall
be announced one day in heaven; the
shipwreck OF a world! Oh, my dear
hearers, whatever you lose, though your
houses go, though your lands 60,
though all your earthly possessions per-
ish, may God Almighty, through the
blood of the everlasting covenant, save
all your souls.