Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-08

organization. He injected considerable
enthusiasm into his audience by q
graphic description Of the situation in
the Upper Nile country and the great
need for immediate and Substantial mis-.
sionary work.
The Rev. r. Y. Ransom, of Cleveland,
followed Mr.. Derrick in strong plea
! for the Improvement of the African SER
vice and the establishment OF a settled
policy that will result in the early edu-
| cation of the entirs colored population
of Africa, morally, Intellectually and
politically.
DIR. RIKFR's PLEA.
By special invitation Rev. DR.. A. j.
! Riker, of this city, addressed the meet
! ing and his remarks were greeted by
prolonged applause. Among other
| opposite things, he said:
l am glad the PttSburg Conference
OF the African Methodist Episcopal
Church has been held in Wheeling. l
have derived great inspiration from
listening TO the addresseS.delIvered on
your Conference floor and from taking
note of the vast '%or; that is being &C.
comDlshed by ySdr church with five or
six hundred thousand members. 1t
cheers me TO know that so great body
Of oar fellow citizens are banded togeth-
e: under Jesus Christ for the salvation
/ of souls and the betterment OF this
world.
Anything that pertains to man Is OF
! interest TO me. And the solution OF the
problem you are solving in working
out, under God, the destiny OF your
race, can but be interesting TO all peo-
pie OF every race and condition. II l
were called upon to reconstruct the
Apostles creed, l would add one ex-
preston. would leave there all that
/ ls there. | accept it all but after the
! expression: Il believe in God al
mighty" | would add, l believe in
man something less than Almighty, and
| by man, In this expression | mean every
! son of the human race so far as his
natural condition is concerned. l in
| clude the red man, the black man, the
| yellow man and the white man, or man
| of any other color that God ever Gre
| ated. | would exclude men or two COL
| ors, because God never created men or
such col or. One of them is the green
mantle Jealous, soured, disappointed
man who is never happy when he
| sees anyone else happy, and VINO groans
when ne sees any person or race max
| ing progress. The other Of these is the
! 5lne mantle discouraged, disheart-
ened, who has no hope for the future OF
humanity, who goes about
WITH A PEssDusTIC WHINE
and signs ior the days behind us.
| do not believe in either of these
men. And no man who is child
of the Omnipotent God has any right
to be either. Listen TO the prayer
of Paul in the third EphisianS: "FOr
this cause ! bow my knees TO the father
of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would
grant you according to the riches OF his
glory TO be strengthened with might by
His spirit in the inner man." Think OF
that-to be strengthened with might by
His spirit according TO the measure OF
the riches OF his glory. No man can
measure that, and yet that is the meas
ure of the might we have available for
| his service.
Now, do not know how it is among
| you, but among oCr people l hear a
testimony like this: Brethren, ! am
trying TO serve the God in my weak way
| and manner; | am sometimes down In
| the valley low and sometimes on the
mountain top" Now, | maintain that
no child of God has any right TO live in
| that way. What right have we TO
serve him in "our weak way and man
uer" when he stands ready to straighten
us with might, and that according to
his riches in glory? Nay, my friends,
would have you acquire large
| IDEAS of God, put on your strength
and go forth armed with
the weight the right arm OF Jehovah.
Now as to the missionary subject | am
persuaded that Jesus is to reign until
every person on the earth is wholly
| sanctifed to Gods service till every
man and woman and child shall keep
| all the commandments OF the decalogue
| and Put on the Lord Jesus Christ in the
| fulness of his salvation. 1t may startle
YOU to hear me say this, but believe
IT Is COMING.
You cannot say the Lords Prayer In
faith without believing 1t, all the pro-
phets dreamed and sang about it. 1t
means that every man, woman and
child in Wheeling, in West Virginia, in
the United States, in the whole wide
world shall become sincere ana honest
! Christian.
This is to be brought about by the
method Of Christ. Every man TO become
a preacher to all his Deighbors as far as
his acquaintance goes, both By precept
| and example, and when his acquaint-
auce does not reach then he is to give
his money to send somebody else there.
I often hear people object to missionary
collections because, they say, I'VE have
| heather enough at home" So we have;
! but the way to reach them is not by
| missionary money, but to go for the N
| yourself. Be the missionary TO them.
| Preach Christ TO them, not By proxy,
not by some one you employ, but go
yourself, then give your money to some
one else to go to the heather abroad.
That is the way to do this work. | am
delighted 10 know that your women
! have taken hold OF this matter IL means
| success. The women make things 90,
| not because they do such an enormous
thing at one grand squirt but because
they have learned the art OF putting
little things together for enormous ag-
1 auar.