Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-18
GIVE TWENTY BANQUErs,

difference. You in the course Of twenty
years
GIVE TWENTY BANQUETs,
and the same man is invited to them
| all, aud treats them all in the same OBJ
| noxious way. After awhile you remove
to another house, larger and better, and
/ you again invite your friends, out send
/ no Invitation TO the man who declined
| or neglected the other Invitations. Are
I you 70 blame? Has ne a right TO expect
/ 10 be invited after all the indignities
/ he has done you? God in this world has
/ invited US all 10 the banquet OF his
grace. He invited us by His Proyi-
| denCe and His Spirit three hundred and
sixty-fve days Of every year since we
! knew our right hand from our left. II
we declined 1t every time, or treated
the invitation with indifference, and
gave twenty or forty or fifty years OF
indignlty on our part toward the Ban
Queter, and at last He spreads the ban
Quet In a more luxurious and klngly
place, amid the heavenly gardens, have
we a right to expect Him 10 invite US
again, and have we 4 right to blame
Him IL he does not invite US?
II twelve gates OF salvation stood
open twenty years or fifty years for our
admission, aud at the end Of that time
they are closed, can we complain OF II
aud say: These gates ought TO be open
again. Give US another chance?' II the
steamer Is 10 sail for Hamburg, aud we
want to get TO Germany by that line,
and We read IN every evening AID every
morning newspaper that 10 will sail on
a certain day, for TWO weeks we have
that advertisement before our eyes, and
then we 90 down 10 the docks fifteen
minutes after IL has showed of into the
stream and say: "Come back. Give me
another chance. IL Is not fair 10 treat
me In this way. Swing up 10 the dock
again, and throw out planks, and let
me come on board" Such behavior
would invite arrest as a madman.
Aud N, after the Gospel ship has lain
az anchor before our eyes FOR years aud
years, and al the benign voices OF earth
and heaven have urged US 10 get on
board, as she might sail away at any
moment, and after awhile she sails
without Us, Is u common sense 10 expect
her % come baCk9 You might as we'll
20 out on the Highlands at Nsvsrsink
and call 70 the Majestic" after she has
been three days out, aud expect her to
rsturn, as 10 call back
An OPPORTUNITY FOR HEAVEN
when il once has sped away. All
heaven offered Us a gratUity, aud for
liie-ti me we refuse TO take IL, aud then
rush on the bosses OF Jehovah's buck
Ter demanding another chance. There
ought 90 be, there can be, there will be
no such thing as poSthumouS opportu-
nifty. Thus, our common sense agrees
with my teXt-''If the tree falls toward
the south, or toward the north, in the
place where the tree falleth, there ii
shall be.
You see that this idea lifts the world
up from an unimpOrtant way station to
q platform OF StupendOuS Issues, and
makes all eternity whirl around this
hour. But one trial for which all the
preparation must be made in this world,
or never made at all. That piles up all
the emphasis and all the climaxes and
al the deStinieS into life here. No
other chance. Oh, how that augments
the value and the importance Of this
chance.
am in the FURNISHED Judgment Hail
Of the Last Day. a great white throne
is lifted, but the Judge has not vet
taken it. While we are waiting for his
arrival hear immortal spirits in con-
verSatiOn, What are YOU waiting here
for?" says a soul that went uD from
Madagascar 10 a soul that assembled
from America. Tue latter says: Il
came from America, where forty years
l heard the Gospel preached, and Bible