Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-22

I and which started out with all the uaes
OF Edenic foliage and with tho chant OF
Paradissical bowers, has been sixty
centuries pounding in the Skerries OF
Sln and sorrow, aud TO get her out, and
to got her off, and 70 get her on the
right way again. Will require more OF
Omnipotenco than IL required 10 build
her and launch her. So I am not sur
| prised that though in the dry docks OF
one word our world was made, IL will
take the uGsleeved arm OF God 20 lift
her from the rocks and put her on the
right course again. lt Is evident from
my text, and It's comparison with other
texts, that II would not be so great an
Undertaking to make whole
CONSTELLATION oF WORLDS,
and a whole galaxy Of worlds, and
! whole astronomy OF worlds, and swing
them in the right orbits, as TO take this
wounded world, this stranded world,
this bankrupt world, this destroyed
! world, and make II as good as when 1t
started.
Now, just look at the enthroned dlfi-
! culties in the way, the removal OF
which, tho overthrow OF which seem to
require the bare right arm OF Omnipo-
tence. There stands heathenism, with
! It's 500, 600, 600 victims. / do not care
whether you call them Brahmius, or
Buddhists, Confuclans or Fetish idol
aters. At the Worlds Fair In Chicago
last summer those monstrosities OF re-
| ligiOn tried TO mako themselves re-
spectacle, but the long hair and baggy
| trousers and trinketed robes OF their
representatives cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions are
the authors OF funeral pyre, aud Jugger-
naut crushing, and Gauges Infanticide.
and Chinese shoe torture, aud the ag-
gregated massacreS Of many centuries.
They have their heels on India, on
| China, on Persia, on Borneo, on three
| fourths OF the acreage OF our poor old
world. / know that the missionaries,
who are the most sacrificing aud Christ
! like men and women on earth, are max
! ing steady and glorious inroads upon
| these built-up abominations OF the cen
| turies. a this stuff that you see in
| some or the newspapers about the
| missionaries as living in luxury and
| idleness Is promulgated by corrupt
! American or English or Scotch mer-
| chants, whose loose behavior In heather
| cities has been rebuked by the mission
/ aries, and these corrupt merchants
! write home or tell innocent and unsus.
! pecting visitors I'm India or China or the
/ darkened Islands OF the sea, these false
| aries who, turning their backs on home
and civilization and emolument and
| comfort, spend their lives in trying 10
| introduce the mercy OF the Gospel
among the dOwn-trodden OF heather
ism. some OF those merchants leave
/ their families I'm America or England or
/ Scotland, and stay for a few years in
the ports Of heathenism while they are
making their fortunes 10 the tea or rice
/ or opium trade, and while they are thus
/ absent from home, give themselves TO
! orgies Of dsSOluteness, such as no pen
or tongue could. without the abolition
or all decency, attempt 10 report. The
| presence OF the missionaries with their
| pure aud noble households in those
heather ports, IS constant rebuke to
such debauches and miscreants.
IF SATAN SHOULD VISIT HEAVEN,
/ from which he was once roughly, but
! justly, expatriated and he should write
| nome to the realms pandemuniac. his
! correspondence published In DiGboLo's
! Gd1cttc, or AppOuyOltic NClrs, about
/ what he had seen, he would report the
! Temple OF God and the Lamb as a
J brOken-down church, and the House OF
| Many Mansions as a disreputable place,
/ and the Cherubim as suspicious OF NOR
/ ais. Sin never did like Holiness, and
/ you had better not depend upon Satanic
/ report Of the sublime and multipotent
/ work OF our missionaries in foreign
! lands. But Notwithstanding all that
/ these men and women OF God have
| achieved, they feel, and we all feel
| that II the idolatrous lands are to be
/ Christianzed, there needs be power
| from the heavens that has not yet con-
/ descended, and we feel like crying out
/ la the words OF Charles Wesley:
Arru Of the Lord. awake, awake.
Put o. Thy strength, tie nations shake
| Aye, IL is not only the Lords arm tn at
| is needed, the holy arm, the out
/ stretched arm, but the bare arml
But I have no time to specify the
manifold evils that challenge Christian
ity. And l think have seen in some
| Christians, and read in some news
papers, and heard from some pulpits, a
disheartmeut as though Christianity
was so wOrsted that 10 is hardly worth
while 70 attempt 70 win this world for
God, and that all Christian work would
collapse, and that 10 IS 10 use for you TO
teach SabOath-class. or distribute
tracts, or eXhOrt in prayer or
preach To pulpit as Satan is gaining
ground. To rebuke that pesslmism.
the Gospel Of Smashup. / preach this
, sermon. SHOWING Luat you are on The
winning side. Go ahead, Fight on.
what / want to make out to-day is that
our ammunition IS not exhausted; that
an which has been accompll shed has
been only the skirmishing before the
great Armageddou; that not more than
one OF the thousand fountains Of beauty
in the Kings Park has begun TO play;
that not more than one brigade Of
The inuumeraOie hosts 90 be marshaled
by tho rider on the White Horse
has yet taken the field; that what God
has done yet has been with arm folded
in flowing robe; but that the time IS
coming when rs will rise from bis
throne and throw Oh that robe, and
come out OF the palaces Of eternity, and
come down the stairs OF heaven with
n.I-c0uquerinz step, and halt 10 the
presence of eZpscJant nations, aud
flashing h.s Omuiscicnt eyes across the
work tJ Doc done, will put back the
sleeve VI hI- right arm % the shoulder.
and roll 30 up there, and for the
world hna. and complete rescue make
bare bis arm. Who can donJt the re-
su.t when according To- nv text Jeho-
van does bis host; when tho last reserve