Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-30
TIGHTEN TnE GIRDLE

about your loins. Take an agonzlng
look into the face OF God, and then say.
| Here goes one grand effort for life
eternal" and then bound away for
heaven, escaping 'aS with the skin OF
your teeth"
In the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and
| HuSS, and Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs, but Christian men who went
IN incorrupt from the concentrations
aud perplexities OF Wall Street, Water
Street, Pearl Street, Broad street, State
Street, Third Street, Lombard Street
and the Rourse. On earth they were
called brokers, or STOCKHOLDERS, or re-
tailers, or importers; but in heaven,
Christian heroes. No fagots were heap
ed about their feet; no inQuisitiop de-
manded from them recantation; no SOL
dier aimed spike at their heart; but
| thew had mental tortures, compared
with which all physical consuming is as
| the breath of spring morning.
| ind in the community a large class
| Of men who have been so cheated, so
| lied about. so outrageously wroDged,
| that they have lost faith In everything.
| In world where everything seems so
| topsy-turvy, they do not see how there
can be any God. They are COMPOUNDED
/ and frenzied, and misanthropic. Elao'
/ crate arguments TO prove TO them the
1 truth of Christianity, or the truth OF
anything else, touches them nowhere.
| Hear me, all such men. l preach to you
no rounded periods, no ornamental dis.
| course: but | put my hand on Jour
1 shoulder and invite you into the peace
| of the Gospel. Here is rock on which
you may stand firm, though the waves
| dash against it harder than the Atlantic
pitching its surf clear'above Eddystone
| lighthouse. DO not charge upon God
all these troubles OF the world. As long
as the world stuck to God. God stuck to
| the world; but the earth seeded from
| his government, and hence all these
outrages and all these woes. God is
good. For many hundreds Of years he
| has been coaxing the world TO come
| back to him; but the more be has coaxed
| the more violent have men been in their
resistance, and they have stepped back
and stepped back until they have
dropped into ruin.
Try this God, ye who have seen the
| blood hounds after you, and who have
thought that God had forgotten you.
| Try him, and see IL he will not help.
Try him, and see IL he will rot pardon.
Try him, and see II he will not save.
| The flowers OF spring have no bloom so
sweet as the Towering OF Christ's atfec-
| tons. The sun hath no warmth com.
cared with the glow OF his heart The
waters have no refreshment like the
! fountain that will Stake the thirst OF
| thy soul. At the moment the reindeer
stands with his lip and nostril thrust
| into the cool mountain torrent, the
hunter may be coming through the
thicket Without cracking stick IN
der his foot, he comes close by the stag,
aims his gun, draws the trigger, and
the poor thing
REARS IN ITS DEATH AGONY
and falls backward, its antlers crashing
| on the rocks; but the painting heart that
drinks FROM the wster-brooks OF Gods
promise shall never be fatally wounded,
and shall never die.
This world is poor portion for your
soul, oh business man! An Eastern
king had craven upon his tomb two
| 6ngers, represented as sounding upon
each other with a snap, aud under them
the motto, "All is not worth that"
Apicius Cralius hanged himself because
his steward informed him that he had