Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-11

BROOKLYN, June 1O.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who Is now speeding across the
Pacific to Honolulu, on his round-the-
world journey, has selected as the sub
iect for sermOnic discourse through the
press to-day, "The Excited Governor,
The text belag taken from Acts 24:25:
''Felix trembled aud answered, Go thy
way for this time; when 1 have con-
venient season, will call for thee"
/ propose to give you to-day two or
three reasons why I think Felix sent
Paul back to the guard-roOm, and ad-
journed this whole subject Of religion.
The first reason was, be did not want
10 give up his sins. He looked around;
there was Drusilla. He knew that
when be became a Christian, he must
send her back to Azizus, her lawful
husband, and be said to himself, II
will risk the destruction Of my ImmOr-
tai soul, sooner than l will do that"
How many there are now who cannot
get TO be Christians because they will
not abandon their Sinsl In vain al
their prayers and all their church-gOing.
You cannot keep these darling sins and
win heaven; aud now some OF you
will have 10 decide between the wine
cup and unlawful amuSementS and las
CiviOus gratifcations one the one hand
and eternal salvation on the other. De-
lilah sheared the locks Of Sampson;
SalOme danced Herod into the pit; Dru-
sllla blocked up the way 70 heaven for
Felix. Yet when ! present the subject
now, 1 fear that some OF you will say:
Not quite yet. Don't be so prOCiptate
in your demands / have a few tickets
yet that 1 have % use. / have few
engagements that / must keep. 1 want
TO stay a little longer in the whirl of
cOnviviality--a few more outlaws OF IN
clean laughter, a few more steps on the
road 10 death; and then, sir, will list
en- TO what You say. Go thy way for
this time; when l have a convenient
season / will call for thee.
Another reason why Felix sent Paul
back 20 the guard-room and adjourned
this subject was, be was 50 very busy.
In ordinary times he found
The Affairs OF STATE
absorbing, but those were extraordinary
times The whole land was ripe for
ibsurrectiOn. The Sacaru, a band OF
.assassins, were already providing around
the palace, and l suppose he thought,
al can't attend to religion while / am
so oppressed by affairs Of state 10
was MS business, among other things,
that ruined his SOUL and l suppose
there are thousands Of people who are
not children OF God because they have
much business 10 is business 10 the
store-lOsses, gains, uniaithful en-
plOyes. 10 is business in your law
Ofice-subpGnas, writs you have 70
write out, papers you have 70 file, ar
guments you have 70 make. IL is your
medical profession, with It's broken
ulqh'- and the exhausted anxieties OF
lie hanging upon your treatment IL
is your real estate Office, your business
with landlords and tenants, and the
failure Of men to meet their obligations
with you. Ay, with some OF those who
are here, IL is the annoyance OF
the kitchen, and the sitting-roOm,
and the psrlOr-the wearing eco
nOmy of trying 70 meet large eX-
penses with q small income. Ten thou
sand voices OF business, business, bust
ness" drown the voice Of the Eternal
Spirit, silencing the voice OF the ad-
vancing judgment day, overcoming the
voice Of eternity; and they cannot hear,
they cannot listen. They say, go thy
way for this time" Some Of YOU look
upon your goods, look upon your pro-
fessiOn, you look upon your 'memorau-
dum-books. and you see the demands
that are made this very week upon your
time and your patience and your mon
ey; and while sm entreating you about
your soul and the danger OF prOcrasti-
nation, you say, "GO thy way for this
time; when l have a convenient season,
will call for thee" Oh Felix, why be
bothered about the affairs of this world
80 much more than about the affairs of
eternity? Do you know that when
death comes you will have TO stop bust.
ness, though IL be In the most eXaCting
period, of it-between the payment OF
the money and the taxing Of the re-
ceiptG The moment he comes you will
have Ito go. Death waits for no maH,
howet fer high, however low. VIII you
put Y iur Office, Will you put your shop
in cCnparlson with the affairs OF an
7ternh world? Affairs that envolve
rides, palaces, domiuions eternal?
you put two hundred acres or
I'd against immensely? VIII YOU
orty or fifty years Of your life
MILLIONS OF AGES?
(, you might better postpone
ing else, hior do you not know
upholstering OF Tyrian purple
palace will fade, and the marble
u Cesarea will crumbIe, and the
water at the beach, made OF great
cks OF stone sixty feet long, must
give way before the perpetual wash OF
the sea; but the redemption that Paul
offers you will be forever? Aud yet
and yet, and yet you wave him back 10
the guard room, saying: eco thy way
for this time; when / have more con-
vsnient season, ! will call for thee.
Again. Felix adjourned this subject Of
religion, and put of Paurs argument,
because he could not give up the hOnorS
of the world. He was afraid somehow
he would be compromised himself 10
this matter. Remarks he made after
ward showed him 10 be intensely AN
ns.t-... Nh how ha hugUp1 the fqyOr