Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-29

il is with the gospel Of Jesus Christ; 1t
has fresh salvation every day. II Is
not a stsgnant pool filled with accumu-
lated corruptions. IL is living water
which is brought from the eternal rock
TO wash away the sins Of yesterday-oI
one moment ago.
1 notice also, in regard TO this laver
of looking-gl glasses spoken OF In the text
that the priests always washed ootn
hand and feet.
THE WATER CANE DOWN IN sPoUIS
so that. without leaving any filth in the
basin, the priests washed both hanus
and feet. So the gospel Of Jesus CHRIST
must touch the very eXtremitles OF our
moral nature. A man cannot fence OF
q small part of his soul, and say, NOW,
this Is to DO a garden in which L VIII
have all the fruits and flowers OF CHRIS
tiap character, while outside 1t shall %
the DEVILS commons" No, no; 1t VIII!
be all garden or none. sometimes
hear people say, HE is very goou
man except in politics" Then ne IS nov
q good man. A religion that VIII hot
take man through an autumn eiect'on
will not be worth anything to nm IN
June, July and August
1Iremark, further, that this laVer o.
Iooklng-glasses spoken OF In the teAt
was very large LAYER. l always
thought, from the fact that so many
washed there, aud also from the IacI
that Solomon afterward, when ne
copied that LAYER in the Temple, Quit
il on very large scale, that IL was
large: and so suggestive OF the gospel
Of Jesus Christ and salvation by h!m-
vast in it's provisions. The whoie
world NAV come and wash In THIS Ia'sr
and be clean.
When our civil war had passed, the
Government Of the United States maze
proclamation of pardon to the com mon
soldierv in the Confederate army Out
NOT to the chief soldiers. The gospeI
of Christ does not act in that way. IL
saws pardon for all, but especially Ior
the chief OF sinners. do not now
think of a single passage that says 1hat
a small sinner may be saved. II there
may be sins only family hued, just
little tinged, so family colored tha1
YOU can hardly see them, there IS 20
sDecial pardon promised In the Bible
for those sins; but if they be glaring,
red like crimson, then they shall be as
snow. whatsoever will may come and
take OF the water OF life freely
Iayer broad as the earth, high as the
heavens, aud deep as hell.
But l police also, in regard 10 TINS
laver of Iooking-glasses spoken OF In the
text, that
THE WASHING WAS IMPERATIVE
I'D not optional. When the priests
cor. into the tabernacle you will IND
this IN the thirtieth chapter OF EXodus)
God tells them that they must wash In
that LAYER or die. The priest might nave
said. Cant l wash elseWhereP
washed in the laver at home, and now
Won want me TO wash here" God says
',No matter whether or rot you have
washed before. Wash in this LAYER OF
die" but" says the priest, There IS
water Just as clean as this-why won
that do?" Wash here" says God, 'or
die:" So it is with the Gospel OF christ
it is imperative. There is only this
alternative: keep our sins and perish,
| or wash them away and live. But says
/ soma one. why could not God have
made more ways to heaven than one|'
1 do not know but he could have made
balfadozen. l know he made but one.
You saw, why not have long line OF
boats running from here TO heaveD?'
cannot say, but 1 simply know that
| tbare is nnlv nna boat. You say, ARE
on Cavalry?-mOrs luXuriant, for
/ that had neither buds nor bios
sons; 1t was stripped aud bark
ed !" Yes, yes, there have been taller
/ trees than that and more luxuriant; but
the Only path TO heaven is under that
one tree. Instead OF Quarreling because
there are not more ways, let US be
| thankful to God there is oue--one name
! given unto man whereby we can be
saved-one laver In which all the world
may wash. So you see what radiant
/ Gospel this is I preach. do not know
how man can stand stolidly and pre-
sent IL, for it is such an eXhilarant Cos
pei. IL is not a mere within or caprice;
il is life or death; IL is heaven or hell.
You come before your child, and you
have present in your hand. You put
your hands behind your back and say,
W ulCu manu- wiz Juu baho IL Ouo
hand there is a treasure, in the other
there is not" The child blindly
chooses. But God our Father does not
do that way with US. He spreads out
both hands, and says, "Now this shall
be very plain. In that hand are par
don, and peace, and life, and the treas
ures Of heaven; In that hand are pun
ishment, and sorrow, and woe, Choose,
choose for yourselves. "He that be-
lieyeth and is baptized shall be saved,
but be that belisveth not shall be
damned"
Oh. my dear friends, I wish l could
coax you to accept this Gospel. II you
could just take one look in this lsver Of
looking glasses spoken of in the text,
you would begin now
SPIRITUAL ABLUTION,
The love OF Christi dare not, toward
the close Of my sermon, begin TO tell