Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-11-12
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aBRING HITTER TIE FATTED C4L7 AND
KILL IT,"
On Eloquent Sermon BY Rev. Dr. 7. De
Win Talmlga Up'n the Joys Of Salvation
and the 83aluss Of Heaven.

Talmase, having concluded his round
the.world tour, has selected as the sub
ject for to-day's discourse through the
press: Hone Again, the text chosen
being: Bring hither the iatted calf
and Kill t." Luke 1923.
In an ages Of the world it has been
customary TO celebrate joyful events by
festivity-the signing Of treaties, the
proclamation Of peace, the Christmas,
the marriage. However much on other
days Of the year our table may have
stiuted supply, on Thanksgiving day
there must be something bounteous.
And sil the comfortable homes OF
AChris,endom have at some time ceIe-
brated joyful events by banquet and
festivity.
Something has happened in the old
homestead greater than anything that
has ever happened before. A favorite
son, whom the world supposed would
become a vagaboud and outlaw forever,
has got tired Of sightseeing, and has
returned TO his fathers house. The
world said be never would come back.
The old man always said his son would
come. lie had been looking for him day
after day and year after year. He knew
be would come back. Now, having re-
turned 70 bis fathers house, the father
proclaims celebration. There is a calf
In the paddock that has been kept up
ADD fed 20 utmost capacity, so as 70 be
ready for some occasion Of JOY that
might come along. All! there never will
be grander day on the old homestead
than this day. Let the butchers do
their work, and the h0usekeepers bring
into the table
THE SMOKING MEAT.
The musicians will take their places,
and gay groups will move up and down
the noor. An the friends and neigh0ors
are gathered 10, and extra supply is
sent out TO the table Of the servants.
The father presides at the table, and
SAYS grace, and thanks Coo that his
l6ng-absent boy is home again. On.
how they missed him; how glad they
sre 90 have him back. One brother
stands poutihg at the back door, and
saws: This is a great ado about moth
lDg; thls bad boy should have been
chasteDed Instead Of greeted; veal is too
GOOD, b-nIn" But the father says.
=. g is too good; nothing is good
=" There sits the young maU,
Il the hearty reception, but a
w OF sorrow fitting across his
40 the remem branCe OF the trouble
had seen. All ready now. Let the
vers lift Music. He was dead and
he is alive again. He was lost and he
IS found! BY sucn bold imagery
does the Bible seq forth the merry-mak-
ing when a soul comes home 90 God.
First Of an, there IS the new converts
Soy 10 is no tame thing 90 become a
Christian. The most tremendous mo-
Dhent in a mans life is when be sur
renders himself 20 God. The grandest
time on the fathers homestead is when
the boy comes back. Among the great
throng who. in the parlOrs of my church,
DrOiessed Christ one night was young
man, who next morning rang my door
bell and said: "Sir, J cannot contain
myself with ahe Joy j feel; j came here
Ahis morning 20 express BE-. 1 have
ave found more joy 10 hve minutes in
rVing God than 10 all the years Of my
QdigahtY, and / came to say So"
bQ have seen, perhaps, a man run
ing for his physical liberty, and
THE OFFICERS OF THE LAW
after him; and you saw him escape, or
afterward you heard the Judge had par
doned him, and how great was the glse
( that rescued man; but 10 Is a very
anne thing that. compared with the
Inning for ones everlasting liie-the
errors Of the law after him, and Christ
Ioming in 20 pardon and bless and res
cue and save. You remember John
Bunyan, in his great story, tells how
the Pilgrim put his fingers To his ears
and ran, crying, "LIfe, life, eternal
life % A poor car driver, after having
had 90 struggle 10 support his family
for years suddenly was informed that a
large inheritance was his, and there
was Joy amounting 20 bewiiCerment;
but that Is 3 small thing compared with
the experience OF one when be has put
in bis hands the title deed % the joys,
she rapturss, the sp.eudors of heaven,
and be can truly say, ats mansions are
mine, it's temples are mine, its songs are
mine, los God is mine "'
On, 10 is no tame thing 20 become a
Christian. 10 is q incorporating. 10 is
the killing OF the fatted calf 10 is jub-
lice. You know the Bible never COM
pares 10 90 a funeral, but always COM
pares 10 20 something bright 10 is more
apt Co be compared 20 a banquet than
ANYTHING else. 10 is compared in the
-Ee
water; 90 the mOruiug-r0seale, fire.
worked, mOuntain-JranSdgure morn
ing. j wish I could to-day take all the
Bible expressions about pardon and
peace, and life and comfort, aud hope
and heaven, and twist them into one
garlaud, and put 10 on the brow OF the
humbest child of God boz an this land,
and cry: "Wear &c, wear it now, wear it |
forever, son OF God, daughter OF the
Lord God Almighty. On, the JOY OF the
new convert. Oh, the g,adusss OF the
Christian service.
You have seen sometimes a map in a [
religious assembly gst up and give his /
experience. Well,
PAUL GAVE his EXPERIENCE.
He rose flo me presence Of two church /
es-the church on earth and the church |
in heaveu-and be said: Now, this Is /
my experience: 'S0rr0wiuL yet always /
rejoicing; poor, YET making many rich; I
having nothing, yet possessing all |
things.'" If an the people who read /
thls sermon knew the Joys OF the /
Christian religion, they would all pass /
over into the kingdom Of God the next !
moment When Daniel Sandman was I
diving OF choLera his attendant said. |