Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-24

| and, for the sake OF defraudlng your
creditors, you put your property In
/ your wiie'S name. You might cry
until the day of judgment for pardon,
/ but YOU would not get IL without first
! making restitution. In times OF pros
/ perity IL is right, against rainy day,
/ to assign property 10 your wife; but II,
| In time OF perDleXity, and for the sake
/ OF defrauding your creditors, you make
/ such assignment, you become culprit
/ before God, aud you may as well stop
! Drawing until you have made restltu-
/ ton. Or suppose Que man loans an
| other money on bond or mortgage,
/ with the understanding that the mort
/ gage can lie quiet for several years,
| but as soon az the mortgage Is given,
| commences foreclosure-the sheriff
mounts the auctiOn-block, and the
! property is struck down at half price,
| and the mortgagee buys it 10. The
| mort-agee started TO get the property
/ az hall price, aud is q thief and rob-
| Der. Until he makes restitution, there
1 is no mercy for him. Suppose you sell
goods by sample, and then afterward
| send TO your customer an inferior quail
/ ity of goods.
/ q YOU HAVE COMMITTED A FRAUD,
/ and there is no mercy for you until you
| have made restitution. Suppose you
J sell q man handkerchief for sill x, tell
/ ing him IL is ali silk and il Is part cot
/ ton. No mercy for you until you have
made restitution. Suppose you sell a
! man q horse, saying be is sound and he
afterwards turns out to be spawned and
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nave made restitution.
! Exodus %. III 4 man shall steal an
| q or a sheep and kill it or sell II, he
| shall restore five oxen for an OK aud fou-
! sheep for a sheep. II thief be found
I breaking up and be be Smltten that he
/ die there shall no blood De shed for him.
! II the sun be risen upon him there shall
/ be blood shed for him, for he should
make full restitution: il he have moth
/ lag then ne shall be sold for his theft.
/ If the theft be certainly found in his
/ hand alive, whether il be OK, or ass, or
| sheep, ne shall restore double. II d
| maa shall cause q field or vineyard 10 be
/ eaten, aud shall put in his beast, and
| seal feed ia another mans field, OF the
/ best OF his Own field aud Of the best Of
| his own vineyard shall be make restitu-
tiOn."
I You say, II cannot make restitution.
\ The parties whom | swiaded are gone. 4"
Then 1 say, Take the money up 10
} the American Bible Society and conSe-
crate IL 10 God" Zaccheus was wise
when he disgorged his unrighteous
/ gains, and IL was his first step in the
rIgnt direction.
The way being clear, Christ walked
| into the house Of ZAccheus. He be-
comes a different man; his wife differ
eut woman; the children are different.
/ Ga. il makes great change IN auy
/ house when Christ comes into II. How
many beautiful homes are represented
/ among you, There are pictures on the
wall; there is music In the drawing
room; aud Injuries in the wardrobe;
| and a full supply 10 the pantry. Even
| if YOU were half asleep there is one
word with which l could wake you and
thrill you through and through, and
| that word is "home" There are also
| houses OF suffering represented, in
which there are
NEITHSE PICTURES NOR WARDROBE,
nor adOrnment-onlyo ne room, and a
plain cot, or bunk In a corner; yet II is
the place where your loved ones dwell,
aud your whole nature tingieS with sat
iSiacIion when yOu think OF ii aud call
/ home. Though the world may Scoff at
us, and pursue US, aud all the day we
be tossed about, at eventide we sail into
the hArbor Of home Though there be
20 rest for US in the busy world, and we
90 trudging about, bearing burdens
that well-nigh crush US, there is
refuge, aud ID hath an easy chair In
which we may sit, and lounge where
we may lie, aud a serenity Of peace in
which we may repose, and that refuge
is home. The English soldiers, sitting
on the walls around SebastopOl, one
night heard a company OF musicians
playing Home Sweet Home" and il is
said that the whole army broke out in
sobS aud waiting, so great was their
homesiCkneSs, God pity the poor, mis-
cradle wretch who mas no home.
Up 70 forty years men work for them
selves; after that, for their children.
Now, what do yOn propose TO leave
them. Nothing but dollars. Alas. what
an inheritance, 1t is more likely TO be
a curse than a blessing. Your owo
common sense and observation tell you
that money, without the diving bless
ing, Is d curse. You must soon leave
your children. Your shoulders are not
so strong IS they were, and you know
thar they will soon have to carry their
own burdens. Your eyeSight is not so
clear as once; they will soon have 10
pick out their own way. Your arm Is
rOt so mighty as once; they will soon
have to light their own battles. Ga. let
il not De told on Judgment day that you
let your family start without the only
sategusrd-the religion OF Christ.
GIVE YOURTELF NO REST
until your children are the Sons and
daughters of the Lord Almighty. Your
son does Just aS you do. He tries 20
walk like YOU, and 10 talk ike you.
The daughter Initiates the mother.
Alas, il father and mother miss heaven
the children will. Oh, let JsSns come
into your house. Do not bolt the hall
door, or the parIor door, or the kitchen
door, or the bedroom door against Hin.
Above all, do not bolt your heart.
Build your altar tonight. Take the
family Bible laying on the parlor table.
Call together as many OF your family as
may be Swake. Read a chapter, an d
then. II you can think OF nothing else
beSi des the Lords prayer, say that.
That will do. Heaven will have begun
IN your house. You can put your head
on your pillow feeling that, whether
you wake up in this world or the next,
all is well. In that great, pOnderOuS
Book OF the Judgment, where is record
ed all the important events OF the earth,
you will read al last the statement that
this was the day when salvation came
into your house. Oh, Zaccheus, come
down! cOmedOwn, Jesus is passing by.
All nVrD TIE nJ00r