Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-19

YOU remember the secular papers dis
cussed that, and with just as much
earnestness as the religious papers, and
there was not man in ChriStendom
who did not ask himself the question:
''Is there anything in prayer? May the
creature impress the Creator" On,
what o mighty fact, what a glorious
fact, the secular printing press and the
pulpit OF the Church OF Jesus Christ
harnessed
~ THE SAME TEAM.
Then you have noticed more signi-
6cant fact, If YOU have talked with peo-
pie on the subject, that they are getting
dissatisfied with philosophy and science
as matter of comfort. They say 10
does not amount 20 anything when you
have a dead child 10 the house. They
tell YOU. when they were sick and the
door of the future seemed opening, the
only comfort they found was 10 the Cos
pei People are having demonstrated
an over the laud that science and phil
Osophy cannot sOlace the trouble and
woes of the world, and they want some
other religion, and they are taking
Christianity, the only sympathetic re-
ligiOn that ever came into the world.
You just take your scientific consOla-
lion into that room where mother has
lost her child Try in that case your
splendid doctrine OF the survival OF
the tittest." Tell her that child died
because it was not worth as much as
the other children. That is your "Sur-
vival of the fittest. Go TO that dying
man and tell him to pluck up courage
for the future. Use your transcenden-
tai phraseolOgy upon him. Tell
him he ought to be confident in
1.-THE great TO be, and the "eyerIasting
now" and the "eternal what-iS-it.
Just try your transcendentalism and
your philosophy and your science on
him. Go TO that widowed soul and tell
her it was o geological necessity that
her companion should be taken away
from her, just as 10 the course of the
worlds history the megstherium had 10
pass out OF existence; and then you go
on in you scientific consolation until
you get to the sublime fact that nifty
million years from now we ourselves
may be scientific specimens on EeOlOg-
ical shelf, pstriied specimens of an ex-
tinct humaa race. And after you have
got all through with YOU consolation, II
the poor afflicted soul is not crazed By
10, 1 will send forth from this church
the pl&lnest Christian we have, and with
One-half hour of prayer and reading OF
Scripture promises, the tears will be
wiped away and the house from floor to
cuDOla will be flooded with the calm
There is where l see the triumph OF
Christianity. People are dissatisfied
with everything else. They want God
They want Jesus Christ
YoNDER Is AN AGED CHRISTIAN
after fifty years experience Of the
power of GOODNESS In his soul. Ask
this man whether, when he buried his
dead, the religion of Jesus Christ was
not a consolation. Ask him if through
the long years OF his pilgrimage the
Lord ever forSOok him. ASK him when
he looks forward to the future, if he
has not a peace and JOY and q Consola-
ton the world cannot take away. Put
his testimony of what he has seen and
what he has felt opposite 20 the testi-
mOny Of a man who says he has not
seen anything on tue subject or felt any
thing on the subject. VIII you take
the testimony of people who have not
seen, or people who have seen?
Colonel Ethan Allen was a famous in
fdel in mis- day. His wife was a very
woman. The mother in
struCtsd the daughter in the truths Of
The daughter Sickened
and was about 90 die, and she said to
her father: Father, shall ! take your
instruction? or shall I take mothers in
struction? I am going to die now; 1
must have this matter decided" That
man, who had been loud in his infdel-
itv, said to his dying daughter: MY
dear, YOU had better take your mothers
My advice is the same 10
YOU, o young man. YOU had better take
your mothers religion. You know how
ia mforted her. You know what she
said to you when she was dying. You
had better take your mothers religion.