Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19
At THE CAMP GROUNDS
TIE SERMONS PREACHED AND THE SERVICES
HELD YESTERDAY.
Big Crowd is Expected on the Grounds To-Day,
When the Meetings Will Close.
Tie Programme.

listened to with deep interest by those
present. He prefaced his discourse
with the remark that he knew that
many ministers, doctors and editors
had endeavored to prove the doctrine OF
universal salvation from the Bible. He
had nothing to say only this, he would
talk about the old book saint, and II his
audience could see where the doctrine
of universal salvation to saint ana SIM
ner came in, he would like to have them
tell him. He said he would hate to have
his case so bad that If everybody was
not saved he would be lost.
His text was Mat, 3-1S: "Then shall
We return and discern between the
righteous aud the wicked; between him
that serveth God aud him that serveth
Him not" As an object lesson to his
audience he stood the Bible on his
right to represent the Christian, and
smaller book on his left TO represent
the Savior. Ye shall discern between
the righteous and the wicked. Many
think there Is no difference In the
future-think God is too merciful, and
that somehow, somewhere, II there Is
any difference, it will be reconciled.
We will take up the TWO characters
and notice the contrast between them,
and continue them through life and
deRth-to the resurrection and Judg-
ment, and to that time after the judg-
ment, when all things have become
fixed for all eternity, aud you see If you
can find where this doctrine OF uni
versal salvation comes in.
A man awoke in mis- cottage with a
great mountain rattesnake coied up
within yard OF him. he was not
troubled while he was asleep, but
when he awoke he realized his danger.
This old book is the standard OF truth
and if il be true, every sinner is near
er night and day To the devil than
that man was to the rattlesnake. Then
again the sinner is moral leDer. You
know the difference between a sick
man and well one. He is in lost
state, the righteous are saved. The
sinner is dead ia treSpasseS and sin, the
righteous has been made alive, the SIN
ner is In a state Of condemnation, the
righteous in a state OF justification.
Then again they don't act alike. The
sinner builds his house OF the sands
Of uncertainty, while the righteous
digs deep and builds on the solid rock
OF Gods eternal truth. The sinner
serves the devil, his own worst enemy,
while the religious serves the Lord his
best friend. The sinner serves the devil
for pay that on pay day be would not
take for q thousand worlds il he could
help il. The wages OF sin is death and
that is what the sinner breads worst OF
all. The Christian seems his best
for pardon, peace and joy, in this life,
and in the world TO como eternal life.
Again the place they occupy In the
moral census Of the world. Suppose
the Lord sent Gabriel and Michael to
take the census Of this audience, and
Gabriel should begin TO put to you the
personal question you will have 70 an
swer at the last day, where would you
stand? He comes to each and asks. are
you a Christian? II so. put you on
my list. You say, ~ am a church
member" You say, 81 have been bap-
TIED" He will say, $50 was Simon
Neagus." But you say, 81 have taken
the Sacrament" So did Judas Iscariot
What il be will not tase any other than
the plain Scrlptural answer, that you
have the spirit OF Christ and ara walk
ing In His footsteps?
Again notice the contrast IN death.
The wicked are driven away in their
wickedness, but the righteous has hope
in his death, and an anchor that
reaches beyond the vale.
Isaiah says: ut shall be we'll with
the religious, but woe to the wicked"
MirrGbeau, the French infdel, said,
that in the hour OF death there was
nothing but TO be perfumed and
crowned with flowers, and amid the
strains Of music enter the sleep that
knows no waking"
Bishop Mckinley, when he died,
said q few moments before 10 few
friends in the room, II feel strange
sensation" Can this be death? And
an ecstacy of the delight sung in trl-
mDh of that hour.
Now we have gone as far as these na-
lures eyes can see, but we Will take the
lamp Of Gods revelation and look be-
yord the grave. The wicked sleep
under the censure Of condemnation, but
the good man under the promise OF res
direction To everlasting life. The soul
OF Lazarus is comforted, but the rich
man lifted up his soul in hell. Then,
again, look at the contrast at the resur
rection. after time has ended. Daniel
says many that sleep in the dust
shall arise, land the Commentary says
this word many" means alp some TO
everlasting life and some TO shame and
everlasting contempt. Paul speaks Of
the resurrection Of the lust and the un-
Just, but the words OF Jesus himself
who is TO be the judge Of the last day are
the severeSt of all. We have followed the
record through life and death aud
through the resUrrectlon-where have
you seen any thing that serves to teach
of universal salvation2 Nor Ia the little
period after death and before the judg-
ment what does this Bible teach?
For the wild man Of Gadors possessed
OF devils, the favor OF Jesus had such
attraction that be came running TO him
and calling him by name, but the wick
ed in this period are calling the rocks
and stones TO fall on them to hide them
from his face.
Nor at the judgment we read: "He
shall separate them as the shepherd his
sheep aud goats. And the the wicked
shall 90 TO the left, and the righteous TO
the right hand. And He shall say to
the righteous, Come ye blessed;' and to
the wicked, Depart ye cursed"
a To the righteous He shall say, Come
10 inherit the kingdom prepared from
the foundation OF the world;" and to the
wicked. depart TO everlasting punish
ment prepared for the devil and his
angels"
And now the most important contrast
between the wicked aud the righteous
is seen as viewed away out beyond the
;ndgmant whore there is 4 great gulf