Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-15

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that He is our Father and that He Will
keep all His promises to US.
| This point is the secret of your nap
piness. aud If you will put this in prac-
tice IL will put you ir q place wnere
you can rest. Glory to God for per-
feet trust. All things work together
| for good to them that love God.
I do love God. and / am willing to go
anywhere and do anything he wants me
to do.
Not all good things are good oy
themselves, but all things work TO.
gesher for good The destruction OF
| property and the loss of our little ones
are not good alone. but they are the
dark threads in the web OF life that
| bring out the beautiful patterns OF the
| Great Designer.
| II don't understand all these things
| now, but know that God knows what
is best, and / just trust Him, ana am
happy even in the midst OF sorrow, ;,
sSerys the Lord. Some people tnlnk
geiug to church and praying and read
| ing the Bible is serving the Lord. NOT
primarily. 1 hire 8 man to WORK ior
his board and wages. Is eating WORK
ing for me? No: but it is the means to
An end. II the man don't est. he cant
do much work; he will be sick. But
supuose he eat three square meals
A day. is that working? Oh, no!
III he eat all the time and do nothing
else he will be little use to me. Going
to church, praying and reading the
| Word-that is eating-getting strength
TO do something-eat a square meal, ana
then 60 out and work for the Master;
| but some OF you won't even eat. and
that Is why you are so weak and help
less when the Lord wants you to do
anything,
| servants of God. What do | hire SER
want for? Why. TO do the things that !
would have to do if / had no servant.
| Then you see you are to do what Jesus
! would do II He were here. At the last
day, the Judge wll not ask how many
times you have teen TO church or prayer
meeting. be: what have you done for
me? And he says. inasmuch US you have
done IL unto the least of these my breth-
! ZEN you have done 1t unto me- Use the
means of grace TO get strength and then
that will bring joy and peace.
At the close OF the meeting many as
sembled about the altar in prayer, and
many showed by their smiling faces
that they knew from experience what
| the preacher was talking about.
At the early class yesterday morning
much larger mum Der number than
usual were present, and among them
| old father Battelle, 81 years OF age and
sixty-one years Methodist preacher.
Mr.. Battelle Is in very feeble health,
| suffering much from rheumatism. de
saws his hands and feet are cold all the
time, but his heart is warm with the
love OF God. His prayer and exhorta-
ton brought tears to every eye as he
babe all goodbye for the last time and
| invited all to join him In the better
| land.
The children's meeting at p. m. was
well attended again, and the interest
seems to be increasing.
At 10:3O Rev. John Boring preached
what Is popularity known as the King
Sermon" because illustrated by a chart
containing four rings Of different sizes
drawn from the same center. His text
was composed of four passages: Matt
iv. &c; Mark II. "a; John XIV. IL and
John v. ii and Is.
The purpose of the sermon was to
show what God designed his people to
possess and enjoy and what they actu-
ally did possess and enjoy and some OF
the reasons why they did not receive
and enjoy more of Gods goodness.
The Bible was the will of God con-
tanning provision for each OF his children
and describing the manner In which
each might become possessed OF his In
heritance.
The larger circle showed the blessings
intended of God for his children and In
cluded everything in earth or heaven
that was good for them.
The next larger circle (Which was
much smaller than the hrst) showed
how far short OF Gods intention the de-
sires of his children were. The next
smaller showed how for short OF the
the Christians desire was the average
Christian prayer, and the smaller one
represented how little they actually re-
ceived from lack OF faith.
He then showed how 1t was possible
for the desire to embrace the whole
promise OF God; how prayer might
equal desire, and faith might be
strengthened to possess all that God In
tended for man.
No one who listened to this sermon
will soon forget it, and many went away
with a greater privilege il Is to be
child of God-and some with an Inward
determination to know for themselves
what the preacher talked about.
There was a much larger audience
than at any previous week day morning
service.
The election to-day resulted In G. W..
Grimes, Alfred Games, Thomas G. Ham
mond, NJ. Dunn, John Leach, Frank
Stanton.
The young peoples meeting in the
temple bad for its subject Answered
Prayer" and some personal experiences
were very striking, showing very con-
clusIyely that God will answer the
prayer OF faith. To-day the same sub
feet will be taken up, and the New
Testament will ba used as foundation
for the meeting. All are invited to Dome
and take part.
Rev Shaw, OF Fulton, and family are
attending the the camp meeting.
Rev. d. II. Denton. Of, Benwood, is
at the camp ground.
Rev. VIM. Helmes left yesterday
morning for Cameron.
Rev. d. S. Hammond, OF Huntington,
has been stopping with his brother In
the inner circle for the past Few
DAYS.