Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-02
AGAIN REMARK,


OF friends, great worldly success, but he
lives for himself. His chief care is for
his own comfort. He lives useleSsly.
He dies unregrstted. Here is another
young man. His apparel may not be so
good, his education NAV not be so thor
ough He lives for others. His happi-
ness is 10 make others happy. lie is as
self-denying as that diving soldier falling
To- the ranks, when he said: Colonel,
there is no need OF those boys firing
themselves by carrying me TO the hos
ptal; let me die just where l am." So
this young man OF whom I speak loves
God, wants all the world to love him, is
not ashamed % carry q bundle OF clothes
up that dark alley 10 the poor. Which
OF these young men DO you admire the
better? The one a sham, the other
prince imperial.
Oh, do you know OF anything, my
neighbOr, that is more beautiful than 10
see a young man start out for Christ?
Here is some one falling; BIO lifts him
mp. Here is a vagabOnd boy; he intro
duceS him 70 a mission school. Here Is
a family freezing 10 death; he carries
them a Scuttle Of coal
/ suppose you may have noticed the
contrast between the departure OF a
Christian and the departure OF an inf
del. Diodorus, dying 10 chagrin because
he could not compose a joke equal 70 the
joke uttered at the other end Of his
table; IeuXis, dying 10 do OF laughter
at the sketch of an aged wOman-a
sketch made by bis own hand; Mazarin,
dying playing cards, his friend holding
his hands because be was unable
TO HOLD THEM HIMSELF.
AN that on one side compared with the
departure OF the Scotch minister who
said 20 his friends: ~ have no interest
as 20 whether / live or die; III die, /
shall be with the Lord; and IT, live the
Lord will be with me-" Or the last
words of Washington: 1T is WELL Or
the last words of Mcintosh, the learned
and the great; Happy Or the last
words Of Hannah More, the Christian
poetess: joy" OR those thousands of
Christians who have gone, saying
Lord Jesus receive my spirit. Come,
Lord Jesus, come quickly 30 death!
where is thy sting? o grave! where is
thy victory?
Behold the contrast. Behold the
charm of the one. behold the darkness
OF the other Now, 1 know 10 Is very
popular in this day for young men TO
think there is something more charm
ing in SceptiCiSm than ia religion, They
are ashamed of the old fashioned relI-
gion OF the Cross, and they pride them
selves on their free thinking on all these
subjects. Nv Young friends. l want TO
tell you what I know from observation;
that while SceptiCiSm is a beautiful land
at the start, it is the great Sahara DeS-
erJ az the last
Years ago q minister's son went of
from home 20 college. AT college he
formed the Acquaintance OF a Young
man whom I shall call Ellison. Ellison
was an inddei. Ellison scOfTed at rcli-
gjon, aud the minister's son soon learned
from him the in6delity, and when he
went home on his vacation broke his
fathers heart by his denunciations Of
Christianity. Time passed on and vaca-
tion came, and the ministers son went
of 10 spend the vacation, and was on a
Journey, aud came 10 q hotel. The
hotel keeper said: 81 am very sorry
that tonight I shall have 10 put you In
a room adjoining one where there is
very
SICK AND DYING MAN.
I can give you no other accommodation. "
"Oh," said the young college student
aud ministers son, that will make no
difference 20 me except the matter OF
sympathy with anybody that IS suffer
ing" The young man retired to his
room, but could not sleep. All night
long he heard the grooming Of the sick
mar, or the step of the watchers, and
his soul trembled, He thought OF HIM
self. Nov, there is only Il thin wall
between me- ard a departing spirit.
how 10 Ellison should know how feel?
How If Ellison should find out how nv
heart fu.terS3 What If Ellison knew
my scepticism gave way" lie slept
not. In the morning, coming down, he
said to the hotel keeper; How is the
sick mau?" "Oh, " said the hotel keep
er, "he is dead, poor fellow. The doc
tors told as ho could not last through
the night" "Wel," said the young
man, what was the sick ones name;
where is he from?" well" said the
hotel keeper, "he is from Providence
College" Providence College, what
is his name?' "EIlisOn.' ELLISON"
Oh, how the Young man was stunned.
10 was his old college mate-dsad with
out any hope.
1T WAS MANY HOURS.
before the young man could leave that
hotel. He cot on his horse and started
homeward. and all the way be heard
something saying 20 him; Dead. Lost!
Dead, Lost" He came 20 no SatiSiac-
tion until he entered the Christian life,
until he entered the Christian ministry,
until he became one Of the most emil
nent missionaries Of the Cross, the
greatest Baptist missionary the world
has ever seen since the days OF Paul
no superior 10 Adoniram JudSon.
Mighty on earth, mighty in heaven
Adonjram JudSou. Which do YOU like
the best JUdSOu's ScepticiSm or JudSOn's
Christian life, JudSon'S suffering for
Cbrist's sake, Juds0n'S almost martyr
dom? Oh, young man, take your choice
between these two kinds of lives. Your
own heart tells you this morning the
Christian life is more admirable, more
peaceful, more comfortable, and more
beautiful.
"Oh, you say, religion I am going
20 have: it is only a question OF time"
Ny brother, ! sm afraid that you may
lose heaven the way Louis Philippe lost
his empire. The Partisan mob came
around the TuilerieS. The National
Guard stood in defence of the palace,
and the commander said TO Louis Phil