Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-01

nans9tion which this house should
stand. Is the evolution OF ChrlstendoIn'
.he fullnes Of the stature OF ChrlsI III
man and mis- brotherhood.
The counterpart, upon which the
floods came and the winds blew, ana
which fel. and great was the fall OF II.
If you vii pay particular ATTENTION u
and great was the fall Of 1t" which $
in the imperfect tense, sne showing
that the act was then taking place upon
the house of Israel, for 1t was Dulft
mon the sand. Now, there is a great
deal more in the significance OF THIS
sand than is commonly known. Goa
has likened His people, Israel, IN many
instances. to the sand both IN number
and unstableness. Further, as the sam
is upon the seashore washed about wdn
every wave. how many changes anu
stages have Israe. passed through
fitting prophecy of this is that oplSalAl'
1922. For though thy peOpe'lsfdei'
be as the sand Of the sea, yet arelhnaHI
Of them shall return, the ceasuiiip 'i'1
decreed shall overflow wiz I'sulIous-
ness" These things We ma Iahcus
place to-day. notwithstanding lne ns
urative speech says, tut mousse lei anu
great was the fal of IL And yet .he
prophecy reads that from TINS house, Inc
b9usa of Israel. shat remnant re'ul
and the consumptRn decreed we un-
derstond Inv this nat the washing away
80 TsraeI shall overflow with righteous
nes onIv confirms the further prophecy
+bat eaIvation4s of the Jews. And now.
os tho fall o. the Jews as the house oil
israel 50 what has happened unto mem
in part SHALL happen unto us we
raad in revelations 3:14 to the end, IN
~ the angel Of the church, spirit oil the
+ir,ee 80 Interpreted of the Laodiceans,
and Yet us interpret Laodlceans. Ld9'
Creek. meaning people. Dlhaios' HlS''
| All persons ObserVant OF custom OF iule'
Secondly. observant of the rules OF rish',
| lghteous. all duties both to Goo ana
imam. righteous and just. So the Apoca-
lvptical writer was commanded 10 write
II know thy works, that thou art neltn-
er cold nor hot. | would thou vert
either cold or hot. but now that thou art
Iulkowarm and neither cold nor hot, l
VIII spew thee out of my mouth.
Now this is the condition OF Chris
tians to-day. They are so lndlnereht'
This is that lukewarmness, in when
state in the last age of the Christian DIS
Densation. from which condition we are
to be spewed out, so 10 speak, ana
would recall the fact that two Christian
ministers to-day, are by their own de-
clarat,ons. proclaiming this fact Pro
claiming this state, proclaiming THIS de-
cav But being spewn out Of the mouth
means the loss of the power Of the word
of God. THIS is symbol!cal speech and
only portrays how that from the word oil
me Almighty. as Israel of old, so now
tbe Christian Israel would not, could not
stand by the power of the Lord Ihey
called Christ a perverter in HIS days
and did not accept the word, that pro-
phesied by the Psalmist, Il will open my
mouth in parallels, l will utter dark
savings Of old" And as the Apocaly-
ticaI seer beheld Christ as the trium-
pbal king. vested with power and glory
IN the heaven, N his vision, and de-
qcribes Him as the word Of God, and as
ont of HIS mouth gOeth sharp sword
which sword proceedeth out of His
mouth and that with 1t He should smlte
/ the nations. has only become the foun-
| tain source of all equity and righteous
mes. and so He is called the word OF Coo
| and by its power are all things estab-
! lisned and in the decline OF TINS power
and the end of that state is tho chris
tan dsDens9tiOn spewed out or his
mouth as from the power Of the word
And so we read in the seventh chap
| ter. as The basis of our declarations
And everyone that heareth these say
/ ings of mine and dOeth them not shall
! be Ekened unto a foolish man wn.ch
/ built his house upon the sand And
Us We formerly declared that GU 1ken-
| ed His people unto the sand. - the
| counterpart Of that house is Christen-
! dom to-day, trembling lettering, fall
! ing. Let us hear some ministers in
I -heir declarations, one Of whom recently
! I'm our own city, SAID that the church
to which he belonged was not the true
| one Rather a remarkable confession
| for Il appears that there are false re-
| lgions and that there is but one true
one, Another minister of our own city
! has declared that the dawn OF a new and
grander and truer church IS abOl;, de-
Weeping. Is not this confession of the
passing away of the present system?
want TO quote DR.. Dixon OF New
/ York. from the PittsDurg Dispatch OF
| May u. 1895. He says: For twenty
wears. Professionalism III New York has
/ been a colossal failure. The majority
! Of the churches are doing nothing and
are a positive hindrance to the progress;
| of Christianity, and are repudiated by
! the spirit of Christ. They are encum-
brances upon the face Of the earth. A
/ plague and a hindrance to the advance
/ ment of truth" He further says
/ There are in these churches the brain
/ Jest men of the age, and yet they are
| not holding their own. They are a
| curse because they are only maintain
/ ing traditions of a dead past What the
| people want is new church, (aOotheI
remarkable statement) A church thai
/ viii reach the masses" What a con-
| fessioni How did Christ reach the
masses? HIS disciples? His apostles
/ The truth is what reaches the masses
Give the people the truth. And that is
what the churches of New York are try
ing to avoid" Surely they are being
/ spewed ont of His mouth
Rev. John J.. Scudder. in his sermon
on Religious Boycotts, against the Pres
| byterian General Assembly at Pittsbure
/ in its rulings against Union Theological
Seminary, says: AS a rule, the people
of America want preachers who can
/ think for themselves. They have had
enough of those clerical nonentities who
have al passed through the same anti
Quated theological machine, and talk a.
much alike as pickets in a fence. II
the General Assembly has anchored in
mid ocean and refuses 10 advance With
the times, many individual churcne.
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