Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-02-23

/ cnlv oun thing, end that ta show ALI ma
tons the way into the barbor of Gods
mercy and to the crystalline wharyes of
I the heavenly city. where the immortals
are WAITING Fer new arrivals. Dead sky-
larks, when they might have been flying
saraphs
A Question Of Belief
Here also come. covering mn the old
gospel some who think they can by law
and exposure of crime save the world.
/ and from Portland. Me. across to San
Francisco, and back again to New Or
/ leans and Savannah, many Of the minis
4 tiers have gone into the detective bust
ness Worldly reform by all means. but
| unless it be also cospel reform it will
/ be dead failure In New York its chief
work has been to give us a change of
| bosses. We had a Democratic boss, and
now it Is to be a Republican boss. but
1 the quarrel is, Who shall be the Repub-
/ lican? Politics will save the cities tho
game day that satan eyangelizes perdi-
| ton.
Here comes another class of people
who in pulpit and outside of il cover up
/ the gospel with the theory that it makes
no final difference what you believe or
l how you act, you are bound for heaven
anyhow There they sit, side by side,
/ in heaven: Garfield, and Guiteau. who
shot him; Lincoln, and John Wilkes
/ Booth, who assassinated him; Washing
ton, and Thomas Paine, who slandered
him. Mana Sahib, and the missionaries
whom he dubbed to death at Cawnpur;
Herod, and the children whom he mas
sacred, Paul, and Nero who beheaded
I him. As result of the PRONUNCIATION Of
such nlongrel and conglomerate heav.
en-, thereare millions of people in Chris
/ tendon who expect to go straight to
heaven from their seraglios, and their
| inebriation, and their suicides, when
among the loudest thunders that break
over the basaltic island to which St
John was expatriated was the ono in
which God announced that "the aboln-
! Unable and the murderers and whore
mongers and sorcerers and idolaters and
all liars, shall have their place in the
lake which burneth with fire and brim-
stone, which is the second death. " |
correct what said when | declared The
gospel was buried so feet deep. 1t IS
buried |, 900 feet deep. Had the glorious
gospel been given full opportunity, |
think before this the world would have
had no need of pulpit or sermon or
prayer or church, but thanksgiving and
hosannas would have resounded in the
temple TO winch the mountains would
have been pillars, and the blue skies the
dome, and the rivers the baptistery and
all nations the worshlpers III the audi
forum OF the outspread world. But so
lar from that as l remarked i'll the
opening sentence OF tins sermon, the
greatest novelty of our time is the gos-
pei. And let mo say to the hundreds
and thousands OF educated and splendid
young men about to enter the gospel
ministry from the theological seminaries
OF all denominations, on this and the
other side OF the seas, that there is no
drawing power like the glorious gospel.
Him hath God lifted up to draw all
men unto him. Get your souls charged
and surcharged with this gospel, and
you Will have large audiences and will
not have to announce in order TO assem-
bic such audiences a Sunday night sa-
cred concert, with a brief address by
the pastor, or the presence of BLACK
PATHS, " or Creole MINISTRIES, Or some
new exposure of Tammany, or sermon
accompanied by magic lantern or ste
reopticon views.
Glorious News.
The glorious gospel of the blessed God
as spoken of in my text will have more
drawing power, and when that gospel
gets full swing it will have a momen-
tum and power mightier than that of
the Atlantic ocean when under the
force of the September equinox it strikes
the highlands of the Navesink The
meaning OF the word gospel" is ''good
news, F" and my text says it is glorious
good news, and we must tell it in orr
churches, and over our dry goods coun-
ters, and in our factories, and over our
thrashing machines, and behind our
plows, and on our ships decks, and i'll
our parlors, our nurseries and kitchens,
as though it were glorious good news,
and not with dismal drawl in our
voice. and a dismal look on our faces,
as though religion were a rheumatic
twinge, or dyspeptic pang, or ma
larial chill, or an attack of nervous
prostration. With nine ''blesseds" OF
'happys, Christ began his sermon on
the mount-bleSsed the poor; blessed
the mourner: blessed the meek: blessed
tho hungry; blessed the merciful; bless
ed the pure; blessed the peacemakers;
blessed the prosecuted; blessed the re-
viled; blessed, blessed, blessed; happy,
happy, happy. Glorious good news for
the young as through Christ they may
have their coming years ennobled, and
for a lifetime ali the angels of God their
coadjutors, and ali the armies of heaven
their allies Glorious good news for the
middle aged as through Christ they may
have their porplexities disentangled, and
their courage rallied, and their victory
over all obstacles and hindrances made