The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-24
TELLS HOW CHRIST WOULD REGARD
Many Of tho UnclristIan aud Inhu.
mano Conditions OF To.day-The
Creator Christ Would DO Iatonsoly
Practical In His Doalings-Mon
Shonid bo Convcrterso OF 5fou-onar.
terly Meeting ut Wesley Church.

ticularly with the Greater Chtist aud
what would ensue should Christ como
to-day. The audiences, both morning
and evening, were very large. Tho
music by tho choir wa, a feature. the
solos OF Mr. L. L. Stone and Professor
Scho1cld, md tho due.t BY Mrs. Her
bert RiheldatTer and Mrs. Bickloy, be.
Ing greatly crjoyed. DR.. Buckley said:
Man Is to DO converter OF men, aud
Christ does the forging. The Word
snys,, "Ho which converteth the sinner
from tho error OF his way shall save 4
soul from DEATH" We have not beon
approaching our God.givcn privileges.
Christ said, "And / if DO lifted up
from tho earth will draw all men unto
Me- His death on tho crosa alone
would have accomplished nothing il He
were not exalted in our lives. Our lighta
shining with true radiance Of His
blessed light attracts others to Him
who came TO save men by men.
All can be preachers-for preaching
is simply urging people TO give up Gin.
ming and shows tho way to heavenlinesa
OF character and contamination by tho
Lord Jesus.
"Grace and truth came by Jesua
Christ"-John LII. It was not until
Christ came that man knew OF the tull.
ness OF grace and truth. 1t was not by
tho incarnation OF Christ that We be-
held the vastnsss OF love, but by the
cross and its precious sacrifice. 1t vas
~ In y t,.... Al,
that forced drops OF blood from tho Re-
deemers heart. Salvation is to be
found in the divine, human Christ.
There must be q union Of the human
with the divine that grace and truth
shall obtain.
This i. developed in more abund-
ant life" as rapidly and fully as mans
faith reaches out TO the Redeemer.
When fully swayed by this Divine in-
tiuence We are Christ's men and Christ's
women, and not the seli-sutficient and
seli.seeking men OF the world. We be-
come. thereby in all earthly relations
vital expression, OF the Christ to our
brother man. Par.akers OF the Christ
life must give forth and inspire His
more abundant life. The Cross was no
contriyance TO take the place OF charac-
ter. but was the vital principle of hnr-
mony into those blessings We would
bring the whole race. Its more abund-
ant life" growing out ofsacrifce il what
is needed in these times.
THE NEED OF S SOCIETY.
Human Institutions must be gospel
lied. What is society leading to to-day?
Has Christ any authority IN it? II
Christ came to-day how would He act?
He would take His stand at the bank
desks and plead aGains, them making
mans necessity their opportunity OF
gain. 1Ie would deuounce the evil of
usury.
He would come to the store counter
and plead for honest dealing and against
adultc rat,ons. He would mincle with
the exchanges and plead against cor.
ners in breadstutta and necessities Of
life.
He would como to syndicates and
trusts and denounce ,hem for hinder
ing production and keeping up high and
exhorbitant prices while wage. .earneru
received no equivalent increase.
He would come TO factories with own
ers and employers and donounce the
sweating systems which compel men,
women and children for q mere
pittauce in reeking apartments to exc
out an existence OF life and death. He
would come to railways and other sys-
tens and plead for the one.seventh OF
time as sacred for man. Ho would plead
everywhere for the golden rule.
Ho would teach that an un.Christ-.
ianized banker, merchant, employer,
operator, citizen and parcnt is an un.
Chris.ianized individual, that tho indi.
vidual and the method OF business pro.
| cccdure are insepasablc.
Tho whole trend OF Christianity is to
teach grace and truth as it came by
Jesus Cnrist. sl5
That dollar, lamp, a game, a
school, tho legislature, tho corporation,
the council. tho business, should be
usol in some way rs Christ used His
Cross, namely to uplift and save men,
to mako them better.
Tho principle OF Christs character
should be same in tho club room, the
social hour. tho college, the street, tho
railway, tho kitchen and the bed room
as in the church, namely, tho botter-
| ment and larger satisfaction of man
hood. These arc no less purchased and
redcomedby the Mas,erthan arc men and
women. There ia no being, nor thing,
nor institution, that has moral right
to exist for any other purpose or princi.
pic than moved Christ TO dio on Col
| cotha. Whatever would have been
wrong in Christ is wrong in the baak,
the exchange, tho pawn shop. in book,
IN the individual. in tho church aud
everywhere.
Tho cross is being more and moro
properly interpreted rs Gods design to
| heal the worlds sin.smitten and
struggling civilization. Tho institutions
aud possessions OF mon must be lifted
to tho level Of tho cross with its won-
drous grace and truth before they can
accomplish what God intonded for the
race. They must DO forever nailed to the
cross. while thoir blood must DO shed
ior man; sacrificed to the same end
that Christ was sacrificed. not for per.
sonAl selfish gain, but for the GOOD OF
tho world. "a
This must DO douo hoioro God can
bring eternal and bouciicont order out
OF tho chaos and strife and sorrows OF
history or sad ages roach their blessed
satisfaction and rosL.
Now achemcs, eocial Inventions and
soclaIistic dreams will still DO bettered
and good may como out of thcm, for
''wtLDEsr DREAMS
arc but the noodiul ptcludcs OF truth
Thoao struggles uro but tho outreachins
Of tho generations toward TINT better