Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-25

I not unlDEEltlQ OuC AlA-N "a ca ~
| umns than for any man to
TAKE UP THE BIBLE.
| and. without getting Holy Ghost IL
/ lumination as TO its meaning, say,
! This Book insults my common sense
II cannot understand 1t. Away WIN
( the inc0ngruityI No one put the
Holy Ghost, who inspired the SCRIP
ftures. can explain the Scriptures III
~ realize that. and YOU viii be as en-
tbusiastica lover OF the old Book as my
venerable friend who told me III Phll-
elalrhia last week that he was read
ing tne Bible through the ttty-nlnth
1me and il became more attractive
and thrilling every time he went
through it. In the saddle-bags that
/ hung across NY horses back as l rode
| from Jerusalem down 10 the Dead sea
and ND to Damascus, / had all the
hooks about Palestine that l could car
nv. but many a man on his knees IN
/ the privacy Of his own room, has had
flashed upOn him more vivid apprecla-
r;on OF the Word of God than many a
man who has visited all the scenes OF
/ Cbrists birth. and Pauls eloquence
and Peter imprisonment ana JOSH
/ mas DrOwess. and Eljahs ascension.
/ [ do not depreciate any OF the helps
/ or Bible study. but l DO say thaJ theY
| Id together come Infinitely snort VIVA
! no a direct communication from the
: lrone OF God, in response TO prayer
/ M solicitation We may find many IN
/ resting things about the Bible with
| .lt especial illumination, as how many
| I0-ses Solomon had in his stables, Or
now lone was Noah's ark, or who was
| the only woman whose full name was
given in the Scriptures, or whicbsis the
! middle verse of the Bible, and all that
win do YOU no more good than to be
/ able to tell how many bean poles there
are i'm
+ YOUR NEICHBOR'S GARDEN.
/ The learned Earl of Chatham heard
the famous Mir. Cecil preach about the
| HOLY Ghost. and said TO q friend on
the way home from church: Il could
/ not understand it; and do you suppose
/ ANYBODY understood it, "Oh, yes,
ala his Christian friend. there were
J uneducated women and some little
children who understood it, | war
rant YOU that the English soldier had
under supernal influence read the
Book. for after the battle of lnkermann
was over ne was found dead with his
hand glued 10 the page of the open
Bible bv his own blood. and the words
adhered to his hands as they buried
him: 81 am the Resurrection and the
Life he that believeth in me, though
dead. yet shall he live
Next consider the Holy Ghost as a
human reconstruction We must be
made over again. Christ and NicO-
demus talked about it, Theologians
call il Regeneration. 1 do not care
what YOU call it, but we have to be re-
constructed by the Holy Ghost We
become new creatures, hating what we
once loved and loving what We once
hated. II sin were @ luxury, it must
become detestatiOn. II we preferred
bad associations we mus5 prefer good
associations. In most cases IL is such
a complete change that the world no
/ tees the difference, and begins to ask.
what has come over that man?
Whom has he been with? What has
so affected him? What has ransacked
his entire nature. What has turned
UNLl NNNtLt AhUuA. nAN wv l4N
lures of Paul: one on the road to Da-
mascus to Kill the disciples OF Christ;
the other on the road TO Ostia to die
for Christ Come nearer home, and
look at the man who found his chief
delight i'm @ low class Of club-rooms,
hiccoughing
AROUND THE CARD-TABLE,
and then stumbling down the front
steps after midnight. and staggering
hOmeward: and that same man, one
week afterward with his family on the
way to a prayer-meeting. What has
done it9 1t must be something ire
mendous. 1t must be God. 1t must be
the Holy Ghost.
Notice the Holy Ghost as the solacer
of broken hearts. Christ calls him the
Comforter. Nothing does the world so
much want AS comfort. The most
people have been abused. misrepre-
scented. cheated. lied about. swindled,
bereft. What is needed is balsam for
the wounds. lantern for dark roads,
rescue from maligning purSuers. a lift
from the marble slab OF tombstones.
Life to most has been q semi-failure.
They have not got what they wanted.
They have not reached that which
they started for. Friends betray.
Change OF business-stand loses old GUS
tom and does not bring enaugh new
custom TO make up for thelOss. Health
becomes precariOus when one most
needs strong muscle. and steady nerve
and clear brain. Out of this audience
of thousands and thousands, if / should
ask an those who have been Unhurt in
the struggle of life to stand up, or all
standing TO hold up their right hand,
not one would move. Oh how much
we need the Holy Ghost as Comforter.
He recites the sweet Gospel promises
TO the hardly bestead. He assures Of
mercy mingled with the seventies. He
consoles with thoughts of coming re-
lease. He tells Of a heaven where tear
is never wept. and burden is never car
ried. and injustice
Is NEVER SUFFERED.
Comfort for all the young people who
are Ealtreated at home, or receive in
sufficient income, or are robbed &C
their schooling, or kept back from po-
sitiOns they have earned by the put
ting forward of others less worthy.
Comfort for all these men and women
midway I'm the path of life. worn out
with what they have already gone
through. and with no Frightening flu
ture. Comfort FOR these aged ones
amid many infirmities, and who feel
themselves to be in the way in the
home or business which themselves
established with their own grit
The holy Ghost comfort, l think,
generally comes in the shape of solilo-
guy You find yourself saying to