Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-14

SEX. how Sllli i give MIN up What
viii his mother say when l come back
without my boy? l thought he would
have been the comfort of my declining
days [ thought he would have been
the hope Of ages TO Come. Beautiful
and loving, and Yet TO DE under my
own hand Oh. GO1i is there not some
other sacrifice that viii do? Take my
life, and spare his. Pour out my blood
and save Isaac for his mother and the
world" Isaac. must / tell you ALP" His
son said: Yes, father. / thought you
had something on your mind; tell it,"
The father said: My son, Isaac, thou
art the lamb" oh" you say, why
didn't jic- young man, f he was twenty
or thirty years of age, sm.te INFO the
dust his .nfrm father? He could have
done it, All, Isaac knew by this time
that the scene was typical Of Mes
siah who was 10 come. and he
MADE NO STRUGGLE.
They fell on each others necks, and
walled ouc the parting Awful and
ma-chless scene Of the wilderness. The
rocks echo back the breaking of their
hearts. The cry: My son. Ny son"
The answer: My father, Ny father
Do not compare this, as some peO-
pie have. 70 Agamemnon, willing to Of
fer up his daughter, Iphisenia TO
please the gods. There IS nothing
comparable 20 this wonderful Obedi-
euco 20 the true God You know that
victims for sacrifice We're always bound,
50 Shat they might not struggle away.
I Rawlings. the martyr when he was
dying for Chr.st's sake. said 10 the
blacksmith who held tho manacles:
"Fasen those chains tight now, for
my flesh may struggle nightly So
Islac's arms are fastened. his feet are
tied. The old man, rallying all his
/ strength. lifts him on to a pile Of wood.
I Fastening q thong on one side Of the
altar. he makes it span the body Of
. Isaac and fastens the thong at the 9TH
ed SIDE OF -he altar, and another thong.
and another thong. There is the lamp
fickcring IN the wind, ready 10 be put
under the brushwo0d of the altar. There
is the knife, sharp and keen. Abraham
-srugglng with his moral feelings on
the one side and the commands OF God
on the 0ther-takes that knife, rubs the
fiat Of il on the palm of his hand, cries
90 God for help. comes up to the side Of
tAe altar. puts a parting kiss on the
brow of his boy takes message from
him for mother and home, and then,
lifting the glittering weapon for the
. plunge Of the death-stroke-his muscles
knitting for the work-his hand be-
gins 70 descend. Tt falls! Not on the
+ heart of Isaac. but on the arm Of God,
+ who arrests the stroke. making the viii
/ derness quake with the cry: Abraham!
+ Abraham. lay not thy hand upon the
+ lad, nor do HIM any harm!'
WHAT Is THIS SOUND
back in the woods? It is a cracking
as of tree branches. a bleating and a
/ struggle. Go. Abraham, and see what
tt rs. On, 10 was a ram that going
through the woods, has its crooked
/ horns fastened and tangled in the
/ brush-wood and could not get loose;
and Abraham seizes it gladly, and
! quickly unl0Osens Isaac from The altar,
puts the ram on in its place, sets the
/ lamp under the brush-wOod Of the al
tar. and as the dense smoke of the sac
rifce begins to rise, the blood rolls
down the sides Of the altar, and drops
Kissing into the FIRE, and / hear the
. words Behold the Lamb of God who
takes away the sins Of the world
Wei. what are YOU going 10 set OUT
Of this2 There Is an angel minister Of
The Gospel He Saws: Il should get out
OF f. that when God tells you to do a
. thing. whether Ii seems reasonable TO
You or not, go ahead and DO 10. Here
Abraham couldn't have been mistaken.
God didn't speak so indistinctly that it
was not certain whether he called Sarah
or Ablmelech. or somebody else; but
with divine articulation, divine into
nation. divine emphasis He said: "Abra-
hlmr Abraham rushed blindly ahead
to- 10 his duty knowing that things
would come out right. Likewise do 50
yourselves. There is mystery of your
life. You don't know why God has put
it on Won. There is some persecution.
some trial. aud YOU don't know why
God allows il. There is a work FOR You
Co jO and YOU have not enough grace.
YOU -b.nk, to do it. DO as Abraham did.
Advance and do your whole duty. Be
willing 20 give up Isaac, and perhaps
ycu viii not have TO give up anything.
/ 'Jeh0vch-jerih'-the Lord will provide. -
A capital lesson this old minister gives
u.s.
OUT YONDER. IN THIS HOUSE,
F is ON aged woman; the light Of heaven
i'm her face; She is halfway through the
door, She has her hand Oh the pearl of
the gate Mother, what would YOU get
out of this subject? "Oh," she says,
l would learn that it is in the last
pinch that God comes 10 the relief. You
sec the altar was ready. and Isaac was
fastened on it, and the knife was lifted;
and just at the last moment God broke
n and stopped proceedings. So it has
been In my life of seventy years. Why
SIP. there was time when the flour was
oA ont of the house: and set the table
~ noon and had nothing to put on it;
pug i've minutes of one o'clock loaf of
bread came. The Lord will provide.
sly son was very sick. and said. Dear
Lord You don't mean to take him
away from me. do YOU? Please. Lord,
don't take him away. Why. there are
neighbors who have three or four sons;
tins rs my only son: this is my Isaac.
Lord. You won't take him away from
me. VIII you2 But [ saw he was get
ting worse and worse an the time; and
/ turned round and prayed. until after
q while / felt submissive. and T could
say: Thy VIII. o Lord. be doner The
. doctors gave him up. and we all gave
him up. And. as was the custom In
those times. we had made the grave
clothes and we We're whispering about
the last exercises when l looked. and I
saw some perspirauOn on his brow.
showing that the fever had broken. and