Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-04

lions have fallen on millions. do not let
as spend all our time in taking care of
few people. and when the command
comes. Go into the world say prac-
tically. No 1 cannot so, l have here
few choice cases. and 1 am busy keep
ing on the flies There are multi
tudes to-day who have never had amy
Christian worker look them i'm the eve,
and with earneSness i'm the accenW-
alton. say. Come" or they would loug
ago have been i'm the kingdom My
friends religion is either a sham or
tremendous reality.
liz 1T BE A SHAM.
let MS cease to have anything TO do
with Christian association. Ii it be a
reality then great populations are on
their way to the bar OF God untitled for
the ordeal, and what are we doing?
I'm order to reach the multitude of
outsiders We must drop all technical
ties ont of our religion. When we talk
20 people about the hypostatic union
and French Encyclopedianism, and
EraStinianism and COmplutensianism
We are as~impOlitic and little under
stood rs if a physician should talk %
an ordinary patient about the pericar-
dunn. and intercostal muscle and
scorbutic symptoms
Comparatively little effort as yet has
been made TO save that large class OF
persons i'm our midst called sceptics
You would not be so rough on that
man if YOU knew by what process he
had lost his faith in Christianity. I
have known men sceptical from the
fact that they grew up in houses where
religion was OverdOne. Sunday was
the most awful day Of the week They
had religion driven into them with
trip-hammer. They were surfeited
with prayer meetings. They were
stuffed and chOked with catechisms
They were often told they were the
worst boys the parents ever knew, be-
cause they liked 10 ride down Hill bet
ter than 20 read BUnyOn s Pilgrim
Progress" Whenever father and
mother talked religion they drew down
the corners of their mouth and rolled
up their eyes. II I had had such g
father and mother | fear / should have
been an infdel When was boy in
Sunday School at one time We had
teacher who when we were not atten-
tive, struck us over the head with a
New Testament. and there is way of
using even the Bible SO as
TO MAKE 1T OFFENSIVE.
Others were tripped up Of scepticism
from being previously wrOnged by
some man who had professed to be
Christian. They had a partner in bus
mess who turned out to bee first class
scOundrel. though a prOfessed Chris
tian Many years ago they lost all
faith by what happened i'm an OH COM
pauy which was formed amid the Pc
troleum excitement
Remember scepticism always has
| some reason. good or bad, for existing.
| Gothe'S irrelgion started when the
news came 20 Germany of the earth
quake at Lisbon. November l. 1li3.
I That sixty Thousand people should
I have persisted in that earthquake and
/ i'm the after rising OF the TaguS SO
stirred his sympathies that he threw
up his belief i'm the goodness OF God.
Others have gone into Scepticism
/ from a natural persistence i'm asking
the reason why. They have been fear
fully stabbed of the interrogation
point There are so many things they
cannot get explained They cannot
understand the Trinity or how God
| can be sovereign and yet man free
/ agent Neither can I. They say: Il
don't understand why a good God
should have let sin come into the
world Neither do l. You say:'Why
. was that child started i'm life with
such disadvantages. while others have
an physical and mental equipment?
cannot tell. They go out of church
on Easter morning and say: That
doctrine of the resurrection confound-
ed me- So it is 70 me a mystery be-
yond unravelment
UNDERSTAND ALL
the processes by which men get into
the dark [ know them ALL l have
! travelled with burning feet that blis-
tered way. The first word which most
children learn 10 utter is. Papa, or
| Mamma but l think the first word |
/ ever uttered was, Why / know
what it is to have a hundred mid
nights pour their darkness into one
! hour Such men are not to be scoited,
| but helped. Turn your back upon a
drowning man when You have the rope
/ with which TO pull him ashore and let
that woman i'm the third story of a
| house perish I'm the flames when Won
have "a ladder with which 10 help her
| ont and help her down, rather than
turn YOUR back scOdingly on sceptic
whose soul is i'm more peril that the
| bodies of those other endangered ones
nOssibv can be. Oh, scepticlsm is a
I dark land. There are men i'm this
| house who would give thousand
worlds if they possessed them, to get
back 10 the placid faith of their faith
ers and mothers. and il is our place TO
I helm them and we may help them.
never through their heads. but always
through their hearts. These scepucS,
when brought to Jesus will be might
inv effective far more SO than those
who never examined the evidence OF
/ Christianity.
Again. there is a field of usefulness
/ but little touched occupied by those
who are astray i'm their habits. All
/ northern nations. like those of North
America. and England, and Scotland.
that is in the colder climates. are de
| wasted bv alcoholism. They take the
fire 20 keep mp the warmth. in
southern countries like Arabia and
| Spain. the blood is so warm they are
not tempted to frey liquids. The
great Roman armies never drank any
thing stronger than water tinged with
vinegar. but under cur northern cIl-
mate the temptation to heating slim
ulants is most mighty. and millions
succumb. When mans habits so
wrong the church drops him. the
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