Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-30

is THERE ANY QUESTION
that compares with it in Importance?
What is il TO Napoleon III. whether ne
triumphed or surrendered at SEDAN,
whether he died at TUilleries or ChlseI-
I hurst. whether he was emperor or eA-
lie? Because he was laid out IN the
coffin in the dress OF a field marshal
did that give him any better chance for
the future than if he had been laid out
in a plain shroud? What difference
will il soon make 10 you or 10 me
whether in this world We walked or
rode, whether We were bowed 70 or
maltreated. whether we were applauded
or Kissed al. welcomed in or kicked
out? while laying hold OF every mo-
ment Of the future, and burning IN
every splendOr or every grief, ana
Oyerarching or undergirding all time
and all eternity will be the plain,
startling infinite, stuDendOus question
Of the text: What must 1 do 10 be
saved?"
oul 1 remark again: l characterize
this question OF the agitated jall-keep-
er as hasty, urgent and immediate
He put it on the run. BY the light OF
his torch Is he goes TO look for the
apostles. behold his face see the star
tied lock and see the earnestness. No
one can doubt by that look that the
man is in earnest. He must
HAVE THAT QUESTION AN
SEVERED
before the earth stops rocking, or per-
hapS he Will never have Il answered
at ALL Is this the way, my brother,
my sister, you are putting this ques-
ton? Is it on the run? Is il hasty?
Is it urgent? Is it immediate? II it
is not il viii not be answered. That
is the only kind of question that is an
swered II is the urgent and the i'm
mediate question OF the Gospel Christ
answers. A great many are asking
this question, but they drawl it out,
and there is Indifference in their man
ner as il they do not mean il. Make
il an urgent question, and then you viii
have il answered before an hour passes,
before a minute passes. When a man
with all the earneStneSS OF his soul
cries out for God, he finds him, and
finds him right away.
Oh, are there not in this house to-
day those who are pOstpOning until the
last hour Of living the attending of
things OF the soul! i give it as my
opinion that ninety-nine out Of one
hundred death-bed repentances
AMOUNT TO NOTHING.
OF all the scores Of persons mentioned
as dying in the Bible. Of how many do
you read that they successfully re-
pented in the last hour? OF nifty? No.
OF forty? No. OF thirty? No. OF
twenty? No. OF ten? No. OF five?
No. OF One-Only one, barely one, as
if TO demonstrate the fact that there is
bare possibility of repenting in the
last hour. But that is improbable. aw-
fully improbable, terrifcally imprOb-
able. One hundred TO one against the
man. If, my brother, my sister, you
have ever seen a man trying TO repent
in the last hour, you have seen some
thing very sad. l Go not know any
thing on earth 50 sad as TO see a man
try TO repent on a deathbed. There is
not for a moment that life begins TO
breathe IN infancy, TO the last gasp,
such a nunfayorable, completely I'M
favorable hour for repentance as the
death hour, the last hour. There are
the doctors standing with the medi-
cines. There is the lawyer standing
with the half-Written will There is
the family in CONSERVATION as 10 what
is 10 become Of them. All the bells OF
eternity ringing the soul out OF the
body. All the past rising before US
and all the future. Oh, that man is
AN INFINITE FOOL
who procrasunates to the deathbed his
repentance.
Ny ten. does not answer the question. !
Il only asks It, with deep and Emporium
ate earne5tness asks Il, and according
10 the rules Of sermoniz.ng. you would |
say, Adjourn that 10 some other time"
but | dare not. What are the rules OF !
sermOniz.ng TO me when I am after /
souls? What other time could l have, |
when perhaps this IS the only time? |
This might be my last time for preach |
ing; this might be your las, time for
hearing.
Afcer my friend in Philadelphia died, /
his children gave MS church Bible to |
me, and l read it, looked over IL with |
much interest. ! saw IN the margin, !
written in lead pencil: Mr.. Talmage
said this morning that the most useless !
thing IN all God universe is that any /
sinner should perish l did not re-
member saying il. but il is true. and 1 |
say &c now. whether / SAID it then or
not; the most useless thing IN all Gods |
universe IS that any sinner should per-
ssh. Twelve gates vide open. Have |
you not heard how Christ bore our scr /
rows. and how sympathetic be is with
all our woes, Have YOU not heard now
that with an the sorrows OF heart and
an the agon-es Of he'll upon nm. ne
cried. Father forgive them. they know
not what they d02" BY MS feet blister
ed O. the mountain way-hy his back
whipped until the skin came of. by his
deathcouch of four spikes. TWO for the
hands and two for the fse,-by his sep
ulchre n which for the frs. time for
thirty-three years Che cruel world lat
HIM aione-and by the heavens from
which he row bends in compassion. Of
fering pardon and peace. and life eter-
nal 20 all yoTr souls. 7 beg % you put
down your all al his feet
] saw one hanging ca a tree
In agony and blood
Who fixed his largu.f ewes on me
As near his cross a stood.
on. never tiU my latest breath.
WIZ forget that look.
DO seemed to charge me with his death.
Though NOD "a word he spoke.
But a more thrilling story. The death
warrant had come forth from the King
% heaven ard earth The death war
rant read. The soul thar s.nne,h. 10
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