Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-24

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he Wee leISuL over AelSA1s e'iNAIuN'0
above altitude. mountain above noun
tain. then sank down in discourage
ment and gave it up, Tor he saw Sierra
Nevadas beyond and MatterhOrns be-
v0nd and waving his hands back TO us
i'm the plains. he says Past finding
out: unsearchable. that in all things he
might have the pre-eminence. You
notice nearly all the sinners men
toned as pardoned in the Bible
WE'RE GREAT SINNERS g
David a great sinner. Paul a great sim
ner. Rahab a great sinner, Magdalen
great sinner. the Prodigal Son great
sinner The world easily understood
how Christ could pardon half-and-
half sinner. but what the world wants
to be persuaded of is that Christ will
forgive the worst sinner, the oldest
sinner the most inexcusable sinner.
To the sin-pardOning Shiloh let all the
gatherings Of the people be.
But, 7 remark again. the people viii
gather around Christ as a sympathizer.
Oh, we all want sympathy. I hear pec-
pie talk as though they We're independ-
emit OF it, None Of MS could live with
ont sympathy. When parts Of our
family are away. how lonely the house
seems until they all get home, But
alas, for those who never come homei
Sometimes it seems as if il must be
impossible What will their feet never
again come over the threshold? VIII
they never again kneel with us at fam>
ilv PRAYER? Shall we never again look
into their sunny faces? Shall we never
again on earth take counsel with them
for our work? Alas, me. who can
stand under these Friefs? OH Christ.
THOU CANST DO MORE
FOR = bereft soul than any one else.
IT. is he who who stands beside MS II
tell Of the resurrection. II is he that
came to hid peace. Is it he that comes
to MS and breathes into us the sDirit OF
submission until we can look M from
the wreck and ruin of our brightest ey-
rectations and say: Father not nv
Will but thine be done" Oh. We who
are bereft. We anguish bitten. come into
the refuge The roll Of those who
came for relief TO Christ is larger and
larger. Unto this Shiloh of omniDotent
svmpathy the gathering Of the peonle
shall he Oh, that Christ would stand
bv all these emntv cradles. and al
these desOlated homesteads. and all
these broken hearts. and persuade us it
is well.
The world cannot offer Won anv helm
at such time. Suppose the world
comes and offers YOU money. Won
would rather live on q crust i'm a cellap
and have YOUR departed loved ones
with You. than live in Yalatial sur
roundinss and they away. Suppose
the world offers YOU its honors to con-
sole Won. What is the Presidency to
Abraham Lincoln when little Willie
lies dead i'm the White House? Per-
hans the world comes and SAYS: Cline
will cure it all" All. there are griefs
that have ragged on for thirty years
and are raging vet. And yet hundreds
have been comfOrted thousands have
been cOmfOTted, millions have been
cOmfOrted, and
CHRIST HAD DONE THE WORK.
On. what Won want is sympathy. The
worlds heart Of sympathy beats very
irregularly. Plenty Of sympathy when
we do not want il: and often when we
are i'm appalling need Of il. no sympa-
thy There are multitudes Of peOple
dying for symDathy-sy sympathy in their
work. sympathy in their fatigues. sym,
pathy in their bereavements. sympathy
i'm their financial losses, sympathy in
the time Of declining years-wide. deep.
high, everlasting, almighty sympathy.
We must have it, and Christ gives it.
III r lie 40 H. 3, l. s-F.
to draw all nations to him.
AT the story of punishment a mans
eve flashes and his teeth set and his
fist clinches. and he prepares to do bat
tie even thought il be against the
heavens; yet what heart so hard but
10 viii gilccumb TO the story of compass
sion. Even mans sympathy is pleas
ant and helpful. When we have been
in some hour of weakness. to have a
brawny man stand beside us and prom
Use to see us through, what courage it
gives 10 our heart and what strength
it gives 20 our arm. Still mightier is
q wOman's sympathy. Let him tell
the story who. when all his fortunes
were gone and all the world was
against him. came home and found in
that home a wife who could write on
the top of
THE EMPTY FLOUR BARREL.
"The Lord viii PROVIDE or write on
the door OF the empty wardrobe. Con
slider the lilies OF the field: if God so
clothed the grass of the field will he
not clOthe us and CURSE Or let that
young man tell the story who has
gone the whole round of dissipation.
The shadow of the penitentiary upon
him, and even his father says. BE
off, never come home again. The
young man finds still his mothers
arms OUtsretched for him, and how
she viii stand at the wicket of the
prison 10 whisper consolation, or get
down on her knees before the Governor,
begging for pardon, hoping on for her
hayward boy after all others are hope
less. Or let her tell the story who,
under villainCu5 allurement and impa
uent of parental restraint, has wander
ed off from home OF which she was
the idol into the murky and thunder
Gus midnight OF abandonment. away
from God, and further away. until some
time she Is tossed on The beach of that
early home q mere splinter of a wreck.
Who viii pity her n0w2 Who Will
gather these dishonOred locks into her
LAP? Who will wash of the blood from
the gashed forehead? Who will tell
her OF that Christ who came to save
the lost? Who viii put that weary
head upon the clean white pillow and
watch by day and watch by night un-
ul the b0arse voice of the sufferer be-
comes the whisper, and the whisper be-
comes only @ faint motion of the lips.
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