Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-27


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temple falls. Ny friends, where there
isl one man IN the Church Of God al this
day should5-ing his whole duty, there
are g-slt many who never lift an
aka or swing q b3ugh. il seems 10 me
e. Il lhere We're
TEN DRONES IN EVERY HIVE
10 enc busy bee: IS though there were
twenty sailors sound asleep IN the ships
hammocks 10 four men on th= stormy
deck. l. seems as # there were fifty
thousand men belonging to the re5erve
corps. and only one thousand active
combatants. On, We all want our boats
10 go over to the golden sands; but the
mos. of us era seated either in the Prov
O. in the stern. wrapped in our striped
shawl. holding a big-handled sun--hade,
VAle others are blistered in the heat,
ard pull until the car-lccks groan, and
the blades bend till they snap. On,
you religious sleepy-heads, wake up!
You have lain SO lO2s in one place that
the ants and caterpillars have begun
10 crawl over you! What do you know,
nv brother. about @ living Gospel
made to storm the world? Now, my
,dea of Christian IS man on fire with
zeal for God; and if your pulse Ordin-
srily beats sixty times a minute when
you think of ether themes, and tax
about cther themes. if your pulse does
not go up to seyenty-fva or eighty whsn
Won come 10 talk about Christ and
heaven. il is because you do not know
the ons. and have poor chance Of get
tirg to the C'her.
May the eternal God
ROUSE ALL TO ACTIONi
As for myself. I feel [ would be ashamed
10 die now and enter heaven until l have
accomplished something more decisive
for the Lord that brought me. Oh,
brethren. how swiftly the time goes by!
1t seems 10 me as if the years had gain
ed some new pCwers Of locomotiOn-a
kind of speed electric.
The temple Of Berth is very broad
and it is very high. 1t has been going
up by the hands of men and devils, ana
no human engineering can demOlish it;
but if the seventy thousand ministers
of Christ in this country should each
take branch OF the tree of life, and all
their congregations should do the same,
and we should march on and throw
these branches around the great tenn
pies Of sin, and w0rldliness, and folly,
il would need no match, or coal, or
torch Of ours to touch off the pile for,
as in the days of Elijah fire would fall
from heaven and kindle the bonfire Of
Christian victory over demolished sin.
Still further, I learn from this subject
THE DANGER OF FALSE REFUGEES.
AS soon as these Shechemites got into
the temple, they thought they were
safe. They said: BERTH will take care
CT us. Abimelech may batter down
everything else; he cannot batter down
this temple where we are now hid.
But very soon they heard the timbels
cracking, and they were smothered
with smoke, and they miserably died.
l suppose every person in this audience
this moment is stepping into some kind
of refuge. Here you step in the tower
Of good works. You say: Il shall be
safe in this refuge" The battlements
are adorned; the steps are vanished; on
the wall are pictures of all the suffer-
ing you have alleviated, and all the
schools you have established, and all
the fine things you have ever done.
Up in that tower you feel you are safe.
But hear you not the tramp Of your I'M
pardOned sins all around the tower?
They each have a match. They are kin
ding the cOmbustible material You
feel the heat and suffocation OH may
you leap in time. the Gospel declaring:
by the deeds of the law shall no flesh
living be justified"
"Weu," you say, q have been driven
out of that tower; where shall l go?"
Step into this
TOWER OF INDIFFERENCE.
You say: IF this tower is attacked, it
will be a great while before it is
taken" You feel at ease. But there is
an Abimelech. with ruthless assault,
coming on. Death and his forces are
gathering around, and they demand
that you surrender everything, and they
clamor for your overthrow, and they
throw their skeleton arms in the WIN
dow, and with their iron fists they beat
against the door, and while you are try
ing to keep them out you see the torches
of judgment kindling, and every forest
is torch, and every mountain a torch,
and every sea torch, and while the
Alps, and the Pyrenees, and the Himal-
ayas turn into live coal, blown redder
and redder by the whirlwind breath OF
a God omnipotent what will become OF
your refuge Of lies?
But says some one, ''you are en-
gagged in a very mean business, driving
us from tower to tower" Oh, no! want
20 tell you Of a Gibraltar that never has
been and never will be taken. OF a wall
that no Satanic assault can scale; of
bulwark that the judgment of earth
Quakes cannot bulge. The Bible refers
to it when it says: In God is thy ref
uge, and underneath thee is the ever
lasting arms" Oh! fling yourself into
It, Tread down unceremOniously ev-
erything that intercepts you. Wedge
your way there. There are enough
hounds Of death and peril after you 10
make YOU hurry Many a man has per-
ished just outside the tower, with his
foot on the step, with his hand on the
latch Oh! get inside. Not one surplus
second have you to spare. Quicki
quick! quick!