Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-27

iov. peace, patience charity, brother:y
kindness. gentleneSs, mercy; glorl"nS
frnit enough to fiji all the baskets OF
earth and heaven.
notice that the fine gardens some
times have high fences around tnem
and YOU cannot get in. 1t is SO with
kings garden. The only glimpse you
ever gst of such a garden is when the
king rides out in his splendid carriage.
Il is not so with this garden, this Kings
garden. | throw wide open the gate
and tell you all to come in.
NO MONOPOLY IN RELIGION.
Whosoever will, may. Choose now be-
tween a desert and q garden. Many
OF YOU have tried the garden of this
worlds delight. You have found 1t
has been a chagrin. SO it was with
Theodore Hook. He made all the
world laugh. He makes us laugh now
when we read his poems; but he could
not make his own heart laugh. While
in the midst of his festivities he con-
fronted a lookingglass, and he saw
himself and said: There, that is true.
| look Just as | am; done up in body,
mind. and purse" So it was of Shen
stone. of whose garden | told you at
the beginning of my sermon. He sat
down amid those bowers and said: Il
have lost my road TO happiness. | am
angry and envious and frantic, and de-
spise everything around me just as it
becomes a mailman to do"
o We weary souls! come into Christ's
garden to-day and pluck little hearts
case. Chriot is the only rest and the
only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do
YOU rot think your cHance has almost
come? You men and women who have
been waiting year after year for
SOME GOOD OPPORTUNITY
in which to accept Christ, but have
postponed it, five, ten, twenty, thirty
yoars-do YOU not feel as if now your
hour of deliverance and pardon and sal
walton had come? o man what grudge
hast thou against thy poor soul that
thou wilt not let it be saved? l feel as
if salvation must come to-day in some
of your hearts.
Some years ago a vessel struck on the
rocks. They had only one lifeboat In
that lifeboat the passengers and crew
were getting ashore. The vessel had
foundered, and that one boat could not
take the passengers very swiftly A
little girl stood on the deck waiting for
her turn to get into the boat. The boat
came and went, came and went, but
her turn did not seem to come. After
awhile she could wait no longer, and
she leaped on the taff-rail and then
sprarg into the sea, crying to the boat
man, Save me next Save me next"
Oh, how many have gone ashore into
Gods mercy, and yet you are clinging
to the wreck of sin! Others have ac-
cepted the pardon OF Christ, but you
are in peril. Why not. this moment,
MAKE A RUSH
for your immortal rescue. crying until
Jesus shall hear you, and heaven and
earth ring with the cry, Save me neAtl
Save me next Now is the day Of sal
walton. Now! Now!
This Sabbath is the last for some of
you. 1t is about to sail away for ever.
Her bell tolls. The planks thunder
back in the gangway. She shoyes off
She floats out toward the great ocean
of eternity. Wave farewell To your
last chance for heaven. "Oh. Jerusa-
lem, Jerusalem, how often would have
gathered thee as a hen gatheretn her
brood under her wings, and We would
not, Behold your house is left unto
you desolate. Invited to revel in a
garden, you die in desert, May God
Almighty. before it is too late, break
that infatuation.