Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-10

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the only way the NCrJn anu the oCuIA
viii be brought
INTO COMPLETE ACCORD.
IS 10 have war with some foreign ma
ton. in which both sections, marching
side by side, would forget everything
but the foe TO be overcome. Well Ii
YOU wait for such a foreign conflict,
you will wait until all this generation
is dead, and perhaps wait forever. The
war that viii make the sections for
get PAST controversies is q war against
unrighteousness, such as q universal re-
licious awakening would declare. What
we want is a battle for souls, in which
about forty million NOrJheTners and
Southerners shall be on one and the
same side. and shoulder to shoulder.
In no other city on the continent can
such a war be declared so appropriate
~. for all the other great cities are
either Northern or Southern. This is
neither. or rather it is both.
Again it would be especially advan-
tageors if a mighty work OF grace start
ed here, because more representative
men are in Washington than in any
other city between the oceans. OF
course there are accidents in politics,
and occasionally there are men who get
into the Senate and House Of Represen-
tatives and other important places who
are fitted for the positions in neither
head nor heart; but this is exceptional
and more exceptional now than in other
days.
THERE IS NOT A DRUNKARD
i'm the National Legislature, although
there were times when Kentucky, Viz
ginia. Delaware, Illinois, New York,
and Massachusetts had men in the Sem
ate or House Of Representatives VINO
went maudlin and staggering drunk
across those high places. Never nobler
gr0up of men sat in Senate or House OF
Representatives than sat there yesJer-
day or will sit there tomorrow, while
the highest judiciary, without eXcep-
ton. has now upon its bench men be-
yond criticism for good morals and
mental endowment. So in all depart
ments OF official position, with here
and there an exception, are the BRAIN
lest men and most honorable men of
America. Now, suppose the Holy Ghost
power should fall upon this city and
these men from all parts Of America
should suddenly become pronounced
for Christ. Do you say the effect would
be electrical? More than that, il
would be omnipotent! Do you say that
such learned and potent men are not
wrought upon by religious influence?
That shows you have not observed what
has been going on. Commodore FCote,
representing the navy; General Grant
and Robert z. Lee, representing the
Northern and Southern armies; Chief
Justice Chase, representing the Su-
preme Court; the Frelinghuysens, Theo~
dOre and Frederick, representing the
United States Senate: William PEN
ningtOn and scores Of others, represent
ing the House of Representatives, have
surrendered to that Gospel, which be-
fore this winter is cut, will, in this
capital Of the American nation, II we
are faithful in our prayers and exer-
tons turn into
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
men OF national and international pow
e~ their tongues OF elOquence beCOm-
ing the tongues Of fire in another Pente-
cost. There are on yonder hill those
who by the grace Of God will become
John HnoXes. and Chrysostoms, the
FenelOns, and Bourdeieaus. when once
regenerated. There is an illusion l
have heard in prayer meetings and
heard In pulpits, that a soul is a soul
one soul worth IS much as another.
I deny il. The soul Of a man who can
bring a thousand or ten thousand other
souls into the kingdom OF God. is worth
thousand times or ten thousand times
more than the soul OF a man who can
bring no one into the kingdom. A
great outpouring Of the Holy Spirit in
this capital reaching the chief men Of
America would be Of more value to
earth and heaven than in any other
part OF the nation, because it would
reach al The States. cities. towns. and
DeighborhO0ds CT the continent. Oh
for the outsTetched right arm Of God
Almighty in the salvation Of this capt.
tai.
some Of US remember 1857, when. at
the close OF
THE WORST MONETARY DISTRESS
this country has ever felt, compared
with which the hard times OF the last
three years We're a Boom OF prosperity.
right on the heels OF that complete
prostitution came an awakening in
which five hundred thousand people
were converted in different States of
The Union. DO you know where one of
its chief powers was demonstrated? In
Washington. 10 you know on what
street? This street. Do you know in
what church? This church. 7 picked
up IN old book few days ago, and waa
startled, and thrilled, and enchanted
TO read these words. written at that
time by the Washington correspond
ems Of New York paper. He wrote
The First Presbyterian Church can
scarce contain the people. Requests
are daily preferred for an interest in
the prayers offered, and the reading
Of these forms enc OF the tenderest and
most effective features Of the meetings
Particular pains are taken to disclaim
and exclude everything like sectarian
feeling. General establishment is felt
OF the unexpected rapidity with which
the work has thus for proceeded. and
we are beginning to anticipate the ne
cessity Of
OPENING ANOTHER CHURCH"
Why. my hearers. not have that again.
and more than that? There ere many
thousands more cf inhabitants now
iNu then. Beside that since then the
telephone. with its semi-omnipresence.
and The swift cable car, for assembling
the people. I believe that the might
les, revival of religion that this city
has ever seen IS vet TO come and the