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

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. N0N~N~N(~N<NON

way to take the castle: bu- they have a
thousand spears where we have ten.
and so
THE CASTLE OT SIN
stands On. my friends. we viii never
capture this world Tor God by any keen
sabre Of sarcasm, by any glittering
lances OF rhetoric, by any sappng and
mining Of profound disquisition, by any
gunpowdery explosions of Indignation,
by sharpshOOtings of wit, by hOwitzers
OF mental strength made to swing shell
five miles, by cavalry horses gOrgeOUsly
cOmparisoned paving the air. In vain
all the attempts on the part of these &C.
clesiastcal foot soldiers, light hOrsemen
and grenadiers.
My friends, propose a different style
of tactics. Let each one so to the forest
OF Gods promise and invitation, and
hew down a branch, and put it on his
shoulder, and let us all come around
these obstinate iniQuities, and then,
with this pile, kindled by the fires of
holy zeal and the flames of a conse-
Grated life. We will burn them out.
What s-eel cannot do, fire may. And I
announce myself in favor of any plan
Of religious attack that succeeds-any
plan Of religious attack. however rad
zeal. however odd however unpopular,
however hostile to all the conventional
tiles OF the Church and State. If one
style of prayer does not do the work,
let us try another style. If the Church
music of to-day does not get the victory,
then let us make the assault with
backwoOds chorus. If prayer meet
ing at half-past seven in the evening
does not succeed, let us have one as early
in the morning as when the Angel found
wrestling Jacob too much for him. II
a sermon with the three authorized
heads does not do the work, then let us
have sermon with twenty heads, or
NO HEADS AT ALL
We want more heart in our song, more
heart in our almsgiving, more heart in
our prayers, more heart in our preach
ing Oh, for less of Abimelech's sword
and more Of Abimelechs con1agrauOni
I had often heard
There is a fountain filed with blood
sung aTlstcally by four birds perched
on their Sunday lo0st in the gallery,
until 1 thought Of Jenny Lind and Nils
son. and SOntag, and all the other war
blcrs; but there came not one tear to
my eve. nor one master emotion TO my
heart. But one night I went down to
the African Methodist meeting house,
i'm Philadelphia and at the close of the
services black woman, in the middle
of the audience. began to sing that
hymn and all the audience Joined in,
and we tlOated some three or four milea
nearer heaven than I have ever been
since. I saw with my own eyes that
fountain filled with blood "-red, agOn-
ling, sacrifcial,' redemptive. and 7
heard the crimson splash of the wave
as we all went down under it.
For sinners plunged beneath that food
Lose ali their guilty stains.
Oh, my friends. the Gospel is not a
syllogism; it is not casuistry; it is not
polemics. or
THE SCIENCE OF SQUABBLES.
1t is blood-red fact; it is hearted
invitation; it is leaping, bounding, fly
ing good news; il is ealOrescent with all
light; it is rUbescent with all summary
glow; it is aborescent with all sweet
shade. I have seen the sun rise on
Mount Washington, and from the Tip
top House, but there was no beauty in
that compared with the day-spring
from on high when Christ gives light
to q soul. l have heard Parepa SING.
but there was no music in that COM
pared with the voice of Christ when he
said: Thy sins are forgiven thee: go
in peace Good newsi Let every one
cut down a branch of this tree of life
and wave it. Let him throw it down
and kindle it. Let all the way from
Mount ZalmOn TO Shechem be filled with
the tossing Joy. Good newSl This bon
fire of the Gospel shall consume the last
temple of sin, and viii illumine the sky
with apocaiypuc joy, that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners.
ANY new plan that makes a man quit
his sin, and that prOstrates a wrong. I
am as much in favor Of as though all
the doctors, and the bishops. and the
archbishOps, and the synods. and the
academlcal gOwnsmen of Christianity
sanctioned il. The temple of Berth
must come down, and do not care how
it comes.
Still further, I learn from this sub
ect
THE POWER OF EXAMPLE.
II Abime'ech had sat down on the grqsz
and told his mon TO so and get the
bougAs, and 60 out to the battle. thew
would never have gone OF ell. or e theu
had. i- would have been without any
spirit or effective result: but when Abb
me,ech gees with his ow7, axe and hews
down br2nos. and with Ab,melech's
arm puts T. on Abime'ech's shoulder
and msrches ca. th-1. my text saws. all
the people did The same How natural
that was, What made Gar;baldi and
StOneWal Jackson The most magnetic
commanders Of this century? They d.
ways rode ahead On. the ove~whelm-
Ing power Of example, He-e tSa father
on the wrong road Here is a father
who enlists for Chris.; his children en-
list. 7 saw iC s-na OF the picture gal
ler,es Of Europe, that before many c.
tle great works Of the mss -~s-the CID
mos.ers-there would be sometimes four
or five artists taking copies of the pic
turez. These copies they are going TO
carry wi them perhaps to distant
lands: and 7 have though, t1et Your rf7
and character are masterpiece, and Il
is being copied, and long after YOU are
gone r. will bloom or blast in The Aomet
Of these who knew Won. and be a Ger
g0n Or o Nad011a Look ont VIA. Won
ssv. Look ont what YOU do. Eternity
WI he7- Sac echo. The test sermon
ever preached is
A HOLY LIFE.
The best music ever ch9nted is con-
sisten- walk T. YOU want Others to
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