Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-04

by the tiles put into the ground 10 carry
on the surplus moisture, transformed
into the richest and healthiest regions.
The God who wastes nothing. | think.
means that this world, from pole 10
pole. has come 10 perfection OF foliage
and fruitage. For that reason ne keeps
The earth running through space,
though so many fires are blazing down
in its timbers and 50 many meeorlc
terrors have threatened to dash II TO
pieces. AS soon as the earth is COM
ple,ed Christ will divide it up among
the good. The reason he does not Gil
vide il now is because il is not done.
4 kind father will not divide the apple
among his children until the apple Is
ripe. In fulfllment of the New Tesla
ment promise, The meek shall inherit
the earth" and the promise OF the Old
Testament. He shall divide the spoil
with the strong" the world will be ap-
pointed 10 those worthy to possess 1t.
IL is not so now. In this country.
capable of holding, feeding. clothing
and sheltering twelve hundred million
people. and where We have only sixty
million inhabitants. We have two mil
lions who cannot get honest work, anu
with their families an aggregation d
five millions that are
ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION.
Something wrong, most certainly. In
some way. there will be new appoint
ment. Many of the millionaire estates
! will crack TO pieces on the designations
of grandchildren, and then dissolve in
10 The possession of the masses who
now have an ipsufficiency.
What. you say. will become OF the
expensive and elaborate buildings now
devoted 10 debasing amusements? They
will become schools, art-gallerieS, mu-
seums. gymnasiums and churches. The
world is already getting Disguised with
many of these amuSe mentS. and no
wonder. What an importation OF I'M
clean theatrical stuff We have within
the last few years had brought 10 our
shores, And professors of religion pat
r0nizing such things. Having sold out
10 the devil why don't you deliver the
Goods and 60 over 10 him publicly,
body. mind and soul. and withdraw your
name from Christian churches, and
presents that l am a patron of unclean-
illness and a child OF hell" Sworn TO
be the Lords. YOU are perjurers.
II you think these offenses are TO
go on forever. YOU do not know who the
Lord is God will wait for the Day Of
Judgment. All these palaces OF sin
Will become palaces of righteousness.
They will come into the possession OF
those strong for virtue and strong for
God. He shall divide the spoil with
the strong"
CHINA AND AFRICA,
the TWO richest portions of the earth
by reason of metals. and rare woods,
and inexhaustible productiveness. ara
not yet divided up among the good be-
cause they are not ready 10 be divided.
Wait until all the doors that Living
stone opened in Africa shall be entered,
and Bishop Taylor. with his band OF
self-suppOrting missionaries, have done
their work, and the Ashantees and Sen
egam bans shall know Christ as we'll
as YOU know him, and there will be on
the banks of the Nile and the Niger a
higher civilization than is now 10 be,
found on the banks of the Potomac or
the Hudson. then Christ will divide up
that continent among his friends. Wait
until China. which is half as large as
all Europe. shall have developed her
capacities for rice and tea and sugar
among edibles: and her amethyst md
sapphire and topaz and opal and jas
per and pOrphyry. among precious
stones: and her rosewood and
ebony and camphor and varnish trees.
among precious woods; and turned up
from her depths half-dozen Penlsyl-
yanias OF coal and iron. and genty
Nsvadas OF silver. and fifty CALIFORNIA;
Of gold. and her five hundred millions
OF people shall be evangelical: then the
Lord will divide IL up among the good.
II my tex, be not a deception. but
THE ETERNAL TRUTH.
then the time is coming when all he
farms will be owned by Christian farm
ers. and all the commerce controlled
by Christian merchants. and al The au-
th0rity held by Christian officials. and
al the ships commanded by Christian
captains. and all the universities under
The instruction OF Christian professors;
Christian kings. Christian presidents.
christian governors. Christian MAYORS.
Christian common council. Yet. what
securing out, what an up;urning,
what a demolition, what a resurrec-
ton must precede this new appoint
msnt,
/ DO not underrate the enemy. Julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by full
ly estimating the vastness OF his foes.
8nd prepared his men for their greatest
triumph by saying: Tomorrow Kinc
Juba Will be here with thirty thousand
horses. one hundred thousand skirmish-
ers and three thousand elephants" I
90 no. underrate the vast forces Ct Sin
and Death; but do you know who COM
mandS us? JehOvahjireh. And the re-
serve corps behind us are all the armies
OF heaven and earth, with hurricane
and thunderbolt. The good work OF the
worlds redemption is going on every
minute. Never so many splendid men
and glorious women on the side of right
As nov. DiOgenes has been spoken OF
as q wise man because he went with a
lantern az MONDAY, saying he was look
ing for an honest man. If he had turn
ed his lantern toward himself he might
have
DISCOVERED A CRANK.
Honest men by the ten thousand.
Through the International. Series OF
Sunday School lessons the next genera
ton all through Christendom are going
10 be wiser than any generation since
the world stood. The kingdom is COM
Ing God can do il No h0uSa u-ifa
with chamois cloth ever polished tea