Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-16


c6ptiOn was cold. The surf Of bestOr1n-
ed Gallilee was cold. Joseph's sepul-
chre was cold. Christ came. the great
warmer, TO warm the earth, and all
ChristendOm to-day feels the glow. He
viii keep on warming the earth until
the Trcpic will drive away the Arctic
and the Antarctic. He gave an init
nation Of what he was going to do
when he broke up the funeral at the
gate Of Main and turned it into a re-
union festival and when with his warm
lips he melted the Galilean hurricane
and stood on the deck and stamped his
foot. crying. silence" and the waves
croucled and the tempests folded their
wings.
Oh, il was this Christ who
WARNED THE CHILD DISCIPLES
when they had no food by giving them
plenty 10 eat. and who in the tomb OF
Lazarus shattered the shacNles until
the broken links of the chain OF death
ratified into the darkest crypt OF the
mausoleum. In his genial presence the
/ girl Who had fallen into the fire ana
The water IS healed of the catalepsy,
and the whithered ami takes muscular.
| healthy action and the ear that could
/ not hear an avalanche catches a leafs
/ rustic, and the tongue that could not
articulate trills a quatrain, and the
/ bind eve was relumel and Christ, in
stead OF staying three days and three
/ nights in the sepulchre, as was sup
I posed, as soon as the worldly curtain
+ of observation was dropped began the
/ exploration Of all the underground pas
/ sages of earth and sea wherever a
/ Christians grave may after awhile be,
and started a light or Christian hope,
/ resurrection hope, which shall not go
out until the last Cerement is taken off
/ and The last mausoleum breaks open.
! All, I am so glad that the Sun OF
I Righteousness dawned on the polar
night OF the nations. And II Christ is
+ the great warmer. then the Church is
/ the great dollhouse, with its plants and
trees and fruits Of Righteousness. Do
YOU know, my friends, that the Church
/ is the institution which proposes
warmth? have been for twenty-seyen
f years studying how to make the Church
warmer. Warmer architecture, warm
CT hymnolOgy, warmer Christian salu-
Jation All outside Siberian winter, we
must have il princes hot-house.
THE ONLY INSTITUTION
on earth to-day that proposes to make
the world warmer Universities and
T CbServatories, they all have their work.
They propose to make the world light,
but they do not propose to make the
world warm. Geology informs US, but
If is as cold as the rock it hamm ers.
The telescope shows where the other
worlds ar. but an astronomer is chill
ed while looking through it, Chris
Jianity tells us OF strange combina-
tons and how inferior affinity may be
+ overcome by superior affinity; but it
cannot tell how all things work togeth-
/ er for good. Worldly philosophy has
/ a great splendOr, but it is the splendOr
/ Of moonlight on an iceberg. The
Church OF God proposes warmth and
/ hOpe-warmth for the expectations,
4 warmth for the sympathios. Oh, I am
+ so glad that these great altar-fres have
+ been kindled. Come in ont of the cold.
Come in, and have your wounds salved.
Come, and have your sins pardoned.
d N.|+-'N III ~ bltt ElNlt AtcDtl ult- pldOt.
Notwithstanding all the modern in
yentions for heating, l tell you there is
nothing so full Of
GENIALITY AND SOCIALITY
as the old-fashioned country fireplace.
/ The neighbors were TO come in for a
/ Winter evening o. sOciality. In the
/ middle of the afternoon. in the best
/ room OF the house, someone brought
I in great backlog with great strain
/ and put it down on the back of the
hearth. Then the lighter wood was put
/ on, aTmful after armful. Then a shovel
/ of Goals was taken from another room
| and put under the dry pile. and the
/ lindling began, and the cracking. and
/ 1T rose until it became a roaring flame.
which filled all the room with geniality
/ and was reflected from the family pic
| lures on the wall Then the neighbOrs
/ came i'm two by two They sat down.
/ their faces 10 the fire. which ever and
\ anon was stirred with tOngs and re-
adjusted on the andirons. and there
| were such times of rustic repartee. and
storytelling, and mirth. as the black
/ stove and blind register never dreamed
( OF. Meanwhile the table was being
I spread, and so fair was the cloth and
| so clean was the cutlery. they glisten
/ and slisten in our mind to-day. And
/ tnen the hes, luxury o. orchard and
/ farmyard were roasted and prepared
for the table to meet the appetites shar-
/ pened by the cold ride. Oh. my friends.
THE CHURCH or JESUS CHRIST
/ is the words fireplace. and the woods
are from the cedars Of Lebanon. and
/ the fires are fires Of love. and with the
silver tOngs Of the altar we SUR the
I fame and the light is reflected from al
| the family pictures on the wall-pic-
lures of those who were here and are
/ gone now Oh, come up close to the
/ tire-nlace. Have Your worn faces
TRANSPORTED in the light. Put your
/ cold fest. weary OF the journey. close up
% the blessed confagratiOn. Chilled
through with trouble and disappoint-
ment. come close up until YOU can get
warm clear through. Exchange expe-
rience talk over The harvest gathered.
tell all the Gospel news. Meanwhile
The table is being spread On it. bread
OF life. On it. grapes of Esbcol On
il, new wine from the kingdom, On
it. a thousand Injuries celestial. Farkl
as a wounded hand raps on the table.
/ and a tender voice comes through. say =
ing Come, for all things are now
/ ready. Eat oh. friends! drink, yea.
drink abundantly, oh. beloved"
Ny friends that is the way the cold
world is going 10 be warmed I'm by