The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-12
R.!EY:.:.. DR.! J. SOOY
Delivers His Opening Sermons at
Fourth Street Church.
TWO ELOQUENT DIsCouRsES.
Listsn,d to by Large Cong resations-Dr.
Cunningham Celebrates the Twentieth
Anniversary OF His Pastorats OF the
First Presbyterian church The Flor
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Rev, Or. sooy. the new pastor OF
Fourth street NJ: L. church. occupied the
pulpit OF that church yesterday, preach
Ing at both the services lie was greet
cd with very large congregations. and
created a, Favorable Impression. The
church was taxed to Its utmost seating
capacity, especially at the. evening SER
vice. Under the direction of Mr., Ned
Billiard The choir rendered some excep-
tlonally fine music.
At the evening service DR.. sooy
preached n very abs and eloquent dis
course. taking as his text verses / and
. from the fourteenth chapter OF the
Gospel of st. John: Let not your heart
be troubled; sc believe in God, believe
in me. In my fathers house are many
mansions. II It were not SO l would not
have told YOU" DR.. sooy's sermon, in
part. follows.
Sir Walter Scott advised his nephew
Lockhart 10 read book. His nephew
asking him which book, Scott replied:
There Is but one book-the Bible"
And II ! had any chapter of the Bible
to advise ] would advise this fourteenth
chapter. There Is none SO universally
quoted.
God, Christ and Immortality arc the
three great antidotes. God Is the anti
dote to atheism. No such thing as
an atheist exists In the universe. Men
may think themselves atheists, Goddess,
but the human heart Is SO constituted
1t must have some deity upon which to
lean. Faith in God Is entirely mex
tinguishable. The heart OF man has
something science can neither illumine
nor darken. Prof. Tyndall believed
there was u God, left to his own mind,
but when he tried to demonstrate the
existence OF God by science, he said:
II am an .agnostlc." Within his own
mind he was convinced that there Is
a God.
Tho unrest Of this weary world Is the
unvoiced cry for an existing God The
want OF all men In the consciousness
of their sins is to be pardoned. On
every hand are the evidences of sin
and this cry for pardon. The history of
'bygone years reveals many instances OF
this. Lady Macbeth with her blood
stained hand could not forget her crime.
Sudi l'iShelS VI E,ttOSl lOI-
ever haunting murderer. George Eliot
tells of the murderer ending his days
among outcasts. doing penitence for his
sins. Gods witness Is In every SOUL
and man can never be right unless
he Is first right with God. Man has
a conscience that outllves appetitcs. He
can never forget his sins. Christ says:
IF you believe In God. believe In me-
The blood OF Christ, Coos son. washes
away all sins. The soul in unrest should
turn to Christ.
Science may dig up the dusty fossils
of the past, but she holds out no beacon
for the future. Doubt about the future
is ever prevalent
DR.. Sooy Illustrated the unrest of man.
sometimes wishing for his boyhood
days. He instanced Oliver Wendell
Holmes in his "Autocrat at the Break
fast Table" where the angel recording
his thoughts, from first wishing to be n
boy. then to be happy father of
home. '.sG 90 u
The home is the place for rest. for the
real enjoyment of life The reverend
speaker eloGucntly portrayed the beau
ties OF a happy home. In closing, he re-
ferred to the text: TN my fathers
mouse are many mansions. II Il were
not SO I would have told you"
Thank God the Savior for promising
US home beyond. The joy that beams
forth in that promise makes easy our
trials on earth. We have that promise
true and sure. Thank God for the
promise - -