Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-30
INTERESTING SERVICES
Held in a Number Of the City Churches
Yesterday.

| Rev. DR.. Schwarm breaches a
Sermon on the Day of Pentecost.
Whit Sunday Services of an
Elaborate Nature in Catholic
Churches = Memorial Sermons.
Other Religious Matters.
At the First English Lutheran Church
| en- Sixteenth street, the Rev. Samuel
Schwarm preached very thoughtful
i and earnest discourse last night, to a
large congregation, on THE Promise
of the Holy Spirit" 1t was a sermon
appropriate to the Day Of Pentecost.
The substance Of the speakers re-
marks follows:
The ascending Lord gave His disci-
them, according to Matthew, "All power
| is given unto me in heaven ano on
earth. Go we, therefore, and disciple
all nations, baptizing them in the name
| of the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe
| whatsoever things | have commanded
| you. And To- | am with you even unto
! the end of the world" He also told
them, according to Luke, that Re
| pentance and remission Of sins should
| be preached in his name among all
| nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Ihls
| was an appalling task for those few and
unlearned and timid disciples. They
| were not yet fitted for it, hence their
Lord charged them not TO depart from
Jerusalem, but To- wait for the promise
of the Father. which, said He, we heard
from me; for John indeed baptized
with water; but ye shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost not many days
hence" He said unto them, eye shall
receive power, when the Holy Ghost
is come upon you; ond We shall be my
witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, and unto the ut
termost parts of the earth" So ODE
dent to this command of their Lord
they tarried in Jerusalem, waiting for
the fulfillment of the promise of the
Spirit unto them.
At last the Day of Pentecost had
come. This was the fiftieth day from
the day after the Passover Sabbath.
1t was the Jewish Feast Of Harvest, or
weeks, also of the giving Of the law.
1t was time of great joy. The people
at the Feast Of the Passover had
brought the first sheaf Of the harvest
and presented it before the Lord in the
Temple, and then they had returned to
their homes to reap the harvest, and
now they had returned to Jerusalem
to rejoice with their families, their
servants and the strangers among them
before the Lord for the bOuntlful har-
vest. No one, said one of their great
teachers, has known joy until he has
participated in the JOY of the Harvest
Feast. 1t was on the Day of Pente-
cost, the Disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem
being all together with one accord in
one place that the promise of another
Comforter was fulfilled unto them.
There were about one hundred and
twenty of them They were probably
in that upper room where abode Peter
and John. James and Andrew, Philip
and Thomas. Bartholomew and Mat
thew and the rest of the Apostles.
They were undoubtedly engaged in
prayer for the promised power from
on high, when suddenly there came
from heaven a sound as of the rushing
Of a mighty wind, and 1t filled all the
house where they were sitting. And
there appeared unto them tongues part
ing asunder, or distributing themselves,
like as of fire; and it sat upon each one
of them And they were all filled with
the Holy Spirit, and began to speak
with other tongues, as the Spirit gave
them utterance.
This noise as of a rushing, mighty
wind. attracted the attention not mere
ly of the regular inhabitants of the
city but also Of the transcient jewellers
there from almost every nation under
heaven. These all ran together to find
| what this thing could mean. And they
were perfectly amazed to find these
Galilean Disciples of Jesus speaking
| many different tongues, so that each
one of them heard from them the Cos
pei in the language wherein he was
born. They said, "Are not all these
who speak Galileans? How then do
they speak so that we each hear in the
language in which we were born,
Parthians and Modes, Cretes and Ara
bians?"
Some Knocked at it all, and said,
'These men are drunk. They are full
Of new wine" But Peter said, "These
are not drunken as We suppose. seeing
it is but the third hour of the day, but
this is tnaJ WHICH HAIL UeoH opohoA
by the Prophet Joel"
And it shall be in the last days, saith
God.
I will pour out of my spirit upon all
And your sons and your daughters shall
And Your young men shall see visions,
And your old men shall dream dreams:
Yea and on my servants and on my
handmaidens in those days
viii I OOur forth SDlrlt. ana Tney
shall prophesy.
And 1 will show wonders in heaven above,
And signs on the earth beneath;
Blood and fire, and vapor of smoke:
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the day of the Lord come,
That great and notable day;
And it shall be that whatsoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be
saved.
He then tells them that it was
through Christ of Nazareth, as man
approved of God through many mighty
signs, and concerning whom David had
spoken, and whom God had raised from
the dead, but whom they with wicked
hands had taken and slain, that God
had showed forth these things.
When they heard the words of Peter,
ord raa,ized throIIph rho Ii nht Of m O