Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-06

| were totally destroyed.
believeth that Jesus is the Son of
God" Faith in God, the Father and in
his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and in
| the all pervading, omnipresenu, con-
verting power of the Holy Spirit is our
| hope for future success.
| "If we take God as the captain OF our
salvation, and let Him manage the
helm of our Third Presbyterian ship,
we may confidently launch out on the
sea CT the future. The pillows may be
rough at times, but our bark can never
| be wrecked with Jesus at the helm.
He who said. Peace, be still to the
| little sea of Gallilee, can still the tenn
pests of the future for us. The fol-
lowing from the American Messenger
| may help to fix this great truth in our
minds. The sea had been very rough
or several days and death often threat
ened us. One night we were pass
4 ing a rocky coast, and | was walking
| up and down the dining hall. l re-
marked to the captain that / was I'M
| easy, and could not rest if should re-
| tire. But he replied: 1t will do no
| good for you to worry. / will stand
| at the helm myself tonight, and you
may Just as well retire / felt more
secure as / retired for I remembered
the captain was at the helm. So with
! reference to our history as a church
in the future, the sea at times may be
rough, but the captain of our salvation
| stands at the helm. With this comfort
| ing fact in our midst we may look
forward to the future with confidence,
! saying, The Lord is our light and our
! salvation; what shall we fear? The
Lord is our strength, of what shall we
| be afraid?
| But, in order that our future may
| be a success we must have faith in our
selves as well as in God. We must be-
| lieve that labor has sure reward. We
must believe that where there is a will
there is a way. No church or indiyid-
ual ever succeeded without faith in
their own efforts. No individual or or
| ganization ever accomplished anything
| without first believing that they were
| equal to the task before them. God
| believes in human effort and I am sure
he wants US to believe in it. Our fore
fathers believed that they could estab-
| fish church here with the help of God;
without that belief no Third Presby-
| terrain church would ever have been Or
| ganized. And if we are to keep it
moving onward and upward we must
have faith in our ability to do this
| work. We must not become weary in
well doing. To lose faith in human
| effort means that we have also lost
faith in God.
Faith has done many things in this
world beside bringing down the walls of
Jericho. Men sometimes laugh at faith as
though it were a feeble thing, when. in
| fact, it is one of the greatest forces in the
world. If we were to use Scriptural lam
guage with regard to all the things that
faith has accomplished, we might speak as
follows: By faith Columbus crossed the
ocean, not knowing whittier he went. By
faith Cyrus w. Field planned and per-
| fected the Atlantic cable, when all men
| laughed at him and called him visionary
| BY faith our forefathers crossed the deep,
| seeking a country where they could freely
worship their God By faith Edison toiled
on seeking new discoveries in his science.
| not. sure of the issue of his efforts. All
| these wrought with faith and so worked
wonders The fact is that without faith
the world would come to standstiIl. The
same faith applied to spiritual things has
n.
that the modern miracles are not SO much
| those Of the healing of the bodies of men
| as of their spirits. If ever this world is
to be made over so that it shall be full of
righteousness it will only be when men act
more by faith, and less by sight, and
DARE and DO great things for God and
their fellow men.
But lastly, if the future of this church
ha trim hoy
must have faith in each other. The man
who has lost faith in his fellow men has
not faith in God. We must have conf
dence enough in each other to overlook
in a charitable spirit each others errors
and weaknesses. For if you have not
| reached a state of perfection, do not ex-
pect to find perfection in others. Let us
bear in mind that I'VE are members one of
| another" What interests ,one member of
this church ought to interest all. If sew
eral men enter into partnership to carry
on business, they must have the utmost
| confidence and faith in each other, if they
would succeed Brethren, we, the mem
bers of this church, have entered into a
partnership business for God. The aged
Apostle Johns appeal IS most fitting for
us right here, My little children, let US
love one another, not in word, neither in
tongue; but in deed and in truth.
For love is of God; and every one that
ioveth is born of God, and knoweth God
To-day We begin to make new volume
in our history. Oh, let us initiate the ex-
amples set before us by those who laid
the foundations of this work. And let US
remember that with increased numbers,
and with our superior equipments we
ought to do better work than has ever
been done here So let us show ourselves
! to be workmen that needeth not 10 be
ashamed. Let us line up shoulder to shout
der and march steadily onward. On to tear
down the strongholds of Satan. On for the
| spreading of Christs kingdom. On TO save
| immortal souls. On for the building up
| of this grand old Third Presbyterian
church. On for the glory of God
At the session of the Sunday school
in the afternoon thn nynraiccc u-ara ~