The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-08

bread OF life: who ministered to you
the Lords Supper who baptized the
most of you and your children; who
Joined you in the marriage relation, and
who buried your dear ones, has gone to
joln the whlte-robed throng in the
heavens. It tells you that he who con-
tended for the faith against the onset
OF scientific inhdelity; who stood
against the errors OF the times, and
who proclaimed the sound doctrine Of
faith. the substance OF things hoped
for, and the evidence of things not
seen" has gone to enter into The reality
of the things hoped for" and to re-
celve tangibly "the things not SEEN"
1t tells you that he who lifted UP his
voice in song; who helped to put this
book Of songs in verse, and arrange
this psalter for the church militant,
has gone to Join the church triumphant,
where they sing the new song Of the
forty and four thousand redeemed
from the earth.
This dark Grape indicates the inward
feeling of sorrow which has cast itself
over YOU by the course OF events that
God has marked out for His human.
even though redeemed, creatures.
Death is fact! 1t is the one thing in
the future for all living. that is abso-
lutely certain. 1t is the goal of all NOR
tails. The air is full of farewells to the
dying. Earth is beloved with graves.
Life is crowded with the bitter-sweet
memories Of friends and loved ones
who have left the earth and have gone
on before. 1t is right to weep. 1t GER
tainly cannot be wrong. Allowing ma
ture her moderate tears, God bids you
lift up your eyes and look beyond to
the continuing city.
There are many more things to be
seen there than mortal creatures, blind
ed by the world and LISTING after the
things that perish, can bring them
selves to think might be- seen. The
building Of God, the house not made
with hands the new Jerusalem, the
Garden Of Paradise. Thale is, God Him
self, in all His creative ana redecming
majesty. There is the Lamb slain
from the foundation Of the world.
There are the angsls-mlnLsterlng
spirits, sent forth to minister. And
there are the redeemed, who have
washed their robes and made them
white In the blood OF the Lamb" They
are not figures; they have gone into the
realities OF which now faith is sub
stance and evidence. was thinking
Of a congregation, doubtless assembled
to-day, in that continuing city. A com
plete congregation with all the parts
which God Himself has appointed.
There are the redeemed ones, who
from time to time. during the past
fifty years--havtng been born by the
Spirit here-and having been nurtured
here by the appointed means OF grace,
have entered the continuing city and
church of the First Born. Shall we
cal 1.-The roll? 1t would be too lengthy.
But it contains the names Of your
fathers and your mothers: your bro
Tiers and your sisters; your husbands
and your wives; your sons and your
daughters. You know them. Their
memory has not faded from your
thoughts, nor lost any Of It's sweetness
by times obllterating rayages. There
they are! Clothed in white. and
mlngllng with the saints In light. When
they departed you cane and read here.
in Gods own book. BLESSED are the
dead which die in the Lord from hence
forth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labors, and their
works do follow them"
There. too. is a session. which
once took charge of the Flock Of God,
over which the Holy Ghost had made
them overseers, and who fed the
church of God. which He purchased
with His own blood" Think you God
forgets to pay attention to the honored
officers. who faithfully discharged their
duties appointed Of HIM here7 BY no
means. God crowns dis workers ac-
cordlng to their work. well done, good
and faithful servant, ue tnou ruler over
ten cities" Here ,ney were in the
church militant, waunE a warfare.
There they are in the church triumph
ant, having conquered.
But what was lacking to complete
the congregations 1t lacks nothing
now. Yet to-day is the first Sabbath
that the redeemed pastor Of that as
sembly has appeared among them. 1t
is now a complete congregation, having
all the parts which God Himself APP
pointed ana arranged among His saints
on earth. There now is pastor. session
and people, and Christ Himself in the
midst Of them. Lift up your eyes and
weep! And, weeping, remember the
declaration so often made: whatsoever
bclleveth on the Lord Jesus Christ,
hath everlasting life. There is, there
fore. now no condemnation to them
that are in Christ Jesus. who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit"
DR.. McCiure's work was done. He
was ripe In years and has finished his
course. The lesson for US It to I'm.
prove the time. so We can render a suit.