Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-20
THE FIRST BIG SUNDAY
AT THE MOUNDSvILLE CAMP MEET
ING MARKED BY A VERY LARGE
ATTENDANCE
AN ABLE SERMON PREACHED
AT the Morning Service by DIR. Yo-
cum, of Harrisburg, Pa-His Theme
Was 'sThe TransHguration Of
Christ"-The Programme For the
Services this Morning and Even
ing.

at Moundsville was very interesting
one and while the attendance was
not so large as upon former occa-
sions, yet there were a goodly num-
Der OF people on the grounds The
| country people are as much in evil
dence this year as they have been in
the past, and the city people are not
as numerous as usual. Not withstand
| ing the programme is quite as good as
| ever and deserves better attendance
The morning service was conducted
by DR.. E. H. Yocum, of Harrisburg,
Pa. He preached an excellent sermon
| from Luke 8, 2S-36.
The afternoon services were IN
charge of Rev. w. B. King, Of Mounds
vile, and DIR. Yocum preached again
last evening to an appreciative aud
ience. Rev. W. S. Nicholson will
| preach this morning at 1890 and DR..
Yocmu again this evening at 7:45.
The theme of DR.. Yocums morning
sermon was THE TRANSPORTATION of
Jesus Christ
He said in part: There is need Of
the frequent consideration of these tri-
umphant phases of our Lords ministry
among men. We do not dwell zoo
much upon the subject of Christs hu-
initiation, sorrow, passion, but too lit
tie upon His rejoicing and His victor
les while here among men.
Let us study together the event, the
place it holds in Christ's ministry, and
it's significance to Jesus, to his disciples
to Christians and to the church to-
day.
Jesus with three intimate disciple
friends goes away In the evening time
to a solitary mountain height. Jesus,
who was the loneliest of men often
sought the mountain heights.
"He went to the mountains to pray.
Why necessary for him to pray at all?
We must enlarge our conceptions CT
prayer. 1t may have a place in our
heavenly life.
"As he prayed 'the fashion of MS
countenance was altered See there
| the TRANSPORTED, the glorfied Christi!
| And yet this was the normal Christ.
His glory was in him when he walked
earth as plain Galilean. Might we
| not be justified in designating his low
| ly humiliation as the real transfigura-
| ton.
Two heavenly visitors stand sud-
| denly beside him-the man Of Horeb
and the man of Cormel-Moses and
Elijah sharing his glory. These glori-
| fed ones needed no introduction to the
| Galilean fishermen, Peter, James and
John. They Immediately and intuitive-
ly knew and identified these saints,
who for many centuries had been de1-
liens of the skies. What a suggestion
this is of our higher and keener facul-
ties, making all heaven to be known
| by us, as we also are known. Jesus
and His heavenly visitants converse1.
Their theme was his decease, his exo-
dus, his way out. This was the com
plement of his way into the world in
to the heart and life of the human
| race. u
Suddenly cloud-a cloud of glory
transcending human conception, en-
veloped this whole mountain scene. and
out of this cloud of glory the voice Of
the Eternal Father, proclaimed the
Divine Sonship-the same voice and
the same message as at the baptism, at
the opening of his ministry.
THE cloud vanished, the voices hush
ed, the heavenly visitants disappear
ca and Jesus was found alone, the
plain Galilean as He had assembled the
mountain.
What place does the great event or
combination of events hold in the min
istry of Jesus? What is its relation in
time and fact to other vital events OF
our Saviors work among men?
1T follows Immediately after the
detection of the multitudes who had
previously thronged to his ministry. It
came at time when Jesus looked into
His disciples faces and said: will &c
also go away? 1t looked indeed as
though He might literally be forsaken
1T followed Immediately after that
apparently anxious question of Jesus.
Whom do men say l ann and that
other question urged upon His disciples,
Whom say We that | amp 1t follow
ed close upon that hrst plain an
nouncement of his approaching death
of torture and shame. Imagination
fails to depict the sadness and gloom
verging upon despair wrought in the
disciples by this persistent announce
ment of their Lord In word the trans
figuration came in a crucial time of our
Lords ministry 1t came at the low
est ebb, in the darkest hour of His
| great saving enterprise.
The significance of this event to
| Jesus was consolation, comfort and
strengthening. To the disciples il
brought a newer, better and stronger