Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-22


Yesterday morning in the North
street NJ. E.. church, the Rev. C. B. Ora
ham. the pastor. preached an interest
ing sermon on the topic "Cbeying Or
red" This sermon was suggested by
the recent wreck on the Ohio River rail-
road.
Mr.. Graham chose as his text:
shall a trumpet be blown in the
city and the people not be afraid?'
Amos as. We are taught in the chapter
of the tex of the special dealings of
the Almighty with his peculiar people.
And these lessons were not. for them
alone, but for all who should hear or
be affected by them. Gods special love
was manifested for them and the neees-
sity of their obedience to Him Is taught
by a number of figures OF speech and
natural illustrations. Sin had taken
deep root among them and the Lord
gave orders by which it might be rooted
out OF the heart and individuals and
consequently of The nation. We can
not now consider the many questions
that are suggested by the text as TO the
beginning of sin and its Introduction
into the world, the cause consequences
and responsibilities. These and sim
dlar questions have given rise to some
of the great division of theology n
the speeulations of philosophy and we
will leave them to be settled by those
who have an abundance of time to give
them. And when they have exhausted
both their time and the wisdom they
Will remain shronded in mystery. But
there are plain truths connected with
1t that we can examine to our profit
and pleasure which are beyond the
rain of the doubtful and upon which
rests mans present success and his
future glory. The text is a question
in connection with certain P%roviden-
tlal lessons the Lord wanted to impress
upon them.
We shall notice from it as our theme.
0beying Orders, and present three chief
doctrines, namely: That all sins are
known to God and permitted by Him.
That he has made provision for man to
escape from sin and Its evil eonse-
quences. That sever ealamities are in7
tended to arouse man to a knowledge
Ohio River railroad last Monday even
ing and deaths resulting therefrom, and
the lessons Of our mortality and the
Importance of our being ready for
the surrender of our commissions, with
honor together, with the noble lives
that were instantly transferred to the
majority, have impressed us with this
theme.
ALI Sins Are known and Permitted
of the Lord.
Man reasons of the Lord from his
attributes and frequently limits the Al
mighty by the measure of mans mind
and of his finite limitations he restricts
God by the same measure being unable
to comprehend Him. The sins and
evils to which man is subject are many
and of various classes.
The Evil That Come to individuals.
I'VE speak of sins and evils rather
Interchangeable although the former
are strictly speaking the cause of the
latter. The unit is the base OF calcu-
lation of all bodies whether that be the
grain Of sand in the great body of the
earth. the drop of water in that great
liquid body that forms three-fourths OF
this planet, or the smallest orb of the
planetary system of the universe or the
smallest form of the human family. The
smallezt atom or unite Of any body car
tot be effected without the knowledge
Of its creator. And as lie is also the
keeper and preserver as well as the
Creator, it can not change nor be