Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-14

hold that the church must learn the
lesson Of personal contact. ! believe
that by house to house visitation, by
personal distribution of charities, by
cordially the people of the
churches must touch the lot
and life of the multitudes outside
and do IL in such way as to make
them feel that God hath made of one
blood all nations Of men for to dwell
on all the face of the earth and IN
Christ there is written, Greek over Jew
circumcision not uncircumcison, bar
barian, Saythian, bound or free, but
Christ is all and in all"
Then, again. Christ won the common
people by declaring the gospel Of sal
walton for all men. The religion of
the Jews was exclusive, the religion Of
Jesus was inclusive. The Jews God
was provincial, Christ's was universal.
They ministered to classes, Christ min
istered to the masses. When he re-
turned to his native city he went into
the synagogue, and in one OF his great
est sermons set forth his mission u
man. THE spirit of the Lord 10 upon
me because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
sent me to heal the broken hearted. 70
preach deliverance to the eaptives, AID
recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty them that are bruised And
later. when
The Signs of the Kingdom
began to appear, John the Baptist, who
was in prison and in doubt, sent mes
sages to Christ to inquire whether ne
was the Messiah or whether they
should look for another. Christ replied
in the most magnificent panegyric that
ever fell upon human ears: THE blind
receive their sight, the lame walk, the
deaf hear, the lepers are cleansed, the
dead are raised, and the poor are evan
fgelized" This manifesto in behalf Of
the masses was not intended to ex-
clude the classes but to show that the
gospel of Christ includes all men. The
gospel on the one side CLOVIS with the
brightest tnts Of heaven, and on the
other reaches down to the saddest
gloom of sin and misery, and hell. II
is the gospel of salvation for all men.
The prosperity of the church OF
Christ in the world depends upon the
willingness of it's members to carry out
his policy toward the unlicensed
masses.
Many years ago there dwelt family
of farmers in the North of England.
They were poor, and on account OF
their poverty the sons migrated. The
only daughter went out to seek sit
uation She became, not a governess,
nor companion. but straigh-.fai-
ward 0ervant girl. This girl thought
it nobler thing to work in a big town
for wages than to be idle at home, ami
one day when she was scrubbing the
steps a young fellow came along.
He saw ,nis nice girl cleaning the steps
and he said he must see her again. He
managed to find out where she attend
ed church and found it was Wesleyan
chapel.
"III Go There"
he said. But when he went to see
somebody he liked, he found something
he did not like. He discovered that he
was sinner and that the girl did not
care to talk with him so long as his
heart was not right. He yielded him
self to Christ, met the young woman
and they settled the matter. They be-
he worked at his trade. He saved
money, and one day when the masters
residence was sold he bought the front
steps. A little later new house was
completed and he moved his wife and
children into the house. When they
reached the door, he pointed to the
steps and said, do you see those
steps," She replied, Il do" Those
were the steps you were cleaning when
| first saw you," and up those steps
have walked DR.. Newton and the Nigh
ty men of Methodism. Years passed,
and one day his oldest son, lad, said
to his father: This will not do. We
must make more money. Why not buy
a clay field and make our own bricks?"
They bought clay field and made
bricks, and that clay field proved to be
a fortune that had lived to be one of
the strong financial bulwarks of Wes-
leyan Methodism.
Last summer Lyman Abbott said to
the young women of WELLESLEY College:
Il want to remind you of what Mr.
Gladstone said-that all the great mon
uments for the development of the race
have sprung from the common people.
1t was so with Wesleyanism.
So With Puritanism,
and it was so with democracy. 1t was
SO with the great Lutheran Reforma-
ton and it was so with Christianity"
l have no desire to arouse antagonism
between classes. ! have no desire to
put the poor over against the rich, but
I hold thot tho f,,t,,ro NJ, ON oud ryOpoap