The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-27

Keep you out God took the man out
OF the pit and he vas happy. The
nrst thing q person wants to do when
they are converted n TO save others
i never knew Il TO fail in my life.
don't believe . sane and healthy Chris
Tan 10 not trying to save othersL
Way Of rrarssressor.
The way Of the transgressor ID
hard. not the way Of the Christian
The way OF the drunkard is hard and
not the way of the sober man. The
way OF the liar 10 hard and not the
way OF the man that tells the truth.
God always makes the road He
wants the pllgrams to travel on There
10 good roads movement going on
over the country now. but tell you
God has got that beat q block.
IF you will step where God tells
you to. you will ind firm footing.
That is what God did for David. When
you try to cover up your sins you sink
deeper and deeper into the mire. The
drunkard sinks deeper and deeper and
the liar also sinks.
"One picture shows God putting
him on the firm road and the other
the devil putting him In his pit.
Look at the man who has been taken
out OF the pit. He goes singing and
laughing. There is no question
which is the happiest- Which is the
best to serve God or the devil. This
is not a debatable question. There
is no argument TO IL.
Blue Blood.
There Is only one way out and that
is like this poor man. Don't you ex-
pect to reach Heaven, because you
are a descendant of some F. +. v.
family. Don't expect to reach Heav-
en-. simply because you are cultured.
Not one OF these things will get you
anything with God. I got you beat
a block / am a defendant of Adam
and Eve. General Grant, was a third
cousin OF mine. but that don't get
me anything. / am a defendant of
Daniel Boone. My great grandmoth-
er was a Kentuckian. She was from
Lexington, and you don't get any
bluer blood than that Stop expect
ing help from your family. But he
cried to the Lord, and the Lord,
heard him.
The Lord saved him out of all his
trouble. This poor man cried and
the Lord, helped him out OF part of
his trouble? Oh! no, all his trouble.
The Lord don't help people on the in
stallment plan. Some people would
say well he did not have trouble
like mine. l have more trouble than
he had. The Lord. helped him out OF
all his trouble. not part of his trouble
or some certain trouble.
Some Of you would have said.
Well, my trouble is different The
Lord will help IL you will let Him.
The Ladder.
MY text is good news for every
body. Such verses we're not merely
composed 20 fill the Bible up. The
Lord shoves the ladder down for you
to climb up. He puts the ladder down
to the drunkard. and down to the girl
in the red light. We all know this is
world Of trouble. but. thank the Lord,
there is a way out OF It.
|, You can go to the bank and tell
them your troubles. and they will tell
you they have troubles OF their own.
You can go TO the market place and
tell them your trouble. and they will
continue selling for cash. You can
go to the home of the rich and tell
them you have trouble. and they will
shut the door in your face and tell you
they have trouble. too. You can go
down the crowded streets and the
throng will turn deaf ears to your
troubles.
Il don't think God is ever too busy
to hear your troubles. He has been
waiting on some of the people OF
Wheeling for fifty and sixty years to
call to Him for help. What He did
for David He will do for you this after
noon.
God has honor. and He will keep Il.
Come unto me- The yoke you will
bear will be an easy burden. Don't
you remember how your mother came
TO help you? When the baby was cry
ing she would drop everything and
run TO IT, God will do the same thing.
VIII Rescue You.
The Lord will let everything wait
TO save you. II He Is making another
world, or planet. He will say. Just
wait; there is a fellow down In Wheel
ing crying for help God has a heart
like a mother and He will hear your
sry.
Down on the New England coast
Ohe uhg nsherman put out 10 sea
In his catboat with his little daughter,
10 look at his lines. While out on the
deep a storm broke on them In all its
fury and beat the little frail catboat
back to sea. A pail OF darkness set
tied over the sea. and the boat drift
ed with the helpless fisherman and
daughter on the deep. The mother
rushed into the house and lighted a
lantern and started to tho attack to
put II out so that her husband and
daughter could see H. Her son said.
Mother. where are you goingT and
she told him. lie said. why do that:
the rays OF the lantern could not be
seen az the edge Of the coast. and Pa
has probably put In some safe cove 20
walt until morning The mother put
the lantern out the attack window,
and then fell upon her knees 20 pray.
While drifting around on the sea