The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-23

old men. too. and among the prornL
nent converts we're Captain n. n. Dos-
ener. Charles Criss~eil. agent for the
z. q q. In this city: william Myers.
q 4 O. depot superintendent. Cap
tain William McDo1Eall. Of Littleton.
". Va a prOmineut veteran. James
Mecord. a prorninent local veteran.
and Thomas Bennett. Jr-. son OF Cap
tain Bennett. OF this city.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
SERMON TO MEN ONLY.
After announcing that Mr.. Peacock
would preach AZ the service this after
noon and that be would preach 70
men only at o'clock tomorrow aft
ernoon on the subject How to BE
Less Than a Man" and also calling
attention TO the two women's meet
ings. Mrs. Sunday at Fourth Street
church and Miss Miller at the First
Presbyterian church. he started on
his evening sermon.
Evening Sermon.
In n touching appeal in which he
pleaded for all 10 come up and give
their hearts to Christ. Mr.. Sunday last
evening delivered one Of the strongest
sermons yet heard at the tabernacle
IL was stripped OF much OF the levity
OF former sermons and the speaker
confined himself largely to the Bible
and he delivered hard cold facts from
the Word OF God and drove them
home with sledgehammer blows in a
manner that was both telling aud con-
vincing. The sermon was brief but
this in no wise detacted from its in
terest OF earnestness and his every
word was closely followed by the con-
gregation.
i. His text was taken from st. Luke
XIX: 10 For the Son of Man has come
10 seek and TO save that which is lost"
He spoke in part as follows:
The division OF the Bible into
chapters and verses is an act of more
modern times Originally the Bible
was not so subdivided. but was all
Joined together. There were no chan.
, tiers ard no verses. There were no
periods. semi-colons. commas or in
terrogation points. Many times now
chapter will start right in the mid
ole OF n story and in order 10 get the
entire benefit Of
The Whole Story
you nave to read the chapter before
or the one after. Particularly is This
ltrue OF the eighteenth and nineteenth
chapters OF Luke. The story starts
IN the eighteenth and is completed In
the nineteenth chapter.
, Jesus, on His return from bIessinp
, the little children. met a great ruIer
who SAID to Him. Good Master teII
me what ! must DO TO inherit eternal
HE. And Jesus said TO him. for no
was a Jew. why do you come and
ask me what TO do? And why do Won
= call me good? There is only one~cood
2 and that is God. II am not what
profess To be. then I am worse than
bad. Thou knowest the command.
ments, and he said res. and | have
, Kept them all my life: and then
Jesus told him his only salvation was
TO accept Jesus Christ.
, NOW. this man was rich. but Jesus
: Christ did not saw to him. Tell Inc
how TO get rich because riches we're
not what lie was seeking. but TO save
souls. Riches count for naught. anG
therefore II you have everything in
this world and are without Jesus
Christ. You are a failure.
You Envy the Man
that Is rich. the man that is promi.
nent politically. but the man Won
ought TO enxy is the man that Is a
Christian.
Jesus then entered Jericho and
Bartemius said TO his friend. I have
good news TO tell you: | met Jesus
and He restored my sight and shortly
ter He said hear the multitude com
ing. wait until ] see what IL j.. re
left and soon he came back and said
II Is Jesus coming this way. and the
blind beCgar cried out 10 the Lord.
He asked who IL vas. and someone
said IL was only "A blind beggar. But
the Lord said Bring him to me- and
when they brought him lie asked
|, What shall ! do with thee and he
said on Lord. restore my sight The
Lord then told him TO go his way
b and by his faith he would be cured
4 The beggar then had his sight. and
D he joined the multitude. singing the
2 praises OF God.
!, zaeeheus Chief Of Gang.
: 'Zaccheus was the chief OF a gan
{, OF publicans who made his money by
!. a system Of taxation in vogue at that
!, time. Once year they required the
y Jews 10 bring their wealth TO the
temple and the Jews soon found that
= they kept IL all Then they learned
u on thesn occasions not 10 bring all
their wealth but only a small portion
OF IL and this produced such little rev
enue they changed the system and this
7 was while Jesus Christ vas on earth.
= Under the new system the Roman
10 government figured one jew wax
/. worth 80 much and they sold the Ger
tihcates OF taxation to the publicans
, for collection. They said ~ took 4
/, Jew 10 catch a Jew. and Zaccheus BE-
iug a lew he secured "A largo amount
o 81 these certificates and collected
from the Jews charging an enormous
proht from which he grew vastly
wealthy
Jesus came and he wanted 20 see
him. but being short Of statur. aud
The streets being CROW ded ho could
. not look over the heads OF Others. 90
he climbed sycamore tree. for ha
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