The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-06
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.

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but not every one cherishes benevolence
enough to be very joyous. o, that they
all did!
The biographer of a venerable min
lister says he was remarkable for the
felicity Of his prayers, and returned
| thanks with the eXactness of an assessor
A city missionary was asked the
cause of his poverty. Principally"
said he, with a twinkle of the eve, be
cause have preached so much witho,a
notes p
Rev. W. F. Watkins, for twelve years
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, was ordained as deacon in the
Episcopal church in Brooklyn, in Feb
ruary last
An eccentric clergyman lately said
in one of his sermons that "about the
commonest proof we have that man is
made of clay, is the brick so often found
in his hat
\ minister having spite against one
of his parishioners named Hardy,
preached the next Sunday from the
following text: There is no fool like
the fool harty."
\ clergyman says that at church
some people clasp their hands so tight
~ in PRAYER that they are unable to get
them loosed when the contribution plate
comes round.
MY brethren" said preacher, de-
scanting on the difficulties of the sinner,
1T is a very easy task to row skiff
over Niagara Falls, but a tremendous
job to row it back again"
An ignorant minister having re-
marked in the presence of Dr. South
that fhe Lord has no need of mans
learning. that witty divine replied,
still less has he need of mans gno-
rance
Can any one at all familiar with the
laws Of nature, the facts of history and
the experience of men, think seriously
upon the subject, without reaching the
conclusion that evil is self-destructive
and subordinate to good? Admitting,
then, that God is love, and Christ is
Lord of all, what else is needed but ex-
tended time and the free play of truth,
assisted 10y the agencies which love
enlists, to conquer sin and subdue and
save the world?
A good minister once said | am
very sensitive to the prayers of little
children. | could think of no greater
punishment than to lose the love of
little Children which proved him to
be in the line of apostolic succession
from the great Master who tenderly
said Suffer the little children to come
unto me- and who took them up in
his arms, put his hands upon them,
and blessed them" 1t is the spirit of
every true minister of Christ
\ selfish person can have no joys
greater than his own individual interests
are raluaJle. \ patriot may have joys
as great as the welfare of his country
is important. A philanthropist's may
rise a. high as the well-being of the
whole human race is precious. And a
benevolent person may have joys inf
mtsy great; for he can rejoice in the
happiness of God, and of all the inhab-
itants of earth and heaven-in all the
good there is in the universe,
Il shall shortly" exclaimed Haly-
burton, a sincere believer, on his death
bed, get a very different sight of God
from what | have ever had, and shall
be meet To praise him forever. and ever
What a wonder that | enjoy such COM
posure under all my bodily pains, and
in view of death itself! What a mercy
that having the use Of my reason,
can declare his goodness to my soul
| bless his name; | have found him,
and die rejoicing in him. Blessed BE-
ted that crer / uaS b0rH.'
Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my
brother had not died" A sorrowful
repining addressed to Christ. 1t had
not been made, perhaps, had Martha
known what Jesus had said to his dis
ciples-"I was glad, for your sakes,
that I was not there, to the intent We
may believe With womap's intiut-
ton she might have taken hope from
the latter clause, knowing he could not
have been glad at an event which
had clouded the lives of others, unless
he had some unrevealed purpose in
their temporary grief
"In man." said Voltaire, the scorner,
there is more wretchedness than in
all animals put together. He loves
life. and vet he knows he must die.
If he enjoys a transient good he suffers
various evils, and is at last devoured
bv worms. This knowledge is his fatal
prerogative; other animals have it not.
The bulk of mankind are nothing more
than a crowd of wretches equally
criminal and unfortunate; and the
globe contains carcasses rather than
men. tremble at the review of this
dreadful picture to find that it contains
complaint against Providence itself
and Irjsk had nercr been born.