The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-04-22
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.


them.
Error loves to walk arm in arm with
truth, to make itself thought respecta-
bic.
Scandal, like kite, to fly we'll de-
ponds greatly on the length of the tale
it has to carry. .-...- .sr- ,
Habit is cable. We weave thread
OF it'every day, aud every day, and at
last we cannot break it.
There are promises in Scripture to
help our weakness, but none to over
come our willfulness.
If you would be pungent, be brief;
for it is with words as with sunbeams-
the more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.
Do not be afraid Of the storms OF
time, knowing that God holds the moral
as well as the physical ocean in the hol-
low of hand.
A helping word to one in trouble is
often like switch to a railroad track
but one inch between a wreck and
smooth, rolling prosperity.
The word heart" is named eight
hundred times in the Bible; the word
soul" four hundred and forty times;
and TIE word head only eighty times.
None are so fond of secrets as those
who do not mean to keep them; suc1
persons cuvet secrets as spendthrift
covets money-ior the purpose OF clrcu-
lation.
The man who, whether in his habits
or his actions, in great things or in
small, separates himself from his
friends, seems to set every evil and en-
vious feeling OF our nature in array
against him. Distinction is purchased
at the expense Of sympathy.
Not to believe that the Bible is Gods
message, is voluntarily to deprive our
selves of all true, well-founded knowl-
edge about God and our future state.
1t is returning to darkness-it is to ruin
our own prospects, and perhaps also
the welfare Of many others with us.
The ruin Of most men dates from
some vacant hour. Occupation is the
armor OF the soul There is satirical
poem, in which the devil is represented
as fishing for men, and fitting his bait
to the taste and business Of his prey
but the idler, he said, gave him no
trouble, as he bit the naked hook
AyoNYMoUs-SUNNY SUNDAYs.-l am
always glad when the sun shines on
Sunday. Not as much for my own
sake, as for those who, living in dreary
surroundings, in darkened rooms, noisy
with crowded occupants. need all the
brightness they can get on this only
leisure day in the whole week, to help
them to endure the toll of the next.
Nor do blame them when, with young
children whom they cannot take to
church, and who need a change Of air
as much as themselves, they 60 abroad
to get it.. And when well-meaning
Christians irown on this, do they fully
consider the limitations Of these people
they blame, and the comfortless homes
to which they would consign them,
when they cannot 60 to church? Be
sides, it needs a great deal OF moral
'courage in these days. for those who
have little better than their working
clothes to wear, to 60 in among the
SLOWLY dressed crowds who worship in
our churches.
We who have seen nature in all her
sweet and grand and majestic aspects,
from time to time, can form little idea
what it is, to the poor city working
people, even to feel the cool breeze of
the county on their tired foreheads; or
how much rapture may be extracted
from even one blade Of grass, or one
clover bios som or buttercup, by little
child seldom or never off the pave
ments. | never shall forget the delight
of one whom | met, who could not be
persuaded that the sunset she witnessed
could ever be repeated; and to whom
the trees, and the shadows, and the
birds, and the blossoms, and freshness
aud splendor, that our beauty stated
ewes could never see. Surely, said |,
nobody could condemn that child to a
tenement-house door step or window in
place of all this, because church was
impossible for it.
am very glad to believe that God
looks all round subjects and persons,
and not on one side only; that he goes
far back in his judgments of actions
and motives, and weighs circumstances
and obstacles, and makes allowance for
them all, in a way that short-sighted
human beings seldom think OF, in their
slap-dash judgments.
once heard an account of street
preaching here in New York, which in
terested me very much. 1t seemed to
me, if conducted by judicious persons,
to be most excellent thing for the
class of whom ] have been speaking;
who, confined all the week in close
work shops and houses. naturally dread
spending in doors this their only re-
preive-day from it. The sweet hymn
sung would, think, arrest the step and
catch the ear, and linger in the memory,
when all other means might fail.
Those words, but half understood,