The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-11
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.


On bleak winters night, mere
scrawl was handed in at the door, with
a name known to fame; death was i'm
minent. The patient was in kind Of
out.house back from the street. A soil
tary woman attended the unfortunate
sufferer, silent, busy, anticipating every
want, translating every gesture almost
before it was made. In the early morn
ing, at noon, and in the hours of dark
ness, she was always there; prompt,
noisless, vigilant, selfpossessed. Day
after day it was the same thing; and
with all this there is such benignity in
the whole demeanor that | wanted to
know her name and her relation to the
patient, who had been abandoned by the
dearest ties of humanity, and whose
mental state was evidently as great a
torture as that Of the body. The tumul-
tuous heavings Of the mind and con-
science were in sad unison with the
ceaseless tossings of the emaciated
frame, and vain efforts Of the restless,
fearless eye TO close itself in sleep. 81
shall die if / don't sleep" was the con-
slant, piteous exclamation Lover, and
friend, and daughter, even, kept sternly
aloof from that miserable bedside She
had heard of the hapless and abandoned
sufferer, and for humanity's sake sup
piled every want from her own purse, and
continued so to do for weeks and weary
months, until death brought relief from
the feaful combination OF human suffer
ings. 70 do so much and for so long a
time; to administer tireless personal
attentions, and unstinted pecuniary aid
TO one so abandoned, without the hope
or possibility of reward, was the work Of
that angel Of goodness, who has written
so much and so sweetly, in prose aud
verse-ALlCE CARY
A GOOD SERMON. seldom hear q
better sermon on the duty of preparing
for the borne from whence no traveller
returns" than is contained in the ale
CORY which relates that man once fell
through this world into the next. There
he discovered that we retain these parts
of ourselves, and those only, which we
have used assiduously here. Curious
was the spectacle presented to his won
derlng sight He saw hundreds OF hun
gry-looking ears. They were forever
congregating and hurrying hither and
thither. He was informed that on earth
these had done the hearing of curch mu-
sic and church sermons; had cultivated
the listening faculties, and nothing else,
so that they were now ears and nothing
more.
He noticed big stomachs lying about
contentedly under fences and trees, and
was told that there were persons who
had chiefly used their gastromic powers
who had assiduously guzzled at So,
looms, and gormandized at restaurants.
He became interested at some large dolls,
too, that appeared to move their eyes
languidly aud sometimes to cape. These
he learned were what remained of ladies
who had only cultivated good looks.
On inquiring for popular preacher, he
was conducted to place full Of ears
where a lively skeleton, without a YES
tage of heart or brain, was still gesticu-
lating impressively. Upon making this
discovery, the man Immediately tele-
graphed earthwards, as follows: 81 find
that powers unused die out; that parts
neglected fall away; that we are allowed
to keep only so much OF ourselves as we
use. Look out that you do not end as
a restless ear, as lazy stomach, or as
big bag Of wind
BEECHER AND THE SAvIoR-The Rev
Henry Ward Beecher, recently delivered
an eloquent discourse on the Life Of
Christ" The speakers object was to
prove that our Savior's life was one Of
JOY. His crucifiction as portrayed in
the Moravian hymns, the reverend
gentleman exclaimed, was enough to
drive one Wild There were some peo-
pie who at stated times forced them
selves into a minor key Of soul, in order
to sympathize with our Sayiors suffer
ings. He would as soon essay such a
thing as to attempt to walk from New
York to Europe under water
\ gentleman here rose and said that
he had always believed Christ to be a
man of sorrow. Hehad suffered for the
love of men. Mr.. Beecher declared that
because Christ had suffered intensely it
did not follow that he should endure
perpetual agony to prove his love for us.
Suppose an erring, discarded child, lying
PROSTATE with fever, sees an angel with
mothers face bending over it. That
mother tends until the fever has abated
and the child is well. The fact would
demonstrate the tenderness of a mothers
love, but it would not be necessary for
her to tend the sufferer for lifetime in
order to prove her affection.
Mr. Beecher added that Christ was q
healthy man-emphatcally a joyful and
active man. He once went to avoiding
which must have consumed fifteen days,
and created gallons Of wine to prolong
the festivities. At this wedding our
Savior appears TO have conducted HIM
self simply as guest, and mingled with
others on terms of social equality.
Reputation (says Thomas Paine) is
what men and women think OF us. Char