Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-13
The Sin OF Worrying.

The discomfort of worrying, every
body admits; but its sinfulness is not so
commonly recognized. Worrying habits
are not supposed to be OF the personal
temperament, and therefore inevitable.
Those who indulge in them are sorry
that they must do so; but they never
think Of CHASING those habits with steal
ing and lying and impurity OF speech or
action, in their manifest inconsistency
with a Christian profession. Yet no
wrong-doing whatsoever is more clearly
a sin to the Christian disciple than is
worrying; none more clearly dishOnors
Christ or may be supposed to grieye
him more.
Worrying is being in nervous anxiety
lest things are going wrong, or lest un-
supplied need is coming. 1t Is having
a restless timidity as to the results, or
consequences, or insufficiency of things
done, or of things doing or to be done
by ones self or by others. Worrying is
therefore the plain evidence OF lack OF
confident belief that the ordering and
guiding and controlling Of ones self and
ones affairs, and of all things which
may directly or indirectly affect ones
interests. are sure to be wise and loving,
and for that persons individual welfare.
Worrying is perfectly consistent with
the blind cropping of the infdel, or the
pitiful helplessness of the fatalis:; it is
absolutely incompatible with a true
Christian trust. Yet the one all-essen-
tial thing to a Christian is trust. What
ever else he lacks, a true disciple must
believe in his master Without faith it
is impossible to please that master, to
honor him, or TO be faithful in his SER
vice. What failure then could be worse
than failure in that which is OF chief
importance? What wrong doing could
be more truly reprehensible than an un-
Just suspicion of the love and truth and
iaithfulness OF the son of God?
Think how worrying distrustinlness
would appear, if it were manifested by
your own child toward yourself in ordi-
nary hOme-liie. Suppose your son,
whom you love with all your heart,
were in the habit of having and showing
a nervous fear lest somehow he should
be in danger or need at the very point
where you are always readiest and.bcst
able To provide for him. Suppose you
found him in tears on some autumn
day because winter was coming on, and
he might lack comfortable clothing to
keep him IRON freezing. Suppose he
should start back, or cry out for terror,
when you took up the Carving-kniie at
the dinner-table, as though it were TO be
used against instead of for him. Sup
pose he were continually moaning or
trembled over the possibility of being
forgotten or neglected by you-and this
in home of affection and plenty, and
of never-failing care Suppose you found
that way down in his heart he diSbe-
lieved in your love for him, or distrust-
ed your ability TO be good and true
parent in the days of his Deepen
dent childhood. Which would be the
worse in your sight = such dis
trustiulness as this on his part, or
common boyish willfulness and disobe-
dienceH Could any misdoing, indeed, be
more truly wrong against you, or an
evil in him, than such unChldlike, UNI
natural questioning of your ability and
goodness Do you think that your
Father in heaven is less DESTROYS than
an earthly parent of the confidence OF
his children? Do you think that the
Savior attaches less importance than
You do to that trait of character which
he makes the supreme test OF disciple
ship?
A Proper Use of the Bible.
Wecannot love the Word OF God too
much or consult it too often. But we
are to search the Scriptures and it is
"to dwell in us richly in all wisdom"
1t is true always that it is the only in
iallible rule of practice as well as of
faith; that it was intended not only to
make us wise unto salvation but to
furnish US thoroughly unto all good
works" But we are not TO turn into a
kind OF lottery, or use II as spell or a
charm. We are to understand what
we read We are not TO take it separ-
ately, but connectedly; and ii we would
he directed by it as TO our duty, or salts
fed by il as To our state, We are To pur-
sue it with diligence, humility and
PRAYER; to observe the passages that re-
fer to persons OF our characters and con-
ditiOn, that describe the temptation TO
which we are exposed, or the trials I'M
der which We labor. Thus, and thus
only, will we find it "a lamp unto our
feet, and light unto our path,
lending us the most appropriate assist
ance under all circumstances, and sub
serving "all things that pertain To life
and godlinesS. Christian World.
Results of Religious Inquiry.
! believe that religion, so far from be-
ing on its death bed, is just ready to en-
ter on completer life than it has ever
before had, and believe that it must
come by the results OF religious inquiry,
OF which is so many men are afraid, as
we have learned so much about religion,
knowledge has grown so wonderfully
within our short age. Now, to many
men it seems that the growth OF knowl.
edge has undermined the foundation oil
religious faith out Of that knowledge
must come the grounds OF a pure faith
1t must come it is come just as fast a
knowledge brings us into contact with
the truth. What believe we have q
/ right to look for as religious men is q
b great religious revival which shall not
be a lespairing retreat upon WORKOUT
rituals, which once had life in them not
great excitement of feeling, but a de-
vOut search after truth for the cause
which gives to every truth its meaning
and the triumphant acceptance of Hin
as the glorious Lord, the example al
our life, which shalt be as much thor
ough and devout and religious as it u
intelligent over the best faith OF ages
that have gone before us.-Phaiip
Brooks Thanksgiving S'rmOH.
R John B. Coughs Address TO the Poor.
Il know said the speaker, "some
thing about the experience Of the men
when meet and speak TO here. | wa:
dropped in this city many years ago, {
poor, friendless young fellow with only
30 cents in my pocket. found my
way TO dingy, dirty tavern called the
/ old Brown jug, and was kept there
two days, in a fashion, for my so cents
Then on the street l went, and in rain
day after day, sought employment
Many a day l have buttoned my coat
close up around my throat that those
met might think had on underneath
it something else, but l hadn't; and
then my poor old mother came over
from England to linger through poverty
for a year before she died. More than
once we have lain in our beds on the
floor all Sunday through, because We
didn't have money to buy coal for
a fire. So when | hear rich men,