Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-12-27

deadly gunpowder Tor blasting rocks
and patriotic celebration. Stop law
suits. Write no more anonymous let
tiers. Extract the sting from your sar-
casm. Let wit coruscate but never
burn. Drop harsh words out OF your
vocabulary. Good will 70 man? y my
Lord Jesus, drop that spirit in oil our
hearts this Christmas hour. tell you
what the worlds wants-more helping
hands, more sympathetic tears, more
kind words that never die, more dispo.
sition TO give other people q ride, and
I, carry the heavy end Of the log and let
them have the light, and ascribe good
motives rather than bad, and find our
happiness in making Others happy.
Out OF that Bethlehem manager let the
b ,ar and the lion eat straw like an OK:
Goodwill to man! That principle Will
yet settle all controversies and society
will continue to improve until the last
two antagonists in all the world VIII,
seated side by side, start in the same
jubilant sleigh ride holiness on the bells
ofthe horses.
Again, born that night in Bethlehem
was
Union With Other Worlds.
The only scepticism ever had about
Christianity was an astronomical scepti-
cism which eaid: rs it possible that
among the mighty Saturns and Jupiters
OF the heavens God would have chosen
for His Sons achievement such little
bit of d world as this is as compared
with other worlds on a vast SCALE" But
my scepticism is gone as that night !
visit the barn and its surrounding. !
find now that all worlds are sisters, and
when one weeps they all weep, and
when one sings they all sing. From the
supernatural grouping among the cloud
banks that night and the especial ex
press trains that ran down the sky l
know that our world ID glorlously aud
magniicently surrounded. The meteors
are with US. for one ran TO point out the
birthplace. The heavens are with US,
for at our deliverance they roll Their
hosannas out of the midnight sky. On,
yes; | think our poor world may be
better far than We have sometimes
imagined, and that whenever child Is
born angels fetch it, and when it dies
angels take it, and when an old nau
reels under the weight OF years angels
uphold him, and when the heart breaks
angels soothe it. Angels in the hospital,
angels watching in the cemetery, angels
above the the world, angel. beneath it,
angels all around it. Rub your eyes OF
the dust OF human infrmity and look
into the heavens and see angels OF
mercy, angels OF pardon, angels OF pity,
angles crowned, angels charloted. The
earth girdled by angels and defended by
angels, cohorts, clouds OF angels. But
the mightiest OF them stood not that
night among the clouds, but lay among
the cattle e-the angel OF the new coven-
ant. AS the clean white linen sent In
by some motherly villager was wrapped
around the little form OF that child im-
perial, there was not Il cherub or a
seraph, or an angel, or potentate, or a
world but thrilled, or wept, or shouted.
Oh, yes; all the worlds are bound to-
gether on earth, but the silver rung OF a
ladder at the top of which is the Fathers
house. No more still or solitariness Tor
our world. Not friendless planet spun
out into space to freeze, but world in
the bosom of divine maturity. A star
harnessed TO manger.
Again, that night was born in the
manger
The Offenders Hope.
Some might have thought | ought 10
have put this idea at the opening OF my
discourse. No; | wanted you to rise up
to it. wanted YOU to examine all the
comedians, and the emeralds, and the
jaspers, and the chrysolites before l
showed you the Kohinoor, the great
crown jewel Of the ages. 1t had very
poor setting. Cub OF bear has advent
among the grand old forest pillars.
Whelp Of lion takes it first step from
Jungle OF luxuriant and leaf and wild
flower. Kid OF goat is born in cavern
chandelicred with stalactite and pillared
with stalagmite. But Christ was born
in bare barn, vet his nativity is the Of
tenders hope. Over the door of heaven
is written in capitals OF consuming
glory: "Only the sinless may enter
here" Horror" you say, "tbat shuts
us all out" No; Christ came in one
door OF this world and and went out the
other-came in the door Of the manger
and went out the door OF the sepulchre,
and his one business was TO wash awav
our sin that when We are dead We will
have no more sin about us than has the
infinite God. All erased, all washed
away, all secured out, all gone. That
and under.girdipg and ira
dating and imparadising possibility for
you and me and all generations was born
that Christmas. Do you wonder that
We bring flowers and take organ and
concert and voice OF queenly soloist to
celebrate it? DO YOU wonder that
Raphael and Rubens and Gioto and
Titan and Girlandjo and Paul Veronese
and all the great Italian and German
painters gave the mightiest stroke OF
their pencil TO the sketching OF the
Madonna, Mary and her boy? Why,
now begin to
Understand the Maneer.
Not so high was the gildei jewelled en-
broidered cradle OF the Henrys OF Eng
land or the Louis OF France or the Fred
ericks OF Prussia. Not so much did the
open eat out Of that Bethlehem crib as
did the white horses OF apocalyptic Wis.
ion. Those swaddling clothes OF my text
enlarge into the imperial robes OF uni
versal concord. The star OF the manger
turns out to be the diamonded sandal OF
him who hath the moon under his feet
The music heard that night was not a
completed song, but the stringing OF in
struments for the chorus OF two worlds,
the bass to be carried by earthly nations
saved and the soprano by kingdoms OF
glory won. Oh, we shall see each other
when our last imperfection is gone. /
look right through the mist OF years and
through the fog that rises from the cold
Jordan and through the wide open doors
of solid pearl into that reunion. / ex-
rect to meet you there as much as |
meet you to-day.
What . Time We Shall Have
in high converse. in talking over our
sorrows cOmiorted and our sins forgiven
and our battles triumphant. lam going
in and am going to take all my family
with me and all my church and all my
friends and all my neighbors. / have
faith enough in the manger and Christ
II make me sure about it. | an going
to coax you in, push you in by holy
strstagem to surprise you. | will seize
hold oil you with all the energy OF my
physical, mental, spiritual and immortal
nature and compel you to 90 in.
like you 80 well l mean to spend