Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-12

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600 and along, il wa as If Its path lay
5ronob Paradise - in the crowded cities
snJ 9uiet villages through which 1t
passed, the people were: upon their
knees and the very atmosphere that 80
refreshed the sufferer, was fragrant with
the OF a deyout Republic No
wonder then that the peri!ous journey
was accomplished with ease and safety,
for in answer 10 prayer that train Was in
the keeping OF the angels OF God.
As a nation we are face to face with
an alarming crisis. Not so much in the
political aspect as in the religious and
national. We haze forgotten God! Our
commercial greatness has made US proud
and self reliant. Gold is our God. The
Sabbath has been given up TO secular
pursuits and social pleasures. The laws
~ States have been violated and their
nena,ties eyaded. The most sacred and
solemn ties that bind s~ociet, in a com.
pact Of peace and putty have been sun
dered; our great cities are sinks OF vice;
! the air ia heavy with b%lasphemy; the
! sa~nctuaries are deserted for tie streets;
the Bible exchanged for the novel; and
the gospel for the lecture OF the inhdel;
and the songs OF salvation for the bac-
| cbaaalian ballad Of the dance house or
the rum shop. These United States Of
America, so highly favored OF Heaven,
have forgotten the God OF glory, and in
their deep apostacy, with the Mount OF
the Law in sight, have made them q cali
| OF gold and put themselves under the
,ujtion OF unbelief and the sovereignty
OF the Devil.
saw. then, without fear Of criticism,
that whether our President lives or dies,
We should consider it a very fortunate
occurrence that a blow has fallen heavy
enough and a cloud has gathered dark
enough and terror has seed strong
enough to drive us az a nation TO our
knees before God and to put upon
every tongue an earnest prayer.
A forgotten and despised God is rs
| ing in vengeance from his throne. Soon
VT NAV be face to lace with the most
critical and alarming emergency we have
ever known. We may be LETT alone 10
battle against combinations OF anarchy,
which NAV win the victory, and seize
upon the reins OF government with a
| bloody hand. For il forsaken OF Col,
who or what can save us? There are
elements in our constitution as a nation
which, il unchecked, threaten to wreck
us in irretrievable ruin. There are
SHARKS slumbering beneath us that In a
moment may blaze into a contlagratlon.
TO our shores are coming by thousands
French Communists, Russian Nihillsts,
Irish agirators, German infdels. They
are attacking our liberties, subyertlng
our institutions, sapp;rg the peace OF
society, desecrating our Sabbath. broad
ening the limits OF crime, despising u
laws, and teaching u youth in schools
OF violence. What is our only defence
and ON only guarantee OF safety?
What alone will preserve our lnstltu'
tions, and dee ID our ii0ert es, and In
sure our future prosperity? What alone
will save America from the bloody grasp
OF the Nihilist, or from the iron sceptre
OF an ignorant monarchy Nothing be-
meath the cOpse OF heaven but the hand
and help OF jehovah Do we realize
this? Ii SO, let US be thankful that an
event has t%ranspirrd, gloomy and ap
paliing as it is, that has had the power
to arouse our better thoughts, and bring
US as a nation 10 our knees before Tod
In this light the murderous weapon OF
a hell inspired assassin may be the SER
yant OF a better future. Jesus Christ
died by the hands OF His insatiate enc
mics, vet in the end 4 world will be
sayet IRON eternal death. James A.
Garfield may yet fall a victim to cruel
barbarism, but | verify believe that by
his death, through prayer, our
Repub ic will get back to
God, and save itself from mire.
And yet one OF the physicians who has
ministered at the Presidents bedside,
and who, by his acts and words, has To-
timated that his other name might be
Ignorance (for you know Ignorance is
Biiss), has been irreyerent enough to
publicly affirm that whisky has done
more for the patient than prayer. This
gross SANDER the church and the world
warmly resents. AS has been said in
reply, God uses means in answering
prayer-the age OF miracles is past and
God works his purpose through human
channels, and that often times he EN-
ploys the devil to further his intentions.
We have read in the sacred book how
that when Balaam was endeayoring to
defeat the blessing OF God upon Israel,
the Lord opened the mouth of the ass
that he rode and by the tongue OF
the contemplate brute delivered
to him a severe reprimand for
his consummate folly. So to day,
whether by whisky or by an =, or by a
physician, il the President lives, it will
be by the hand OF God through human
agencies. For God hath chosen the
foolish things OF the world 10 confound
the wise, and base things OF the world,
ami things which are despised, hath
God chosen, yea, and things which are
no., to bring 10 naught the things that
are, that no flesh should glory in his
presence" Aye, 1t may be v%entured,
that if James A. Garfield lives, he will
live in spite OF his physician! To the
vile Of the sufferer they have already
said, ave can do no more" Let them
remember their confession. OF weakness,
and refrain from robbing God Of His
glory.
LIT Us then, as those that fear God
and believe His word, look toward the
sea with the eye OF faith and in the
yalmneSs oil hope, listen TO what the
wild waves will say, and wait for what
H.. Dur,l,pu Ipyiz0n will hriDu