Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-26

| they aver have been, and Tor ten years
the government has been calling on the
denominations to furnish missionaries
and tescbe 10 for them. This affection
Ia to be looked upon rather in the light
nj a chastenins-as that which has re-
ference to the future.
By this event the national unity has
been exhibited. Expressions OF sym.
nsthv have come from North. South,
Fast and West. One speaker has de-
clared that Garfield dead will
he a greater blessing than Gar
field living" In the sixteen years
since the war legislation has not
been able to restore harmony. but grief
will do 1t. Lincoln died for freedom,
but it remained for Garfeld's death to
eradicate enmity and restore brotherly
love. AS sure as Christ died for rs to
be saved, Garfield died that we might
be cemented in harmony and love.
This event has also shown - inter
national sympathy as We never saw it
before. There Is no nation to rejoice at
our calamity. We need not cav with
David, "Tell it not in Gath; publish il
not in the streets of Askelon." Grief,
indignation and horror have taken pos
session Of the world. Especially sweet
is the sympathy OF our mother country.
and that floral tribute lying TO day on
the casket Of our dead President is
brighter and more beautiful in our ives
than the golden diadem that sits upon
the brow of her Queen. 1t Is the har.
binger of that universal peace which will
one day prevail. .
By this Christening the expressions OF
indignation have become unanimous
against assassiRations as q mode OF polit-
| ical relief. We are brought into sympa.
| thy with every country of Europe and
| Asia whose monarch has suffered by
assassination, and We feel the force Of
the Divine command: "Whoso sheds
mans blood, by a shall his blood be
she'd"
From the first this foul crime has
been connected with ''the spells system"
| of politics in our C ultry. This is one
| OF the greatest evils that ever threatened
our country. The principle underlying
it is, rewarding a man with office for pp'
| litical services. 1t is another form for
bribery. 1t causes the overlooking oil
many crimes, because the perpetrators
| control votes. We may well avoid a
system that had Aaron Burr for its
ouuder and Guiteau for its exponent.
| Do we not hear the voice OF God in the
81 ence of this atfliction ca Ing upon US
to put away this foul system?
By this aftiiction We have been spirit
ually blessed. We have been more
earnest in our prayers. l hail 1t as n
OF the most favorable movements OF the
new President that be has called upon
the people to assemble to pray God to
sanctify this bereavement to our good.
We are q nation Of money makers, hay.
ing nothing to do but to make money
and spend it in pleasure or works oil
benefcence. Our besetting sin is world
illness, but during this affection we have
seen the most selfish and worldly cease
| from their labors and shedding tears Of
sympathy. 1t has done US good already,
let us pray that it may do us good in the
future. We may almost, without bias
phemy, put the death OF Garfield by the
death of Jesus, who died that sinners
might be won unto God. 81 see the
world growing better year after year; |
see tyranny giving place to liberty; /
see civil and religious liberty walking
hand in hand, as two sisters, bringing
blessings to the children OF men; | see
nations torn down and built up to pre-
pare the way for the government Of
God. AS / look back over our own
! country's history l see how God has
given us territory, and put it under the
control OF Christianity, in a way that
mans hand would never have contem
plated; | see God in his providence free
ing slaves by ways that We would never
have thought OF or chosen, and convinc.
my all that free labor is better than sla
very. And In this last event / hope l
can see a revolution whereby it will no
longer be true that the name Of "pollti-
cian' has a stencil in the nostrils OF the
people, whereby half Crazed wretch
will no longer have it in his power to
plunge So 00, 900 Of people into grief,
sorrow and mourning. / see in these
things the hand of God. In the still
hour OF afil lction he speaks to Va, and
We are ready 10 hear him. May God
5 notify this bereavement to us ALL"
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN URIC
A large audience assembled at the
United Presbyterian Church yesterday
morning. The pastor, Rev. J. T. Nc.
Clure, d. D., preached a sermon COM
memorative OF the death OF President
Garfield. The psalms and prayers we're
all appropriate to the occasion. ii
Chron. 35th chapter and last part OF the
oath verse was selected as the text. The
words of the text are these: "And all
Judah and Jerusalem mourned Tor
Josiah" Tie following is an abstract
OF the sermon. The speaker said:
History is always repeating itself. The
for the events OF the present. judah
and Jerusalem mourned for their dead
kings, cut off in the midst oil, life
and usefulness, and We mourn
to-day Tor similar caus1.
The history OF Josiah is strangely inter.
sting and attractive. The people mourn.
ed Tor him because they appreciated his
worth. Being the lawful heir to the
throne of Judah, he wal declared and
crowned King, when a little child only
eight years OF age. Others, as matter
OF course, must bear for him the burden
Of the government.
At sixteen years OF age he began to
seek the God OF his fathers.
At twenty he commenced the great
work OF driving idolatry out OF the land.
At twenty-six he began TO purify the
temple. During the progress OF this
part Of his great work
copy OF the law Of Moses
was found and read before him. This
seems TO have given him new light and
to have aroused him to redoubled efforts
to carry on the work. The Passover
was ordered to be observed, and grand
revival spread throughout all the land.
But no man is perfect. Josiah, though
a wise and plous king, lost his life in an
unnecessary battle with Secho, king OF
Egypt.
Our whole nation mourns to-day be.
cause of the death OF our chief execu.
| tive, and the whole civilized world sym.
pathizes with us in our deep affection.
You are all familiar with the record
| of the case from the sad End OF July 10
the sadder 10Th Of September, 1881.
During those seventy nine days We were
vascilating between hopeand fear, and as
the events have proved, We were all
wrong in eur conjectures as TO the prob.
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