Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-28

head and the Goddess OF Wisdom jump
ed out, illustrating the truth that
Wisdom Comes By Hard knocks

There was river OF difficulty between
Shakespeare, the boy holding horse q
the door OF London theatre, and tha
Shakespeare, the great dramatist, win
ming the applause OF all nations by hil
tragedies. There Was river OF difficulty
between Benjamin Franklin, with loa
OF bread under his arm, walking the
streets Of Philad :lphia, and that same
Benjamin Franklin, the philosopher
just outside of Boston, playing kite with
the thunderstorm. An idler was cured
Of his bad habit by looking through the
window, night after night, at a man
who seemed sitting at his desk turning
off one sheet Of writing after another
until almost the dawn OF the morning
The man seated there writing until
morning was the industrious Walter
Scott The man who looked at him
through the window was Lockhart. his
illustrious biographer afterward. Lord
Mansfield, pursued by the press, pur.
sued by the populace, because of GER.
tain course he had taken, shook his fist
in the face OF the mob and said: "Sirs,
when ones last end comes, il cannot
come too soon il he fall in defence OF the
law and the liberty OF his country"
Aud so there is, my friends.
A Tug, o Jostle. Trial. . Push,
an anxiety through which every man
must go before he comes TO worldly sue.
cess. Now be wise enough u apply the
principle in religion. Eminent Chris.
tian character is only attained by cross
ing the Jordan. No man just happens
to get good. Why does that man know
so much about the scriptures? He was
studying the Bible while YOU were read
ing a novel. He was on fire with the
sublimities OF the Bible while you were
sound asleep. II was by tugging and
toiling and pushing, and running in the
Christian lie that he became 80 strong.
In hundred Solferino's he learned how
to fight. In hundred shipwrecks he
learned how 70 swim. Fears over sin,
tears over lions desolation, tears over
the impenitent, tears over graves, made
Jordan which that man had to pass.
Sorrow stains the cheeks and sinks the
eve, and palrs the brow and thins the
hand. There are mourning garments
in every wardrobe,
There Are Deaths in Every Family
Record.
All around US are the relics OF the dead.
The Christian has passed this Red Sea
trouble, and yet he finds that there is
the Jordan OF death between him and
heaven. He comes down to the Jordan
OF death and thinks how many have
been lost there. When Lieutenant
MO!neaux was exploring tie Jordan in
Palestine he had his boats all Knocked
to pieces in the rapids Of the river, and
there are great many men who have
gone down in the river OF death. The
Atlantic and .he Pacific have not swal-
lowed 50 many. 1t is an awful thing to
make shipwreck on the rock OF ruin.
Masts falling, hulls splitting, death
coming, groaning in the water, moaning
in the wind, thunder in the sky; while
God, with finger OF lightning, writes
over all the scene: 81 will tread them In
my wrath, and | will trample them in
my fury"
The Christian approaches this raging
torrent, and as he nears il, his breath
gets shorter and his last breath leaves
him as he steps into the stream, but no
sooner has he touched the stream than
it is parted, and he goes through dry
shod, while all the waters wave their
piumes, crying: 30 death, where is thy
sting? . grave, where is thy victory"
"God shall Wipe Away all Tears From
Their Eyes -
And there shall be no more sea, and
Al al,.lI 10 ,laa,h tNLa,
| see the I5raeiites getting through Jor-
dan and getting up the banks, aud see
their iiOcks and herds following right
on after them, the suggestion comes
through my mind that perhaps after ALL
the best part Of the brute creation may
have a chance in the great future. You
say: Harmonic with that theory the
passage the spirit OF the brute goes
| can harmonic these
two things, a great deal easier than can
harmonic the anuihilation Of the brute
creation with the ill-treatment they
here receive. | do not know but in the
clear atmosphere OF that other country
there may be bird heaven. do not
know but on those fair banks there
may be a lily ly-heav.n, u rose heaven, an
heaven. When | see
Professed Christian Man
abusing his horse, my common sense OF
Justice tells me that that horse ought 10
have a better time in the future thsn his
driver, Ii really the jsded and abused
cab and omnibus horses OF our cities
have any better country 10 20 10 when
they leave this world-l do not know
that they do; do not know that they do
not-but if they do have such coun-
try TO 60 10, should like 10 zee them
the moment when, their CALLED necSs
cured, and their foundered knees
Strengthened, and their coughing distem-
pers healed-free from the collar and the
tight check line and the twisted hits,
they shall range in the celestial pastur-
age forever and forever. and DO not say
il is 50, but should not be offended il
should find at last that not only
all the isrselites got through the
Jordan, but the best part OF the
brute creation got in after them. But.
whether that be so or not, there is one
thing certain get from my text, and
that is, We have right 10 expect our
families 10 g with US. Some OF your
children have already gone up the other
bank. You let them down this side OF
the bank; they will be on the other
bank 10 help you up with supernatural
strength. The other morning seated at
NV table, all my family present, |
thought to myself how pleasant it would
be il could put them all in boat and
then get in with them, and We could
pull across the river to the other world
ans be there, and he there altogether.
No Family Partings-No Gloomy Obss-
Quies.
ltwould not take five minutes 10 20
from bank TO bank, and then in that
better world, to be together forever,
Would it not be pleasant il you could
take all your family into that blessed
country, and you could all go together?
| remember my mother, in her dying
hour, said TO my father: Father, would
it not be pleasant il We could all 20 TO.
le her."
But we cannot all 60 together. We
must 60 one by one. What a heaven
it would be if We have all our
families there, To look around aud see
that all your children are present,
Rather have them all there and you 60
with bare brow forever than one OF
them missing and all the garlsnds OF
heaven for yOuy f-or0na Tnyd God nf