Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-07

drive out from men their love oil amuse-
ments. IfGod ever implanted anything
In us, He implanted this desire. But
instead OF providing for this demand OF
our nature the church of God has, for
the main part ignored 1t.
AS, in riot, the Mayor
plants battery at the end OF the street
and has it fred off, so that everythingis
cut down that happens TO stand In the
range, the good as we'll as the bad, so
there are men in the church who plant
their batteries Of condemnation, and hre
away indiscriminateiy. Everything Is
condemned. There are great many
who denounce ball play ing. They hate
puzzles. They despise charades. They
sbhor tab!eaux. They say: Away with
all parlor games" They talk as II they
would like to have our youth dressed in
blue uniform like the children oil an
orphan asylum, and march down the
path of lie TO the tune OF the Dead
March in Saul. They hate a blue sash
or a rosebud in the hair or tasseled galter
and think man almost ready for Sing
Sing who utters a conundrum. What
do they prescribed for our young people
in the way of recreation? Prayer meet
ings! Now, a Young man. busy in the
store from I in the morning until at
night,
Sometimes Wants Something Besides
Pray er Meetings.
We have a physical as well as a spiritual
nature that asks for recreation.
They lead young people 10 think that
a man is good in proportion as he groans
and frowns. and looks sallow, and that
the height of a Christian mans statue is
in proportion to the length OF his face.
would trade off five hundred such men
for one bright faced, radiant Christian
on whose face are the words, Rejoice,
evermore." Between here and Fulton
ferry every morning by his cheerful
face he preached fifty sermons. | will |
90 farther and say that i have no conf
dence in man who makes a religion OF |
his gloomy looks. That kind OF man |
always turns out badly. i would not |
want him ior the treasurer OF an Orphan
ASYLUM. the orphans would suffer. |
Among forty people whom l received in
to the church at one communion, there
was only one applicant of whose piety |
| was suspicious, he had the longest
story TO tell; had seen the most visions,
and gave an experience so rapturous and
profound that all the other applicants
were discouraged, was not surprised,
in year after, to learn that he had run
fwith the funds of the bank with which
he was connected. Who is this
Black Angel
that you call religion-wings black, feet
black, feathers black? Our religion is
bright angel-feet bright, eyes bright,
wings bright. Taking her place in the
soul, she pulls rope that reaches to
the skies, and sets all the bells OF heaven
a.chiming. There are some persons
who, when talking to a minister, always
eel it polite to look lugubrious, 90
iorth, y people, to your lawful amuse-
nents, God means you to be happy.
But when there are 80 many sources OF
pleasure, why tamper with
anything that is dangerous and pollut'
ng. Why stop our ears TO a heaven
ull of songsters, to listen to the hiss Of
. dragon? Why turn back from the
side, all abloom with wild
lowers, and adash with the nimble tor
'ents, and with blistered feet at
empt to climb the hot sides of
;6mss '"'%1itn GnttensG2. The .dav
.xerted evil influence upon their fellows
will be brought to judgment. Scene,
he last day. Stage, the rocking earth.
Enter, dukes, lords, kings, beggars,
.lowns. No sword. No tinsel. No
,lown. For footlights, the kindling
lanes OF world. For orchestra, the
rumpetS that wake the dead. For gal
cry, the clouds filled with angel specta'
.ors. For applause, the clapping floods
1i the sea. For curtain, the heavens
rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy,
The Doom OF the Destroyed. For farce.
the effort to serve the world and God
al the same time. For the last scene OF
the fifth act, tramp OF nations across the
stage-some to the right, others to the
left. These snail go away into everlast-
ing punishment, but these into lie
eternal"