Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-03
WHEELING, w. VA, MONDAY

| death scene Of a man who has measures
life by the worldly standard with tn
| death scene OF a man who has measure
| life by the Christian standard. Quln, tn
actor, in his last moment said: Il hop
this tragic scene will soon be over and
| hope 10 keep my dignity to the las
Malheshesbes said in his last moment
10 the coniessor: "llold your tongue
Your miserable style puts me out {
conceit OF heaven" Godfrey Rnellt
spent his last hours on earth in DRAWN
q diagram of his own monument. Con
pare the silly and horrible departure
such men with the seraphic glow on Il
face OF Edward Payson as he said in h
last moment: The breezes OF heaye
fan me, float in a sea of glory" {
with Paul, the Apostle, who said IN h
last hour: "l am now ready to be otie
ed up, and the time OF my departure
at hand. have fought the good tigt
have kept the faith. HenceiOrth the
is a crown Of righteousness laid up +
me which the Lord, the righteous judg
will give me-" Or compare it with &
Christian death bed that you witness
in your own household. On, II
friends,
This World is a False God.
1t will consume you with the blaze
which it accepts your sacrifice, VIII
the righteous shall be held in everla
ing remembrance; and when the thror
have fallen, and the monuments ha
crumbled, aud the world has perish,
they shall banquet with the conquert
of earth and the hierarchs OF heaven.
This is q good time in which to
Begin New Style OF Measurement.
How old art thou? You see the Chr
tian way OF measuring life and
worldly way OF measuring life. | lea
it tO YOU to say which is the wisest and
best way The wheel OF time has turned
very swiftly, and it has hurled us on.
The old year has gone. The new year
has come. For what YOU and ] have
been launched upon it, God only knows.
Some years ago minister OF Christ was
preaching in New England, and 1t was
on New Years day. He took Tor hls
text: This year thou shalt die Be
fore twelve months had passed away
his soul had gone into eternity, and
then his people looked back to the first
Sabbath OF the year and thought OF the
text, and { o lght OF the solemnity OF the
sermon, ana thought how appropriate
and how true To which of us comes that
voice this evening? To some OF us. Is
II /? is 1t you? We shall not all see
1881 through. And does there come a
yOice7 Ave, there is voice. know
not but it comes through to the air, that
says to some one: This year thou
shalt de"
Now let me ask YOU all:
Have You Made Any Preparations
for that2 You have made preparations
for time; my dear brother, have you
made any preparations for eternity? Do
you wonder that when that man on the
Hudson river, in Indignation, tore up
the tract that was handed to him and
Just one word lighted on his coat sleeve
(the rest Oi the tract being pitched into
the river, that one word aroused his
soul? II was that one word, so long,
so broad, So high, so deep-eternity
A dying woman, in her last moments,
said: "Call it back" They said: "What
do you want" "Time," she said, ''cah
it back Oh, it cannot be called back;
We nigh; lose our fortunes ana eau
them back; we might lose our heSlth
and perhaps recover II; we might lose
our good name and get that back but
time gone is gone forever.
Some OF you, during the past year,
made preparations for etcrn ~, an .
makes no difference to You reall vas 10
the matter OF safety, whether you =,
now or 90 some other year; whether
this year or the next year. Both your
feet on the rock, the waves may dash
around YOU. You can say: God is
ent help" You are on the rock, and
you may defy all earth and hell to over
throw you. | congratulate you: ! give
you great JOY. 1t is happy New Year
to you.
can see no sorrow at all in the fact
that our years are going. You hear
some people say: ~ wish | could go
back again to boyhood." ] would not
want to 90 back 10 bOvhoOd. am afraid |
might make a worse life out OF it than
| Ihage mado. You could not afford to |
90 back to boyhood il it were possible !
You might do great deal worse than
YOU have done. The past is gone. Look |
out for the future,
To all Christians X il
A Time Of Glainess.
am glad the years are going. You are |
coming on nearer home. Let your |
countenances light up with the thought. |
Nearer home!
In 1885 the French resolved that at |
Ghent they would have kind of mus- |
cal demonstration that had never been
heard of. Ii would be made up OF tine |
- k,l L.. &
cannon. The experiment was Il perfect |
success. What with the ringing of the
bells and the report OF the ordinance, the |
city lrembled, and the hills shook with
the triumphal march that was as strange
az il was overwhelming. With more
glorious accompaniment will Gods dear
children 90 into their high residence
when the trumpet shall sound and the
last day has come At the signal given
the bells OF the towers and of the light
houses and Of the cities, will strike their
sweetness into a last chime that shall
ring into the heavens and float off upon
the sea, Joined by the boom OF the
bursting mine and magizine, augmented
by all the cathedral towers OF heaven,
the harmonies of earth and the sym
DlOtlleS OF lllt NtltSNldl itdlllls lllNNllE
up one great triumphal march, fit to
celebrate the ascent OF the redeemed TO
where they shall shine as the stars for
ever and forever. With such anticipa.
tions We can look back without a single
regret upon tho tlying years, and Tor
ward with exultation to the time when
the archangel with ore foot on the sea
and the other foot on the land, shall
wear by Him that liveth forever and
forever.
Two Ladies Fatally Burned
ST. JoSErH, Mo, January 2.-lnfor-
mat. on has reached here that most
distressing and in all,likelhood fatal &C.
cident, occurred at Hamburg, some sew
enty miles north OF here, on New Years
eve. Miss Kate Campbell, daughter OF
Col. Campbell, of this city, was visiting
her friend Fannie Wood, daughter of a
leading merchant OF Hamburg. The two
young ladies had just finished dressingto
attend a ball, and as Miss Wood Was
crossing the room in which they were
arr;,a1 ,f THAR asNprt