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

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Because death came and took your child
away, did you Immediately forget q the
five years OF the ten years or the fifteen
years in which she came every night
for kiss, all the tones OF your heart
pealing forth at the sound OF her voice
on the soft touch of her hand? Because
in some financial euroclydon your for
tune went into the breakers, did you
forget all those years in which the lux
uries extravaganCes of life showered on
your pathway? Alas! that is an un-
wss man, an ungrateiul msn, an unfair
man, an unphjlosOphic man and most
Of all an uuchristiin man who measures
his life on earth by grOans and tears and
dyspeptc fits and abuse and scorn and
terror and neuralgia thrust.
Again | remark that there are many
people who
Measure Their Life on Earth by the
Amount Of Money They Have
accumulated. They say: "The year
lS47, 1857, 1867 was wasted. Why?
Made no money. Now it il all cant and
insincerity To talk against money as
though it bad no value. 1t ia refine
ment and education and 10000 blessed
surroundings. 1t is the spreading OF
the table tha. feeds your chill
dren's hunger. IL is the lighting OF
the furnace that keeps you warm.
It is the making OF the bed on which
you rest from care and anxiety. 1t Is
the carrying out at last OF you to decent
sepuiture and the putting up OF the slab
on which is Chiseled the story OF your
Christian hope. 1t is simply hypocrisy,
this tiraieing pulpit and lecture hall
against money, as though 1t had no
uses. 1t is hands and feet and sails and
10000 grand and glorious enterprises.
But while all this is so he who uses
mon5v, or thinks OF money as anything
but means TO an end, will find out his
mistake when the qlittering treasures
slip out of his nerve.cSS grasp, and he
goes out of this world without Il shilling
of money or certificate OF stock. lie
might better have been the Christian
porter or the begrimed workman who
last night heayed the coal into his Gel
lar. Bonds and mortgages and leases
have their use, but they make poor
yardstick with which To measure life.
They that boast themselves in their
wealth, and trust on the multitude of
their riches, none of them can bv any
means redeem his brother nor give to
God ransom for him that he should
not see corruption.
But ! remark: there were many Il
wish there were morel who
Measure Their Life by Their Moral and
Spiritual Development.
II is not sinful egotsm for a Christian
man TO say, Il am purer than l used TO
be. | am more ConSecrated TO Christ
than used TO be. | have got over
great many Of the bad habits in which |
uaed TO indulge. | am great deal
better man than used TO be-" There
is no sinful egotism in that. 1t is not
base egotism for soldier to say: 81
know more about military tactics than ]
used 10 before | took musket in nv
hand, and learned TO present arms
aud when | was pest TO the drill Off,
GER 1t is not base egOtism for sailor
10 say: II know better how TO pull the
wndlass and clew down the miIzen top
sail than / used to before / had ever
seen ship" And there is no sinful
egOtism when q Christian man, fighting
the battles OF the Lord or voyaging to-
wards haven of eternal rest, says: Il
know more about spiritual tactics, and
about vOyaging towards heavens than |
used tC. ." Whylhvre are those in this pres
euCe who have measured lance Wlth
many foe and Unhorscd it. There are
Christian men here who have become
swarthy by hammering at the forge OF
calamity. They stand on an entirely
different plane OF character from that
which they once occupied they are
measuring their life on earth by golden
gated Sabbaths, by pantecostal prayer,
meetings by communion tables, by bap-
tismal fonts, by hallelujahs in the tenn
pie They have stood on Sinai and
heard ii thunder. They have stood on
Pisgah and looked over into the prom
ised land They have stood on Calvary
and seen the cross bleed. They can,
like Paul the Apostle, write on the
heaviest trouble, Light" The darkest
night their soul is irradiated, as was the
night over Bethlehem, by the faces OF
those who have come to proclaim glory
and good cheer. They are only waiting
Tor tire gate to open and the CHAINS t)
fall off and the glOry,to begin.
remark again, there ara maryland
l wish there were more-who are meas
uriag life by
The Amount Of Good They Can Do.
John Bradford said he counted that day
nothing at all in which he had not, by
pen or tongue done some good. II
man begin right, | cannot tell how many
tears he may wipe away, how many
burdens he may lift, how many orphans
he NAV comfort, how many outcasts he
may reclaim. There have been men
who have given their whole life in the
right direction, concentrating all their
wit and ingenuity, and mental acumen
and physical force and enthusiasm for
Christ. They climbed the mountain
and delved into the mine, and crossed
the sea and trudged the desert and
dropped at last into martyrs graves,
waiting for the resurrection OF the Just,
They measured their lives by the Chaiss
they broke Oh, by the garments they put
upon nakedRcss, By the miles they trAv-
eled to alleviate every Ein1 Of suffering.
They felt i'm the thrill of every nerve,
in G motion OF every muscle,
in every throb OF tueir heart, in the
respiration Of their lungs the ma ;nitl-
cent truth: "No man hveth ior himself
They went through cold and through
heat, foot-bIistered, cheek back
scourged, tempest-lashed, to 90 their
whole duty. That is the way they
measured life-by the amount OF good
they could do. Do you want to know
how old Luther was; how old Richard
Baxter WAS; how Old Phillip Doddridge
was? Why, you cannot calculate the
length of their lives by any human
arithmetic Add to their lives 10000
times 10000 years, and you have not
expressed it-what they have lived OF
will live. Oh, what standard that is
TO measure q mans life by, There are
those in this house who think they
lived only thirty year; They will have
lived a thousInd-tnPy nave lived a
thousand. There are those who think
they are 50 years OF age. They have
not even entered upon their infancy, for
they must become babe in Christ 10
b gin at all.
No.. I do not Enow what vour