Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-12-18
WHEEIING w "a MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 18 1882.

to preach his inquisitiye auditor opened
the Aforesaid book of sermons in the pew,
and the preacher, without notes, recited
the sermon without a change from begin
mig to end. Arraigned before the ecclesi.
asiical court he denied the plagiarism, for a
man who will steal will lie. The book pro-
duced, Immediate suspension from the min
istry followed. Now these are only speci-
mems, snd it seems to me that
~ Justice TO Myself
and 10 nv church demand that / file a
cayeat. When these persons are caught
they sometimes set up plea. OF "uncon-
scious appropriation" and "unwitting ab,
sorption." They say the read it and it
stuck fast to them and they did not realize
il. False! Wnen man purloins the in
tellectual goods of another he knows it.
No man makes mistake of that kind any
more than by mistake a sneak thief gets
hand in,your cash box.
In educated men, with all their illimita-
BILE resources, plagiarism is inexcusable.
But willie say ONE things in justice to
MYSELF say them also for the great prac-
tical use of all Christian workers here and
elsewhere. Be yourselves and no one else
All yogir effectiveness for Christ and the
worlds improvement will be with your
own weapons. Y,u hsve enough faculties
of your own TO do all that God asks you to
do. Use all books and all intellectual toll
only "a a milestone to sharpen your own
battleaxe. That which is your own way
will be more useful than anybody else's
way, though il may have fifty per cent
more Ingenuity. Quote everything you
can qaote 10 help you in your work
hut pt defraua the author even though
death, centuries ago, snatehed his pen
away from him. Honesty OF quotation is
A.. nf
David broke down under Saups armor, but
as a shepherd boy. having been accustomed
to q sling, he takes FIVE smooth pebbles
from the brook and has five times more
ammunition than is necessary to slay the
giant, for it took only one pebble skilfuliy
hurled to crack like an egg-shell Goliath's
Uranium. Above all saturate yourself with
Scriptural knowledge and Scriptural style.
No copyright on that Book of books. Dan
iel Webster said that if he had reached
any perspicacity of style he got it from
hfe-; ;ong perusal of the Bible. When Rufus
Choate had wrought up judge and jury
and courtroom to the highest pitch of en-
thusiasm he whelmed them with script
tural perroatlon.~ ~
Quote Moses. Do you want blank verse?
Quote Habakkuk Do you want the spec
tral? Quote Ezekiel. Do you want the
pastoral? Quote Ruth. Do you want
battle march? Quote Joshua. Do you
want argument? Quote Paul. Do you
want pathos? Quote John. Do you want
tenderness and omnigotence and all things
mighty and good? Quote Christ Equip
Yourself from every valuable source. Read
all good books and newspapers. Examine
all pictures. Attend all oratons. Bring
botany and geology and astronomy and
history and archaeology. Think, digest,
plan, pray, work! Then mass al your
troops for one gospel campaign and re-
member that the battle closes at sun.
down.
Many fail in their life work either be-
cause they start too late or because they
make some great mistake from which they
never recover. For these two reasons Ma
poleon lost Waterloo. History tells that on
the night before the memorable 18th OF
June, 1915, there came q deluge of rain, and
the earth was so soaked and saturated that
Napoleon could not move his artillery, and
he had to wait until the ground was some
what settled, so that instead OF opening the
battle at 6 o'clock in the morning it was
almost 12 at noon. That gave Blucher, the
Prussian General, time to reinforce Wei
lington and overthrow the great French
man. Had IL not been for the rain, and
had the battle open ed at 6 in the morning,
it might have been ended by II in the rout
of the English army, for Napoleon had
about hundred more guns than yelling
ton. But the difference for Napoleon be-
tween O'Clock and u o'clock was the diff
ference between defeat and victory. Alas!
That is the way | have seen men lose the
battle of life. They start too late. They
allow the foes against them to reinforce
and reinforce and their battalious of temp
tation to fall into line. They begin,
In the Noon of Life,
what they ought to have begun in the
morning-at u instead of 6 You have not
time enough to do in the afternoon the
work intended for the whole day. Learn
this solemn lesson, all the young. Oh,
the stupendOus difference between and
But after Napoleon did march his army
Fatal Mistake.
The commander misinformed by guide
that the plain gradually rose to the hill on
which the English were entrenched, and
that there were no chasms that interyened
| to the sound of bugles, $500 armOred and
helmeted and mounted horsemen, moved
on with great impetuosity to take the hill,
| when suddenly the horses and riders van
ished by the hundreds in gulch near the
| village of Ohain, a ravine fifteen feet deep,
with perpendicular sides, and down to
death went a hundred horses and their
riders, 200, 400, 500, a thousand, L5OO men
| and 500 horses, until the chasm was filled
with struggling and dying men and beasts,
| and the horses and riders in the rear rode
across to the other side of the chasm on
this quivering bridge OF mangled flesh and
broken bones To the fatal lateness OF
| the merching hour was added this fatal
mistake, and so Napolean lost Waterloo.
| In this last way how many loose the battle
| of life? They start with great blowing OF
| bngles and expect to gallop to the top, but
somehow they have been misdirected, or
spiritual guide has failedin his duty, or an
unforeseen chasm opens and before they
know it they are down taking others with
| them in the fatal plunge. Destroyed by
| Just one mistake wish | might report OF
| the catastrophe that only l,5OO have
| dropped into the awful chasm OF ruined
| life. Beware of the one mistake. 1t may
be only one fraud, only one plagiarism,
only one evil companionship, only one
day of dissipation, only one night OF wassall,
| only one experiment in sin, only one evil.
| Remember the difference between six and
twelve o'clock. Remember the gulch OF
! Ohain! Cnly those are safe who are
| bounded on the north, on the south, on
| the east, on the west, above and beneath
| by the cross of God. Intentions though
good, are of no avail unless they have
| divine upholding; a suspension bridge
| with buttresses not strong enough to hold
| the strain. Make Christyour ally and you
make heaven an annex OF time.
|