Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-04

ing of the people be. The worlds heart o.
sympathy heats Yery irregularly .aPienty o.
it when you are not in especial stress OF cir
cumstances, but little when you are in ap
paling need Of it. All, there are multitude:
of people dying for sympathy; sympathy
in their work, sympathy in their bereaye
ment, Nsyu1pathy in, their Loneliness,
sympathy IN their transactions. sympathy
in their fatigues, sympathy in their bust
ness losses, sympathy in their ailments
sympathyfn fheif eclining years, sympathy
IN their struggles with evil sppetites
sympathy il their spiritual perturbations
sympathy ~ the Struggle with their ma
sympathy Hagh, Deep. Broad Intense
almighty andseverlasting sympathy. With
that Christ viii yet draw all nations unto
him. Thunder may alright but sympathy
set their teeth and fash their eyes and
clench their fist and prepare to do battle,
even thoAgh it be against the heavens.
But whist nature was ever so
hard as mot 70 succunrb to: the
warm sunshine of compassion? Mans
sympathy is sometimes very p leasant- In
sometime of our sickness to haye"a brawny
man stand by US and promise TO see us
through, puts new courage into our heart
and new strength into our arm. Still more
mighty is woman's sympathy. Let some
one tell the story who with all the world
against him has had at home wife ready
to write on the top of the empty flour bar
rel THE Lord will proyide," and to write
on the door of the empty wardrobe: Con
slider the lilies of the field; if God so clothe
the grass of the field will he not clothe us
and ours, Let that young man tell the
story who after running the whole round
of dissipations and Blackwell's Island has
left its shadow on him, finds the old mother
with outstretched arms ready to receive
him or hanging by the hour at the wicket
of the prison 10 console him, or pleading
on her knees before the Governor for par
don, hoping on for her vagrant boy after
all others.are hopeless Or let her tell tn e
story who under vfllainous allurement and
impatient of parental restraint has wan
dered off from the home Of which she was
the idol into the
Murky and Murderous Midnight OF
Abandonment
away from God, further and further away,
but at last, sick and dying, is thrown upon
the beach of that early home a mere splin-
ter of wreck. Who will pity her? Who
will take the disheveled locks into her lap?
Who will bathe Off the blood from the
gashed forehead? Who will tell her of
Gods pity for the lost? Who will put the
dying head on a cleanly pillow and watch
by day and watch by night till the hoarse
voice of the sufferer has become only
whisper, and the whisper has become only
a motion of the lips, and then all is still
the cut feet still, the weary eyes still, the
agonized heart still? All still Who will
it be that will do all that for her for whom
the world will do nothing? Mother. Moth
er! Yes, human sympathy is beautiful.
Who would have thought that little
child kidnapped from one of our neighbor-
ing streets last week could have set these
echoes in an uproar? Only little child,
and yet whole columns in the newspapers
about her, and yet any person who
has any heart stirred with
emotion, and our first question as We took
up the morning and evening papers, have
after all, and all parents said within them
selves, "What Il that were my Lizzie, my
Mary, my Maud, my child? What if her
trundle-bed had tonight an unoccupied
pillow? What il our little one were not
here to say good night? What if the one
that is bone OF my bone and flesh OF my
flesh were tonight carried captive into
some haunt of culprits and never be heard
81 Waiting ting with hHtnlg IuY6He wa6btnH raaf
DEATH" 1t was neighborly sympathy,
girdling us all with the golden girdle. But
aggregate all neiGhborly, manly wifely,
motherly sympathy, and it is very staryel-
ing thing as compared with the sympathy
of this Shiloh, who has been holding in his
lap the SORROWS of ages, and is ready to
nurse and heal the woes of all who will
come TO him.
But Enlarge the View.
Look at the troubles of the world and see
how all nations need sympathy, The world
has been in trouble ever since 1t was de-
rallied and flung down the embankments.
The whole universe has felt ailliCtion. La
Place says he saw fixed star OF the North
ern Hemisphere on fire for sixteen months.
Tvcho Brahe describes another world in
Conhagration. A French astronomer says
that no fewer than 800 fixed stars have
vanished during the last 300 years. do
not see why infdels should be unSelicving
AT the Bible story OF the sun .-nd moon
standing still in JOshus's time, when q
French infidel says l,5OO worlds have
stoned. The moon is dcfunct world.
There have been solar lunar, stellar catas-
trophies innumerable. But our world has
especially suffcrcd-plagues epidemicS, cy-
clones, eclipses. earthquakes. At one toss
OF the earth in Tomboro, out OF city OF
70 900, only twenty-six people escaped. On
the lst of November l775, at Lisbon, 6O,OJ0
perished in five minutes and 2DO,OOO before
the earth stopped rocking. Many centuries
have not been able to resurrect the Pompen
and Herculaneum which Nesuvius in a
few hours buried. ROssberg mountain,
Switzerland. falls, crushing the village of
Goldau. One mountain in Italy destroyed
900 600 people while sound asleep in the
night. BY convulsion Japan was broken
off from China and the Caribbean sea
islands from the American coast. Near
the mouth of the Ganges three islands had
$40, 900 inhabitants. In one night the sea
swept over.
II has been lately demonstrated that a
whole continent, reaching from Europe to
America, has sunk; continent that al
lowed people to cross from spain to south
America; and they did cross, some OF the
inhabitants of the sunken continent golng
to Europe, and some going through the
valley to the Mississippi and pushing out
info Mexico, remains of their cities and
their graves found in Ohio and in Colorado
and on the table lands and in variors parts
of our land \ whole cont.
nent gone down between Europe and
America, q continent once denSely popula
tad, the Azores that we see off the coast OF
Spain. the top of one of the great noun
tains of the sunken continent Plato wrote
OF that continent, its glories and It's ruin
and men thought it a romance. But hee'
of German, British and American ships, the
Gazelle, the Dolphin and the Challenger
have revealed by deep sea soundIngs the
entire contour of the sznken continent
the entire Australian Archipelago is only
he top of the mountain OF a continent tha
once extended from India to America. Th'
The most of the earth is now water ono
the most of it was land. Scenes OF trouble
ON rock and sky and sea, in fauna and hora
geological trouble, oceanic trouble, atmos
pheric trouble, political trouble, socia
trouble, domestic trouble. Standing in tn
presence of so many stupendous deva'ta
tions, tell you that the great need OF tn
ages is divine sympathy and omnipotsn
comfort. and they are not to be touud II
the Beatuna OF the Hindoo or the Allaa o
The Mohommedan, but in Jesus Christ, an
10 Him shall the gathering OF the nauon'
be-.
about the fulfllment Of my text. Som
| say Christ will set up his throne on eartf