Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-11
WHEELING. w. VA. MONDAY MORNING. JUNE IL 1888

a
Discount-Shame on the Church! But
there are far more scoundrels outside the
church than inside, and the misdemeanors
Of many who
Never See the inside Of Church
are enough to make one want to be
Christian to get their company. But 10
all circles, religious and irreligious, the
tendency is to tolerate wrong IN proper
ton as it is mammoth. Even John Mil
ton, while in his Paradise Lost he condemns
Satan, gives such a grand description OF
him that you have hard work TO suppress
your admiration. The WORLDS tneory
needs to be reversed and we are TO conslo-
er a sin ine1cusable in proportion as 1t is
ereat. Oh. this folly of strainlng at small
sins like gnats and gulping down great IN
EQUITIES like camels.
My text instead of being picture Oh
here and there,
Is Gallery
in which thousands of people may find
their own likeness. All those, for IN
stance, who, while they would not rob
neighbor of a farthing, are guilty OF appro-
priating the money and treasure OF the
people. Wanting to sell their house they
say il is worth $50, 900, but tell the assessor
il is worth only Sl5, 900. The Government
of the United States had to take off the
tax on personal income, among other rea-
sons, because so few would tell the truth,
and men with an income OF hundreds OF
dollsrs a dsy made represen tations that
implied they were about to be handed over
TO the
Oyerseer Of the Poor.
careful to pay their fare from Liverpool to
New York, and smuggling in their Saratoga
trunks ten silk dresses from France and
half dozen watches from Geneva, telling the
custom house officer, on the docks that there
is nothing in that trunk but wearing ap'
parel," and putting in his hand five dol
lar gold piece TO punCtuate the statement
Those have their likeness in the text who
are careful never to break law OF gram
mar and have their Language an elegant
specimen of syntaX and strain out all in
accuracies however small. and yet have 60
ing through their conversation
SIander. and InuendO,
and falsehood, and profanity, and yulgarl-
ty, large as whole caravan OF camels
when they might better fracture every law
of grammar and shock every intellectual
taste, and that every verb should feel in
vain after its nOminatiye, and every noun
after its government, and every prepoSi-
ton lose its way in a sentence, and that
adverbs, and COnIuuctions and adjectiveS
and partiCiples should get into riot worthy
of the Fourth ward on election day, rather
than that you should commit a moral in
accuracy. Better swallow thousand gnats
than one camel.
But lest some may feel they have escaped
the sCruteny Of the text | have 10 say that
We all come under this
Divine Satire
when we make the questions OF time par
amount to the questions OF eternity. How
constantly tempted We all are to make the
little question .'wherc shall | live now
greater than the tremendous question
where shall live forever how many
dollars can gather here greater than the
question how shall l lay up treasures in
heaven how shall l pay my. debts to
man greater than the question how shall
| pay my
Debts TO GOd:'
How shall get my body insured greater
than the question how shall get my soul
insured; why did God let sin come into
the world, greater than the question how
shall Danish it out of human nature
what shall do with the 90, 40, 10, 80 years
of my su blunar residence greater than
what shall do with the million cycles OF
my post terrestrial residence how shall
gain the world greater than the question
how, if | should lose my sOul?' Time,
How small is Eternity How vast it is,
The former more insignificant as compared
with the latter than the gnat is small as
Compared with the Camel.
We dodge the text and fall back from
point to point, saying: That is not mine :;
| don't answer to that description And
with ruinOus benevolence we give the most
of the sermon 70 others, but at last we all
surrender. Somuch ado about this world,
so little preparation for the other. AS
though a minnOw were more than a be-
hemoth, as though a sparrow had wider
flight than the albatJOss, as though a
thistle were taller than Lebanon cedar,
as though gnat were
Greater Than n Camel,
as though minute were more than GEN.
tury, ss though time were longer, higher,
deeper, broader than eternity. So the text
which flashed with lightning OF Wit as
Christ uttered it is followed by the crash
ing thunderS OF awful catastrophe for
those who continue to make the insigniti-
can't present OF more importance than the
oversEadOwing future, o, eternity, etcr'
nifty, eternity