Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-12

make an appalling subtraction. hooert
Hall, an invalid. Edward Payson, an IN
valid. Richard Baxter, an invalid Inc
men of OBrien in Ireland were In nos
pital. The battle went against tnen.
these men of OBrIen begged they might
be brought out from hospitable and as they
could not stand alone that stakes might be
driven into the ground and that they
might be fastened to these stakes. with
one side fastened to the stakes and the
right arm free they fought and they fouSht
10 desperation and TO death. John Milton
saw further without eyes than thousands
of men with them. Look out for tine
soldiers cruich and the old mans stan
if they be welded for PATRIOTISM or
christianity. In garrets, in cellars, In
sick rooms, in asylums, in hospitals now
many of the Lords troops, some In one
way, some in another, efficient for God.
Many a man with one arm has accom-
plished more for the kingdom OF Christ
than others with two. 1t is not the mum
Der Of guns we carry but the way we un-
timber them. II is not our grandeur OF OPP
portunity but the use we make OF it. With
two ewes and two ears and two hands aud
two feet we may not be worth the space
we occupy while Alexander II. Stephens
can make his wheeled chair
Conqueror's Chariot.
Sportsmen 60 out to see two stout pugilists
batter each other into undistinguishable
visage but / go out in my discourse to see
poor eyesight and shriyelled arm and pal
sled foot and rheumatic knee capture con.
gressional hall and senatorial chamber and
gubernatorial chair and the respect OF all
christendom.
More than any thing am impressed as
see this little one become Thousand with
the fact that the soul is distinct and inde-
pendent OF the body. That man Was fool
who thought the puny creature OF the in
valid's chair was Alexander IL. Stephens
1t was only the shell of him. 1t was only
the scaffold of an Alhambra 1t was only
the anchor of winged ship ready to sail
away as soon as the impediment was lifted
Away with all your modern agnostic talk
about the soul as being only deyelope'
ment OF the body. Do you really think
that tte great Architect OF the universe
would build such a magnificent cupoIa on
such an insufficient foundation? No; the
poor body that this week, bereft Georgian
shall put away into the dust is
not Alexander II Stephens. He lives
He widens out into grander existence. He
has moved up and on. He has gone up
among the giants. Never has there been IN
this country grander lesson OF immortal
ity for the American people. SO much
soul and so little body. What relief it
must be 10 get out OF II cripple's vehicle!
What promotion from the arms of the
dusky servants who helped him from room
to room and up the marble steps OF the
capitol at Washington, now that he has
reached the arms OF angels and the armE2t
Christ and the arms OF God, Wing insteSA
of crutch. Health instead of sickness.
Rapture instead of pain. Life instead of
Heath HpayaD iuSfpa6 nf Garth Dear
grrcious spirit sfare-thee well till we meet
again under the cloudleSs skies in eternal
summer. With more meaning than ever
before that little one has become thous-
and.
What mighty place heaven must be!
From exalted and frem humble spheres
the great souls ure ascending. Roll on
sweet day which shall bring us into COM
panionship with those who on earth wee
so kind and genial and loving, and who
having passed on are now more radiant
than when here We knew them. Yea,
though you aud are so weak now we shall
be mighty. 1t doth not yet appear what
we shall be. Ten times better than now, a
hundred times better, five hundred times
better, yea, little one shall become a
thousand. A thousand times more help
fulness, A thousand times more strength.
A thousand times more like Cod / am
glad for this additional evidence that chris
tianity is not an imbecile fabrication. II
it had been sham Alexander II.
Stephens is the man to have found
it out. | am glad TO point TO his
name on the scroll Of the gospel mishties.
On that same scroll the Clays, the CIl-
houns, the Sir William Hamiltons, the
BlaCkstones, the Riphaels, the MJzarts,
any one Of them thousand. Young man
scoffed Mt for your verdsncy and weakness
in believing in the religion Of your fathers,
advise you to carry in your pocket a scroll!
a yard long and full of the names of those
who, like Alexander II. Stephens, believed
i'm Christ andthe Bible, and then ask-the
Scofier to explain that. Yea, copy down
the words of the strongest American intel
lect of his times, the dying experiences of
Daniel Webster. warm friend Of the illus
triOus Georgian, whom this night We mourn.
The dying man at MarShtield calculated
Amen, amen. Even So come Lord Jesus.
"Should worlds cOnSpire to drive me hence,
MovelenS and firm this heart Shtl lie:
Re >olved-for that Is my last defence,
II must perish-here to die"
Lord, believe, help thou mine unbelisf."
81 shall be tonight in life and JOY and
blessedness. In that glorious hope died
Daniel Webster. the eXpouuder OF the Con.
stitution. Ia that glorious hope expired,
Alexander II. Stephens. the illustrOus
Georgian.
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