Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-04

people, ana ny GOO my uOuI NucIc tnou
diest will die, and there will / be buried.
The Lord do so to me and more, also, IL
aught but death part thee and me-
SO very often in our worldly business or
in our spiritual career We start of on a
very dark path. We must so. The flesh
may shrink back but there is voice within,
or q voice from sboSe, saying: You
must 70" and We have TO
drink the gall, snd We have TO carry the
cross, and we have to traverse the desert,
and we have to break through the thorn
hedge, and We are pounded and Hailed OF
and abuse, and we have
TO urge our way through tep thousand OBJ
stscles that have been slain by our
Own Right Arm.
We have 10 ford the river, we have to climb
the mountain, We have to storm the CASTLE
but, blessed be God. the day OF rest and re-
ward will come On the tip top OF the
captured battlements We will shout the
yietory-if not in this world, then in that
world where there is no gall to drink. no
burdens 10 carry, no battles to fight. How
do l know it? Know it: l S, Know - 1t De.
cause God says 80, They shall hunger
no more, neither shall they thirst any
more. neither shall the sun light on them
nor any heat for the lamb which is in the
midst Of the throne shall lead them to liv-
ing fountains of water, and God shall wipe
all tears from their eyes" 1t was very
hard for Noah to endure the
Seomng of the People
in his day, while he WAS trying to build the
ark, and was every morning quizzed about
his old boat that would never be Of any
practical use; but when the deluge came
and the tops Of the mountains disappeared
like the backs of sea monsters, and the
lashed up in fury, clapped their
hands over drowned world. then Noah In
the ark re- joiced st his own safety and the
safety of his family, and looked out on the
wreck of ruined earth. Behold Christ,
bounded by prosecutors, denied q pillow,
worse maltrCated than the thieves on
either side OF the cross; human hate smack
ing its lips IN satisfaction after il had been
draining hi,
Last Drop of Blood,
the IL eeted dead bursting the sepulchres at
his CrugifXiOn. Tell me, o, Gethsemane
and Golgotha, were there ever darker
times than those? Like the booming OF
the midnight sea against the rock. the
seygss Of Christ's anguish beat against the
gates Uf eternity, TO De echoed back by all
the thrones OF heaven and all the dungeons
of hell. But the dav OF reward comes fOr
Christ; sll the pOmp and dominion of this
" orld are to be hung on this throne. Tn
crowned heads are to bow before him, on
whose head are many crowns, and all the
celestial worship is TO come up At his feet
like the humming of the forest, like the
rushing of the waters, like the laundering
OF the seas: while all heaven rising on their
thrones beat time with their sceptres.
"Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent
reigneth? Hallelujah, the kingdoms Of
this wCrla have become the
of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Again, see in my subject an illustra-
tion Of the beauty of female industry,
Beholu Ruth, toIling in the harvest field
under hot sun, or at noon taking plain
bread with the reapers or eating the parch-
ed corn which Boaz handed TO her. The Gus
toms of society of course have changed, and
without the hardship and exposure 10
which Ruth was subjected every intelli.
gent woman will lind something to do.
| know there is 8 siCkly sentimentality on
this subject. In some families there are
persons OF 40 particular service 10 the
household or community; although there
arc so many woes all around about them in
the world, they spend their time languish-
ing OYera new pattern. or bursting into
tear ut midnirht over some
Some Lover who shot Himself.
They would not deirn 10 look at Ruth
carving back the barley on her way home
TO her mOther-iu law. All this fastidi-
ousncss may seem 20 do very well while
they are under the shelter OF their fathers
house, but When the sharp winter OF mis-
fortune comes. what OF these butterflies
Persons under indulgcnt parentase may
ret upon themselves habits OF Incidence,
but when they come out into practical life
their souls will recOil with disgust and
Chserin. They will feel in their hearts
what the poet 20 severely s9tiri2cd when
he said
FoIk> are 30 ~ kward. things so impoiitc,
Tlcy are elegantly panci from mOruiug until
night.
Through that gate OF Incidence how many
men and women have marched, useless on
earth. 10 destroyed eternity, SpinOla
said 10 Sir Horace We're: "0f what did your
brOthcr die OF having nothing to do"
was the answer. "Ah," said Spinola.
that enough to Kill any general of Us. -
oh. can il be possible. in this world where
there IS 80 much
Suffering 10 he AIleYtaied,
so much darkness to De enlightened aud
and so many burdens 10 be carried that
there is any person in tins house who eau
not lind anything to do? Madame DE
StaCl did world OF work IN her time, and
one day while she was seated amid instru-
IncntS Of music. all OF which she had mas
tered. and Smid manuscript books which
she had written. some one said TO ner:
How DO you lind time to attend to all
these things'" oh" she replied, "these
are rot the things | am proud Of My
chief hoast is IN the fact that have seven.
teen trades, 10y any one OF which | could
make a livelihood ii necessary And il
i'm secular spheres there is so much 10 be
done Ia spiritual work. how vast The
field, How many dying all about Is with
out ore
Word of Comfort
We want more Abigaiis, more HannahS,
more RebCcCas. more Marys, more DcbOr-
ans. cUnsecrated body, mind, soul-to the
Lord who bought them.
once more learn from my subject the
value Of gleanirgs. Ruth going into that
harvest field mi ght have SAID: There IS q
straw and there is a straw, but what is a
straw | can't get any barley for myself
sndrrY mo'he--in.lHS' out OF these separate
straHS." Not so said beautiful Ruth. She
gathered two straws and she put them to-
rethCr and more slrawS until she got
enough to make sheat. Putting that
down she went and
Gnthered More strsws,
until she had smother shesf, and another,
sad another, and another, aud then she
brought them ali together, and she thrash
I'd the IN out and She had sn ephsh of bar.
lev, nigh a bu,hel. On that We might ali
be gleaners2 I. is all the st-aws that make
the harvest. II is the pence that make the
pound, and il is sll the opportunities OF
doing COED that make life of usefulness
if rightly employed. EIihu Burritt learn
ed many things while toiling in a black
smith shop. Abercrombie. the world.
renowned philosopher. vas q philosopher
in Scotland, and he got his philosophy, or
the chief part of IL. while as a physician he
Wss waiting for the door Of the sick rooul
to open. Yet how many there are in this
dag who say they Sre so busy they have no
ii NE tor mental or
spiritual Improvements
The great duties OF life cross the field
like strong reapers and carry off all tue
hours, and there is only here and there q
left-that is not worth cleaning.
An, my friends, you could 60 into the
busiest day and busiest week OF your liie
and End golden opportunities which.
gathered, might at last make whole sheaf
for the Lords garner. 1t is the stray op.
portuDities and the stray privileges which,
taken up aud bound together and beaten