Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-21
Chosen that Good Part,

1LeEe Is uOtnlnS PlquduL Ut eIeFdluS
about it. Men and women 90 around b um-
melancholy and their worship has in it
more signs than raptures. We do not
doubt their piety. Oh, no. But they are
setting at feast where the cock has for
gotten to season the food. Everything is
fiat in their experience and in their con-
versation. Emanciplted from sin and
death and hell, and on their way to-
Magnificent
heaven, they act as though they were trudg.
ing on toward an everlasting Botany
Bay. Religion does not seem to agree with
them. 1t seems to catch in the windpipe
and become q straugulatiOn instead OF an
exhilaration. All the intidel books that
have been written, from Voltaire down to
Herbert Spencer, have not done so damage
to our christianity as lugubrious christians.
Who wants a religion woven out OF the
shadows of the night? Why go growing
on Your way to celestial enthronement?
Come out of that cave and set down in the
warm light of the Sun of Righteousness:
AWAY with your CdeS to melancholy and
Hervey's "Meditations among the Tombs."
1.-THE hill OF Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets,
Eefore we reach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden stree.
"Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through EmGHueIS
ground,
To fairer words on high"
have to say, also, that we need to put
more spice and enliveCmcnl IN our re-
ligious teaching, whether it be III the pray
er meeting or IN the Sabbath school or in
the church. We ministers need moro
fresh air ard sunshine in our lungs and
our heart and our head. Do you wonder
that the world is 20 far from being con-
verted when you find SO little
ViyacIty in the PU'pit
end the pew We want, like the Lord, to
plant III our sermons and exhortations
more lilies OF the field. We want few
rhetorical elaborations and fewer seslui-
peualian words, and when we talk about
shadows We do no. want 10 say adumOfa'
tionS, and when We mean queerncss we do
not want to talk about idlOsynCracies; or,
]; a stitch in the back we DO not want TO
talk about lumbago; but. in the plain YER
nacular OF the great m. s"es, preach that
gospel which proposes to make all men
HAPPY, honest, victorious and free. IN
other words, we want more cinnamon and
less gristle. Let this be so in all the differ
ent departments OF work TO which
The Lord Calls Us.
Let US be plain, let US be earnest. Let us
be common. sensical. When we talk to the
people in q vernacular they can under
stand, they will be very glad 10 come and
perceive the truth we present. Would TO
God that Queen Balkis would drive he
spice-laden dromedaries into all our SER
mons and prayer meeting eXhOrtations.
Why did you look so sad this morning
when you came in? Alas for the loneliness
and the heartbreak ana the load that is
never lifted from your soul. Some of you
90 about feeling like Macauley when he
wrote "If had another month of such
days as have been spending / would be
impatient to get down into my little
Narrow Crib in the Ground,
like a weary factory child" And there
have been times in your life when you
wished you could get out Of this life. You
have wished you could pull over you in
your last Coverlet OF green grass and daisies.
I see all around about me widoHhood and
crphanage and childlessneSs; sadness, dis
appointment, perplt lily. Ii | could ask
felt no sorrow and been bu!teted by no
disappointment, how many would rise?
Not one A widowed mother, with her
child, went West hoping 10 get better wages
there, and she was taken SICK and died.
The overseer Of the poor got her body and
put it in box and started down the street
towards the cemetery at full trOt.
The Little Child
ran after it through the streets, hareheaded,
CRYING: Bring NE back my mother"
And ss the people looked on and saw her
crying after sll she loved on earth, it is
said the whole village was bathed in tears.
And that is what G.eat many of you are
doing-chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is
there no appeasenent for all this sorrow
that | see about me? Yes, the thought of
resurrection and reunion far beyond this
scene of struggle and tears. Across the
couChes of your sick, and across the graves
of fyour dead | fling this shower Of sweet
spices.
Have YOU read OF the Tajmahal in India,
in some respects the most
Majestic Building on Earth:
Twenty thousand men were twenty years
in building it. IL cost about $1,000 1000.
The walls are of marble inlaid with corne-
lian from Bsgdad. and turquoise from
Thibet. ana jasper from Punjab, ard amc-
thyst from Persia, and all manner of pre-
cious stones. There is around 1t a garden
of tamarind and banyan, and palm, and all
the tiOyal gl3TicS Of the rarsacked earth
but H., IS OILY tomb o. a dead empress,
and il is tame compared with the gtandeurS
which God has builded Tor your
Living and immortal Spirit.
Oh, home of the blessed Foundations Of
cold! Arches of victory! Clp.stones of
praise and dome in which there are echo
ing and re-eChoing the hallelujahs of the
ages. And around about tnat mansion is
n garden-the garden Of GOi-ipd all me
Springing fountains are bottled tears Of
the church in the wilderness and all the
or mson of the flowers is the deep hue
that was caught up from the. carnage OF
earthly martyrdoms, and the fragrance is
the PRAYER of all the saint and the aroma
puts into utter forgetfulness the cass'a and
the spikenard, and the frankincense aad
the world renowned spices which Queen
Balkis of Abyssinla flung at the feet OF
King solomon.
"When shall these eyes, my heaven quit
And pearly gates behold,
Thy buIwarES, with salvation strong,
And streets OF shining gold
Through obiuracy on our part and
through the rejection OF that Christ who
makes heaven possible, l wonder il any OF
us will miss that spectacle? fear the
OueeE of the South
Will Rise Up IN Judgment
against this generation and condemn 1t be.
cause she came from the uttermost part OF
the earth to hear the wisdom OF Solomon
and behold, q greater than Solom on is here.
Mas God grant that through your own
practical experience you may find that re.
iigion's ways are ways OF pleasantness, and
that her paths are paths of peaCe-that it's
perfume now and perfume for ever. And
there was an abundance OF spice, neither
was there any such spice as the Queen OF
Sheba gave 10 King Solomon
Thief at Funeral.
New YORK, May 20.-Seyen ladies had
their pockets picked at funeral in Sc.
PauTs Methodist Church in Third street,
Jersey City, on Thursday. Mrs. Anthony
Brown felt hand in her dress pocket and
turned TO a middle aged we'll dressed wo-