Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-01

many graves he sees cleft open at his feet.
During that long reach of time his father
and mother go, his brother and sisters go,
his children go, his grandchildren go and
personal friends outside the circle TO whom
he is ardently attached, as were David and
jonathan. Perhaps he has for so or 81
years had a natural trepidatiOn about his
own demise, natural horror OF dissolution
ever and anon shuddering through body
escapes nifty hearses, fifty exits, fifty ohse-
quleS, nifty wrenchings of the heart. We
mourn lor him, but had we not better
Mourn over His Departure
than that he should have tarried and
mourned over fifty Departures Can we
not, by the grace Of God, rally ourselves
into a generosity OF bereavement that sb.lI
make us say, "Well, this grief is hard for
me to bear; | am glad he will never have
to 90 through it," You remember David
lost his son. Though David was king he
was so completely prostrated that he lay
all night OH the earth and would eat moth
ing. Now, at this distance of years rs you
look al il, which was the more fortunate
the short.lived child or the long-hved
father? If David had died as young as that
child died he would have escaped, first the
bereavement of this child, then the worse
bereavement OF Absalum the recreant SON
the pursuit of the lhi,istineS, the long IA
tigucs OF Lis military campaign, SauIs Jeal-
ousv. the periidy of Ahithophel, the Chur :
ishness of NEAL, the destruction OF his
family at Xiklag the curse of Shimei, and
above all, his own two great crimes OF
unCleanness and murder. Though he lived
10 be of such vast service TO the world as
far as his own happiness was concerned
would ii not have been an escape for him
lapn tal 81 10 l,a a Nla plt tinn
Of the fact that i'll the vast majority Of cases
where
Children are Taken.
The most vivaCious, the most hearty, the
most generous, the most sympathetic of
the family are removed. 1t is because
that kind of nature suffers the most and is
most liable to temptation God sees the
tempest sweeping up from the CarriLean
and puts the delicate craft into the first
harbOr. II this be so then how cOnsoled
you ought TO be SbOut those ot your family
who die early. What glorious escape
they had. How glad we oucht to be that
they will not have the long fight We have.
They only had rimc TO get out OF the cradle
and run NJ on the spring-tlme hills OF this
world little while and see how it
looked and then they went on to better
stopping place. They were as ships that
put into St. Helena only long enough To
let the passengers 90 up and see the bar
racks Of NapOieon's exile and then hoist
sail for the port OF their native land. They
only take this world IN E'uosit". II this
sermon be true, instead Of signing and
grOaring about the quick passage OF an
other year get down on one knee and read
the letters on the milestone and thank
God Won are SG5 miles nearer home. Do
not go about with
Morbid Feelings
in regard to your health or YOUR prospec-
tive demise. Instead Of living according
to the old time maxim as though each day
were your last act, as though you were to
live forever, us YOU will. DO rot get ner.
vous lest you have to move out from a
shanty into an alhambra. Last Monday
you remember was Christmas, and saw
something very thrilling. We had in the
morning Just distributed the Christmas
presents and were having as lively time
as possible, when there was an awful shrek
OF distress in our hall, for a neighbOr's s
child had rushed in TO say that her father
was dead. Only three doors away. think
we were there in two minutes. There lay
the old retired sea captain, his face up
turned toward the window as though he
saw the Headlands and was going into
port. The fact WAS he had already gone
through the NarrowS. Long ago, just after
his craft hail escaped being run down by
an ocean steamer he had made his peace
with God, and Captain PendlctOn WAS as
good man and as kind ncighbOr as you
could find thi> side of heaven.
Well, withOu, second Of warning, last
fl,nday al % clock, the pilot Of the hcav-
cnly harbur met him Just oil the light>hip.
often heard him tell how good the Lord
had been to him. and how one time, COM
ingncar New York harbUr with his vessel
from Liverpool,
Something Impressed Him
that hemust put ont to sea again. Under
the protest Of all the crew he put back, al
though he himself was alarmed lest his own
reason were failing him, for it seemed SO
unreasonable that he put back. Back to sea
they went he telling his mate to call him
at 10 o'clock at night lie went 70 sleep.
At - o'clock he was aroused and said to
the mate: Here il is l. o'clock, and told
you to call me at lO.' II did call you, "
said the mate, "and you rose up and then
laid Gown and went to sleep. The captain
went OH deck and 10. amid the rift of the
storm he saw a wreck and many lives hang
ing on to that wreck Had he been earlier
or later at that point he could have been OF
no use IL them. He was Just in time to
tale the poor fellows on board, aad
when they began to bargain what they
should pay for the rescue and for the pro.
visions, Captain Pendleton said; My
lads, you cant pay me anything; help
yourselves; all have on board is yours v
May the God of that glorious old sea-cap-
tam he our God, Amid all the stor.
my scenes OF this life may We have
some one to look after us kindly and ten
derv, as the captain looked after the
drowning crew, and we go into the harbor
with as little pain aud as bright hope as
he had: an ii il he Christmas morning,
while the presents are being distributed,
and we are celebrating the birth OF Him
who came to save a shipwreCked worl d, all
the better for what brighter Christmas
present could we have than heaven?