Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-11

nlnQeO AHu OuIlEus Auu thO oA S
uTe, OF wealth and of fame invite her to
walk their favored paths, and pluck their
choicest fruit, Now, it is q familiar fact.
that the highest, noblest path is the one
along which is strewn the heaviest bur
dens and the greatest difficulties.
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Search the histories Of all workers, and
everywhere they tell the same story.
Homer and Milton were blind, yet what
visions of glory broke upon their sightless
orbs. They sung to the ages because they
had caught a glimpse of the Divine verities.
1t came to Turner through nature. Lake
the mamma of Israel, it lay upon the grass.
Forbim II tinted every blade with q deeper
green; il robed every flower with q brighter
beauty; it lifted the gnarled oak to
grandeur and hung the far-of
peaks with unseen glory. Other eyes could
not see it but his pictures are immortal
for the vision. How bright must have
been the visions of Dante, OF Raphael. OF
Michael Angelo. How, in song, on canvass
and in marble did they strive to
EMBoDY THE UNSEEN.
What melodies must have broken on the
car and enraptured the spirit Of a Mozart,
a Beethoven, and Mendlssohn. Their
anthems thrill US to day, because they are
the attempts to repeat the heavenly SYM
phony to mortal ears. Oh, the promised
time has come when the young men shall
see visions, and the old men shall dream
dreams" And the vision of every man
and OF every woman is proportioned to the
burdens to be borne.
We never FORGET, my friends, that life is
to be spent not upon the mountains, but
in the valley, or. at the most, upon the
plains. Like Peter, We may request to
build our tabernacles on the mount; but
no man asks it. knowing what he asks.
Go, then, boldly into the plain, and
with the light of heaven In your eye, and
the inspiration Of a holy purpose
in your heart, life shall be
at once a victory and a benedic.
ton. Others shall rise up to call you
blessed, and your name and the name OF
your God shall be engraved upon tablets
more enduring than brass.
NY last remark concerning these visions
is this, they are
COPS METHOD
OF leading his children home. Ny friends,
forget not that il all this. way you are, ii
obedient, Coded, and Heaven is your
home. You are TO find here no abiding
CITY, no Canaan of rest. The realities are
not here. Moses had to die to realize his
vision, and so have We. Only disappoint-
ment would have met him on that farther
shore, and so God, in mercy, forbade the
crossing. This, my young friends, is a
truth YOU are yet to learn amid the dreary
marches of the future. Such wisdom we
accept second Land from no teacher. To-
day you grasp for some coveted prize and
say: tGive me that and shall be content
We'll, itmay all be yours, pleasure, position,
fortune, fame. And, used Alright, they
may prove Gods best gifts, not only to 9th
ers, but to you; but, used amiss, aud they
will lay a mass of fostering corruption up
on thy soul, its foulest pollution, its deep
est degradation. But, however received,
whether we'll or i'll applied, the result in
one sense will be the same. The fu-
ture experience will seem to be a
mOckery of yOur present antlcipations.
But this is q lesson you are to learn IN the
desert. with its burning sands and leaden
skies, and withered flowers, when, with
WEARY FEET AND SAppENED HEART
you must on until you cry
Ills ever thus, lis over thus when hope has
built a over,
Like that OF Eden, wreathed about with ev-
cry thoruless flower,
TO dwell therein securely the self deceiver's
trust
A whirlwind from the desert comes, and all
Is in the dust"
IT'S ever thus, Ills ever thus, that when the
poor heart clings,
With all its finest tendrils, with all its hexile
That goodl:y thing it cleaveth to, so fondly and
so fast,
Is struck to earth by lightning, or shattered
by the BLAST
Or with another:
"Impelled with steps unceasins to pursue
Some hitting goou tnat mocKs NE Win 'he
That like the circle bounding earth and skies,
AllureS from far, yet al follow flies
And for the agony of such an hour the
only remedy is a higher Pisgah and a
brighter vision. Oh, heed well to-day this
eNhortation. In the hour Of sorrow and fail.
ure get thee up TO the mount of God. The
road thither leads from desert sands, and
angel voices are whispering come up hither.
Thank God, my friends, none born
OF woman need walk the earth unblessed
with the ideal of purity and nobleness.
The very Magdalene's lave had theirs, and,
doubtless, Judas once had his; and that
which
MAKES LIFE 4 HE'LL
to the abandoned is that they have wan
dercd So far from their IDEAL, that every
step is treading it the deeper in the dust.
on they are given TO line US heayenward.
Every vision of Moses for thrice forty
wears had been leading him, like some
lTOu-Stlll dIEcl, " III .Akllls tAi hV
was to ascend 10 the heavenly Canaan.
Each, brighter than the last. until the
earthly blushed into glory of the heaven.
", and he GaS not, for God had
taken him. 1t is a pleasing thought, full
OF comfort aud inspiration to U3 all, that
the last vision and the best is
always Just this side OF Jordan.
From the llory crowned heights
of that Pisgah we come down no more.
The battle is ended, the sorrows are hush.
ed, the wilderness is past. Gods children
die like Moses on the mount. Often have
we stood by their side and watched the
pale face radiant with the glory that no
other eye could see. For them the veil
was rent from top to bottom, and their
fixed gaze was upon the dome AID spires
Of the New Jerusalem, and far away upon
the plains and mountain peaks OF the
land where no cloud gathers.
Our life has been spent in chasing, not
shadows, but realities. Here and there we
have touched them, and they have thrilled
US with their divinity, and t~ransigured US
into their glory. Like the morning star,
these have shone undimRed through every
darkest night. Their light has kissed to
bcauty the foaming waters OF every
troubled sea. They have guided in safety.
il not in peace; until now, the bark enters
Nut buNtU VI Itst, aIu AhSSS iahC a""s 'AN
the brighter glories OF
An ETERNAL DAY.
And now with two thoughts ! bring this
subject to a close. The first is that there
is needed and provided for us something
beside visions. We need others than those
seasons of inspiration, OF illumination. OF
uplifting that come 10 all the true
and the good. Gods plan includes the con-
slant as well as the occasional. There is
provided for us a perpetual presence as
guide and comforter. Israel had their pill.
lar of cloud and OF fire as well as their Red
Sea and Sinai. 1t was the dispensation OF
the visible. They needed what the eye
could see. and the ear hear, and so God gave
them the shekinsh, the pillar OF cloud and
fire, and spoke to them in
thunder. But he is no less conscious and
constantly with US. my presence shall
20 with thee" is the promise Of God to
Israel OF all times and chimes. Unseen,
He stands by your side to day and offers to
be your companion aud guide. With Him
all paths will be pleasant, all duties easy
all burdens light. He will provide mama
for the wilderness, and streams for the
desert. His footsteps will
LEAD THE WAY
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