Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-17
WHEELING. W. MORNING. NOVEMBER II. 1884.

| Up this ladder with hod ..of bricks out
of this bank with roll of bills, digging
cellar, shingling root, binding book,
mending watch. Work with its hands
ard eyes and thousand feet and thousand
arms goes on singing its song: Work!
work! work. while the drums Of the mill
| beat it and the steam whistles fife it. In
| the carpeted aisles of the forest, in the
woods from which the eternal shadow is
never lifted, on the shore Of the sea, over
whose iron coast tosses the tangled fancy,
sprinkling the cracked cliffs with baptism
of whirlwind and tempest, is the best place
TO study God; but in the rushing swarm
ing raving street is the best place.
To Study Man.
Going down to your place of business and
comingi home again, charge you look
about. See these signs of poverty, Of wretch
edness, of hunger, of sin, of bereavement;
and as you 60 through the streets and come
back through the streets, gather up in the
arms OF Jour PRAYER all the sorrow, all the
losses, all the sufferings, all the bereave-
ments of those whom you pass, and present
them in prayer before an allsympathetic
God. In the great day of eternity there
will be thousands Of persons with whom you
in this world never exchanged one word
who will rise up and call you blessed; and
there will be thousand fingers pointed at
you in heaven, saying that is the man,
that is the woman, who helped me when |
was hungry and sick and wandering and
lost and heart-broken. That is the man,
that is the woman" And the blessing will
come down upon you as Christ shall
say: II was hungry and We fed me,
/ was naked and We clothed me, | was sick
and in prison, and We visited me; inasmuch
as We did it to these poor waits OF the streets
ye did it to me-"
Again in all these cities / am impressed
with the fact that all classes and conditions
of society must commingle We sometimes
culture a wicked exclusiveness. Intellect
despises ignorance. Refinement will have
nothing to do with boorishneSs. Gloves
hate the sunburned hand and the high
forehead despises the fiat head; and the
trim hedgerow will have nothing TO do with
the wild copswood; and Athens hates Naz-
| areth This ought not so to be. l like
this democratic principle of the gospel OF
Jesus Christ which recognizes the fact that
We stand before God on one and the same
platform. Do not take on any airs What
ever position you have gained IN society
YOU ere nothing but man, born OF the
sane Iarent regenerated by the same
>r;rit, clcansCd in the same blood, 10 lie
| duwu in the same dust, 10 get up IN the
same resurrection. 1t is high time that We
all acknowledged not only the fatherhooi OF
| God but
brotherhood of Man.
Again in all these cities am impressed
with lie fact that it is very hard thing tor
A man 10 keep his heart right and to get to
heaven. Infinite temptations spring upon
US from places of public concourse. Amid
so much affluence how much temptation to
covetousness and to be discontented with
our humble lot! Amid so many opportuni,
ties for over reaching what temptation to ex-
tortion Amid so much display to vanity
Amid so many saloons of strong drink,
what alurement to dissipating In the
malestroms and hell gates Of the street
how many make quick and sternal ship
wreck! fla man ofwar comes back from
battle and is towed into the navy yard
we 90 down to look at the splintered spars
and count the bullet holes and look with
patriotic admiration on the flag that tioated
in victory from the masthead. Bnt that
man is more of curiosity who has gone
| through 80 years OF the sharp-shOoing OF
business life and vet sails on victorious over
the temptations Of the street Oh, how
many have gone down under the pressure,
leaving not so much as the patch Of can
vass to tell where they persisted. They
never had any peace Their dishonesties
kept tolling in their ears.
iii had an axe | could split open the
beams of that fine house; perhaps would
| find in the very heart of it a skeleton. In
his very best wine there is smack of poor
mans sweat. Oh, is it strange that when
man has devoured widows houses he is
disturbed with indigestion? All the forces
of nature are against him. The floods are
ready to drown him. and the fires to con-
sumo him, and the lightning to smite him.
Age all the armies OF God are on the street,
and in the day when the crowns OF Heaven
are distributed some Of the brightest of them
will be given to those men wso were faith.
full to god and faithful to the souls Of others
amid the marts of business proving them
selves The heroes of the street. Mighty
we're their temptations, mighty WAS their
deliycrance and mighty shall be
Their Triumph.
Again. in all these cities am impressed
with the fact that life is full Of pretension
and sham. What subcrfugc! What double
dsaI:nCl What two iacedness. DO all
peojle who wish you good morning really
hope fcr you q happy day? Do all tn,
reop'e who shake hands love each other
Are al those anxious about yolr health
vi 0 inquire concerning it? Do all want to
see you who ask you to call? Does all the
world know half as much as it pretends to
| know? Is there not many a wretched stock
of goods with brilliant store window
Passing up and down these streets to your
business and your work, are you not i'm
pressed with the fact that society is hol-
low and that there are sub
terfuges and pretensions? Oh, how
many there are who swagger and strut and
how people who are natural and walk
While fops simper and tools chuckle and
simpletons giggle, how few people are
natural and laugh The courtesan and the
Tbertine 90 down the street in beautiful sp-
parel, while within the heart there are vol
canoes of passion consuming their life
away. say these things not to create in
your iucredulity or misathropy, nor do !
forget there are thousands ofpeople great
deal better than they seem; but do not
think any man so prepared for the conflict
of this life until he knows this particular
peril. Ehud comes pretending to pay his
tax to King Eglon and while he stands in
front of the King, stabs him through the
heart with dagger until the haft went in
after the blade. Judas Iscariot
Kissed Christ.
Again. in all these cities ! am impressed
with the fact that there is great field for
Christian charity. There are hunger and
suffering and want and wretchedness in the
country; but these evils chiefly congregate
in our great cities. On every street crime
prowls and drunkenness staggers and shame
winks ana pauperism thrusts out It's hand
asking for aims. Here want is most squalid
and hunger is most lean. A Christian man
going along street in New York saw
poor lad and he stopped and said: My
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