Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-08

oblIterated the divine chirography and who
knew Just how many loeusts were in the
plauge of Egypt, whether an odd number or
an even number and how many ravens
were necessary to supply Elijah's pantry by
the brook Cherith and who leads forth as
floral commander all the hosts Of primroses,
holihocks, foxgloves aud dafodils that
pitch their tents of beauty and kindle their
camp fires of color around the hemispheres,
that this God looks after all business affairs,
however minute and seemingly inconsider-
able.l
The stone masons do not want to know so
much sbont the fact that Christopher Wren,
the architect, built St. Paul's Cathedral as
how 10 carry hod up the wall without
slipping, and smooth off the mortar with the
trowel on a cold morning without COM
plaint and to be thankful for the food Ia
ken from the pail at the roadside. The
carpenter, standing beside the adze aud
plane, and bit and auger, and broad-axe,
needs to realize that Christ was a carpenter
once and with his own right hand welded
hammer and saw. 1t is q very tired world
and there are millions of
People Overworked
and underfed, and wrung out, and they
want the best of recuperation, only to be
found in God and his religion, which was
meant, not so much for extraordinary folks,
as for the ordinary, because there are more
Of them. The cataplasm must be cut to
the shape of the wound The healthy pro-
fession has had its Abercrombias, and Val
entine Motifs, and Willard Parkers, but the
.Gsdinary doctors do the most of the world 8
medicining, and they need to know that
they may have in the taking of every dag,
nosis and prognosis, and in the writing OF
every prescription, and in the compounding
of every mendicamant, and in the feeling Of
every baby's pulse, the presence and dicta-
ton of the omnipotent Doctor who took
the case Of the madman of Gadara
when be had torn his clothes into
tatters in foaming dementia and cloth
ed him body and mind, and lifted
the woman bent almost double for IS years
with rheumatism into graceful stature, and
turned the scabs of leprosy into roseat
complexion and rubbed the numbness out
of paralysis, and swung open the closed
windows of hereditary or accidental blind
ness until the morning light came stream
ing through the palatial easements, and
who knows all the ailments and all the
remedies. all the herbs and all the catho-
icons, the monarch of all pharmacy and
therapeutics and who has sent forth to
stand in this land tens of thousands Of
physicians of whom no record on earth will
! l,,h h,,4 thns thot- arn
angels Of mercy and call upon the men
Of whose sufierings they have assuaged and
the women in whose crises Of pain they
have stood next TO God in benefaction.
Come, come. let us have a gospel for
the ordinary men and women in the pro-
fessions, in merchandise, in mechanics, in
housekeeping, in literature, in agriculture.
Take this solution across the ages, Ayncri
tus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes,
Philologus and Julian.
Less Attacks.
Moreover, ordinary life invites less at
tack. Conspicuous people, howthey have
to take it! How they are misrepresented
and abused and shot a.. The higher the
horns of a roebuck the easier to track them
down. l got last week book containing
the abusive caricatures of Napoleon in his
time His disastrous retreat from Moscow
under the Russian winter the tragedy of the
centuries is set forth in the figure of a mon
ster called General Frost. Shaving the
French Emperor with a razor of icicles As
murderer, as satan, as Beelzebub he ap-
pears, page after page. Eng land cursed
him, Spain cursed him, Germany cursed
him. Russia cursed him. Europe, Asia, AZ
rica, North a0c South America cursed him.
Nearly all the men and women, who, in
history have o halo about their names, and
once more, a crown Of thorns. Take the
few men who are counted extraordinary
railroad men in our time. The abuse Of
the world gathers upon them, while the
ordinary men in their companies escape
New York Central railroad mas 9,265 stock
holders. If anything goes wrong all the
anathema is put upon one head and 9,Z64
escape. Uatil he got under ground, the
world abused Thomas Scott, the President
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
not recognizing that that company has H.
lis stockholders. All the blame for every
thing that goes wrong in the Central Pachc
railroad is put upon one or two men, while
there are TO- 900 stockholders.
Last Of all remember to be contented
with our lot, We owe as much to God tor
what he has kept from US as for what he has
pivenus Even a knot may be useful IT 1t
i> a: the end Of a thread. The blackboard
AT the anniversary of deaf and dumb ssy-
,um had on it something "a sublime as the
Had and Odyssey and Divine Comedia
conn ressed in one Who made the
world" the examiner asked in the signs Of
rhe mute language. The deaf and dumb
girl wrete with chalk upon the blackboard
I'm the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. The examiner asked:
why did Jesus Christ come into the
world? The deaf and dumb girl wrote:
This is faithful saying and worthy OF
scceptatioa that Christ Jesus caDe into the
world to save sinners" The examiner
asked: "Why were you born deaf and
dumb while hear aud speak. The stu
dent wrote this answer: Even So father,
for i, seemeth good in thy sight 80 may
we be in accord with our circumstances. A
spider will draw poison out Of flower, bat
a bee will get honey out Of thistle and
happiness is heavenly elixir and con
tented spirit extracts IT not from the
rhodederdron OF the mountain, bot from the
Ills Of the valley.