Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-15
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That was cheap fire. considering all the
circumstances; but it kindled light which
shone all around the world and aroused the
martyr spirit, and out from that burning OF
Latmer and Ridley rolled the circle wider
and wider, starting other circles, convolut-
ing, overdunniDg, circumscribing, over
reaching all heaven-a circle.
But what is true of the good isjust as true
of the bad. You utter a slander against
your neighbor. 1t has gone forth from your
teeth; it will never come back, you think.
You have done the man all the mischief
you can. You rejoice to see him vince.
You say: Didn't l give to him" That
word has gone out, that slanderous word on
it's poisonous and blasted way. You think
it will never do you any harm. But | am
watching that word and l see it beginning
to curve. and it curves around and it is aim
ing at your heart. You had better dodge it.
You cannot dodge it. 1t rolls in your
bosom, and after it rolls in word of an
old book which says: with what measure
ye mete it shall be
Measured to You Again.
You maltreat an aged parent, You be-
grudge him the room in your house. You
are impatient at his whimsicalities and gar
rulty. 1t makes you mad to hear him tell
the same story twice. You give him food
be cannot masticate. You wish he was
away. You wonder if he is going to live
forever. He will be gone very soon. His
stcrs are shorter and shorter He is going
to stop, but God has an account to settle
with you on that subject. Atter awhile
your eyes will be dim and your gait will
halt, and the sound of the grinding will be
low and you will tell the same story twice,
and your children will wonder if you are
going TO live forever, and wonder if you
will never be taken away. They called
YOU fatker once; now they call you the ''old
man" If you live few years longer they
will call you the "old chap" What
are those terrible rough words
With which your children are accosting
youP They are the echo Of the very words
you used in the ear of your old father forty
years ago. WHAT'S that which you are try
ing to chew but find it unmasticsble and
your jaws ache and you surrender the at
TEN pt? Perhaps it may be the gristle
which you gave to your father for his break
fast forty years ago? A gentleman passing
along tie street saw son dragging his
father into the street by the hair OF his
head. The gentleman outraged at this
brutal conduct was about to punish the
offender, when the old man arose and said:
Don't hurt him; it's all right; forty years
ago tSis morning dragged out my father
by the hair of his head' 1t is a ciscle.
NV father lived into the eighties, and he had
a very wide experience, and he said that
maltreatment of parents was always pun
ished in this world. Other sins may be ad-
iourned to the next world, but maltreatment
of parents is punished in this world.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly.
oh, what stupendous thought that the
good and the evil we start come back to usl
Do YOU know that the Judgment Day will
be only the points at which the circles join,
the good and the bad we have done coming
hack to us with welcome of delight or curse
oI condemnation. "Oh, / would like to
see Paul, the invalid missionary at the
moment when his influence
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! his influence rolling on through Antioch
n, aush Cyprus, through Lystrs, throogt
CoT;p,S through Athens, through Asa
tbTonrb Eu>ape, through America, through
the t frst ceniurv. through FIVE centuries
through twenty centuries, through
all the succeeding centuries through
earth, though heaven, AM as lsss the wave
of influence having made full cirs1't strikes
his great soul. Oh, then would HE s
,ee him! No one can tell the wide sweep o
tbe circle Of his influence, save the one who
;s seated on the circle of the earth.
should not want to see the countenance Q
Vokalre when his influence comes to tut
orS When the fatal hemorrhage selzec
him at eighty-three years OF age ni, ,, IN =
man Of his ceatur, he had used all nus a iaca, !,
ties for assaulne stla1.sy MS xiSsuiu Ssu
tiuence widening ihrousa france, wiusu .Isaaa
ont through Germany, tdsnihs me- .:s.
all Europe, widening thro> ga aue,'S' J !;
widening through the one huua :.aa s = :
years that have gone by a>'c I
died. widening through earth. wide. d'n
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