Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-30
TO PERSEVERANCE AND PRACTICE.
The Mountain of Fame - vicissitudes
! Must Be Brayed to Climb
'-.. to Its Top.
DEATH IN THE SUMMER HOUSE.
Special 10 The Register.


corridors and the entrances of the church
are thronged. The owening hymn at this
evenings service was:
"My soul, be on thy guard,
Ten thousand foes arise,
The hosts OF sin are pressing hard
To draw thee from the skies"
The text was from Judges iii. l5: "But
when the children of Israel cried unto the
Lord, the Lord raised them up deliyerer,
Ehud the son of Gera,a a Benjaminite, a man
left handed, and by him the children Of
Israel sent present unto Eglon, the King
ofMoab." DR.. Talmage said:
Ehud was ruler in Israel. He was left
handed, and, what was peculiar about the
tribe of Benjamin to which he belonged,
there were in it seven hundred left handed
men; and vet as dexterous had they all be-
come in the use of the left handthat the
Bible says they could sling stones at the
Hairs Breadth and not Miss.
Well, there was King by the name Of
Eglon, who was an oppressor Of Israel. He
imposed upon them most outrageous tax.
Ehud, the man Of whom | first spoke, had
a divine commission to destroy that op.
pressor. He come, pretending that he was
going to pay the tax and asked to see King
EglUn. He was told he was in the sum
mer house, the pace TO which the King re.
tired when it was too hot tO..sit in the palace
This summer house was place surrounded
BY flowers and trees and springing foun-
tains and warbing birds. Ehud entered
the summer house and said to King Eglon
that be had secret errand with him. I'm.
medately all the attendants were waved
out ofthe royal presence. King Eglon rises
up to receive the messenger. Ehud, the left
handed man, puts his left hand to his right
side, pulls out dagger and thrusts Eglon
through until the haft went in after the
blade. Eglon falls. Ehud comes forth to
blow a trumphet of right, amidst the
mountains of Ephriam; and great host is
and proud Moab submits to the conqueror
and Israel is free. So, oh Lord, let all
thire enemies perish. So, oh Lord let all
thy friends triumph!
learn first from this subject the
Power Of Left-Banded Men.
There are some men who by physical or
ganization have as much strength in their
lett hand as in their right hand, but there is
something in the writing Of this text which
implies that Ehud had some defect in his
right hand which compelled him to use the
left. Oh, the power of leit-handed men!
Genius is often self fobservant, careful of it.
self, rot given to much toll, burning incense
to its own aggrandizement while mpny a
man with no natural endowment, actually
defective in physical and mental organiza.
lion, has an earnestuess for the right, pa,
tient industry, an allconsuming persever-
ance, which achieve marvels for the king,
dom of Christ. Though left.handed as
Enud, they can strike down sin as great
and imperial as Eglon. have seen men
men Of wealth gathering about them all
their treasures, snuling at the cause of a
world lying in wickedness, roughly ordering
Lazarus off their doorstep, sending their
dogs not to lick his sores but to hound him
of their premises catching all the pure
rain OF Gods blessing into the stagnant,
rcpy, froginhabited pool of their own
seiGUhness-right.handed men worse than
u eltsg-while many man with
large heart and little pulse, has
oui Of his limited means, made poverty leap
fer icy and started an influence that over.
sIaps the grave and will swing round aud
rcrrd the throne Of God, world without
ED, amtn. An, me, it is high time that
ytu leftLanded men who have been long
Il fer this gilt and that eloquence apd the
oiftr mai wealth should take your left
hsId out Of Your pockets. Who made all
II nc railroads? Who set up all these
cil:.s? Who started all these churches aud
schools and asylums? Who has done the
tug eiDg snd running aid pulling Men OF
no wonderful endowments. thousand Of
them acknowledging themselves to be left
handed and yet they were earest and yet
they were determined and yet they were tri
umphant.
But | DO not suppose that Ehud, the
first time he took sling in his left hand,
could throw stone q hairs breadth and
not miss. Isuppose 1t was practice that
gave him the wonderful dexterity. Go
forth to your spheres Of duty and be not
discouraged if in your first attempts you
mis- the mark Ehud missed 1t. Take
another stone, put it carefully into the
sling. swing it around your head, take
better aim and the next time you will strike
tie center. The first time q mason rings
his trowel upon the brick, he does not eX-
pect to put up perfect wall. The first time
a carpenter sends plain over q
board or drives bit through beam, he
does not expect to make perfect execution.
MI IN a
rhyme, he does not expect to chime q
'1.slla Rookh" or a Lady Of the Lake. "
Do not be surprised ifin your first efforts at
doing good you are not very largely success
ful. Understand that usefulness is an art,
a science, a trade. There was an oculist
performing a very difficult operation on the
human eye. A young doctor stood by and
said: How easily you do that; it don't seem
to cause you any trouble at all. "Ah,
said the old oculist, 1T is very easy now,
bat spoiled hatful Of eyes to learn that
Be not surprised if it takes some practice
before We can help men to moral eyeslght
and bring to vision Of the cross. Lett,
handed men 10 the work! Take the gospel
for a sling and faith and repentance for the
smooth stone from the brook; take sure
aim, God direct the weapon and great Go
Esh viii tumble before you. When CAR
baldi was going out to battle he told his
troops what be wanted them to do, and
after be had described what he wanted them
TO DO, they said well, General, what are
you going to give us for all this?' "Weil,
be replied, l don't know what else you
will get, but You win get hunger
ard cold and wounds and death How do
you Ike itT' His men stood before him for
q little while in silence and then they threw
I'd their hands and cried: I'VE are the men
ve sre the mem The Lord Jesus Christ
calls you to his service. do not promise
you an easy time in this world You may
have prosecutions and trials and miEepre
sentations; but afterEard there comes ar
eternal weight Of glory and you can beal
the wounds and the bruises and the misrep
reservations. If you can have the reward
afterEard. Have you not enough eDthu
sissm to cry ont: ave are the men! We
are the men,