Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-16

towards GAIA. The prison door is open
and the giant is thrust in. DE slts dow1
and the puts his hands on the mill crank
which, with exhaus;ing horizontal motion
goes day after day, week after week, mont1
after month-work, work, work! The con
stsrnstion of the world in captivity. hlI
locks shoru, his eyes puuc;ured, grinding
corn in GAIA! IT
First of oil behold in this giant OF thg
text that physical power is not an index q
moral power. He was huge man. ThE
lion found it out and the three thonsanp
peoole whom he slew found it out Yet hF
was the subject of petty reyenges and out
visuted By low passion. | an tar iron
throwing any discredit upon physieai
stamina. There are those who seem 70
have great admiration. / never could see
apy glory in weak nerves or sick head,
ache Whatever effort in our day is mede
10 make the men and women more athlete
should have the favor OF every good cru
zen as well as Of every Christisn. 3
GYMNASTICS NAY BE POSITIVELY RELiGIo0s
Good people sometimes ascriSe TO sWickep
heart what they ought to ascribe to e slog
liver. Tie body and the soul are suqh
near ueighbors that they often catch each
others diseases. Those who never saw
sick day and who, like Hercules, show tbe
giant in the cradle, have mora 10 ansWs
for than those who are the subjects OF HE
time infirmities. He who can lift twice as
much as you can and walk twice as tar
and work twice as long, will have double
account to give in the Judgment, How
often is il that you do not find physical
energy indicative of spiritual power. 1t q
clssr head is worth more than one Dizzy
with perpetual vertigo; if muscles with the
pIey Of health in them are worth more
than those drawn up in chronl: rheuma-
item; il an eye quick to catch passing
objects is better than one with
vision dim and uncertain, then
God will require Of us ethciency
lust in proportion 10 what he has given us
Physical energy ought 10 De a type OF
moral power. We ought to have just as
good digestion Of truth as we have cspaci-
/ ~ to assiuilate food. Our spiritual hear
ing ought to be as good as our physical
herring our spiritual taste oDght to De as
clear as our tongue. Samsons IN body, we
ought 10 be giants in moral power. But
where you find great many men who
, i2e that they ought to use their money
Alright aud use their intelligence sright
how few nen you fud aware Of the fact
that they ought to use their physical organ,
ism sriaht. With sVsry tdump, q
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WORK! WORK!
aud lest we complain Rat we have no tools
10 work with, God gives us our hands and
feet with every kluckle and with every
Joint and with every muscle saying TO US:
Lay hold sui DO something" But how
often it is that men with physical strength
de not serve Christ. They are like ship
full manned and full rigged, capable OF
vast tonnage, able TO endure al streSs Of
weather, yet swinging idly at the docks
when these men ought to be crossing aud
recrc ssing the great ocean Of Luman sut.
feyirs and gil With GodG supplies OF
mercy. How often il is that physical
strength is used in positive damage OF in
luxurious case, when, with tleeves rolled
uu and bronzed bcsom fearless OF the shafts
of opposition, it ought 10 be laying
hold with all its might to lift up this sunken
wreck of world Il is E most shameful
fact that much o! the business Of the
church aud of the world must be done BY
these comparatively invalided. Richard
Baxter by reason Of bis diseases all his
days sitting in the dooF Of the tomb yet
writing Eora lhan hundred yolunes and
sending out an influence for good that Will
endure as long as the Saints Everlasting
Rest" Edward Pay;on neyjr knowing u
well day yet how he preached and how he
wrote, hclpicg thousands Of dyiDg souls
like himself 20 swim in a sea Of glory
/ and Robert McGkeyGs, e walking skele,
tor. yet ycu kuoR what ks did in Dundee
aud how ne shook Scotland With zeal for
God. Phillip Doddridge, advised by
his friends beca1se OF his i'll
ness not to enter the ministry,
= ct YOU bno~ what he did fer the Rise
aud Progress OF Religion in the church
and il the vpr,i. Vilberforce, told by his
doctors that Ga could net lie fortnight
get ut that very time entering upon philan'
thropic enterprises that demanded the
greatest endurance and persistence Robert
Hall suffering excrucistious, so that some.
times while preaching he would have 10
stop an rest little, and then getting up
again would preach about heaven uBut Inc
glories OF the celestial city dropped on the
multitude, doing more work perhaps than
almost any well man in his dGy. On, how
often il IS that uGp with great physical en-
dQrancs ere ICt 40 gGeGt ia moral and
physical stature While lheIe are achieve
ments for those who are bent sll their
days with sickness, achievements Of pa.
tience, achievements cf prayer, achieve
ments Of selEdeniel, achievements of Chris
ten endurance call upon men Of health
men c. muecle, E,el OF nerVa. m2n Of phys.
icsl power, 10 devote themselves 10 the
Lord. Giants il body you ought to be
gisn's IN soul,
MISGUIDED STRENGTH.
Behold also in this story of my tsxt
Illustration Of the fact Of The jsmsge that
strength can do if it be misguided. 1t
seems 70 ne the; this nan OF my text
spent greet dss OF his time N doirR EVIL
To pay debt which he bad lost BY the
guessing of his riddle be ro5s and kills
thirty people he was not only gigantic
in strength but gigantic in mischief, and a
type of those men IN all ages Of the world
who. powerful 10 body or mind or in any
faculty OF social position and wealth, have
used their strength in iniquito1s purposes.
1t is not the small, weak men Of the day
who do the damage Thase email Pen who
60 swearing and loafng about your stores
and shops and banking house, betouling
the air with their breath and insulipg
your floor with their iniquiGous saliva,
ss5ci,i2g Christ and the Bible and Church,
they Dc not DO the damage Th'y have
no Influence. But it is the giau,s Of the
day the misguided giants giants in physi'
esl power or giants in men:al acumen, OF
giants II Soeisl position, or giants in wealth,
Who do the damage; tie Ren With sharp
pen that stab religion, or who throw their
poison all through our literature; the men
who use the power Of wealth to sanction
iniuuity, and bribe Justice and make truth