Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-23

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of his place" So, high up amid the. crag
the esgle Hutters dust into the eyes of th
roebuck, and then with eyes blinded it got
tumbhug over the precipice, the great an
lers crushing on the rocks.
Now compare some Of these goings ou
Of lite with the departure OF men an
women who in the drama of life took tn
part that God assigned them, and the
went away honored Of men and spplsude
of the Lord Almighty.
1t is about Fifty years ago that in Q CON
paratively small apartment Of the city
NEWLY MARRIED PAIR
set up home. The first guest that va
invited in that residence was the Lort
Jesus Christ, and the Bible given the brid
on the day of her espousals was the guild
of that household. Days of sunshine wer,
followed By days Of shadow. Did you eve
know q home that for fifty years had u
vicissitude? The young woman who lef
her fathers house for her young husband
home started out with parental benedic
ton and good advice she will never forget
Her mother said to her the day before the
marrisge: Now, my child, you are 90
ing away from US. OF course as long a.
your father and live you Will feel tha,
you can come to us at any time. But your
home will be elsewhere. From long ex
perience find it best to serve God. II ID
very bright with you now, my child, and
you may think you can get along without
religion, but the dsys will come when you
will want God, and my advice is to estab,
lish family altar, and, if need be, conduct
the worship yourself" The counsel was
taken and that young wife consecrated
every room in the house to God.
Years passed on and there were in that
home hiIarities, but they were good and
heslthful, and sorrows, but they were com,
forted. Marriages as bright as orange
blossoms could make them, and burials in
which all hearts were riven. They have a
family lot in the cemetery, but all the
place is illuminated with stories OF resur,
rectiou and reunion. The children OF the
household that have grown up, and they
are all Christians, the father and mother
leading the way and the children followed.
What care the mother took of the ward.
robe and education and character and
manners How had she sometimes worked
When the head of the household was IN
fortunate in business she sewed until her
fingers were numb and bleeding at the
tips. And what close calculations Of econ.
omies, and what ingenuity in reftting the
garments OF the elder children for the
younger, and only God kept account OF
that mother 8 sideaches, and headaches and
heartaches, and the tremulous prayers by
the side of the sick child's cradle and By
the couch Of this one fully grown. The
neighbors often noticed how tired she
looked, and old acqusintapces hardly knew
her in the street; but without complaint
she waited, and toiled, aud endured and &C
all these years.
The children are out in the world, an
honor to themselves aud their parents
After q while
THE MOTHERS LAST SICKNESS
comes. Children and grandchildren, sum-
moned from afar, come softly into the
room one by one, for she is too weak to
see more than one at time. She runs
her dying fingers lovingly through their
hair and tells them not TO cry and that she
is going now but they will all meet again
in little while, in better world, and
then kifses them Goodbye, and God bless
and keep you, my dear child" The day
of the obsequies comes and the officiating
clergyman tells the story Of wifely and
motherly endurance, and many hearts on
earth and in heaven echo the sentiment,
and as fbe is carried of the stage OF this
mortal life there are cries Of faithful unto
death, she hath done what she could"
while overpowering all the voices Of earth
and heaven is the plsudit OF the God who
watched her from first to last, saying
"Well done, rood and faithful servant, thou
hast been faithful over few things, will
make thee ruler over many things. Enter
thou into the JOY Of thy Lord.
But what became Of
THE FATHER OF THAT nOUsEHOLD2
He started out as q young man in business
and had small income, ard having got q
little ahead sickness in the family swept it
all away. He went through all the bust
ness psn:cs in forty years, met many loss
es and suffered many betrayals, but kept
right on trusting in God, whether business
was good or poor, setting his children q
good example, giving them the best Of
counsel, and never prayer did he offer
for ell those years bat they were mentioned
in it. he is old now and realizes it can
not be long before he must quit all these
scenes; but he is going 10 leave his child
rem an Inheritance OF prayer and Christian
principles which all the defalcations oi
earth can never touch, and, as he goes Out
of the world, the church Of God blesset
him and the poor ring bis door bel!
to see if he is any better
and his grave is surrounded by multitude
Who went on foot and stood there before
the procession Of carriages came up, al
some say there will be no one TO take BIZ
place. aud others ca, Who will pity ne
now" and others remark, He shall be
held in everlasting remembrance. And
ss the drama of his life closes all the vocii
eralions and bravos and epcores that eve
shook the amphi,hes;res and the Drur.
Lanes and the Convent Gardens and th,
HsJmsrkets ard the Coliseums Of esrthl,
spectacle, we're tame and feeble compared
With the long, loud, thunders Of spproya
that shall break from the cloud Of wit
nesses in the piled up gallery Of the heav
ems. Choose ye between the life that shAl
close By being hissed off the stage, and tn
life that shall close amid the aeclsma,ion
supernsl and archangelic.
0, NEY AND woNES OK THE STAGE
of life, many of you In the frat act Of III
drama, and cthers in the second, and som
Of you in the third, and few ip sb
fourth, and here and there one in the fftl
but ali Of yoI between entrance and exit,
/ quote to you az the peTora,ion Of this SCI
mon, the most suggestise passage tbs
/ Shakespeare ever wrote, although you neye
heard it recitsd. The author has ofte
been claimed as infdel and atbeistic, 6
the quotation shall be not only religiousl
helpful to ourselves, but grandly vindic,
! tory of the great drsmstist. quote froi
| his last will and testament
uIn the name Of God, Amen. ], Wi
liam Shakespeare. of Strattord upon Avdl
in the county Of Warwick, gentleman, j
perfect health and memory (God be prsi
/ edl dn make this nv lsst will and test