Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-30

world in desclstion. The child thst lay
near the mothers heart is taken TO lie il
cold and in the darkness. The laughter
freezes to the girls lips and the rose scat
ters. The boy comes in from the harvest
fields of Shunam saying: my head, my
head" and dies on the lsp Of bis mother
Widowhood stands with tragedy of woe
struck into the pallor of the cheek, and or
phansge cries in vain for father and for
mother.
Sometimes when We have sorrow oul
friends come in, and they try to sympa
thizs with US to certain extent; but they
cannot understand all the grief. They dc
as well IS they can but they cannot under
stand it altogether. But, blessed be God
CHRIST KNOWS.
He has been all through the trouble and
all around about it. he has counted the
tears, and before the groans, aud before
the tears started and before the groans be-
gan, he saw the hiding-plsce ofthe sorrow
Bone of our bone. Flesh of our flesh.
Heart of our heart. Sorrow Of our sorroE.
As long as he remembered Lazarus's tomb
he will stand beside US in the cemetery.
As long as he remembers his own heart.
breaks, he will stand with you in the lscera'
ton Of your affections. When he forgets
his footsore way, and his lonely nights, and
his weary mind, ard ms exhausted body,
and his ssful cross, and his solemn grave,
then viii he forget youi but not until
then.
Sometimes when We have trouble our
friends sre far away from US. We write q
letter saying: Come right away" or we
telegraph 10 them saying: Take the next
train; come immediately" but it may
take hours, it may take days before they
reach Us in cur trouble. But have to tell
you this morning Of One who is near to
help, ever near, near before you, behind
you, within you, nearer than the staff on
which you lean, nearer than the cup you
press to your lip, nesrer than the handker.
chief with which you wipe away the tears.
preach him, an ever-present Jesus. Some
times when we have trouble our friends
come and they do sll they can for us; but
they cannot relieve all the troable, they
cannot disentangle our finances, they can
not cure our aicki they cannot raise our
dead.
Blessed be God the One to whom these
disciples went has oil power in heaven and
on earth, and he will, at just the right time,
balk our calsmities; and at just the right
time, in the presence Of an applauding
earth aud resounding heaven, will raise
our dead. o, | preach him. an almighty
Christ The last sword will leap from the
Scsbbard Of Omuipotence, aud the last re.
source of infinite God be exhausted, before
God will allow one Of his children to cry
for comfort and not ret it. | heard Of q
child who went to sea with her father, a
ses captain, and when the first storm came
in the midnight, the little child awakened
and rushed ont in great fright, and cried ::
Where's father2 Where's fstherY Then
they told her the father was on deck and
that he was guiding the ship, and he was
watching the etorm, and she said: well,
if fathers on deck, then I'll 60 to sleep"
So she went to sleep
0! ye who are tossed in the storms Of
this life, | want to tell you
TIE LORD IS GUIDING THE sHIPj
your Father is on deck, and he will bring
you throughinto the harbor. o! ye whose
cheeks are wet with the night dew Of the
grave ye whose hearts are tried with q
sirocco, in the name OF q religion which
can wipe every tear, and lift every burden,
end deliver every captive, and illumine
every darkness, implore you go and tell
Jesus. If you will not, if you try TO carry
your sins and your burden yourself, | tell
you, my brother, plainly, your life will be o
failure, your death will be disaster, and
eternity calamity; but if you will 90 to
Christ with all your sins, and all your sor-
roxs today, your foot will strike the up.
ward path, and the shining messengers
who tell above what ia done here, will
make the arches OF God resound with the
tidiugs that you have gone TO tell Jesus.
Well, / look over this audience and |
wonder whether you will carry your own
burdens, whether you are going TO be 80
toolha-dy as to take the consequences Of
your own sin, when there is balm, a bal
sam, for all wounds, and pardon tor oil
transgreseious. Soon you will be gone,
and gone for ever You remember how
Xerxes rode along that army and reviewed
it, Two million men! And after he had
reviewed tho troops he came to a hill and
he looked off upon the great heat, and he
burst into tears One Of his staff officers
expressed surprise that at time when he
oue ht TO be full OF exultation and triumph,
he should weep, and asked him why he
wept "Oh," he said. 81 weep because so
soon all this host will be gone" And THE
morning look off upon this audience, and
| realize, TINT soon you will sll be gone
gone from the thurch, gone from the home
circle, gone from business circles, and gone
for ever. Whittier? Whittier?
"'Tis not for man TO trihe;
Lie Is brief aud 'in Is here;
Our sge Is but falling leaf,
dropping tea.
Eot many lives, but only Cns have Se
One, ou'y one.
how sacred should that one lie be,
That arrow span"