Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-09

ant as the spring. Let our winter pas
without frost to kill vegetation and ice 4
bind the rivers and snow to enrich our fields
and then you will have to enlarge you
hospitals and your cemeteries. "A greer
I Christmas makes fat graveyard" was tn
old proverb. Storms to purify the air
Thermometer at ten degrees above zero Il
tone up the system. December and Janu
sry just as important as May and June.
tell you
We NEED THE STORMS or LIFE
as much IS we do the sunshine. There
are more men ruined BY prosperity than By
adversely. If we had had our own way il
life before this we would have been imper
sonations of sel6shpess and worldhnest
and disgusting sin, and pufed up until We
would have been like Julius Cesar. whc
was made by sycophsnts to believe that he
was divine and the treckles on his face
were as the stars of the armament One
Of the swiitest trans Atlantic voyages made
last summer by the Eruria was because
she had stormy wind abafi chasing hel
from New York to Liverpool. But to
those going in the opposite
direction the storm was .
bUffeting and hindrance. 1t is bad
thing to have storm ahead pushing us
back, but If we are Gods children and dim.
ing toward heaven, the storms Of life will
only chase us the sooner into the harbor.
am 80 glad to believe that the mopsoons
snd-tsphooas and miatrah and siroccos Of
land and sea are not unclaimed maniacs
let loose upon the earth, but under super
vision sm 90 glad that the God Of the
Seven Stsrs is also the God Of Orion. 1t
was out of Daptes suffering came the slb-
lime Divina Commedia, and out
of John Mihon's blindness came Paradise
Lost, aud out OF miserable iu6del attack
came the Bridgewater Treatise in favor of
Christianity, and out Of the sufferings Of
Christianity and out Of Dsvid's exile came
the songs of cancellation, and out of the
sufferipgs OF Christ came the possibility Of
the worlds redemption, aud out ot your
bereavement, your persecution, your pow
critics, your mistortunes may yet come an
eternal heaven.
o what q mercy is it that Ia the text
and all up and down the Bible God in.
iuces us to look out toward other worlds !
BIBLE ASTRONOMY
in Genesis, in joshua, in Job, in the
Psalms, in the prophets, major aud minor,
in St. Johns Apocalypse, practically say
ing; World! worlds worlds! Get
ready for them" We have nice little
world here that we sick to as though los
ing that we lose all. We are afraid fall.
ing off this little raft OF q world. We are
afraid that some meteoric inconoclsst will
some night smash it, aud We want every.
thing to revOlve around it, aud we are dis
appointed when We fud that it revolvts
around the sun instead of the sun revolv-
ing around it. What fuss We make
about this little bit of a world, lis existence
only short time between two spssms, the
paroxysn by which 1t was hurled
from Chaos into order and the
psroxysm Of its demolition And l
am glad that so many texts
call US 10 look Of TO other WORLDS, many
of them larger and costlier and more re.
splendent. Look there" says Job, "a,
Mszzsroth and Aro,urus aud his sons"
Look there" says st. John, ut the moon
under Christs feet" Look there" fays
Joshua, "at the sun standing still above
Gibeon!' Look there" says Moses, at
the sparkling iirnameutr' Look there"
Gays Amos. the herdsnsn, "st the seven
stars and Orion% Don't let us be 20 sad
about those who shove OF from this world
under Christly pilotage. Don: let us be so
agitated about our own going of this little
barge or sloop or canal boat Of the world
to get on some Great Eastern OF the heav-
eEs. Don't let us persist in wanting 10
stay in this barn, this shed, this clubhouse
Of world when all the Kings palaces al.
ready occupied by many Of our best friends,
are swinging wide open their gates 10 let
US in. When | read, in my Father 9
house are many mansions" / do not
know but that each world Is
q room and ss many rooms ss there are
worlds, stellar stairs, stellar galleries, stel-
lar Railways, stellar windows, stellar domes.
How our departed friends must pity us
shut up in these crsnped apartments, tired
if we walk fifteen miles. when they some
morning BY one stroke cf wing can make
circuit Of the whole stellar system and be
back in time for mathis Perhaps yonder
twinklng constellation is the residence OF
the martyrs, that group OF twelve lumin.
ares is the celestial home Of the Apostles.
Perhaps that steep O. ligat Is the dwelling.
place Of angels eherubic, seraphic, Archan.
gelc. A mansion with as many rooms as
worlds and all their windows illuminated
for festivity. o how this Widsra aud lifts
and stimulates
Our EXPECTATION
How little it makes the present and how
stupendous it makes the fuiure How il
consoles us about our pious dead, that in-
stead Of being boxed up and under the
ground they have tbs range Of ss many
rooms "a there are worlds and welcome
every where, for it Is the Fathers house in
Shtch there are many mansions. o, Lcrd
| God OF the Seven Stars and Orion, how can
endure the transport, the ecstasy oi
such vision! ! must obey my text and
SEEK Him. | will seek Him. seek Him
, now, tor / call 10 mind that il is not the
material univeTss that ia most valuable
bot The spiritual, and that each Of Us has
soul worth more than ell the worlds
which the inspired herdsmsn saw from his
booth on the hi lie Of Tekoa. hal studied
it be fore, bat the Cathedral OF Cologne,
Germ any never impressed me as it did
this summer. II is admittedly the grand.
est Gothic structure in the sorld, It's foam
datiou lsid in l24s, only two or three years
ago completed. More than ak huadfed
years in building. All Europe taxed
ior its construction. It's cbapel
loi the hagi, with precious
stones enough 10 purchase kingdom. Ia
chapel OF 81. Agnes with masterpieces o
painting. Its spirs springing 81 ieet into
the hesveps lis stained glass the cborui
OF all rich colors Statue encirclips III
pillars and encircling ell. statues AboE'
statues until SCULPTURE can do no more bn
faints and ialls back against carved sssii
and down on psyements oyez which ,h'
kings and q1eeps Of the earth have sslke'
to confessiop. Nave and sisles and tran
sept and portals combining the splenior
of sunrise. Interlsc,d, iltersoliated, inter
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