Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-26
Existence at Its Meridian and the
Outlook.
NO CLOUD IN THE SKY.
Only Three Miles Of Way From The
Cradle 10 the
Grave.
WHOLESALE ISLANDER OF THE WORLD.



read the names Of a large number of pco-
pie recently connected with the church
Passages Of scripture appropriate TO the
subject presented, were expounded. The
opening hymn was
"Bow We the trumpet BLOW
The gladly solemn sound
Let all the nations know,
To earth's irrotest bound
- 2e year OF irblee is come.
Return ye ransomed sinners home
The text was from Solomons Song i, ::
Tell me o, thou whom my soul loveth
where thou makest my HoCks to rest at
noon"
Reference is here made, said DR.. Tai.
mage to the habit of shepherds who at
about 10 clock in the day lead their sheep
under the shadows of trees and by cool
streams and let them repose 1t is a noon
day scene, and typical of human life at the
meridian. About a hundred letters Of
birthday congratulalion from all professions
and occupations, and from all lands Of
Christendom remind me that | am fifty
three years ofage. Il is with me the warmth
the light the vigor of a July MONDAY. My
sermon shall be about life at meridian, how
it seems TO ME now, and how it seems as |
look backward and forward Albert Barnes
after he had reached the seventies, preached
a memorable sermon about the evening Of
life. You have heard scores of sermons
abou, the morning of lie. To-day we dis
CusS
The Soontide-
If you want to know how life seems 10
me now, ! answer it is very bright. have
had dark days, sad days, tumultlous days
but there is now not one cloud on my sky.
| would rather be here than anywhere else.
Ny surroundings suit me exactly. Except
yours, have the best 'amiiy in all the world
Nv friends are kind and sympathetic. The
world TO me is a most desirable abode. |
have nothing against the weather, Tor if ii
be cold have fuel and stout apparel, and it
it be hot fee to the mountains. | have
M indictment to pr sent against anything
or anybody, After all the contests in which
have engaged there is not being with
whom ! would not willingly, yea gladly,
shake Lsuds. The top Of tie hill OF life is
in some respects the best part o: the road.
Climbing up the steep is tecGh work. We
sin and stumble and fall back. In all oc
cupations and professions there are drudGer
les and fierce riyalric5 at the start. We
worry ard fret at small anlag0nisms. We
fear we shall never come to proper appre'
citation. Climbing he long hill we pant
and get on, Of breath and feel faint and are
temrtcd 10 lie down in the bower Of
Lazy Indulgence.
Our lcars at such time are augmented ~
evil prophecies Of people who seem to think
they are doing good service by setting back
the Young. "DcWnt," said n comrade to
me as was walking with him one day dur
ing our Theological studies Dewitt, unless
you change your style Of thought and ex-
preston. YOU will never get call to any
church in Christendom. And ! suppose
| YOU have all been met on the first side OF
| The hill by people vho said: Don t.
| dom You cant. You cant. Out!
,yui;" Livery Young man finds ten dis
,ear.n.,a,s 20 one round word Of good
cheers.
But after while we get to the top of the
hill. and in comparative tranquility and re-
nose, VIC look both ways. 1t is Just three
miles from cradle to graye-yOuth, the first
mile. manhood. the second mile, old age,
the third mile, standing on the hill top OF
the second mile, my profOundest emotion Is
that of gratitude to God, for that in his I'M:
deserved mercy, have escaped all physical
ills. having missed but one service since !
entered my profession, through i'll health, and
tha twenty-four years ago, would be the
wors, migrate on earth did | not first OF all
testify to the divine goodness. While many
n man hundred io!d more consecrated
than ! have been has gone staggering under
burdens of pain that often Incapalc'tated
him for duties iOr which he was otherwise
grandly equipped. ,. ..c
>raudlnr here on the hill -oi life, having
come NJ one side aud before ! 90 down the
other side wish 10 declare that Iitc to ms
is = harnircss, a rapture, an estasy. II tht
dcsperate theory Of the atheists should hi
,rur that annihilation Com"s AfteI
This life and thai the srpulChy", instead o
heinz ms We believe, the roadside inn
where we pause ior the night, 10 resume II
tbe morning our Journey, fully rested ant
among rrauder prospects, is really the abo
T,ion both soul and body, anu ncverthc
less glad that | live and that ave mere
and that
There Is a great dca! OF wholesale slande,
Of the world. 1t has been tcartuliy abused
Travellers on the mountain curse ITS chIII
and yoyarers on the sea curse It's restless
ness, and people say it is miserable, o'd
moan discussing world and from pole t
mole il has been calumniated. And II tn
moltreated world should bring libel sui
AGAINST all who have slandeTcd 1t, ther
. would not be gold enogEh in the mountain
. 10 nav the damages or pem;enlanes enoug
- n hold the offenders. Not content with De
ronrcipg he world. lis stellar and soia
! nplghDOTS are lni!lStSt' "'N ~
Iabored at one tims because It is too arden
, and another time because it is TOO distant
B,r | bave found out that when things (
wronq the fault is not with the sun or moo
or stars or the meteorological condition;
! bu. with myself From the reports thn
! cosse 10 US from the astronomical ooSefHa
taries there is not another world in thu | n
-, verse except heaven which compares wit
: this as 3 comfortable and convenient stoi
: ming place. Some Of them are all water an
. some of them all rock and some of them q
: FIRE and some are swept Of electric ten
pests and uphesval Of volcanoes thi
throw continents into the a
with one Jerk. And if DR.. Chalner
r theory that other words are inhabited
# true, am sorry for them, and wish tn
,e their agonized climates may becC,n
a Elysian, aud that their unfortunate inhao
% ants may after while have as genial SKI
10 as those that upholster US and as bIusGil
sunsets and a morning like ours IN Whi
a the .archsnrel OF sublmity and 20"