Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-12

| uon. 30 let US go up ana down the world
with the music OF kind words and sympa-
thetic hearts, sersnading the unfortunate
and trying to get out Of trouble men who
had noble natures, but by unforeseen cir
cumstances have been incarcerated, thus
ibersting kings.
More Hymn Book and Less Razor.
Especially ought we to be spologshc and
merciful toward those who, while they have
great faults, have also great virtues. Some
people are barren OF virtues No weeds
verify but no flowers. ! must not be too
much enrsged at a nettle along the fence if
it be in field containing forty acres of ripe
Michigan wheat. At the present time nat
uralists tell Us there is on the sun spot
10000 miles long, but from the brightness
and warmth l conclude it is 3 good deal of
sun yet. .
/ Again, when / resd ia-my-tsxt that he
Shaved with the hired razor Of Assyria the
land Of Judea, bethink myself of
The Preciousness of Gods Providence.
A razor swung the tenth part of an inch
out Of the right line means either failure or
laceration, but Gods dealings never slip,
and they do not miss BY the thousandth
part of an inch the right direction. People
talk as though things in this world were
at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles and Madrid and Paleorm, and
We watch snxious!y. Shall the epidemic
sweep Europe and American People say,
That will entirely depend on whether the
incubation is successful experiment; that
will depend entirely on quarantine regula
tons; that will depend on the early or late
appearance of frost; that epidemic is pitched
into the world and it goes laundering across
the continents, and it is al guesswork and
an appalling perhaps." Ny friends, l think
perhaps that
God Had Something to do With 1t,
and that in some way protected US, that He
may have done as much for us as the quar-
an,ine and the health officers. 1t was right
ard necessity that all caution should be
Used, but there has come enough macaroni
from Italy, and enough grapes from the
South of France, and enough grapes from
tatterdemalions and hidden Ia these articles
oi transportation, enough choleraic germs
to have left by this time all Brooklyn mourn
irg at Greenwood, and oil Philadelphia al
Laurel Hill and all Boston at Mount Au.
burn. thank all the doctors and quarsn.
tines, but more than all, aud first of all and
last of all, and all the time, thank Col.
In all the six thousand years Of the worlds
existence there has not one thing merely
"hoppened 20. God is not an anarchist
but
"A King, Father.
When little Todd, the son of President Lin
ctIn, died, all the land sympathized with
the SORROW in the White House. a. used
to rush into the room where the Cabinet
was in session. and while the most eminent
men Of the land were discussing the cues.
lions Of national existence. But the child
had no care about those questions. Now
God the Father, and God the Son and God
The Roly Ghost are in perpetual session in
regard to this world and kinired worlds
Shall you, ais child rush in to criticize or
arrange or condemn the Divine government
No. the Cabinet of the Eternal Three can
7-~-rn. and will govern IN the w'sess Huu
aud like 6: a:rasor sbilliully swuug, shall cut
that which ought to be cat Gnl avoid that
which ought to be avoided. Precision to
the very hairbresdth. Earthly time pieces
may get out Of order and strike wrong, say.
ing it is one o'clock when it is two, or two
wien it is three. Gods cllch ia always
right, and when it Is one it strikes one, and
when it is twelve it strikes twelve and the
secoad hand is as accurate as the minute
hand.
Further, nv test tells US that Goa some
fines shaves nations: In the same day
shall the Lord shave with the razor that is
birsdn With one sharp sweep he went
scross Judah and down went its pride and
ltt power.
In 1861 God Shaved Our Nation.
We had allowed to grow Sabbath dese:ra,
ZION and oppression and blasphenY and
fraud and iDpurity and all sorts OF turpi-
nGe. The South had It's sins, aud the
North It's sins, and the East its sins, and the
West its sirs. We had been warned again
and sgain, and we did not heed. At length
the sword of war cut from the st. LaTrenee
20 he Gull, and from Atlantic seabosrd to
Paci(ic sesbos1d. The pride Of the land,
nCt the towards but the heroes on both
sid-s went down. And that which We took
tor the sword OF war was the Lords razor
. H. 1862 again il went across the land. In
lHb3 aealn. In 1864 again. Then the
ell lIp lubuuLBCul Wdh OhS@"NN o'- pA'
away. Never in the history of the ages was
ary l4rd more thoroughly shaved than dur
il those four years Of civil combat aud,
N, brethren, if we do not quit some OF our
Individual and national SINS the Lord will
again take us IN hand.
He Has Other Razors within Reach
besides war, epidemics, droughts, dsluges,
rlngres-erssshoppers and locusts-o. our
overaowing success may so far excite the
ieslousy of other lands that, under some
pretsxt, the great nations OF EaroPe aod
Asis may combine to put US down. Tnis
nation, so easily approached oI North and
south and from both oceans, might have
on ha6d at once more hostilities than were
ever arrayed sgainst any one power. We
have recently been told by sAilltui engineers
that all our fortfesses around New York
barhor could not keep the she ls from being
hurled from tie ses into the heart Of these
great cities. Eusulted China, the wealthiest
OF al nations, as will be realized when her
resources are developed, viii have adopted
al the modes of modern warfare, aud at
the Golden Gate mo7 bo dzcrsVing whether
Americans must 20. 1t thu combined
isslcusies Of Europe and Aii should come
upoa us we should have more work on hand
than would be pleasant / hope no such
combinations sgsinst us viii ever be tor med
bui I want 10 show that, ss Assyris was the
hired rszor against Judah and Cyrus, the
hired razor against Babylon and the Hans,
the hired razor against the Goths, there are
Low many rszors that the Lord could hire
if. bscaufe Of our national sins, he should
undertake to shave US. In 1870 Germany
was the razor Eith which the Lord shaved
France. England Is the razor with which
very shortly
The Lord WI Shave RussiA d.
Bat nations are to repent in day. May
speedy snd worl wide coming to God
hinder On both sides the sea, all national
calamity. But do not let US a: & nation
either By unHghteoas hW at Washington or
bsd lives amcng ourselves. defy the Al.
mighty. One would think that our national