Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-14

words when the rollicking companions al
two 0 clock in the morning, pitch the hus
band dead drunk into the front entry. Nc
bitter words when wiping from the swollen
brow the blood struck out in q midnight
carousG!; bending over The battered and
bruised form OF him wEo, when he took
her from her father home, promised love
and Kindness and protection, yet moth.
ing but sympathy and prayers
and forgiveness, before they are asked for.
No bitter words when the Family Bible
goes for rum, and the pawnbrokers shop
gets the last decent dress Some day, de
string TO evoke the story Of her sorrow, you
say: well, how are you getting along
now? And rAllying her trembling voice
and quieting her quivering lips. she says
Pretty well, | thank you; pretty veil I"
She never will tell you Iutts deiirium Of
her last sickness she may tell all the
secrets Of her lifetime, but she will not tell
that. Not until the book OF eternit, are
opened on the throne Of judgment, will
ever be known what she has suffered.
Dye who are twisting garland Tor the
victor, put it on that pale brow When
she is dead the nelghbors will beg linen to
make her shroud. and shs will be car
ried out in plain box with no silver
plate to tell her years, for she has lived O
thousand years OF trials and anguish. The
gamblers the swindlers who destroyed her
husband. will not come to the funeral
One carriage will be enough for that fun.
ersl one carriage to carry the orphans and
the two christian women who preside over
tie obsequies; but there IS a flash, aud the
opening of celestial door, and a shout.
Lit up your hands, ye everlasting gates,
and let hsr come in and Christ will step
forth and say Come in ye suffered
With HE On earth. be gloriiied with me in
heaven What isrha highest throne in
heaven The throne Of the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb. No doubt about
it What il the next highest throne in
heaven While | rpeak it soslna 10 me
that it will be throne OF the drunkard 6
vile, if she with cheerful patience endure
all her ear,hly torture Heroes aad hero
ines
find al.o il this roll
HEROES o. CHRlsTlAN 'HAklIi.
We oil admire the George Peabo1ys aud
James lenoxes Of the earth, who gave
tens and hundreds and thousands Of dol
lars to good objects But | an speak
ing this morning OF those who out
of their pinched poverty help others-of
such men as those Christian missionaries
AZ The West who live on $50 a var that
they may proclaim Christ 10 the people.
One of them, writing TO the Secretary in
New, York, says: 81 thank you for that $2j.
Until yesterday we have had no meat in
our house for three months We have sut-
fered terribly My children have no shoes
this winter. am speaking OF those peo'
pie who have only half loaf oil bread, but
give piece Of it 10 others who are hungry;
and OF those who have only scuttle of
coal, but help others to fuel; and of those
who have only dollar in their pocket and
give twenty-five cents TO somebody else;
and of that father who wears shah
BY coat, and Of that mother
Who wears faded dress that
their children may be well appsrelIed
You call them pauper5, or ragamuIlins, or
immigrants. call them heroes and hero.
ines. You and | may not know where
they live or what their name is God
knows, and they have more angels hover.
ing over them than you and have and
they will have a higher seat in heaven.
They may have had only cup Of cold
water 10 give poor traveller, or may have
only picked q splinter from under the nail
OF chiIds finger, or put only two mites
into the treasury, but the Lord knows
them. Considering what they had, they
did more than We have ever done, and
their faded dresa will become white robe,
and the small room will be an eternal
mansion, and the old hat will be coronet
of victory, and all the applause Of earth,
and all the shouting Of heaven
will be drowned out when God
rises up to give his reward to ihose ham
bic workers in his kingdom, and to say to
them: well done. good and faithful
servants You have sll seen or heard Of
the ruin Of Melrose Abbey. | suppose in
some respects it is the most exquisite ruin
on earth and yet looking at it was not
60 mpreased-you may sit down to bad
taste, but ! was not deeply stred-as !
was at the tombstone Gt the toot Ol that
abbey, the tombstone placed BY Wal;fr
Scott over the grave Of sn old man who
had served for q good many years in lis
house--the inscription most significant
and defy any man TO stand there and
read it without tears coming into his eyes;
the epitaph We'll done, good and faith
ful servant o, when our work is over,
will it be found that because OF anything
we have done tor God or the church OF
suffering humanity. that such an inscrip-
ton is appropriate for us? God grant it
Who are those who were brsvest and de-
served the greatest monument
Lid rIAyERHOuSg
and his burly soldiers, or John Brown, the
Edinburgh carrier, and his wife, Mr
Atkins, The prosecuted minister Of Jesus
Christ in Scotland, was secreted by John
Brown and his wife, and ClaverEouse rode
up one dey with his armed men, and
shouted in front OF the houae. John
Brown little girl came out. He said to
her: We'll, miss, is Mr. Atkins here;
She made 40 snswer for she could not be
tray the minister OF the gospel. "Ha "
Clayerhousa said. then you are a chip of
the old bltck, are you1 have some
thing in my pocket ioT you, 1t is a nose
gay. Some people call It thumbecrew,
out | call it a nosegsy. Aud he got Oh
his horse, and he put it on the little girls
hand, and began TO turn it until the bones
cracked, and she cried He said Don t
cry Don't cry This is not thumb,
screw, this ia nosegay. And they heard
the child's cry ana the father aud mother
came out and Claverhouse said: "Ha!
! 1t seems that YOU three have laid your
holy heads together determined
TO die ike ell ;ha reSt OF your hypocrl'ieaI,
/ canting, suiyelling crew Rather than
give up good Mr.. Atkins pious Mr.. At
kins, you would die. have @ telescope
with me that will improve your vision, and
he pulled out q pistol, low, he said
you old grammatical, lrst gou should
catch cold in this cold morning Of Scot
land AMI C. tla hCaor and safety Of the
! king, to cay nothing Of the glory Of God