Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-06

awake; that chair always kept awake, kept
easily awake. That chair knew all the
old lullabies and all those wordless songs
which mothers sing to their sick children
songs in which all pity and compassion
and sympathetic influences are combined.
That old chair has stopped rocking for q
good many years. 1t may be set up in the
loft or the garret, but it holds queenly
power yet. When at midnight you went
into that grogshop to get
The INTOXICATING DRAUGHT,
did you not hear a voice that said: MY
son, why go in there?' And louder than
the boisterous encore of the place of wick
ed amusement, voice saying: MY son,
what do you here?" And when You went
into the house of sin voice saying: what
would your mother do if she knew you
were here?'
And you were provoked with yourself,
and you charged yourself with supersti-
ton and tanaticism, and your head got
hot with your own thoughts, and you went
home and you went to bed, and no sooner
had you touched the bed than 4 voice said:
What a prayerless pillow! Man, what is
the matter?'' This: You are too near
your mothers rOcking-chair ''Oh,
pshaww you say There's nothing in
that. I'm five hundred miles off from the
church whose bell was the first music
ever heard" | cannot help that; you are
too near your mothers rOcking-chair.
"Oh," you say, there can't be anything
in that; that chair has been vacant great
while" | cannot help that; il is all the
mighticr for that;
IT'S OMNIPOTENT,
that vacant mothers chair. 1t whispers;
it speaks; it weeps; it carols; il mOurns; il
prays; it warns; it thunders. \ young
man went off and broke his mothers
heart, and while he was away
from home his mother died, and
the telegraph brought the son, and
he CAME into the room where she lay and
looked upon her face, and he cried out:
''Oh, mother, mother. what your life could
not do your death shall effect. This mo-
mcnt give my heart to God" And he
kept his promise. Another victory for the
vacant chair. With reference to your
mother the words of my text were full
filled: "Thou shalt be missed because thy
scat will be empty
Some one said TO q Grecian general:
"What was the proudest moment in your
life?" He thought moment and said:
The proudcSt moment i'll my life was
when sent word home tony parents that
| had gained the victory" And
THE PROUDEST AND MOST BRILLIANT
moment in your life will he the moment
when YOU can send word to your parents
that YOU have conquered your evil habits
by the grace of God, and become eternal
victor. Oh, deSpiSe not parental anxiety!
The time will come when you will have
neither father nor mother, and you will 90
around the place where they used to watch
YOU, and find them gone from the house,
md gone from the field, and gone from the
Cry aS loud for forgiveness
Is yOu NAV over the mound in the church
Yard. they will not answer Dead. Dead.
And then YOU will take out the white
ock of hair that was cut from your
mothers brow Just before they buried her,
md YOU will take the cane with which |
iour father used TO walk, and you will
hink and think and wish that you had |
lone lust as they wanted you to, and !
would give the world if you had never
hrust 4 pang through their dear old hearts
iod pity the young man who has brought |.
lisgrace on his fathers name. God pity
he Young man who has broken his mothers !
lcart. Better II he had
NEVER HEEN RORN;
pcttcr if in the first hour of his life, in
stead OF being laid against the warm bosom !
If maternal tenderness, hc had been
.oiiined and ScpulChrcd. There is no balm |,
powerful enough to heal the heart of one |
Sho has brought parents TO u sorrowtuI
,rave, land who wandorS about through |
he dismal cemetery. rcnding the hair and
yringing the hands and crying: Mother. |
Mother" Oh, that to-day by all the
memories of the past and by all the hopes |
If the future. you would yield your heart ,
o God! May your fathers God and your ,
Mothers God be your God forever.
III. 90 on little further: come to ,
he invald's chair What: How long !
layc you been sick? "Oh, | have been
ick ten, twenty, thirty years" Il il !
,ossihle? What story of endurance! |
There are in many families of my congre- |
.ation these invalid chairs. The occupants
# them think they are doing no good i'll
lie world; hut that invalid's chair is the |
mighty pulpit from which they have been |
all these years, trust III Tod. |,
Jnc day on IN island Just of from San /
husky, Ohio, preached, and there WAS a
rcat throng Of people there; but the
hrong did not impress me as much as
THE SPECTACLE OF JtSr ONE FACE,
he face of IN invalid who was wheeled in |
N her chair. said to her afterwards /
Madam, how long have you been pros
rated?" for she was lying flat in the chair. !
oh" she replied, ~ have been this way .
or tltcen years" said "DO you sui- .
er very much?" ooh, yes" she said, Il
ulier very much; ! suffer all the time. /
Part OF the time ! was blind. ! always
suffer" "Well," | said, "Can you keep !
,our courage up" "Oh, yes" she said,
4 am happy: very happy, indeed" Her /
ace showed it. She looked the happiest
II any one Oh the ground. oh, what a
means Of grace to the world these invalid
hairs.
On that field of human suffering the
race of God gets Its victory. Edwaru
hayson. the invalid, and Richard RaXter,
he invalid, and Robert Hall. the invalid, .
md the ten thousand of whom the world |
las never heard, bat of whom all heaven
s COgniZant.
THE MOST CONSPICUOUS THING
IN earth for Gods eye and the eye of an
yels to rest on, is not throne of earthly !
1owcr. hut it is the invalid's chair. oh,
hcsc men and women who are always /
suffering but never complaining-these |
;ic;ims Of spinal disease, and neuralgia tor
.ure, and rheumatic excruciatiOn, will an
;wer to the roll call of the martyrs, and
rise to the martyrs throne, and will wave |
he martyrs palm, But when one Of these
nvalids' chairs becomes vacant, how sug- |,
FESTIVE it is, No more bolstering up Of the I
weary head. No more changing from side |
10 side to get an easy position. No more
use of the bandage, and the cataplasm, and !
he prescription. That invalid's chair /
nay I've folded up or taken apart, or set
AWAY, but it will never lose its queenly |
power; it will always preach of trust in
.iod and cheerful submission. Suffering |
Ill ended now. With respect to that in-
Ill A., ,,.orJ, oF ,,,,y taxt haya haen ful- I