Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-20

/ the students, and hanullnS the "ouhuSN
leg. and was about to proceed to amputa-
ton. when the poor man leapt from the
table, and hobbled to the door, and SAID;
Gentlemen, am sorry to disappoint you,
but, by the help of God, will die with
nv leg on" What terrific loss Is the
loss of our physical faculties!
The way the battle of Crecy was de-
cided against the French was by the
Welshmen killing the French horses, and
that brought their riders to the ground.
And when you cripple this body, Whlen
is merely the animal on which the s9ni
rides, you nay sometimes defeat Vpe
soul
Yet how many suffer fIom this physl-
cal taking of? Good cheer, my brother
GOD WILL MAKE IT UP
to YOU somehow. The grace, the sympa-
thy of God will be more to you than any
| thing YOU have lost. If God allows part
of YOUR resources to be cut off IN one
place, He will add it on somewhere else.
! As Augustus, the Emperor, took off o day
from February, makingsit the shortest
month in the year, and added 1t to Aug
ust, the month named after himself, so ad-
| vantageS taken from one part OF your ma
| ture will be added on to another.
| But it is amazing how much OF the
worlds work has been done by men OF
subtracted physical organization. ). ).
| Preston, the great orator OF the Southwest,
went limping all his life but there was no
foot put down upon any platform OF his
day that resOunded 50 far rs his club foot
| Beethoven was so deaf that he could not
( hear the crash of the orchestra rendering
| his oratorios. Thomas Carlyle, the
dvspeptic martyr was given the
/ commission to drive cant out OF the
worlds literature. Rev. Thomas
! Stockton, of Philadelphia, with one lung,
raised his audiences nearer heaven than
most ministers can raise them with two
lungs In the banks, the insurance COM
panies, the commercial establishments, the
rctormatOry associations, the churches,
THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS
of men and women to-day dOubled-up OF
rheumatism or subject to neuralglaS, or
with only fragments of limbs, the rest OF
which they LETT ut Chattanooga, or South
/ Mountain, or the Wilderness, and they are
worth more to the world, and more to the
church. and more to God. than those OF us
who have never so much rs had nnger
Joint Stitfened by telOn. Put To tull use
all the faculties that remain, and charge
on all opposing circumstances with the
discrimination OF John OF Bohemia, who
was totally blind, and yet at 4 battle cried
out: Il pray and bcSeech you to lead me
so far into the fight that may strike one
roOd blow with this sword Of mine. do
/ not think 80 much OF what faculties you
/ have lost ~ of of what faculties remain.
| You have enough left TO make yourself
/ felt i'm three worlds while you help the
earth and halk hell, and win heaven.
| Arise from YOUR diScOuragemcntS, q men
and women of depleted or crippled physl-
cal faculties, aud see what, by the special
! help of God. you can accomplish.
LOOK GUDwARp.
The skilled hOrSemen stood around Bu-
cephalus. unable To mount or manage him,
80 wild was the Stccd. But Alexander mo-
ticcd that the sight OF his own shadow
seemed to disturb the horse. SO AleNan-
der clutchcd him by the bride, and turn
ed his head away from the shadow, and to-
wards the sun. and the horses agitation
was gone and Alexander mounted him
and rode of, To the astOnishmcnt OF al
who stood by. And what you people need
is to have your sight turned away from the
shadows of YOUR earthly lot over which
YOU have so long pOndered, and your head
! turned toward the sun-the glorious sun
of Gospel consolation, and Christian hope
and spiritual triumph.
And then remember that all physical
! disadvantages will after awhile vanish.
Let those who have been rheumhtlSmed
out of a foot or c9Itaracted out of m eye, or
bv the perpetual roar OfOur cities thunder
ed on, of an ear, look forward to the day
when this old tenement-hOuSe of flesh will
come down and better one shall
he buildcd. The resurrection
morning will provide You with
A BETTER OUTFIT
Either the unstrung, worn out, bluntod
and crippled organs will be 81 reconstruct
ed that YOU will not know them, or an en-
tire new set OF eyes, and ears, and feet
will DC given YOU. Just what 1t means
by corruption putting on interruption we
do not know, save that 1t Will be glory
inelfablc; no lmping in heaven, no strain
inc of the eyesight to see things little
way oil: no putting Of the hand behind
the ear to double the capacity of the tym-
panum: but faculties perfect, all the keys
of the instrument attuned for the sweep OF
the iingrrS OF ecstasy. But until that day
of resumption comes let Us bear each 9th
er's burdens. and 80 fulfill the law Oi
Christ.
III. Another form Of disadvantage un-
der which many labor is
/ LACK OF EARLY EDUCATION.
There Will he no excuse for ignorance in
the next generation. Free schools and
illimitablc opportunity OF education will
make ignorance crime. ! believe III
compulsory education, and those parents
who neglect TO put their children under
educational advantages have but one right
left, and THAT is the penitentiary. But
there are multitudc~ OF men and women
in mid-hic who have had no opportunity.
Free schools had not yet been established
and vast multitudes had little or no >choo
ut all. They feel it when rs Chris
tian men they come to speak ol
prav in religious assemblies or public
occasional. patriotic or pOiltlc'll, OF euhCi-
tional. They RE silent because they fell
,competant. They owe nothing to English
grammer, or geography, or bel es lettres
They would not know participle from
a pronoun if they met it many TIMES day
Many of the most successful merchants OF
America and men in high political place
cannot write an accurate letter ut any
theme. They are completely dependent
upon clerks, and deputies, and stenopraph
ers TO make things right. knew literary
men who in other years in Washington
made fortunes by writing speeches foi
Congressional Record after they were de
Flivered. The millions ofilliteracy OF thr
country is beyond measurement.
p Now. suppose 4 man finds himself III
mid-life without education,
WHAT Is HE Tu DO9
Do the best he can. The most etfectiy,
ayman in a former pastoral charge that
ever heard speak on religious themes, could
within five minutes OF eNhortatiOn, break
all the laws OF English grammar, and If h'
left any law unfractured he would com
nlete the work of lingual devastation with