Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-30
THAT WAS 4 CHEAP FIRE.

considering all the circumstances; but it
kindled Il light which ShOne all around the
world, and around the martyr spirit and
out from that burning of Latimcr and Rid
ley rolled the circle, wider and wider,
starting other circles, cOnvOluting, over
running, circumsCribing, Uvcrarching all
heavcn-a circle.
But what is true of the good is just rs
true of the bad. You utter Il Islander
against your ncighhOr. 1t has gone forth
from your teeth. II will never come back,
you think. You have done the man all
the mischief you can. You rejoice To see
him vince You say: Didn't give it
to him." That word has gone out, that
slanderous word, on its poisonous and
blasted way You think it will never do
you any harm. But am watching that
word, and see it beginning to curve, and
it curves around, and it is aiming at your
heart. You had better dodge it. You
cannot dodge it. 1t rolls into your bosom,
and after it rolls in word of an old book
which SAYS: "With what measure We
mete. il shall be measured To you again.
You maltrcat an aged parent You be-
grudge him the room in your house. You
are impatient OF his whimsicalties and
garruity. 1t makes YOU mad TO hear him
tell the same story twice. You give him
food he cannot masticate. You wish he
was away. You wonder If he is going To
live forever. lie will be gone very soon.
His steps are shorter and shorter. He is
going to stop. But God has
AN ACCOUNT TO SETTLE WITH YOU'
on that subject. After a while your eye
will be dim and your gait will halt. and
the sound of the grinding will he low, and
YOU will tell the same story twice, and
Your children will wonder if yOu are going
to live forever, and wonder if you will
never be taken away. They called you
father once; now they call You 'the old
man" Ifyou live a few years longer
they will call YOU the old chap What
are those rough words with which your
children are accoSting you? They are the
echo OF the very words you used in the car
of your father ibrtY years ago What is
that which you are trying to chew but find
1t unmasticable, and your jaws echo as
you surrender the attempt. Perhaps it
may 10 the gristle which you gave to
your father for his breakfast forty years
ago. \ gentleman passing along the street
saw son dragging his father into the street
by the hair uf the head. The gentleman,
outraged at this brutal conduct, was about
to punish the offender when the old man
arO-e and said: Don't hurt him; it's all
right; forty years ago this morning drag
ged ont my father by the hair Of his head. y
1t is a circle Ny father lived into the
eighties, and he had very wide expert
ence, and he said that maltreatment Of
Iapnts was always punished in this world.
Other sins may be adjourned to the next
world, but maltreatmcnt OF parents is pun
shed in this world.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly.
oh, what stupendOus thought that the
good and the evil We start come back 10
us DO you know that the Judgment Day
will be only the points at which the circles
Join. the good and the bad We have done
coming hack to us, unless Divine inter
vcntiOn hinder-coming hack 10 us, wei
come of delight or curse of condemnation?
oh, would like 10 see Paul,
THE INVALID MISSIONARY,
at the moment when his influence comes 10
full orb-his influence rolling out through
Antioch. through Cyprus, through Lystra,
through Corinth, through Athens, through
Asia, through Europe, through America.
through the first century, through a.o cen
turies. through twenty centuries, through
all tie succeeding centuries, through earth,
through heaven, and, at last, the wave Of
influence, having made full circuit, strikes
his great soul, Oh, then ! would like 10
STE himl go one can tell the wide sweep
of the circle of his influence, save the One
who is seated on the circle of the earth. i
should not want to see the cOuDtenance Of
Voltaire when his influence comes
to full orb. When the fatal
hemorrhage seized him at % yeaTs "a Ags
his influence did not ceass, 4I,e most bril-.
liant man o. ~. echtuTy, he had used all
his facnftles for assaulting Christianity; his
bad influence widening through France
widening out through GeTm-as, WidenAifnsg,
through a!l IaroPe, widening through
AmesKa, widening through the lQl years
that have gone by since he died, widening
through earth, widening through hell: nm
| Ill at last the accumulated influence of his
bad life in fiery surge Of omnipotent wrath
will beat against his destroyed spirit, and
at that moment !. win be enough TO G.ake
the black hair Of eternal daFklsua
TUaE WHITE WITH THE HORROR
NO one can tell how that bad mans infiu-
ehce girdled the earth save the One who IS