Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-29

crate yourself TO the God who made and
redeemed you. and do you promise to serve
him all your days?' and with manly voice
he answers, II do" there is an April
shower in the pew where father and mother
sit. and rainbow of joy which arches both
their souls, that makes all differences of
creed infinitesimal. And the daughter
who had been very worldly, and gay, and
thoughtless, puts her life on the altar of
conservation, and as the sunlight of that
Sabbath streams through the church win
dow and falls upon her brow and cheek,
she looks like their other daughter, whose
face was lumined with the brightness of
another world, on the day when the Lord
took her into His heavenly keeping years
ago.
should not wonder if, after all, these
parents pass
THE EVENING OF THEIR LIFE
In the same church, all differences of church
preference overcome by the joy of being in
the house of God, where their children
were prepared for usefulness and heaven.
But | can give you recipe for running
your children. Angrily contend in the
household that your church is right and
the church OF your companion Is wrong.
Bring sneer and caricature to emphasize
your opinions, and your children will make
up their minds that religion is a sham, and
| they will have none of it. In the
northeast storm of domestic controversy,
the rose of Sharon and the lily of the
valley will not grow. Fight about
apostolic succession, fight about election
and free agency, fight about baptism, fight
about the bishopric, fight about gown and
surplice, and the religious prospects of
your children will he left dead on the
field. You will be rs unfortunate rs
Charles. Duke Of Burgundy, who in battle
| lost 4 diauond the value OF a nation, for in
your fight you will lose the jewel of saliva
tion for your entire household. This is
nothing against the advocacy of your own
religious theories. Use all forcibe argu-
ment, bring all telling illustration, array
all demonstrative facts, but let there be no
acerbity, no stinging retort, no mean in
sinuatiOn, no superciliOuSneSS, rs though
all Others We're wrong and you intallibly
right
Take
| HINT FROM ASTRONOMY.
The Ptlomaic system made the earth the
center of the solar system, and everything
was thought to turn around the earth.
But the Copernican system came, and
made the sun the center around which the
| planets revOlved. The bigOt makes his lit
tie belief the center of everything, hut the
| large-Soulcd Christian makes the sun of
| Rt,rbtnnnsn.,,s tIn anl oil l,n,t,i-
nations, without any claShng, and each at
its own light and in its own sphere, re-
yolving around il. Over the tomb of Dean
Stanley in Westminster Abbey, is the pas
sage of Scripture: Thy commandments
are exceeding broad" Let no man crowd
us on to path like the bridge Al Sirat,
which the MOhammcdan thinks leads from
this world over the abyss OF hell into Par
adise, the breadth of the bridge less than
the web of starved spider or the edge of
a sword or razor, off the edges of which
many fall No; while the way is not wide
enough to take with us any of our sins, it
is wide enough for all Christian believers
to pass without peril into everlasting
safety.
But do not any of you depend upon
what you call sound creed for saliva
ton. 4 man may own all the
Statutes of the State of New York, and yet
not he Il lawyer, and Il man may own all
| the best medical treatiSes and not he a
! physician; and 4 man may own all the
! best works on painting and architecture,
and not he either painter or architect. ana
man may own all the sound crceds in
] thu ,r,rll nVl hp Christian
Not what you have in your lhcad and
on your tongue, but in your heart and in
your life, will decide everything.
In olden times in England, before the
modern street lamps were invented, every
householder was expected Ia have n Ian
tern suspended in front Of his house, and
the cry of the watclnncn in London aS
they went along at evcntidc was: Hang
out your lights" Instead of disputing in
your home about the different kinds OF
lantern, as Il watchman on the walls of
Zion cry: LET your light 81 shine be-
| foe men that they, seeing your good
works, may glOrity your Father which is
in Heaven" Hang out your lights, Gou
may have Il thousand ideas about religion,
and yet not the great idea of pardoning
v.
| but the greatness of them. 4 mouse hath
ten offspring in her nest, while the lioncSs
hath one in her lair All ideas about
forms. and ceremonies, and church gov
crnment put together, are not worth the
one idea of getting to Heaven yourself and
taking your family with you.
But do not reject Christianity, as many
do because there are so
MANY SECTS.
Standing in Westminster Hotel, London,
looked out of the window and saw three
clocks, rs near rs | could remember, one
on the Parliament House another on
St Margaret's Chapel, another on West
minister Abbey, and they were all different
One said twelve o'clock at noon, another
said five minutes before twelve another
said five minutes after twelve.
| might rs well have concluded
that there is no such thing
rs time. because the three timepiccCs were