Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-20
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YOU never made a greater mistake than
when you said: "All these things are
against me.
A great multitude Of people are under
seeming disadvantages, and | will to-day,
in the swarthieSt AnglO-Saxon that l can
manage, treat their cases; not as a nurse
counts out eight or ten drops 0f preScrlp-
tion, and stirs them in hall glass Oi
water; but as when u man has by mistake
taken n large amount OF Strychmne, or
Paris green, or belladOnna, and the patient
is walked rapidly round the room, and
shaken up. and pounded until he gets
wide awake. Many of you have taken a
large draught of the poison OF discourage
ment, and come out by the order OF the
Divine Physician To rouse you out OF the
lethargy.
|. First, many people are under the dis
advantage of
AN UNFORTUNATE NAME
given them by parents who thought they
we're doing a good thing. Sometimes AT
the baptism OF children, while / have held
up one hand in prayer have held mp the
other hand in amaZement that parents
should have weighted the babe with such
a disSonant and repulsivc nomenclature
have not 80 much wondered that some
children should cry out ut the christening
font as that others with such smiling faces
should takes a title that would be the bur
den of their lifetime 1t is outrageous 10
atllict children with an undesirable name
because it happened 10 he possessed ny a
parent or rich uncle from whom laNotH
are expected, or some prominent man oi
the day who may end his life in disgrace
Ii is no excuse. because they are Scripture
names, to call child JOhOiaklm or IlSlath-
Pileser. At this very altar, | baptized one
bv the name Bathsheba. Why under all
the circumambient heaven, any parent
should want to give to child the name OF
that loose and infamous creature OF Scrip
ture times cannot imagine. ] have often
felt at the baptismal altar, when names
were announced to me, like saying, rs dld
Rev. Dr. Richards of NOrriStown, y. j.,
when child was handed him Tor Sprlnk-
ling. and the name given:
"Hadn't YOU better call it something
else?"
Impose not upon that babe name Sug-
gestive Of ilippancy or meanneSS.
THERE Is No EMU SE
for such assault and battery on the cradle
when our language is opulent with names
musical in sound and suggestive in mean
ing. such ~ John, meaning "thc gracious
Gift of Cod" or Henry, meaning the
chief household" or Alfred, meaning
GOOD COUNSELLOR or Joshua, meaning
victory of the people, or Ambrose,
meaning s'immortal:" or Andrew, meaning
manly: or Esther, meaning II star" or
Abigail. meaning my fathers JOY, orAn-
M. meaning, grace or Victoria meaning
victory" or ROSalie, meaning beautiful
rs a rose" or Margaret, meaning a pearl;
or Ida. meaning ''godlike;" or Clara,
meaning ''illuStriOuS;' or Amelia, mean
ing busy" or Bertha, meaning "beanh-
full" and hundreds Of other names Just as
GOOD, that are u help rather than hin-
drance. But sometimes the great nm
drlnce in life is not in the given name,
but in
THE FAMILY NAME.
While legislatures are willing to htt such
incubus, there are families which keep
name which mortgages all the generations
with great disadvantage. You say: Il
wonder If he is any relation to 50 and 80,
mentioning some family celebrated Tor
crime OF deception. 1t is wonder to me
that in all such families some spirited
Young man does not rise, saying 10 MS
/ brothers and sisters: IF You want to
keep this nuisance OF standardization ol
/ "A name, | will keep II no longer than
until by quickest course of law
can clouch of this gangrene.' When the
/ General Assembly OF the Presbyterian
! Church of the United States met IN this
/ building in lS16. two eStImablc men OF the
sweetest disposition stopped at the same
. bouSe. and one had the miSnomer OF being
/ Mr.. Sour. and the other Mr.. Pickle. And
( vour city directory has hundreds of names
4 tbc mere pronunciation ofwhich has been
. a lifelong obstacle. Ii yOu have started
I lif,. undcr a name which either through
ridiculous O.thOSranhy OF vicious suggeS-
tion has been an circumference, resolve
that the next generation shall not be 50
weighed.
/ NOT MEAN To CHANGE \ NAME.
/ S,ul of Trsaus became Paul the
Apastle. HadaSSah. the myrtle, y became
/ Ester the star. We have IN America
and ! suppose it is 30 IN all countries
names which ought Ia be abolished, and
can BE-, and will be abolished, for
the reason that they are libel
and Islander. But if for any reason you
are submerged either by given name or
nv family name that YOU must bear
/ God will help YOU 10 overcome the outrage
by life consecrated TO the good and use
hil You may erase the curse from the
name. You may somewhat change the
sirnrficance If once il stood for mean
ness. You can make it stand for generosity
If once it stood for pride, You can make 1t
stand for humility, If il once stood for
fraud YOU can make it stand for honesty.
If once it stood for wickednesS, for can
make it stand for purity. There have been
multitudes of instances where men and
women have maSuifeently conquered the
disasters of the name inflicted upon them.
Ii. Again: Many people labor under
the misfortune OF
! INCOMPLETE PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT,
We are bY our Creator 50 economically
hnilt that we cannot afford the obliteratlon
of any physical faculty. We want our two
eyes our two ears, our two hands, our two
feet, our eight fingers, and two thumbs.
| Yet what multitudeS Of people have but
one eve, or but one foot. The ordinary
casualties Of life have been quadrupled,
ouintupled sextupled, aye eentupled, IN
our time by theeiEil war, and at the North
and South a great multitude that no man
can number are fighting the battle of he
with half and less than half, the needed
physical armaments. do not wonder at
the pathOs of soldier during the war, who
when told that he must have his hand am
putated, said: Doctor, can't You save It:
and when told that If was impossible, said,
with tears rolling down hiseheeks: Well,
then, goodbye old hand; / bate to part
I with yop- You have done me . good serT-
ice tor many Ysars, butit seeus yon must
90. GoodrhyelE / ~ 81 g
A celebrated surgeon told me of 4 scene
in the clinical department OF. one of the