Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-13

a position little higher than that which
God intended them. The, bondswoman
wants to be mistress. Hagar keeps crowd
ing Sarah. The small wheel of watch
which beautifully went treading its golden
pathway, wants to be the balanee-wheel,
and the sparrow with chagrin drops into
the brook because it cannot, like the eagle,
cut a circle under the sun.
IN THE LORDS ARMY
We all want 10 be brigadier-generals! The
sloOp says: more mast, more tonnage,
more canvas. oh that | were a topsail
schooner or 4 full-rigged brig, or Cunard
steamer And so the world is full of
cries of discomfort, because we are not
willing to stay in the place where God put
us and intended us to be- My friends, be
not too proud to do anything God tellsyOu
to do. For the lack of the right dispOsi-
ton in this respect tho world is strewn
with wandering Hagars and Ishmaels.
God has given each one OF usa work to
do, lOu carry scuttle of coal up that
dark alley. You distribute that Chris
| tian tract. You give ten thousand dollars
| to the missionary c9uSe.- You for fifteen
years sit with chronic rheumatism, dis
! playing the beauty of Christian submis-
sion. Whatever God calls you TO, whether
it win Kissing or huzza; whether to walk
under triumphal arch or lift the sot out OF
the ditch; whether it be to preach on a
/ PentecOSt OF tell some wanderer OF the
street of the mercy of the Christ, or OF
/ Mary Magdalene; whether it be to weave a
garland for laughing child on 4 spring
/ morning and call her May Queen, or TO
/ comb out the tangled locks of waif of the
street and cut up one of your old dresses
/ tO lit her out for the sanctuary-do 1T, and
! DO it right away. Whether it be 4 crown
( or woke. do not fdget Everlasting honOrS
upon those who do their work, and do their
whole work, and are contented in the
sphere in which God has put them; while
there is wandering, and exile, and desOla-
/ ton. and wilderness for discontented
1 Hagar and IShmael.
| III. Again, | find in this Oriental scene
| \ Lesson OF SYMPATHY WITH WOMAN
when she goes forth trudging in the desert.
! What a great change it was for this Hagar.
/ There was the tent, and all the surround
ings of Abraham'S house, beautiful and
! luxurious, no doubt Now she is going
ont into the hot sands OF the desert. on,
what a change it was! And i'll our day
we often see the wheel of fortune turn.
/ Here is some one who lived in the very
bright home other father She had every
/ thing possible to administer to her happi-
ness plenty ut the table, music in the
| drawing-roOm, welcome ut the door. She
| is led forth into life by some one who can
not appreciate her A dissipatcd soul
comes and takes her out i'll the desert
/ Cruelties blot out all the lights of that
| home circle. Harsh words wear out her
spirits. The high hope that shOne out over
! the marriage altar while the ring was being
set, and the VOWS given, and the benedlc-
/ tion pronounced, have all faded with the
orange blossoms. aud there sire is to-day
broken hearted, thinking of past Joys and
( present deSOlasiOn, and coming anguish.
Hagar in the wilderness!
licre is a beautiful home. You
can not think of anything that
can De added 10 il. For years there
/ has not been the suggestion OF single
trouble Bright and happy children fill
/ the house with laughter and song. Books
/ TO read. Pictures to look ut. Lounges to
rest on. Cup OF domestic JOY full and run
ningo,er. Dark night drops. Pillow hot.
/ Pulses futter. Eyes close. And the foot
whose well known steps on the dOor-Sill
/ brought the whole hOushold out at even
1 tide crying: "Father's coming will never
sound on the doorsill again. A long, deep
/ grief ploughed through all that bright
ness of domestic life Paradise lost
WidowhOOd.
HAGARIN IN THE WILDERNESS,
/ How often is it we see the weak arm ot
a woman rOnscripted for this battle with
! the rough world. Who is she, going
down the street in the early light of the
morning. pale with exhausting work, not
/ half slept out with the slumberS Of last
night, tragedies OF suffering written all
/ over her face. her luStrcleSS eyes looking
! fur ahead, ~ though for the coming Of
some other trouble: Her parents called
/ her Mary, or Bertha, or Agnes, Oh the day
T when they held her up to the font and
/ the Christian minister sprinklcd on the in
| Glnt's face the waShingS ola Holy Baptism.
/ Her name is changed now. hear it in
( the shuttle of the wornOut shoes. see II
Z in the figure of the faded calico. | find it
/ i'm the lineamentS of the woc-begone cOun-
/ tcnancc. Not Mary, nor Bertha, nor
/ Agnes, but Hagar in the wilderness. May
God have mercy upon woman in her tolls,
her struggles, her hardShipS, her desOla-
tiOns, aud may the great heart of divine
| sympathy inclOse her forever,
! III. Again. / find in this Oriental scene
! the fact that every mother leads forth
TREMENDOUS DESTINIES.
You say. That isn't an unusual scene, 4
mother leading her child by the hand
Who is it that she is leading? Ishmael,
| YOU SAY. Who is Ishmael? 4 great
nation is to he founded; nation
80 strong that it is to stand for thousands
of years against all the armies of the
/ world. Egypt and Assyria thunder against
/ it, but in vain. Gaulus brings up his
army, and his army is Smitten. Alexan-
der decides upon Il campaign, brings up his
/ hosts, and dies. For long while that ma
ton monOpOlizeS the learning of the
world. Ii is the nation OF the Arabs.
| Who founded it? Ishmael, the lad that
/ Hagar led into the wilderness. She had
no idea she was leading forth such destin-
/ les. Neither does any mother. You pass
along the street and see pass boys and girls
/ who will yet make the earth quake with
/ their influence. Who is that boy at Suit
ton Pool, Plymouth, England, bare-iooted,
wading down into the slush and slime, I'M
/ til his bare foot comes upon a piece Of glass
and he lifts it, bleeding and pain-struck?
THAT WOUND IS THE FOOT
/ decides that he he sedentary in his life, de-
cdes that he be student. That wound
| by the glass in the foot decides that he
shall be John Kitto, who shall provide the
best religious encyclopaedia the world has
ever provided, and with his other writings
as wel, throwing light upon the Word of
God spch as has come from no other man
/ in this century. q mother, mother, that
\ little hand that wanderS over your face
may vet be lifted to hurl thunderbOlts OF
war or drop benedictionS That little
voice may blaSpheme God in the grog-shop
or cry Coward TO the Lords hosts as
they 90 out for their last victory.
Ny mind this morning leaps thirty years
ahead, and see merchant prince of New
York. One stroke of his pen brings ship
out at Canton. Another stroke of his pen
brings ship into Madras. He is mighty
/ in all the mnneI markets of the world.