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

Yale. or OXlOru, vet never STauudteu III
the school Of Christ. When you get up
to the gate of heaven no one will ask you
whether you can parse the first chapter of
Genesis, but whether you have learned the
fear OF the Lord which is the beginning of
wisdom, nor whether you know how to
square the circle; but whether yOu have
lived square life in a round world.
Mount Zion is higher than Mount Parnas.
Sus.
". But what
OTHER MULTITUDEs THERE ARE
under other disadvantages! Here is n
Christian woman whose husband thinks
religion sham, and while the wife prays
the children one way the husband swears
another. Or here is Christian man who
is trying to do his best for God and the
church, and his wife holds him back and
says on the way home from prayer-meet-
ing, where he gave testimony for Christ:
what fool you made of yourself! |
hope hereafter you will keep still" And
when he would be benevolent and give
fifty dollars, she criticizeS him for not
giving fifty cents. must do justice, and
publicly thank God that / never proposed
at home to give anything for any cause of
humanity or religion but the other partner
in the domestic firm approved it. And
when it seemed beyond my ability, and
faith In God was necessary, she had three
fourths the faith. But | know men who,
when they contribute to charitable objects
are afraid that the wife shall find it out.
What whitening curse such woman
must be to good man!
Then there are Others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought TO
get things cheapest? You say those who
have little means. But they pay more.
You buy coal by the ton, they buy it by
the bucket You buy flour by the barrel,
they buy it by the pound. You get ap-
parel cheap because you pay cash. They
pay dear because they have to get trusted
And the Bible was right whenit said: The
destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Then there are those who madea
MISTAKE IN EARLY LIFE,
and that overshadows all their days. do
not you know that that man was once in
PRISON." is whispered. Or, do yOu know
that that man once attempted suicide?'
Or, "DO you know that that man once
absconded?" Or, "Do you know that that
man was once discharged for dishonesty:
Perheps there was only one wrong deed in
the mans life. and that one act hauntS the
subsequent half-century OF his existence.
Others have unfortunate predOmlnance
of some mental faculty, and their r.lshneSs
throws them into wild enterprises, or their
trepidatiOn makes them decline great OPP
pOrtunity, or there is vein OF melancholy
IN their disposition that defeats them, or
they have an endowment Ofovermirth that
causes the impression of insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle in their
personal appearance, Tor which they are
not responsible. They forget that God
fashioned their features, and their com
plexion, and their stature, the size OF their
nose and mouth, and hands, and feet and
gave them the gait and the general ap-
pearance; and they forget that much of
the worlds best work, and the church :
best work, has been done by homely peo-
pie; and that Paul the ApOS-
tie is said to have been
hump backed, and his eyesight weakened
by opthalmiS, while many Of the finest in
appearance have passed their time before
ilartering lOoking-glaSses, or IN studying
killing attitudes, and in displaying the
richness of wardrObcs-n not one ribbon, or
vest or sack, or glove, or button. or shoe
string of which they have been able to
earn for themselves.
Others had
WRONG PROCLIEITIES
from the start. They were born wrong,
and, that sticks to one even after he Is born
again. They have natural crankincSS
that is twO-hundrcd and Scvcnty-iive years
old. 1t came over wife then Grcat-grand-
fathers from Scotland, or Wales or France.
1t WAS born on the banks of the Thames,
or the Clyde or the Tibcr, or the Rhine,
and has survived all the plaques and cp-
idemicS OF many generations, ami i living
to-day on the banks of the Hudson, or the
AndrOscoggin, or the Savannah, or the Ia
plata. And when man tries to stop this
evil ancestral prOclvity he is like man
on a rock in the rapids of Niagara holding
on with a grip from which the swift cur
rents are trying to sweep HIM into the
abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is
AN OVERWHELMED WORLD,
An Over-worked world 1t is an awtully
tired world. 1t is a dreadfully uufUrtu-
nate world. Scientists are trying 10 tind
out the cause of these earthquakes in all
lands. CiS-AtlantiC and transatlantic.
Some say this and some say that. have
a. l.. L.. l,,1,yn.iC ,,tt chat the matter
with the earth. 1t has so many burdens
OH it and so,many fires within it,lt has iit.
II cannot stand such a circumference and
such a diameter Some new COtOpaNl, or
Strombuli. or NeSuyius will open, and
then all will be at an end for the natural
world. But what about the moral woes OF
the world, that have rocked all nations,
and for six thousand years science propoSy,
nothing but knowledge, and many people
that know the most are the most uncom-
fOrted:
In the way OF practical relief nor all dis
a ivantages and all woes, the only voice
that is worth listening to on this subject Is
the voice of Christianity, which l. the
voice of Almighty God Whether have
mentioned the particular disadvantage un-
der which YOU might labor or not, dis
tinctly declare. in the name Of my God,
that there il a WAY out and a way up for
all of YOU. You cannot hc any worse OF
than that Christian young woman who
was in the PombertOn Mills when they
fell some years ago, and from under the
fallen timbers she was heard singing, II
am going home TO die no more.
Take good
COURAGE FROM THAT BIBLE,
all of whose promises are for those in had
Ipredicament There better days for you,
either on earth or in heaven. put my
hand under your chin and lift yOur face in
TO the light of the coming dawn. Have
God on your side, and then YOU have fol
reserve troops all the armies Of Heaven, the
smallest company of which is twenty thou
sand chariOts, and the smallest battalion
one hundred and forty thousand. the light
nings of heaven their drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an OverpOwering
host come down upon his small company
of armed men, and, mounting his horst
with handful of sand, he threw it in the
air, CRYING: LET their faces be covered
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