Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-28
WHEELING W. VA MONDAY MORNING, MAY %. 1888

and kissed her blind eyes, ard, the legerd
says, her vision came Immediately. That
was only a legend, but it is truth, q
glorious truth, that kiss Of Gods eternal
love has brought to many blind eye
eternal illumination.
A step further: There are those ip all
communities who toll nightly for live
lihood. They have scant wages. Per
haps they are diseased, or have
PHYSICAL INFIRMITIRs,
so they are hindered from doing con-
tinuous days work. A city missionary
finds them up the dark alley, with no fire,
with thin clothing, with very coarse bread
They never ride in The street cars; they
cannot afford the five cents. They never
see any pictures save those in the show
window on the street, from which they
are often jostled, and looked ut by some
one who seem TO say in the look: "Moye
on! what are you doing here looking at
picturee?"
Yet many of them live on mountains Of
TRANSPORTATION. At their rough table He
who fed the FIVE thousand breaks the
bread. They talk often Of the good times
that are coming. This world has no charm
for them, but Heaven entranced their
spirit. They often divide their scsnt crust
with some forlorn wretch who knocks al
their door at night, and on the blast of the
night wind, as the door is opened 10 lei
them in, is heard tho voice of Hia who
said: II was hungry and ye fed me-" No
cohort of Heaven will be too bright to
transport them. By Gods help they have
vapquished the Assyrisn host. They have
divided among them the spoils. Lame,
lame, yet they took the prey.
l was riding along the country road one
day, and l saw man on crutches. lover
took him. He was very old. He was
going very slowly. At that rate, it would
have taken him two hours TO 60 mile.
said: Wouldn't you like to rider" He
said; "Thank you. would. God bless
you" When he sat beside me, he said
lyon see, / am very lame and very old,
but the Lord has been good Lord to me,
have buried all my children. The Lord
gave them, and the Lord has right To
take them away. Blessed be His name.
was very sick, and ] had no money, and
my neighbors came in and took care Of me,
aud / wanted nothing. suffer q great
deal with pain, but then have 30
MANY MERCIEs LEFT.
The Lord has been a good Lord to me-. ;"
And before We had got far was in doubt
whether was eiving him q ride or he waS
giving me ride He said: "Now, if you
please, I'll get out here. Just help me
down on my crutches, if You please. God
bless you. Thank you sir. Good morn
ing. You have been feet to the lame, sir,
you have. Good morning" Swsrthy
men had gone the read that day. / do moi
know where they came out, but every
hobble of that old man was toward the
shining gate. With his old crutch he had
struck down many Sennacherib of tenn
tation which has mastered you and me
Lame, so fearfully lame, so awfully lame
but he took the prey.
A step further: There are in all com
munities many orphans. During our las,
war and in the years Immediately follow
ing, how many children we heard say
"Oh! my father was killed in the war. ,
Have you ever nOticed-I fear you have
not-how we'll those children have turned
out? Starting under the greatest disad
vantage, no orphan asylum could dt
for them what their father would havt
done had he lived. The skirmisher 81
one night, by the light of fagots, in III,
swamp, writing letter homo, when {
sbarpshooter's bullet ended the lette
which was never folded, never posted, ant
never read.
Those children came up under great dis
advantage. No father TO fight their WAY
for them. Perhaps there was in the ole
family Bible an old yellow letter pasted
fast, which told the story Of the father
long march, and how he suffered in tn,
hospital; but they looked still further or
in the Bible, and they came to the story o
how God is the father of the fatherless, anC
the widows portion, and they soon tool
their fathers place in that household
They
BATTLED THE WAY
for their mother. They came on up, ant
many OF them have in the years since thu
war, taken positions in Church and State
While many of those who suffered nothing
during those times have had sons 90 on
into lives of Incidence and vagabondage
these who started under 80 many disad
vautages because they were SO early be
reit, these are the lame who took the prey
A step further: There are those wht
would like to do good. They say: "0h! il
only had wealth, or, if l had eloquence
or if ] had high social position, how much
l would accomplish for God and thu
church, ! stand here to tell You thai
you have great opportunities for useful
ness.
Who built the Pyramids? The kiDl
who ordered them built? No; the plain
workmen who added stone after stone and
stone after stone. Who built the dikes o.
HollandP The government that ordered
the enterprise No; the plain workmer
who carried the earth and rung their trowel
on the wall.
Who are those who have built these vast
cities? The capitalists ? No; the car
penters, the masons, the plumbers, the
plasterers, the timers, the roofers, deper'
dent on q days wages for q livelihood
And so in the great work of assnagiDg hu
man suffering and enlighteDing human
ignorance and balting human iniquity. In
that great work, the chief part is to be
done by ordinary men, and by ordinary
means. The trouble is that in the army OF
Christ we all want to bs captains and col.
onels and brigsdier-generals. We are not
willing to march with the rank and file and
to do duty with the private soldier. We
want to belong to the reserve corps, and
read sbout the battle while warming our.
selves at the capp-fres, or on furlough a,
home, our feet upon an ottoman, we sag.
gipg back into an armchair.
As you 90 down the street, you see an
excavation and four or five men are work
ing, and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning
on the rail looking over at them. This
is the way it is in the church Of God
to-day; where You find
ONE CHRISTIAN HARD AT WORK,
there are fifty men watching the job.
Oh! my friends, why do you not 70 to
work and preach this GospelH You say
al have no pulpit" You have. II may
be the carpenters bench, il may be the
mason's wall. The robe in which you are
to proclaim this Gospel may be q shoe
makers apron. But woe unto you if you
preach not this Gospel somewhere, some
how! If this word is ever brought to
Christ, ii will be through the unanimous
and long continued efforts Of men who.
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