Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-10
bead" Therefore the world goes cunning
Tor you with its best Maynard brsech-

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The world paid nothing to its xedeeme,
but bramble and Q cross. Many wht
have done their best to make the world
DETER have had such o rough time of !,
that all their pleasure 10 In anticipation o
the next world, and they would, could ex.
pres their own feelings in the words ol
the Baroness Of Nxirn ct the close Of he.
long life:
Would you be young asaini
One tear Of memory given;
Onward I'll HE;
LIES dark wave forded DER,
All but at rest on shore,
say, would you plunge once mors 40
With home so high
"If you might L-.lormy wilds.
Re,racaI astray7
WsRs gloomy watches fed,
Morning ah oeaming red,
Hopes smile around US shed,
Heayenward, AWAY
Yes; for some people in this world there
seems no let up. They are pursued from
youth to manhood, and from manhood into
old age. Very distinguished are Lord
Stafford's hounds, and Earl of Yarborough's
hounds, and the Duke Of Rutland's hounds,
and Queen Victoria pays eight thousand
five hundred dollars per year to her Master
of Buckhounds. But all of them put to-
gether do not equal in number, or speed,
or power to hunt down, the great kennel
of hounds of which Sin and Trouble are
owner and master.
RELIEF IN GOD.
But what is relief for all those pur-
suits of trouble, and annoyance, and pain,
and bereavement? My text gives Il TO you
in Q word of three letters, but each letter
is q chariot If you would triumph, or .
throne II You want to be crowned, or .
lake If you would slske your thirst-yes,
q chain of three letter-G-o-d, the One for
whom David longed, and the Ons whom
Davit found. You might ss we'll
meet o stag which, after its sixth
mile Of running ut the top
most speed through thicket and
gorge, and with the breath of the dogs on
its heels, has come in full sight of Scroon
Lake and tried to cool It's projecting and
blistered tongue with drop Of dew from
blade of grass, as TO attempt to satisfy an
immortal soul, when flying from trouble
and sin, with anything less deep, and
high, and broad, and immense, and inf.
mite, and eternal than God. His comfort,
why it embosoms all distress. His arm,
it wrenches off all bondage. His hand, il
wipes away all tears. His Christly atone
ment, II makes us sll right with the past,
and all right with the future, and all right
with God, aud ell right with man. and all
right forever. Lsmartine tells MS that
King Nimrod said TO his three sons: Here
are three vases, and one is Of clay, another
of amber, and another of gold. Choose now
which you will have" The eldest son,
having the first choice, chose the vase Of
gold, on which was written the word "Em.
pire," and when opened was found to con.
tain human blood. The second son, max.
ing the next choice, chose the vase Of am.
Der, inscribed with the word "Glcry,"
and when opened IL contained the ashes o
those who were once called great. The
third son took the vase Of clay, and open
ing 1t, found it empty, but on the bottom
Of it was inscribed the name of God. Kinl
Nimrod asked his courtieB which vas.
they thought weighed the most. The av
sricious men Of his court said the vase o
gold. The puets said the one of amber
But the wisest men said the empty vase
because one letter Of
THE NAME OF GOD
outweighed universe.
For Him thirst; for His grace I beg
on His promise l build my all. Without
Him cannot be happy. have tried the
world, and 1t does well enough ss far
il goes, bat IL is too uncertain
a world, too evanescent o world. / sm
not prejudiced witness. have nothing
against this world. l have been one Of
the most fortunate, or, to use . more
Christian word, one Of the most blessed o
men-blessed in my parents, blessed in
the place Of my nativity, blessed In my
health, blessed in my field of work, bles.
sed in my natural temperament, blessed In
my family, blessed in my opportunities,
blessed in O comfortable livelihood, blss.
sed in the hope that my soul will 20 "a
Heaven through the pardoning mercy oi
God, and my body, unless II be lost at ses
or crensted In some confagration, will lie
down in the garden of Greenwood among
my kindred and friends, some already
gone and others TO come after me. Life to
many has been Q disappointment, but "a
me it has been o pleasant surprise, and
yet declare that i'll did not feel that
God was now my friend and ever present
help, should be wretched and terror.
struck. But I want more Of Him. have
thought over this text and preached thi,
sermon to myself until with all the aroused
energies of my body, mind and soul, car
cry ont: "As the heart panteth after the
water brooks. 80 panteth my soul sftel
Thee, o, Ood"
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST
make this God your God and you car
Withstand anything and everything
and that which affrighs other
will inspire you. As in time o.
earthquake when an old Christian
woman was aaked whether she was scared
answered: "No, am glad that have {
God who can shake the world" or % In 6
financial panic, when Christian merchan,
was asked II he did not fear be would
break, answered, "Yes, shall break wher
the fftieth Psalm breaks in the fftietl
verse: Call upon me In the day o
trouble; will deliver tbee sut
thou shalt glorify me-" O Christian
men and women, pursued Of an
noyancss and exssperstions, remembel
thSt this hunt, whether . still hunt or
hunt in full c1y, will soon b over
l have seen dogs, sod ownei
dogs, that I would not be chagrined 10 90
in the heavenly city. Some Of the
GRAND OLD wA1cH-Doas
who are the constsbulary Of the homes n
solitary places, and for yeas have besu
the only protection Of wife and child
some Of the shepherd dogs that drive bach
the wolves and bark sway the focls from
going too near the precipice; and some O
the dogs whose neck and paw, Landseer
the painter, has made immortal, would no
find me shutting them ont from the gat,
Of shining pearl. Some Of those old 81
Bernard dogs that have lifted psrishins
travellers out Of the Alpine snow; the do,
that John Brown, the Scotch esayist, ssv
ready 10 spring st the surgeon Lest, In 70
moving The. cancer, he TOO much hur
the poor woman whom the do5
felt bound TO protect, and dog
that We cArressed in our childbood
days, or that In lssr time Laid down o.
the rug in seeming ,ympashy WHEN on
homes were desolsts. fsy, Il soms soo
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