Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-28
BRAVE In SUFFERING.
DR. TALNAGBS TABERNACLE SBkAoN
PREACHED YESTERDAY.
Tbs Triumphs Of the Wsaklings Of This World
How The Great Overcome Misfortune
Work Under DlsadVantagss-Ths
Wanderers Return.

! BROOKLYN, May 2I.-At the
Gle this morning the Rev. 7. Dewitt lai-
mage, D. D., read the account Of the man
helpless at the Beautiful Gate Of the Tenn
ple. He then gave out the hymn begin
ming:
! "a cloud of witnesses around
Hold thee in full survey;
! Forget the steps already trod,
And onward urge thy way"
Tbs subject of the eloquent doctors dis
course was: Disabled Hunters Bring
Down the Most Game" His text was
from Isaiah, ch. 33, v. %. ''The lame
take the prey" Following is the sermon
The utter demolition of. the Assyrian
host was here predicted. Not only robust
men should 90 forth and gather the spoils
of conquest, but even men crippled Of
arm and crippled Of foot should 20 out
and capture much that was valuable.
Their physical disadvantages should not
hinder their great enrichment So it has
been in the past, so it il now, 80 it will be
in the future. So it ia in all departments.
Men labor under seemingly great disad-
yantapes, and amid the most unfayorable
circumstances, yet making grand achieve
ments, getting great blessing for themsel-
yea, great blessing fer the world, great
blessing for the church, and so "the lame
take the prey"
Do you know that the three great poets
of the world were totally blind? Homer,
Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that
Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting
book "The Conquest Of Mexico" never
saw Mexico, could not even see the paper
ON which he was writing? A framework
across the sheet, between which, mp
and down, went tine pen immortal.
Do you know that Gombassio, the sculp-
tor, could not see the marble before him,
or the chisel with which he cut it into
shapes bewitching? Do you know that
Alexander Pope, whose poems will last as
long US the English language, was 80 much
of an invalid that he had to be sewed up
every morning in rough canvas in order to
stand on his feet ats i?
Do YOU know that Stuart, the celebrated
painter, did much of his wonderful work
under the shadow of the dungeon, where
he had been uujustly imprisoned for debt?
Do you know that Demosthenes by almost
superhuman exertion first had to conquer
the lisp of his own speech before he con-
quered assemblsges with his elcquence 7?
Do YOU know that Bacon struggled all
through innumerable sicknesses, and that
Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott went
IIMPING ON CLUBFOOT
through all their life, and that many Of
the great poets and painters and orators
and historians and heroes of the world had
something to keep them back, and pull
them down, and impede their way, and
cripple their physical or their intellectual
movement, and yet that they pushed on
and pushed up until they reached the
spoils of worldly success, and amid the
huzza of nations and centuries, 'the lame
took the prey"
You know that vast multitude of these
men started under the disadvantage of
obscure parentsge. Columbus, the son of
the weaver. Ferguson, the astronomer,
the son of the shepherd. America the prey
of the one; worlds on worlds the prey of
the other. But what is true in secular
directions is more true in spiritual and re-
ligious directions, and proceed to proyeit.
There are in all communities may inva-
lids. They never know a well day. They
adhere to their occupations, but they 60
painting along the streets with exhsustions,
and ut eventime they lie down on the
lounge with achings beyond all medica-
ment. They have tried all prescriptions,
they have gone through all the cures
which were proclaimed infallible, and
they have come now to surrender 70 per-
petual ailments They consider they are
among many disadvantages; and when
see those who are buoysnt in health pass
by, they almost envy their robust frames
and easy respiration.
But have noticed among that invalid
class those who have the greatest knowl-
edge of the Bible, who are in nearest inti-
macy with Jesus Christ, who have the
most glowing experiences of the truth,
who have had the most remarkable answers
to prayer, and who have most exhilarant
anticipations of Heaven. The temptations
which worry Us who are in robust health
THEY HAVE CONQUERED.
They have divided ameng them the spoils
of the conquest. Many who are alert and
athletic and swarthy loiter in the way.
These are the lame that take they prey.
Robert Hall, an invalid, Edward Payson,
an invalid, Richard Baxter, an invalid,
Samuel Rutherford, an invalid. This
morning, when you want to call to mind
those who are most Christlike, you think
Of some darksned room in your fathers
house from which there went forth an in
fiuence potent for eternity.
A step farther Through raised letters
the art of printing has been brought to the
attention of the blind.
You take up the Bible for the blind, and
you cloee your eyes, and you run your
fingers over the raised letters, and you
say: "Why never could get any informa-
ton in this way. What slow, lumbrous
way Of reading God help the blind"
And yet find among that class of per-
sons, among the blind, the deaf and the
dumb, the most thorough acquaintance
with Gods word. Shut out from all other
sources Of information, no sooner does
their hand touch the raised letter than
they gather prayer. Without eyes, they
look off upon the kingdoms Of Gods
love. Without hearing, they catch the
minstrelsy of the skies. Dumb, yet with
pencil, or with irrsdiated countenance,
they declare the glory Of God.
A large audience assembled in New
York at the anniversary Of the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, and one OF the visitors
with chalk on the blackboard wrote this
question to the pupils: "Do you not find
il very hard 10 be deaf and dumb?" And
one of the pupils took the chalk and wrote
on the blackboard this sublime sentence
in answer: when the song of the angels
shall burst upon our enraptured ear, we
will scarce regret that our ears were never
marred with earthly sounds" Oh! the
BRIGHTEST EYES IN HEAVEN
will be those that never saw on earth. The
ears most alert in heaven will he those that
in this world heard neither voice Of friend,
nor thrum Of harp, nor carol Of bird, nor
doxology of congregations
A lad who had been blind from infancy
was cured. The oculist operated upon the
lad and then put very heavy bandags
over the eyes, and after few weeks had
gone by the bandage was removed, and the
mother said to her child: willie, can you
see?n He said: ''Oh! mamma, is this
heaven ?" The contrast between the dark