Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-30

ness before they are asked for. No bitter
words when the family Bible goes for rum,
and the pawnbroker's shop gets the last
decent dress Some day, desiring to evoke
the story Of her SORROWS, You say: "Well,
how are you getting along now?" and raj.
lying her trembling voice, and qnietiDg
her quivering lip, she says: pretty we'll,
thank you, pretty we'll" She never
will tell You. In the delirium of her last
sickness she may tell all the secrets Of her
lifetime, but she will not tell that. Not
until the books Of eternity are opened on the
throne Of judgment will it ever be known
what she has suffered. Oh ye who are
twisting garland for the victor, put it on
that pale brow. When che is dead the
neighbars will beg linen to make her .
shroud, and she will be carried out in 0
plain box with no silver plate to tell her
years, for she has lived thousand
YEARS OF TRIAL AND ANGUISH.
The gamblers and swindlers who destroy
ed her husband will not come to the fun
eral. One carriage will be enough for that
funeral-one carriage to carry the orphans
and the two Christian women who presid-
ed over the obsequies. But there is a
flash, and the opening Of celestial door,
and shout: Lift mp your head, ye ever
lasting gate, and let her come imp And
Christ will step fourth and say: Come
in! ye suffered with me on earth, be glor-
flied with me in heaven" What is the
highest throne in heaven? You say: ''The
throne of the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb" No doubt about it. What is the
next highest throne in heavenP While
speak it seems to me that it will be the
throne of the drunkard's wife, if she with
cheerful patience endured all her earthly
torture. Heroes and heroines
/ find also in this roll the heroes of Chris
tian charity. We all admire the George
Peabodys and the James Lenoxes of the
earth, who give tens and hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to good objects.
But am speaking this morning of those
who, out Of their pinched poverty, help
others-of such men as those Christian mis-
sionaries at the West, who are living on
$3.50 year that they may proclaim Christ
to the people, one of them, writing to the
secretary in New York, saying: ~ thank
you for that sos. Until yesterday we have
had no meat in our house for three months.
We have suffered terribly. My children
have no shoes this winter" Aud of those
people who have only half loaf of bread,
but give o piece of it to others who are
hungrier; and of those who have only
scuttle of coal, but help others to fuel;
and of those who have only dollar in
their pocket, and give twenty-five cents to
somebody else; and of that father who
WEARS A SHABBY COAT,
and of that mother who wears q faded
drees, that their children may be we'll ap-
parrelled. You call them paupers, or rag
amuffins, or emigrants. call them he
roes and heroines. You and may not
know where they live, or what their name
ia. God knows, and they have more
angels lowering over them than you and |
have, and will have q higher seat in
heaven.
They may have only cup Of cold water
to give poor traveller, or may have only
picked O splinter from under the nail Of a
child's finger, or have put only two mites
into the treasury, but the Lord knows
them. Considering what they had, they
did more than we have ever done, and their
faded dress will become white robe, and
the small room will be an eternal mansion,
and the old hat will be q coronet Of
victory, and all the applause of earth
aud all the shouting of heaven will be
drowned out when God rises up to give His
reward to those humble workers in His
kingdom, and 10 say to them: well done,
good and faithful servant" You have all
seen or heard OF the ruin of Melrose Abbey.
| suppose in some respects il is the most
exquisite ruin on earth. And yet, looking
at 1t, was not so impressed-you may set
| it down to bad taste = rs / was at tomb
stone at the foot of that sbbey-the tomb
stone placed by Walter Scott over the grave
of an old man who had served him for q
good many years in his house-tbe inscrip.
tion most significant, and l defy any man
to stand there and read it without tears
coming into his eyes-the epitapb: well
done, good and faithful servant" Oh! when
our work ia over, will it be found that be-
cause OF anything we have done for God, or
the church, or
| SUFFERING HUMANITY,
that such an inscription is appropriate for
us? God grant it.
Who were those who were bravest and
deserved the greatest monument-Lord
Claverhouse and bis burly soldiers, or John
Brown, the Edenburg carrier, and his
wife? Mr.. Atkins, the prosecuted minis
ter of Jesus Christ in Scotland, was &C.
creted by John Brown aud his wife, and
Claverhouse rode up one day with his
armed men and shouted out in front Of the
house. John Browns little girl came out
He said to her: "Well, miss, is Mr.. Atkins
hereP" She made no answer, for she
could not betray the minister of the gos-
pel. "Ha ~ Clavenhouse said, then you
are a chip of the old block, sre you? !
have something in my pocket for you. II
is nosegay. Some people call it thumb
screw, but call il a noeegay." And he
got off his horse, and he put IL on the little
girls hand, and began to turn il until the
bones cracked, and she cried. He said !:
"Don't cry, don't cry /; this isn't a thumb
screw this is nosegsy." And they heard
the child's cry, and the father and mother
came out, and Claverhouse said: "Hs! 1t
seems that you three have laid your holy
heads together determined to die like all
the rest of your hypocritical, cantiDg,
sniyelling crew; rather than give mp good
Mr.. Atkins, pious Mr.. Atkins, you would
did have telescope with me that will
improve your vision" and he pulled out
a pistol. "Now," be said, "you old prsg-
matical, lest you should catch cold in this
cold morning of Scotland, and for the hon
nor and salty Of the king, to say nothing
of the glory Of God and the good Of our
souls, / will proceed simply and in the
neatest and most expeditions style poasi.
BILE to blow your brains out" John Brown
fell upon his kness and began TO pray;
steer clear Of the king. the council, and
Richard Cameron. 20! Lord" said
John Brown, "sinoe it seems to be
thy will that, / should leave this
world for world where ] can
| LOVE THEE BETTER
and serve Thee more, put this poor
widow woman and these helpless, father
lsss children into Thy hands. We have
been together in peace good while, but
now we must look forth to beeter meet
ing in heaven, and as for these poor crea-
tures, blindfolded and infatuated, that
stand before me, convert them before it be
too late, and may they who have eat In
Judgment in this lonely place on this
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