Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-31

skepticism which said: WHY would
God out Of the heavens and amid the
Jupiters and Saturns Of the universe have
CHOSEN our little bit Of q world for the
achievements of His only besotten Son
when he might have had vAster scale Of
wotldsp" But my skepticism is all gone
rs come to the msnger and watch III
surroundings. Now sse all the worlds
are sister, and when one weeps they all
weep, and when one tings they all sing.
From that Supernatural grouping in the
cloud. banks over Bethlehem, and from the
especial trains that ran down to the scene,
find that cur world ia beautifully and
eloriously and msguifcently surrounded.
THE METEoRs ARE WITH US.
For one of them ran to point down 10 the
birthplace. The beavers are with us,
because at the thought Of cur redemption
they roll hosannas out Of the midnight
sky. =,
Oh! yes; do not know bat our world
NAV be better surrounded than We have
scmt times imsgintd; and when child Is
born angels fetch il and when 1t dies
angels take it, aad when an old man bends
under the weight Of years angels uphold
him, and when heart break angels soothe
1t. Augels in the hospital to take care Of
the sick. Angels in the cemetery to watch
our dead. Angels in church ready to fly
hesyenward with the news Of repentant
souls. Angels above the world. Angels
under the world. Angels sill around the
world.
Rub the du't ofhuman impsrfection out
of our eyes and look into the heavens and
see angels OF pity, angels of mercy, angels
of pardon, angels of help. angels crowned,
angels charioted. The world defended by
angels, girdlGd by angels-cohorted by
sngels-clouds Of angels. Hear David cry
out, "The chsIiots of God are twenty
thousand. Even thousands Ct ANGELA
Bot the mightiest angel stood not in the
clouds that night over Bethlehem; the
mightiest aogsl that night lay among the
csttle-the augtl Of the new covenant.
As the clean white linen sent in by some
motherly vilsgsr was being wrap d
~ round the little form Of that Child En-
peror, not o cherub or sersph. not an angel,
not world but wept and thrilled and
shouted. Oh, yes; our world has plenty Of
sympsthizns; our world is only silver
rurg of great ladder, at the tip Of which
ia our Fathers house. No more stellar
solitaIiness for our world.
NOT A FRIESDLEsS PLANET
spun ont into space to freeze, bat world
ia the baom Of divine maternity. 4 star
hsrnessed TO maDger.
w. Again, remark that that night
hArtn IN that y,lIora ham tha .NH.nl
er's hope. Some sermonizers may say
ought ID have projected this though. at the
teginDing of the sermon On? no.
WANTED you 10 rise toward It, wanted
You to examine the comedians and the Jas.
pers and the emeralds and the chrysalis
before showed you the Kohnoor,the
crown jewel of the ages
On! that jewel had very poor Getting
The cnb Of bear is born amid the era ad
old pillars Of the forest, the wbelp Of the
lion takes its first step from thu Jungle Of
luxor leaf and wild-ilower,
the kid OF goat is born in cavern charde.
lie;ed with sta,sctite and pillartd with
stalagmi,e. Christ was horn 10 hare
barn. Yet that nativity was the offend.
er's hope Over the door of heaven are
written these words: meme bat the sin.
less may enter here"
'Oh, horror" you say, that shuts ne
all out" No. Christ came to the world
in one door, and he departed through an
other door. He came through the door Of
the mangsr, and He departed through the
door Of the sepulchre., and His one bust
ness was 30 to wash away our Elm that one
second after we are dead there will be no
more stu about us than about the eternal
God.
+ know that is putting it strongly, but
that is what understand by full remis
sion. All erased, az washed away, all
scoured OUT all gone. That undergirdipg
and oversrching and irradiating and i'm
possibility for you, and for me.
and for the whole race was given on that
Christmas night.
FLOWERS ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
Do yOu wonder we bring nowera today
to celebrate such an event? Do You won
der that we take organ and cornet and
youthful voice and queenly soloist 10 te!e.
brste itp Doyou wonder that Raphael and
Rubens and Titan and Giotto and Ghir!-
andsjO, and all the old Italian and German
painters gave the mightiest stroke OF the
pencil to sketch the Madonna, Mary and
her boy?
On! now / see what the mapger was.
Not so high the gildtd and jeweled and
cradle of the Henrys of Fog.
land, or the LouiseJ of Francs, or the
Fredericks Of Prussia Now | find out cf
that Bethlehem crib fed not 20 much the
oxen Of the stall AZ the white hones Of tie
Apocalyptic vision. Now ! find the swad
ding clothes enlsrgiDg and emblsz.
oning into an imperial robe for
3 conqueror. Now I find that
the star Of that Christmas night was only
the diamond sandal OF Him WHO hath the
moon under His feet. Now come 10 m.
derstand that the music Of that nigh, was
not complete song, but only tie stripging
Of the instruments for a great chorus IF
two worlds, the basa to be carried by
Earthly nations saved, aud the soprano, by |
of glory won.
Oh! heaven, heaven, heaven. shall
meet you there. After all our imperfec. |
lions are gone, shall meet you there. I |
look ont to day, through ihe mist Of
years, through the fcg that rises from the
cold Jordan, through the wide open door
Of solid psarl TO that reunion. I exp; C. to
zee You there as certainly ~ / Sc you
here. What time We shall have high
talking over sins pardoned, and
'urroE comforted, and battles triumphant
AM GOING IN.
I am goirg to take sll my family with
ne am going to take all my church
With me. ! am going to take eli my friends
With me. ! have so much faith in mango
and cross feel snre Of il. ! am going 10
,oax you in. / an gJing 10 push you in.
By holy stratsgem / am Rciog 70 turprie
you in. Yea, with all the concentrated
mercy Of my nature-pbyiicsl, mental,
spiritual and immortal am goiry %
compel you TO 20 in. like ycu 90 we'll 4
waot TO spend eternity with you!
Some Of yonr children have ALREADY
gone. Some time ago buried one Of them,
and though people pessi3g along the
street and seeing white craze on the door,
bell may have said: 1T ispDly child"
yet when the broken-besrttd father came
10 solicit my service he ssii: Come
around and comfort us, for housb abe was
only ffteen months cid w loved her 90
much ~ All IL does not AXE long for
child to get its arms srouh the pArent's
whole nature.