Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-02-11
0UR0WN GENERATION.
VIZ HAVB NO RESPONSIBILITY WITH REP
BRENCB TO THR PAST.
Our Duty Lies Toward the People With Whom
We Live-They Should First Of All be
Clothed and Ped.-The Rev. DR..
Talmagss Sermon.
special Telegram to the Register.

Special Telegram to the Register.
BROOKLYN, February 10.-BefOre al
audience gathered from all parts OF the
ssrth the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, ID,
expounded passages of Scripture descrip-
tive of stirring scenes in David's life. The
subject of his sermon was "Our Own
Generation" and his text, Acts xiii, So
David, after he had served his own gen
Grafton By the will of God, fell on sleep"
That is a text which has for long time
been running through my mind, but not
until now has it been fully revealed to me.
Sermons have time to be born as well as
a time to die, cadle as we'll as grave.
David, cowboy and stone singer and
| fighter and car and dramstist and blank
verse writer and prophet, did his best for
the psODle of his time aud then went and
laid down on the southern hill of Jerusa-
lem in that sound slumber which nOthi Q
but an archangelic blast can stGrtle.
"David, after he had served his own geo
Grafton by the will Of God, fell on sleeep."
WHERE OUR RESPONSIBILITIES LIE.
1t was his own generation that he had
served; that is, the people living at the
time he lived. And have you ever thought
that cur responsibilities are chiefly with
the people nov walking abreast of us?
There are about four generations to cen
tury now, but in Olden time life was
longer and there was, perhaps, only one
generation to a century. Taking thtse
facts into the calculation, make rough
guess and say there have been at least one
hundred and eighty generations Of the
human family. With reference to them
we have no responsibility. We cannot
teach them, we cannot correct their mis-
takes, we cannot soothe their sorrows, We
cannot heal their wounds. Their sepul-
chers are deaf and dumb to anything we
might say 10 them. The last regiment of
that great army has passed out of sight
We might hsllOo SIS loud as we could, Lot
one of them would avert mis- head to see
what we wanted.
SUFFERING FOR FOOD.
Well, now, let us look around earnestly,
prayerfully and in common sense way
and see what we can do for our own gensr-
alton. First of all let us see to it that, "a
far as we can, they have enough to eat.
The human body is SO constituted that
three times day the body needs food as
much as q lamp needs oil, ss much as a To-
comotive needs fuel. To meet this want
God has girdled the earth with spple or
chards, orange groves, wheat fields and
oceans full of fish and prairies full Of cat
tie. And notwithstanding this, will un-
dertake to say that the vast majority OF
the human family are suffering either for
lsck of food or the right kind of foOt
Our civilization is all askew on this sub
iect aud God only can set it right.
REMEMBER THE POOR.
Many of the greatest estates of to-day
have been built out OF the blood and bones
of unrequited toll. In olden times, for the
building of forts and towers, the inhabi-
tants of Ispshan had to contribute 1000
human skulls, and Bagdsd $4,000 human
skulls. and that AumboI % people ~e4e
slain so as to furnish the skulls. But
these two contributions added together
made only 100000 skulls, while into the
tower of the worlds wealth and pomp aud
magnifcencs have been wrought the skele-
tons of uncOunted numbers OF the half fed
populations of the earth, millions OF skulls
Don't sit down ut your table with five or
six courses of abundant supply and think
nothing of that family in the next street
who would take any one of these five cour-
ses between soup and almond nuts and
feel thew were 10 haven. The lack Of the
rjght kind offOod is the cause of much OF
the drunkenness. After drinking what
many of our grocers call coffee, sweeteDed
with what many call sugar, and eating
what many of our butchers call meat, ana
showing what many of our bakers call
bread, many of the labOriug classes feel so
miserable they are tempted to put into
their nasty pipes what the tobacconist
calls tobacco or 90 into the drinking
saloons for what the rum sellers call beer.
QUIT sURFEITING OURSELVES.
Good coffee would do much in driving
ont bad rum. AdulteratiOn Of food has
cot to be an evil against which all the
health officers and all the doctors and al
the ministers and sll the reformers and oil
the Christians need to set themselves 10
battle array. How can we serve our gen
Grafton with enough to eat By sitting
down in embroidered slippers aud lOuDg-
ing back in an arm chair, our mouth puck
cred up around Havana of the best brand
and through clouds of luxuriant smoke
reading bout political economy and the
philosophy of strikes? Mo- Mo- By find
| Ing ont who in Brooklyn has been living
on gristle and sending them tenderlOin
beefsteak. Seek out some family who
tbrough sickness or conjunction of misfOr-
time have not enough to eat and do for
them what Christ did for the hungry mnl-
titudes of Asia Minor, multiplying the
loaves and the fishes. Lst us quit the sur
feitinp of ourselves until we cannot choke
down another crumb OF cake and begin the
supply of others necessities.
THE GREATEST BATTLE FIELD.
have read that the battle field on
which more troops met than on any other
in the worlds history was the battle field
of Ieipsic, 160,00 men under Napoleon,
$50 900 men under SchwaIz6erg. No, no.
The greatest and most terrific battle is
now beipg fought ell the world over. It's
the struggle for food. The ground tone OF
the finest passage in one Of the greatest
musical masterpieces, the artist says, was
suggested TO him by the cry Of the hungry
populscs of Vienna as the king rode
through and they shouted, Bread. Give
ms bread ~ And all through the great
harmonies of musical academy and cathe-
drel hear the pathos, the ground tone,
the tragedy of uncOunted multitudes, who
with streaming eyes and wan cheeks ana
broken hearts in behalf OF themselves ana
their families, are pleading for bread.
ENOUGH APPAREL FoR ALL.
Let as take another look around to see
how we NAV serve our generation. Let us
see ss far as possible that they have
enough to wear. God looks on the human
race and knows Just how many inhabitants
the world has. The statistics OF the
worlds population are carefully taken IA
civilized lands, aud every few years Off
GERS of government 90 through the land
aud count how many people there are IN
the United States or England and great
accuracy is reached. But when people tell
us how many inhabitants there ore IN
Asia or Africa, ct least 1t must be
Wild guess. Yet Gcd knows the exact
number of people on our planet and be has
made enough apparel for each, and If there
be fifteen hundred million, fifteen thou
sand. fifteen hundred and fifteen people,
; then there is enough apparel for fifteen
hundred million. fifteen thousand, fifteen
hundred aud fifteen. Not slouefy sppa-
rel, not ragged apparel, not insufficient ap-
paIel, but appropriate apparel. At leass
two suits for every being on the earth,