Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-01

rev. Il. De WIN lhin1hScY ~. ~; hou
made An exposition of passage Of Script
ure, the congregation, led by cornet and
organ, sang the hymn beginning:
Now have found friend,
Jesus is mine.
DR.. Talmsge's subject was "How TO Make
Friends" and his text, Proverbs xviii,
"a: "a man that hath friends must show
himself friendly" He said:
Aboutthe sacred and divine srt Of maxi
ing and keeping friends spesk-a subject
on which / never heard of anyone preaching
and yet God thought it of enough i'm
portsnce to put it in the
middle of the Bible, these
writings of Solomon, bounded on the
side by the popular Psalms of David, and
on the other by the writings of Isaiah, the
greatest OF the prophets. 1t seems all
a matter of haphszard how many friends
we have, or whether we have any friends
at all, but there is nothing accidental
about it. There is law which governs
the accretion and dispersion of friendships.
They did not "just happen" any more
than the tides just happen to rise or fall,
or the sun just happens to rise or set. 1t
is a science, an art, a God given regulation
Tell me how friendly you are TO Others and
l will tell you how friendly Others are to
you. l do not cay You will not have
enemies; indeed the best way to get
ardent friends is to have ardent enc
mics, if yOu got their enmity in doing
The right thing. Good men and women
will always have enemies, because their
goodness ia a perpetual rebuke to evil; but
this sntagonism of foes will make more in
tense the love of your sdherents. Your
friends will gather closer around you be-
cause of the attacks of your assailants. The
more vour enemies abuse you the better
your coadjutors will think of you. The
best friends we ever had appeared at some
juDcture when we we're especially bom-
barded There have been times in my life
when unjust assault multiplied my friends,
as near as could calculate, about fifty a
minute. You are bound to some people
by many cords that neither time nor eter-
nifty can break, and / will warrant that
many of those cords were twisted by hands
malevolent.
HUMAN NATURE WAS sHIPwRECKED
about fifty-nine centuries ago, the captain
of that craft, one Adam, and his first mate,
running the famous cargo aground ON
srag in the River Hiddekel; but there was
at least one good trait Of human nature that
waded safely ashore from that shipwreck,
and that is the disposition to take the part
of those unfairly dealt with. When it Is
thoroughly demonstrated that some one is
being prosecuted, although at the start
slanderous tongues were busy enough, de-
tenders finally gather around as thick as
honey bees on trellis Of bruised honey
suckle. II. when set upon by the furies,
you can have grace enough to keep your
mouth shut, and preserve your
equipoise, and let Others fight
your battles, you will find yourself after
awhile with whole Gordon of allies. Had
not the world given to Christ on his ar
rival at Palestine a very cold shoulder
there would not have been one-half as
many angels chanting glory out of the
HYMN books of the sky bound in black
lids of midnight. Had it not been for the
heavy and jagged aud torturous cross.
Christ would not have been the admired
and loved of more yeople than any being
WHO ever touched foot on either the east
ern or western hemisphere. Instead,
therefore, of giving up in despair because
YOU have enemies, rejoice in the fact that
they rally for you the most helpful and
enthusiastic admirers. In other words,
there is no virulence, human or disbolic,
that can hinder my text from coming
true: "a man that hath friends must show
himself friendly"
BE YOURSELF FRIENDLY.
1t is my ambition to project especially
upon the young thought which may be-
nignly shape their deetiDy for the hare and
the hereafter. Before you show yourself
friendly, you must be friendly. / do not
recommend drsmstized geniality. There
is such q thing as pretending to be en- rap
port with others when we are their dire
destructants, and talk against them and
wish them calamity. Judas covered up
his treachery by resoundiDg kiss, and Ca
resses may be demoniscal. Better the my
biological Cerberus, the three-hesded dog
of hell. barking at us, than the wolf in
sheep's clothing, its brindled hide covered
up by deceptive wool, and it's desthful
howl cajencsd iato au innocent bleatiDg.
Disraeli writes of Lord Manfred,
who, after committing many
outrages upon the people, seemed sudden
ly to become friendly, and invited them
10 sbsaquet. After most of the courses
of food had been served he blew horn,
which was in those times signal for the
servants to bring on the desert, but in this
case it was the signal for asssssins TO enter
and slay the guests. His pretended friend
illness was cruel fraud, and there are
now people whose smile is falsehood.
Before YOU begin TO show yourself friendly
Won must be friendly. Get your heart
right with God and man, and this grace
will become easy. You may by your
own resolution get your nature into
semblance of this virtue, but the
grace of God can sublimely lift
YOU into it. Sailing on the River
Thames two vessels ran aground. The
owners of one got one hundred horses and
pulled on the grounded ship and pulled 1t
TO pieces. The owners of the other ground
ed vessel waited till the tides came in and
easily floated the ship out of all trouble.
So. we may pull and haul at our grounded
human nature, and try to get it into bet
ter condition; but there is nothing like the
oceanic tides of Gods uplifting grace to
hoist us into this kindliness am eulogiz-
inc. II when under the flash Of the Holy
Ghost we gee our own foibles and defects
and depravities, we will be very lenient
and very easy with Others. We will look
into their characters for things commenda-
tory and not damnatory.
A DEFECTIVE MAXIM.
Rut here comes in defective maxim, 80
often quoted: "Where there is so much
smoke there must BE- some fire." Look at
all the smoke for years around Jenner, the
;ntroducer of vaccination; and the smoke
around Columbus, the discoverer; and the
smoke around Martin Luther, and Ssvon-
arols. and Calico, and Paul, and John,
and Christ, and tell me where was the fire?
That is one of the satanic arts to make
smoke without fire. Slsnder, like the
world. may be made out of nothing. Ii
fhe Christian, fair minded, common sens
;csI spirit in regard to others predomlnated
in the world we should have the mlllen-
nium in about six weeks, for would not
that be lamb and lion, COW and leopard
wing down together9 Nothing but the
Grace of God can ever put us into such a hao-
Il of mind and heart as that. The whole ten
depey is in the opposite direction. This is
the way the world talks: put my name
ON the back of mau's note, and l had TO
nav il. and l will never again put my