Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-21

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devastated thousand other households,
had blasted yours. You 90 about weep
ing amidst the desDlstion of your once
happy home, thinking of the bright eyes
closed, and the noele hearts stopped, and
the gentle hands fo!ied, yon weep until
you have no more Icwer to weep.
ZlKLAo IN ASHES!
A gentleman went to o friend Of mine
in the city Of Washington, and esked that
through him he might get q consulship TO
some foreign pert. My friend ssid to him:
What do you waE to go away from your
beautiful; home for. into foreign pO,t?i
oh" he replied, ''ny home is gonel My
six children are daed! / must get away,
sir. can't stand Il in tn g country any
longer" Ziklag in ashes
Why these long saadows Of bereavement
across this audience, Why is il that 10
almost every assem jlsEe black is the pl e.
dominant color Of q . apparel? Is it be-
cause you do rot ike ssffron or brown or
violet? Oh, no. YSu say "The world is
not go brigh. TO ne. as it once wss," and
there isa story of sstnt voices, and of still
fest, and oflovei ones gone, and when you
look over the hills, expecting only besuty
and lovelinss, yOu hd only devastation
and woe. Xklsg il ashes
In Ulster county, New York, the village
church was decorated until ,hs fragrance
of the flowers wss almost bewilderiDg The
msidens of the village had empiied the
place of flowers upon one marriage altar.
One of their own number was affianc(d 10
minister Of Christ, who had come to take
her to his home, With hands joined,
amidst a congrstu 'aiory audiences, the vows
were taken. In three days from that time
one of those who stood at the altar ex.
changed earth for heaven.
THE WEDDING MARCH BROKE DOWN
into the funeral di ge. There were not
enough flowers uOw for tie C fin Id, he
cause they had ali been taken for the
bridal hour. The dead minister OF Christ
is brought 20 noher village. He lad
gore out from them less than week be-
fore in his strength; now he comes home
lifeless The who'll church bewailed him.
The solemn prcC scion moved aronnd
to look upon the still iecs that
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tiOn. Little child. en- were lifted up 10
look at him. AM some Of those whom
be had comforted il days OF sorrow, when
they had passed tn silent form, made the
place dreadful with thsir weeping Anoth-
er villsge emotitd If IFS fl9were-sOme Of
them pat in the shape Of cross 10 sym
bolize his hope, others put in the shape Of
crown to symbolic his triumph. A
hundred lights blown out in one strtDg
gust from the open door of a sepulchre
Zlklag in sshes!
l preach this sermon to-day because
want to rally you, az David rallied his
men, for the recovery of tine loved and the
lost. ! want not only TO win heaven, but
l wan. all this congregation TO 20 along
with me. feel that somehow have a
responsibility in your arriving at that
great city. have On other Ssboaths used
othfr inducements. | mean, to-day, for
the sake Of variety, hoping to reach your
heart. to try another kind Of inducement
Do you really want to join the compsn-
iOnship of yOur loved cues who have gone?
Are you as anxious TO Join them rs David
and his men weTeito join their families?
Then an here, in the name Of God, to
cav that you may, Md to tsll you how.
I remark, in the 4,st place, If you want
to Join your loved gas in 0'oy,
-, ,,,,s.- mn ~ TUE SANE wAv
tney went. No sooner had the half-dead
Egyptian been resuscitated than he point
ed the way the csptors and the captivts
had cone, and David and his men folio Fed
after. So cur Christian friends have gone
into another country, snd if we want to
reach their complnionship we must take
the same road. They repentsd; we must
repent. They prayed; we must pray.
They trusted in Christ; We must trust IN
Christ. They lived o religious life; We
must live religious life. Tney were IN
some things like ourselves. l know, now
that they are gone, there is q halo around
their names; but they bad their faults.
They said and did thingd they ought
never TO have said or done.
They were sometimes rebe!liCue,
sometimes cast down. They were far from
being perfect. So suppose that when we
have gone, some things that ere nov only
tolersole may be almost rcep!endent. But
gs they we're like us in deficiencies, We
Gu h. to he like them in taking superb
al Christ to make up for the deficits Had
il not been for jesus they would have oil
perished; bat Christ confronted them, ana
said: Il am the way" and thsy tooE it.
l have also to gay to you that the path
that these csptives trod was troubled
path. and that David and his men had to
90 aver the sel1e difficult way. While
these csptives were being taken of, they
said: ''Oh, we are 20 tired; we are so sick;
we are 30 huogryW But the men who had
charge of them said Stop this crying.
Go onw David and his men also found 1t
hard way. They had 20 travel 1t. Our
friends hsve gone into glory, end II IA
throueh much uibulation that we
are TO enter into the kingdom. How our
loved cnes used to have to struggle! how
their old hearts ached how somsiimes
thew had tussle for bread Ia oar child
hood we wondered why there were 20 many
wrinkles on their faces. We did no!
know that what were called crows feat"
on their faces we're the marks Of the black
raven of trouble.
DID YOU NEVER HEAR
the old people, seated by the evening
stand. talk over their early trials, their
hardshipg. the accidents, the burials, the
the empty flOnr-barIel
when there were so many hungCy ones TO
feed. the sickness almost unto death where
the next dose Of morphine decided be-
tween gbas,ly bereavement and unbrok-
en- home circle? On, yes! It
was trouble that whitened
their hair. 1t was trouble that shook the
cup in their hands. 1t was t5ouble tnat
washed the lustre from their eyes with the
rain Of iears until they needed spectscles.
Il was trouble that made the cane nects-
sity for their Journey. Do you never re-
member seeing your old mother sitting, or
some reipy day, looking out Ot the win
dow her elbow on the window-sill, her
hand IN her brow-looking out, not seeing
the falling shower ct al (you well knew
she WAS looking into the distant past,
nntil the apron came up 10 her eyes, be-
cause the memory was too much for her?
"Oft the big. unbidden tear,
Stealing down the furrowed cheek'
Told in eiCquence sincere.
Tales of wee they could not speak.
But this scene Of weeping Ger,
Past this scene OF toll ana PAIN
They shall feel distress no more,
Never, never weep again.
"Who are these under the ALTAR the
onastion vas asked; sud the response
came: "Tbese are they which came out OF
0raat tribulation. and have washed their
robss and made them white in the blood
oS the Lamb Our friends went by q
na,b Of tears into glory. Be not surprised
= Wa have 10 travel the same pathway.
remark sgaiu, if we want 10 win the
society of our friends iu heaVeo' we VII, wiz
NOT only have to travel path OF falth ana