Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-06
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An Eloquent Sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Our Lives Lived 0ysr-Ths Lessons Of
Joys and Bsrsavsmsnts-
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ted miscegenatlon of the white and black
races. The vast congregation sang the
hymn beginning;
Our God, our help in ages past
Our hope for years to come.
DR. TaImage's text was Deuteronomy viii,
?: ''ThOu shalt remember all the WAY
which the Lord thy God led thee. He
said:
Before entering on my subject wish to
say that some newspaper correspondents,
referring to recent sermon in which ]
welcomed foreign nationalities to this
country, have said that | advocated as a
desirable thing the intermsrrisge of the
white and black races. l never said SO,
never thought so, and any who so misre D.
resents that sermon is either william or a
fool, perhaps both.
LIFR's RETROSPECT.
1t is useful thing sometimes to look
back, and to see the dangers we have es.
capped, and to see the sorrows we have suf.
fered and the trials and wanderings of our
earthly pilgrimage, and to sum up our en-
joyments. mean this morning, 80 far as
God may help me, to stir up your memory
of the past, so that in the review you may
be encouraged, and handled, and urged
to pray.
There is chapel in Florence with a
fresco by Guido. 1t was covered up with
two inches of stucco until our American
and European artists went there, and after
long toll removed the covering and retrsced
the fresco. And sm aware that the men,
ory of the past, with many of you, is all
covered up with ten thousand obliterations
and propose this morning, so far as the
Lord may help me, to take away the COW
ering, that the old picture may shine out
again.
want TO bind in one sheaf all your past
advantages, and want to bind 10 another
sheaf all your past adversities. 1t is a
precious harvest, and must be cautious
how swing the scythe.
Among the greatest advantages of your
past life was an early home and its sur
ronndings. The bad men of the day, for
the most part, dip their heated passions
out OF the boiling spring of an unhappy
home. We are not surprised to find that
Byron's heart was concentration of sin,
when we hear his mother was abandoned,
and that she made sport of his infirmity.
and often called him "the lame brat. 4"
He who has vicious parents has to fight
every inch of his way il he would main
tain his integrity, and at last reach the
home of the good in heaven.
THE CITY HOME.
Perhaps your early home Was in the
city. 1t may have been in the days when
Canal street, New York, was far up town
and the site of this present church was an
excursion iuto the country. That old
house in the city may have been demol-
ished or changed into stores, and it
seemed like sscrilege to you, for
plain house, in that small house,
than there is in granite mansion or a
turreted cathedral. Looking back this
morning you see it as though it were yes
terday-the sitting room, where the
loved ones sat by the plain lamp light,
the mother at the evening stand, the
brothers and sisters, perhaps long ago
gathered into the skies, then plotting mis-
chief on the floor or under the table, your
father with a firm voice commanding a
silence that lasted half minute.
Oh, those were good days. Ifyou had
YOUR foot hurt, your mother always had a
soothing salve to heal it. II you were
wronged in the street, your father was
always ready to protect you. The year
was one round of frolic and mirth. Your
greatest trouble was like an April shower,
more sunshine than shower. The heart
had not been rsnsacked by troubles, nor
had sickness broken it, and no lamb had
warmer sheepfold than the home in
which your childhood nestled.
ANOTHER LIFE PAGE.
I bring to mind another passage in the
history of your life. The day came when
Won set up your own household. The
days passed along in quiet blessedness.
You twain sat at the table morning and
night and talked over ysur plans for the
future. The most Insignificant affair in
YOUR life was the subject of mutual con-
sultstion and advisement. You were sc
happy you felt you never could be any
happier. One day dark cloud hovered
over your dwelling and it got darker and
darker, but out of that cloud the shining
messenger of God descended to incarnate
an immortal spirit. Two little feet started
on an eternal Journey, and you were to
lead them-a gem to flash in heavens
coronet, and you to polish it; eternal age
of light and darkness watching the start
ing out of newly created creature.
You reiOiced and you trembled at the
responsibility that in your possession an
immortal treasure was placed. You
pesyed and rejoiced, and wept and won
dered, and prayed and rejoiced, and wept
and wondered; you were earnest in sup
plication that you might lead it through
| life into the kingdom of God. There was
3 tremor in your earnestness. There wa'
a double interest about that home. There
was an additional interest why you should
stav there and be faithful, and when in
few months your house was filed with the
mueic of the child's laughter, you were
struck through with the fact that you hac
a stupendOus mission.
Have Won kept that VOW? Have yor
neglected any of these duties? Is you
home as much to you as it used to be
Have those snticipstions been gratified'
G,d help you to-day in your solemn reml
niscence, and let his mercy fall upon you
sonl If vour kindness has been i'll requited
Cod have mercy on the mother who, II
addition to her other pangs, has the paDg
of child's iniquity. On, there are many
many sad sounds in this sad world, bu
the saddest sound that IS ever heard Is tn'
breaking of a mothers heart. Are Their
anv here who remember that in that hom
thew were untaithfulP Are there those whit
wandered off from that early home, ant
} left the mother to die with broken heart
on. / stir that reminiscence to-day.
WHEN SORROW COMES.
But some of you have not always had
smooth life Some of you are now In tn
shadow. Others had their troubles year
AGO. you are mere wreck of what yo'
once were. Imust gather up the SORROW
of your past life; but bow shall l do 1t
You saw that is impossible, as you hav
had 80 many troubles and sdversitles
Then I will Just take two, the inst troubl
and the last trouble. AS when you ar
walking along the street, and there ha
heen music in the distance, you uncon
: sciously find yourselves keeping step
the music, so when you started lie you you
) very life was q musical time-Deat: IN
= air was full of joy and hilsrityi with IN
' bright. clear oar you made the boat SKI
t Won went on, and life grew brighter mt
t sfter n while suddenly a voice from heaye
= - GsIIaItii, and ouick as the sunShln