West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-05-02

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OF that wrestle with the rock as the most in
teresting chapter In all HIS angelic lifetime
men and women with obstacles In the way
tell you that those obstacles are only throne
TINT you may after while Ht on. Is the OBJ
stacie I'm your way sicknessf CONQUER Il b,
accomplishing moro for God during your in
validiHn than many accomplish who hay,
never known an ailment. Arc you perse
cutedr by your uprightness and courag,
compel the world 10 acknowledge your mora
heroism. Is It poverty Conquer It by be
ing happy In the companionshlp Of tho Lore
and Master, who in all His life owned but
sixty.two cents, and that He got from fish,
mouth and Immediately paid it all ont
In taxes TO the Roman assessor, and
who would have been buried I'm a pot
ter's field had not Joseph OF Arimathea con
tributed place, for He who had not where
TO lay His head during His life had borrowed
pillow for tho last sumber. There is no
| throne that you are sure 10 keep except
that which you mako out of vanquished
obstacles. An ungrateful Republic at the
ballot box denied Horace Greeley the
highest place ut the National Capital, but
| could not keep him from rising from the steps
| Of New York printing Office on which nc
sat one chilly morning waiting for tho boss
| printer 10 come that he might get n Job un.
I'll he mounted the highest throne OF
American journalism. He rolled back
The stone and sat upon 1t. A poor orphan
boy. picking up chips at Richmond.
Va, accosted by passing sea CAPTAIN
and invited 10 come on board his vessel. arops
| the chips and starts right away and IL tosssd
from port 20 port and, homeless and friend
less, wanders one day along fremont street.
Boston, and secs Park Street Church omen
and, speaking of 10 afterward on a great 90.
cnsion and using sailors vernacular. as vns
usual with him, he says: II put I'm, I yfp
helm, unfurled sail and made for tho gallery
and scud under bare poles TO the corner pew
Then hove 10 and came TO anchor
1 The old man DIR Griffin vvaa mat po,..,,,. a,
his text. Pretty soon he unfurled the main.
sail, raised the topsail, ran up tho pennants
to free breeze and tell you the old gospel
snip never sailed more prosperously. The
salt spray flow in overy direction, but more
especially did it run down my checks
Satan had to strike sail, his guns were
dismounted or spiked, his various crafts
by which he led sinners captive were
the Lords's hosts rode forth, conduerine md
10 conquer" Before that sailor boy was
poverty, but he conquered IL; and orpbana0e
but he conquered IL; and ienorance lint he
conquered IL; and the scofR of the world lint
ne conquered IL; and he rose till every sail
ors bethel in the world blessed him and great
anniversary platforms invited him md
DANIEL Webster and Charles Dickens and
fIederika Bremen, and poets, and orators
and senator's sat electrified at his feet. and
ms gospelizing influence will go on until the
last Jack tar is converted and the sea shall
seemed gathered into one great bowIder. hut
Edward I. Taylor, the world-renowned sail
ors preacher, rolled back the stone and sat
upon it. 0>''
Yet do not make the mistake that many
do OF sitting on IL before it is rolled away
lt Is bound to go il you only TUG
away at it. II not before, then / tbine
about IL o'clock noon of RESURRECTION
day you will see something worth seeing.
me general impression is that the
IN ra NIL L.. al
The nscent TO the skies viii hardly occ1sT
immediately. 1t will take some hours To form,
the procession skyward and we will ali want
70 take look ut this world before we leave
~ forever and SEQ the surroundings Of the
couch where our bodies have long been sleer-
ing: On that Easter morning the marble
wnetner ir iay nat upon your grave or sroo7
up IN monument, will have to be iostled
ana shaken and rolled inside by the
anger OF resurrection, and while waiting for
your kindred TO gather and the procession to
FORM your resurrected body NAV sit in HOLY
triumph upon that chiseled stone which
marked the place of your protracted slumber
On that day what q fragile thing will be
Aberdeen granite and column OF basnIt
anu the mortar which viii rattle
out OF the wall OF vaults that have been scaled
thousand years, and the Tai built for
queen in India, a sepulcher two hundred and
seventy-hyo feet high, and made of iasper
ana comedian and turquois and lapis-lazuli
ana amethyst and onyx and sapphire and
diamond, and which shall that day rain into
glittering dust on groves of banyan and
DaInpoo and palm. And all under what
power? Ponderous crowbars welded
by giantss No. Thunderbolt cleaving
asunder the granitel No. Gathering ram
swung against the walls of eemeteriesf No
dynamite drilled under the foundations OF
cenotaph and abbeyi No. 1t will be dono Inv
music. Nothing but music, sweet but ali
generating music The trumpet shall sound
\ GU say that Is hgurative; how do you know
BUT whether literal or 1gurative' It means
music anyhow. The trumpet that stirring. in
cis1ye, mighty instrument, with a, natural
compass from below the staff to f above.
blown above Sinai when the law was given.
blown around Jericho when the walls tlinbled'
blown when Gideon discomflted tho indian,
ites blown when the ancient Israelites were
gathered for worship, 10 be blown for tbo
raising OF the dead in the last great Easter.
Iho mother, who, when tho child must be
awakened, kisses its eyes awake docs we'll
But the trumpet, which when the dead are
TO be aroused kisses the ear awake. doe
better. BE not surprised IL the dead nre e.
be awakened by music. Why, that IL the
way now we raise the dead. Take the stats
tics, II you can, Of the millions Of souls thai
have been raised from the death OF sin by
hymns, by psalms, by solos, by anthems.
by flutes by violins, by organs by
trumpets. Under God what hosts
have been resurrected by Ira ID. San.
n.y.. W AnOHla5 Hastings, by William ID
bradbury, by Lowell Mason, by motherly
luiiabies by church doxologies, by oratorios
IL we raise the dead now by music be NOT
surprised that on the last day the dead are 10
be raised by music
Tho trumpet shall sound And that In
strument shall have plenty OF work 10 do or
the day mentioned. IL viii have to SOUND
through all tho pyramids, which are only
names Tor sepulcbers, and iberate the buried
kings And through hypogean graves which
were built IN mounds and the hypogeau
graves which we're dug i'm rocks
and through the nine hundred wind
ing miles OF CatacOmbs under au6
around tho Roman Campagna. where over
seven million human beings sleep. And
through oil the crystal sarcophagi OF Altar
tic and Pacific and Mediterranean and O.
plan and Black Sen deeps. And over all tie
lattie heids OF continents, until all the faIler
tO9ps or the English and French
lnd Italian and German and Vno
ssian md Persian aud American cnd
tho worlds battle folds a.
5Wer the call. Marathon como mi AsJn
court come up Blenheim come ftpf Az
come upi Hohenlinden. como mi ec,iayi
o5me up Gettysburg. come ini MI
oharpsburg during our Civil War ,9be, 7 -.
with come others under the atier,ices - a.
Dhflstio q commission, looking ofter fbo
wounded, FEDERAL and Conrsslorafe orc r,, ~
iBnt night ! was where i couId look 49,,
lPpn the tents Of Tho sleeping army. OH
yhat an imposing spectaoloi But nv s,,b-
49, caus us ~ look down upon n nfobfier
-, s2ldiers Numbering their last