Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-09
LIGHT In THE EAST.
THB CHRISTIAN SBBS THB DAWN OF A
NEW DAY on THR BARTH.
Day Full OF Gladnsss and Rsjoicing-the First
Rays Seen-a Period Of Universal Peace
Msa Made Nsighbos -Ohustianliys
Rapid March.

/ hymn beginning,
Welcome, sweet day OF rest,
Tha, saw the LoId arise
was surg with fine effect. DR.. Talmsge's
subject was: "The Sunrise, and his text:
''The day is at hand" Romans xii, -.
He said:
Back from the mountains and the seaside,
and the springs, and the farmhouse, your
check bronzed and your spirits lighted,
hail you home again with the words Of
Gehazj to the Shunammite: SIS it well
with thee? is it we'll with thy husband?
is it well with the child?" On some faces
see the mark of recent gIief, but all
along the track of tears see the story of
resurrection and reunion when all tears
are done; the deep blowing Of the keel,
followed by the fash Of the phOsphores-
ence.
Now that 1 have asked you in regard to
your welfare, you naturally ask how am.
Very well thank you. Whether it was
the bracing air Cf the Colorado mountains
twelve thousand feet sbOve the level OF
the sea, or the tonic atmosphere Of the
/ Pacific coast, OF q bath in the surf Of LoDg
| Island beach, or whether it is the joy Of
standing in this great group of warm
| friends, or whether it is new appreciation
Of the goodness Of God, cannot tell. /
simply know I am graudly and glOriOusly
and inexpressibly happy. II was said that
John Moffatt, the great Methodist preach
er, occasionally got fast in his sermon, and
\ to extricats himself would cry "Hallelu-
Iiuhw I am in no such predicament to-
/ day, but I am full Of the same rhapsodic
ejaculation. Starting out this morning OF
E new ecclesiastical year, want to give
/ sou the key note Of my next twelve
/ months ministry. l want to set it to the
| tune of Antioch, Ariel and Coronation.
Some time agO we bad a new stop put in
/ this organ-a rev trumpet stOp-and l
want to pU. new trumpet stop into my
! sermons.
WANT MORE GLADNES5.
In sll our Christian work you aud
want more of the element of glsdness.
That man has no right to SOY that Christ
never laughed. Do you suppose that he
was glum st the wedding in Cana OF Cali
/ lee? Do you suppose Christ was unre-
soopsiye when the children clamored over
! his knee and shoulder at mis- own invita-
lion? Do yoa suppose that the evangelist
meant nothing when he said to Christ:
/ "He reioiced in ppiIit?n Do yO1 believe
that the divine Christ who pOurs all the
| water over the rocks at Yernal falls, Yose-
mite. does not believe ia the sparkle and
raptures of human life? / believe not
only that the morning laughs, and that
| the mountains laugh, and that the seas
| laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but
that Cdris. laughed. Moreover, take a
laugh and tear into an alembic, and as
saw them, and test them, and analyza
them, and you will often find as much Of
the pure gold Of religion in a lsugh as in a
tear. Deep spiritual JOY always shows II
self in facial illumination. John Wesley
said be was sure Of a good religious I'M
pression beiug produced because OF what
he calls tie great laughter be saw among
the people. Goddess merriment is bias
pbemy anywhere, but expression Of Chris
tian 10Y is appropriate everywhere.
Moreover, the outlook Of the world
ought to stir us to gladness. Astronomers
recently disturbed many people By telling
them that there is danger Of stellar colli- |
sion. We have been told through the
papers by these astronomers that there are
worlds coming very near together and
that we shall have plaques and wars and
trmults and perhaps the worlds destruc' |
lion. Do not be scared. ItJOu have ever
stood AZ a railroad center, where ten or
twenty or thirty rail tracks cross each
other. and seen by the movement OF the
switch one or two inches the train shoots |
this way and that, without colliding, then |
voB nov understand how fifty woIlds may |
come within an inch Of disaster, and that
inch be as good as a million miles. II a !
human switchtender can shoot the trains
tbis Tav and that without harm, cannot |
the Hand that for thousands OF years mas
upheld the universe keep our little world |
out of harms way? Christian geologlsts
Tell us that the world was millions OF years
in building. Well, now, do not think
God would take millions OF years to build
bouse which was to last only Six thou
sapd wears. There is nothing IN the world |
or outside the world, terrestrial or astron- |
omical, to excite dismay. l wish that
some stout Gospel byeezs might scatter all |
the malaria of human f0reb0diDg. Inc
sun rose this morning at about halt-past 3,
and / think that is Just about the hour IN
the worlds history. THE day is at hand"
THE FIRST RAY OF THE DAWN
/ see in the gradual substitution Of diplo'
matte skill for human butchery. Within
the last twenty. FIVE years there have been
international differences which would have
brought a shock of arms in any other day,
but which WeIe peacefully adjusted, the
pen taking the place Of the sWOad.
That Alabama question in any other age
of the world would have caused war be
tween the United States and England.
Hog was il settled? By meh-Of-wer off
the Narrows, or of the Mersey? By the
GulfSream Of The ocean crossed By gulf
stream of human blood? By the pathway
of nations incaTnadined? No. a few
wise men 20 into quiet room az Geneva,
talk the matter over, aud telegraph TO
Washington and to London: "All settled "
Psses. Peace. England pays to the
Tnited States the amount aWarded-pay
really more than she ought to have paid.
But still. all that Alabama brOil is settled
settled forever. Arbitration instead Of
battle.
I NAV be mistaken, but hope that the
last war between Christian natiOnsis ended.
Barbsrians may mix their wsr paint and
Afghan and Z1lu hurl poisoned arrows,
INIT / think Christian nations have gradu-
auv learned that war is disaster to victor
az well as vauquisbed, and that almost
anvthlpg bought by blood is bought at too
dear a price. wish to God this nation
MIGHT be a model Of willingness for arbi-
ration. No need of killing another Indian.
No need Of sacrificing any more brave
Gen. Clusters. Stop exasperating the red
man and there will be nomofe arrows shot
ont from the reservation. A general Of the
United States army, in high Tepute
throuphout this land, and who, perhaps,
has been in more Indian wars than any
other officer, and who has been wounded
again and again in behalf Of our govern
ment in battle against the Indians, told
me that ell the wars that had ever oc-
Cured between the Indians and white men
had been provoked by white men, and
that there was no exception to to the rule.
While we are aIbitrating with Christian
nations, let Us toward barbarians carry
ourselves in manner unProvoeative OF
contest.
MEN MADE NEIGHB0RS.