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


done them they put another layer
on the wall of their exciusiyeness, and an
other bolt to the door that shuts them out
from sympathy with the world. They
get cheated out of thousand dollars, or
misinterpreted, or disappointed, or be-
trayed, and higher goes the wall, and
faster goes another bolt, not realizing that
while they lock Others ont, they
lock themselves in; and some day they
wake up to find themselves imprisoned in
a dastaIdly habit. No friends TO others,
others no friends to them. There's an
island half way between England, Scot
land and Ireland, called the Isle of Man,
and the seas dash against all sides of it,
and am told that there is no more lovely
place than that Isle Of Man; but when a
man becomes insulsr in his disposition,
and cuts himself of from the Main land OF
the worlds sympathies, he ia dispicsble.
and all around HIM is an Alsntic ocean OF
selfshness. Behold that Isle of Man!
Besides this, every day when you start
out, load yourself up with
KIND THOUGHTS, KIND WORDS,
kind expressions and kind greetings
When man or woman does well, tell him
30, tell her 40. If you meet some one who
ia improved in health, and it is demon
strated in girth and color, say: "How
well you lookp But if on the other hand,
under the wear and tear of life he appears
pale and exhausted, do not introduce
sanitsry subjects. or say anything at all
about physical conditions. In the case OF
improved health, you have by your words
given another impulse towards the robust
and the jocund; while in the case of the
failing health you have arrested the de-
cline by Your silence, by which he con-
cludes: It'll really were so badly of, he
would have said something about it. We
are all, especially those of nervous tenn
perament, susceptible TO kind words and
discoursging words. Form con-
spirscy against us, and let ten msn
meet us at certain points on our way over
to business, and let each one say: "How
sick you look" though we should start
out we'll after meeting the first and hear
ing his depressing salute, we would begin
to examine our symptoms. After meet
ing the second gloomy accosting, we would
conclude we did not feel quite as well as
usual. After meeting the third, our sem
sstions would be dreadful, and after meet
ing the fourth, unless We expected con-
spiracy, we would 90 home and 20 to bed,
and the other six pessimists would be a
useless surplus of encouragement Ny
dear sir, my dear madam, what do you
mean by going about this world with dis
heartenments? Is rot the supply Of
gloom and trouble and misfortune enough
to meet the demand without your running
factory of pins and spikes? Why should
you plant black and blue in the world
when God so seldom plants themp Plenty
of scarlet colors, plenty of yellow, plenty
Of gresn, plenty of pink, but very seldom
q plant black or blue.
NEVER SAW A BLACK FLOWER,
and there's only here and there blue bell
or a violet; but the blue is for the most
part reserved for the sky, and we have to
look up to see that, and when we look up
DO color can do US harm. Why not plant
elong the paths OF others the brightness
instead of the glooms? Do not prophesy
misfortune. If you must be prophet at
all he an Ezekiel, and not jeremiah. In
ancient times prophets who foretold evil
were doing right, for they were divinely
directed; but the prophets of evil in our
time are generally false prophets. Some
OF our weather wise people are prophecy
ing we shall have summer OF unparal-
leied scorcb. 1t will not be that at all.
think we are going to have Summer Of
great harvest and universal health; at any
rate | know as much about it a. they
do. Last fall all the weather prophets
agreed in saying we should have a
winter of extraordinary severity, blizzard
on the heels of blizzard. II was the mild
est winter ever remember to have passed.
Indeed, the autumn and the spring almost
showed winter out of the procession. Real
troubles have no herslds running ahead of
their somber chariots, and no one has any
authority in our time to announce their
coming. Load yourself up with helpful
words and deeds.
We must be the friends of God il we want
him to be our friend. We cannot treat
Christ badly all our lives and expect Him
to treat us lovingly. was reading of
sea fight, in which Lord Nelson captured
a French officer, and when the French. ..efi-
Ger offered Lord Nelson his hand, Nelson
replied: "First give me your sword, and
then give me your haod." Surrender of
our resistance to God must precede Gods
proffer of pardon to us. Repentance be-
fore forgiveness You must give up your
rebellious sword before you Can get grasp
of the divine hand.
0, what a glorious state Of things to
have
THE FRIENDSHIP OF GOD!
WHY. we could afford to have all the
world against us and all other worlds
against us if we had God for us. He could
in minute blot out this universe, and in
another minute make better universe.
have no idea that God tried hard when he
made all things. The most brilliant thing
known to us is light, and for the creation
of that he only used word of command.
AS ont of flint frontiersmau strikes a
spark. 30 out Of one word God struck the
no Jndsy sun. For the making of the pres
ent universe do not read that God lifted
40 much as finger. The Bible frequent
ly speaks of Gods hand, and Gods arm,
and Gods shoulder, and Gods foot; then
suppose he should put hand and arm and
shoulder and foot to utmost tension,
what could he not make? That
God. of such demonstrated and undemon-
strated strength, you may have for your
present and everlasting friend. Not a
stately and reticent friend, hard to get at,
but az approschsble as a country mansion
on a summer day when all the doors and
windows are wide open. Christ said: II
am the door" And ne ID a vide door,
high door, palace door, an always open
door. Nv four-year-old child got hurt and
did not CRY until hours after, when her
mother came home, and then she burst
into weeping, and some of the domeatics,
not understanding human nature, said to
her: "why did you not cry beforeY" She
answered: ''There was no one to cry TO-:
Now l have to tell you that while
human sympathy may be absent, divine
sympathy is always accessible. Give
God your love and get his love;
YOUR service and secure his help; your re-
pentance and have his pardon. God
friendY Why, that means all your wounds
medicsted, all your SORROWS soothed, and
if some sudden catastrophe should hurl you
out of earth it would only hurl you into
heaven. II God is your friend, you cannot
90 out of the world too quickly or sudden
ly, so far as your own happiness Is con-
cerned. There were two Christians last
Tuesday who entered heaven; the one was
standing at q window in perfect health
watching a shower, and the lightning IN,
stantly slew him; but the lightning did