Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-02-25
SPHINXES SPEAK NOT.
THE WALL0P HARD MYSTERY THAT Al
WAYS C0NPR0NTS US.
David Proposes to Set the Dark and SOmbre Things
10 Music Celestial Edition Of the Book
Of Knowledge-Rsy. Dr..
Talmags's Sermon.
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BROOKLYN, February PA great aud
ience crowded the immense auditorium OF
the Brooklyn Tabernacle and the adiOin-
ing lecture room and parlors to-day.
DR.. Talmsge preached on the subject
Dark Sayings on a Harp" Text-Xtix
Psalm of David, verse 4: 81 will open my
dark sayings on harp"
The world is full of of the intxplicable,
the impossible, the unfathOnable, the in
surmountable. We cannot 20 three steps
in any direction without coming up against
hard wall Of mystery, riddles, paradox
es, proiun6ities, labyrinths, problems that
we cannot solve, hierOglyphies that we can
not decipher, anagrams we cannot spell out,
sphinxes that Will not speak. For that
reason, David in my text proposed to take
up some Of these sOmber and dark things
and try to SCI them to sweet music: ''I
will open my dark sayings on harp"
So l00t of upon society and find peO-
PIE in unhappy conjunction OF circum-
stances snd they do not know what il
meaus and they nave e right 10 ask. why
IS this? and why is that? and 1 think
will be doing a good work by trying to ex
plain some Of these strange things and
make you more cOntsnt with your lot, and
I shall only be answering questions that
have Oft IN been asked me, or that we have
al asked ourselves. while try to set these
mysteries to music and open my dark say
ings on a harp.
A QUESTION THAT IS OFTEN ASKED.
Interrogation first: Why does God take
our Of this world those VINO are usef0l and
whom We cannOt spare and leave alive and
in good health SO many who are only
nuisance OF positive iBjuTy to the world?
I thought I would begin with the very
toughest of all the seeming inscrutables.
Many o. the most useful men and women
died at thirty or forty years Of
age, while you often fud useless people
alive AT sixty and seventy and eighty
j Ohm Careless wrote to Bradford, VINO was
soon 70 be put to death, saying: why
do, h God suffer me and such other cater
pillars TO live that can do nothing bnt con-
sumo the aims of the church, and take
away 80 many worthy w0rkmen in the
Lords vineyard ?' Similar questions are
often asked. Here are two men. The one
is a noble character and a Christian man;
he chooses for lifetime companion one who
has been tenderly reared, and she is
worthy OF him and he is worthy Of her; as
merchant, OF flrmer, or professional man,
OF mechanic, or artist, be tolls to educate
snd rear his children; he ia succeeding,
bat he has not YET established for his
family a full competency; he seems alb
solutely indispensable TO that house
hold. but one day bsfore he has paid
Off the mortgage on his house he Is
coming home through q strong northeast
wind aud q chill strikes through him srd |
four days Of pneumonia end his earthly |
career and the wife asd children 20 into d
struggle for shelter and food. His next |
door rei-hbor is msu who, tho7gh !
strong and well, leta his wife support him.
be is round at the grocery store OF some
general loafng place in the evenings while |
mis- wife ssws; his boys are initiating his |
example and lounge and sWsgger and |
swear; all the use that man IS in that |
house is 10 rave btcauss the cOffeee is cold |
when he comes to late breakfast, or to say |
cutting things about his wifs's looks when |
he furnishes nothing for her wardrobe |
The best thing that could happen to that
family would he that mans tunersl; but |
be declines to die, he lives on and on aud |
on. So We have all noticed that many OF
the useful are eagerly cut off while the
parasites Of society have great vital tenac-
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