Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-25

domestic harmony; kindness as best en-
DlOyed by governments for the tanning
and curing criminals; and kindness as
best adapted for the settling and adjust
ing of international quarrelS; but l shall
call your attention only to two OF these
thoughts.
And first, speak to you Of kindness
as means of defence. Almost every
man, in the course of his life, IS set up
on and assaulted. Your motives are
miSinterpreted or your religious or po-
itical principles are bOmOardcd. What
TO do under auch circumstances is the
question. The first impulse of the nat
ural heart SAYS: "Strike back Give as
much as he sent. Trip him into the
ditch which he dug for your feet. Cash
him with rs severe q wound as that
which he inflicted on your soul. Shot
FOR shot Sarcasm for Sar-
caSm. An eye for an eye. \
tooth for tooth" But the better spirit
in the mans soul rises up and says:
"NOu ought TO reconsider that matter.
You look up into the face Of Christ and
say: My master, how ought l to act
under these difficult circumstances
And Christ instantly answers: BLESS
them that curse you, and pray for them
which deSpitefully use YOU. Then the
old nature rises up again and says: You
had better not forgive him until first
YOU have chaStised him. You will never
get him in SO tight corner again. You
will never have such an opportunity OF
nfictiug the right kind OF punishment
upon him again. First chaStiSe him and
then let him 20. No says the bet
ter nature, "hush, thou foul heart. Try
the soft tongue that brcaketh the bone.
Have you ever in all your life known
acerbity and acrimonious dispute TO set
tie a quarrel? Did they not always
make matters worse, and worse and
worse?
MANY YEARS AGO THERE WAS
great quarrel in the Presbyterian fami-
lv. Ministers of Christ were thought
orthodox in proportion as they had mea-
Sured lanceS with other clergymen ot
the same denomination. The most out
rageous personalities We're abroad. As,
1 i'm the autumn, a hunter comes home
with a string OF game, partridges and
wild ducks slung over his shoulder, so
there were many ministers who came
/ back from the ecclesiastical courts with
/ long strings OF doctors Of divinity whom
| they had shot with their own rifle. The
division became wider, the animOsity
greater. until after a while some good
/ men resolved upon another tack. They
began TO explain away the difficulties;
| they began TO forgive each others fault,
land, 10. the great Church quarrel was
settled, and the new school PRESBYTERIAN
| Church and the old school Presbyterian
| Church became one. The different
parts Of the Presbyterian order, welded
I by a hammer. little hammer, Chris
tian hammer that the Scripture calls "A
soft tongue
You have a dispute with your neigh
bor You say 10 him, Il deSpiSe you.
/ He replies: Il can't bear the sight OF
YOU" You say TO him: ''Neyer enter
NV house again" He says. III you
come ON my door sill, I'll kick you of. y
You say to him: "I'l put you down
He saws TO YOU: "NOu are mistaken; III
put yolt down" And so the contest
RACES: and year after year YOU act the
unchristian part. After while the
better spirit SeiZeS you. and one day you
20 over To the neighbor and say: GIVE
me YOUR hand. We have fought long
Ienough. Time is so short, and eternity
[ is mo- near. that we cannot afford any
longer to quarrel. / feel you have
wronced me very much; but let us set
/ re am now I'm one great Misunderstanding,
and be good friends for all the rest oi
Iour lives" You have risen to a higher
nlatform than that on which before you
stood You win his admiration and you
Oct his apology. But if you have not
conquered him in that way, AT any rate
won have won the applause OF your own
/ Conscience. the high estimation OF goou
men and the honor OF your LORD VINO
/ died for His armed enemies.
But" You say, what are we TO 40
when SANDERS assault us. and there
come acrimonious sayings all arouhu
about us. and we are abused ana SPIT
upone" My reply is: Do not go ana
Iattemnt 10 chase down the SANDERS
/ Lies are prolific, and while you are Kill
inc one. iftv are born. All your de-
monstrations of Indignation only eN-
baust Yourself. You might as well, on
some summer night when the SwarmS
of insects are coming up from tne
meadows and disturbing you, ana as
turbing YOUR family. bring up some
great ..swamp angel" like that when
/ Numbered over Charleston, and try TO
shoot them down. The game Is 'oo
small for the gun.
LIVE DOWN ABUSES.
But what, then, are you to dowlth the
abuses that come upon you in life? You
are 10 live them down! | saw farmer
90 out TO get back swarm oil oeeS
| that had wandered off from the hlVe:
As he moved amid them they buzzed
around his head, and buZZed around ms
hands. and buzzed around his feet. ii
he had killed one of them they would
have stung him 10 death. But ne
moved in their midst in perfect placid
itv until he had captured the swarm oil
Wondering bees. And so / have seen
men moving amid the annoyanceS, and
tho veyations. and the assaults OF me-
i'm such calm, Christian deloera'ion,
that All the buzzing around
about their soul amounted TO
nothing. They conquered them.
and above all they conquered them
selves. 90" you say, that's very
good theory TO preach on hot day
Int IL won't work" 1t will work. 1t
has worked. | believe it is the last
/ Christian grace We win. You know
there are fruits which we gather in
June. and Others in July, and others IN
/ August. and Others in September, and
still others in October: and nave 10
admit that this grace of Christian Tor
/ givenesS is about the last fruit oil the
Christian soul.
+ We hear 4 great deal about the oitte[
tongue. and the sarcastic tongue ana
/ the quick tongue, and the singing
tongue: but we know very little about
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