Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-12-15


Oughly inSenSible, so there are men who
will on Sunday get such religious sur
felt that the rest of the week, they seem
thoroughly dead TO all religious emo
ton. They weep in church under a
charity sermon. but if on Monday Il
subject of want presents itself at
the door, the beggar'S safety
will depend entirely on quick limbs and
an unObStructed stairway. 1t takes all the
grace they can get to keep them from
committing assault and battery on those
ntruderS, who come with pale faces and
stories of distress and subscription pa
perS. The reason that God planted
those cedarS in the Bible was to suggest
10 US that we ought. in our re-
ligiOuS character, TO be deep like
the cedar, high like the cedar,
broad-branched rs the cedar. A trav-
eler measured the spread Of the boughs
of one OF these trees and found il one
hundred and eleven feet from branch
tip TO branch tip, and | have seen ce-
darS Of Christian character that through
their prayers and charities put out one
branch 20 the uttermOSt parts of Amer
lea, and another branch to the utter
most parts OF Asia, and these wide
branched Christians will keep on multi
plying until all the earth is overShad-
owed with mercy.
But mark you, these cedarS of Leb-
anon could not grow If planted in mild
climates and in soft air, and in carefully
watcrcd gardens. They must have the
gymnasium of the midnight hurricane
to develop their arms. They must play
the athlete with a thousand winters be-
fore their feet are rightly planted and
their foreheadS rightly lifted, and their
arms rightly muscled. And if there be
any other way for developing strong
Christian character except by storms of
trouble | never heard of il. Call the
roll of martyrs. call the roll of the
prophets. call the roll of the Apostles,
and see which of them had an easy
time of il. Which Of these cedars grew
in the warm valley? Not one
of them HOneySuckleS thrive best
on the south side Of the house, but &C.
darS in 4 Syrian whirlwind. Men and
women who hear this or read this, in
stead of your grUmbliug because you
have it hard, thank God that you are in
Just the best school for making heroes
and heroineS. II is true both for this
world nd the next Rock that baby in
cradle cushioned and canOpied; grad
uate from that into 4 costly high chair
and give him gold spoon; send him TO
school wrapped i'm fUrS enough for an
arctic explorer; send him through col
/ lege where he will not have to study in
order TO get diploma, because his
| father is rich; start him in profession
where he begins with an office the floor
covered with Administer, and library
/ of books in Russian morocco. and an
arm chair upholstered like throne,
and an embroidered ottoman upon
which 10 put his twelve-dollar CATERS,
and they lay upon his table the best
ivory cigar holder you can import from
Brussels, and have standing outside his
door a prancing span that won the
prize az the Horse Fair, and leave him
estate enough to make him independent
Iofal struggle, and what Will become
OF him9 III he does not die early of mani
ton or dissipation, he will live useless
lli.e, aud die an uulamented death and
20 into fools eternity.
\ MODERN INSTANCE.
But what has been the history OF most
of the great cedarS in merchandise, in
art. in law, in medicine, in statesman
ship. in Christian usefulness? John
get up and milk the COWS; its late: it's
half past five in the morning. Split an
armful of wood on your way out 50 that
we can build the fires for breakfast.
Put your bare feet on the oilcloth, and
break the ice in your pitcher before you
can wash. Yes: IL has been showing
and drifting again last night, and We
will have 10 break the roads" The
boys educational advantages, long
oak plank without any back To it, in
country school house, and stove
throwing out more smoke than
heat. Pressing on from one
hardship to another. After 4 while
a position on salary or wages
small enough to keep life, but keep it at
its lowest cb5. Starting in occupation
or business with prosperous men trying
10 fight YOU back at every step. But
after a good while fairly on your feet.
and your opportunities widening, and
then by some sudden turn you are tri-
.umphant. You are master of the stu
alton. and defiant Of all earth and hell.
A Lebanon cedar. John Milton on his
D way up 10 the throne of the world,
sacred pOeSy, must sell his copyright OF
Paradise Lost for Seventy-twO dollars in
three payments. And William Shakes
peare on his way mp To be acknowledged
the greatest dramatiSt of all ages, moSt
bold horses at the door of the London
b theatre for SiXpence, and Homer
must struggle through total blind
ness TO immortality, and join
Burvan must cheer himself
ON the way up by making futc out OF
, This prison stool, and CanOva. the Sculp-
5 tor must toll on through orphanage
modelling lion in butter before ht
e could cut his statutes in marble. And
the great Stephenson must watch cows
in the field for a few pennies and then
= become a Stokcr, and afterward mend
clocks before ne puts the locomotive on
its track and calls forth plauditS from
parliameutS, and medals from kings.
2 Atel Stevens IS picked mp, Il neglected
E child of the street, aud rises, through
his cOnSccrated genius, to be one of the
] most illuStriOuS clergymen and hiStor-
ianS of the century. And Bishop James,
Of the same church, in boyhoOd worked
his passage from Ireland to America,
, and up TO a usefulness where, in the
biShopric. he was second to no one who
ever adorned it.
While in Punishment Nenophon wrote
his AnabaSiS and ThucydideS his His
tory of the Peloponnesian War and
Victor Hugo must be exiled for many
years to the island of Guernsey before
he can come 10 that height in the affec-
tionS of his cOuntrymen, that crowds
Champs Elysees. and, the adjoining
boulevardS with one million mournerS,
as his hearSe rolls down to the Church
OF the Madeleine. Oh, it is tough old
world and it will keep you back and
keep you down, and keep you under as
long as il can.