Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-05


yourself: "here is something good being
done, vet on a small scales" but II you
20 into factory covering many acres,
and you find thousands Of bands pulling
on thousands OF wheels, and shuttles
flying, and the whole scene 6ewllderlng
With activities, driven by water. or
steam, or electric power, you conclude
that the factory was put up to
do great work and on vast scale. Now,
I look al you, and il I should find that
you had only one faculty Of body, only
one muscle, only one nerve, II you could
see but could not hear, or could hear and
not see, II you had the use Of only one
foot or one hand, and as 20 your higher
nature, il you had only one mental fac
ulty, and you had memory and no judg-
ment, or judgement but no will, and II
you had a soul with only one capacity,
/ would soy not much Is expected OF you
But stand up, oh, man, and let me look
you sauarely In the face. Eyes capable
Of seeing everything. Ears capable OF
hearing everything. Hands capable OF
grasplng everything. Mind with more
wheels than any factory ever turned,
moro power than Corliss engine ever
moved. A soul than will outlive all the
universe except heaven, and would out
live all heaven II the life OF other I'M
mortals were a moment short OF the
eternal. Now, what has the world
right 70 expect OF you?
"What shall do?" you ask. Ny breth-
rem, ny sisters, do not ask me. ASK
God. There's some path OF Christian
usefulness open. 1t may be rough
path, or it may be a smooth path, q long
path or short path. 1t may be on
mount or a cOnspicuIty, or in valley
unobserved, but IL is a path on which
you can start with such faith and such
satisfaction and such certainty that you
can cry out in the face Of earth and hell
and heaven: ito this end was l born"
Do not wait for extraordinary qualifica-
lions. Philip the ConQueror gained his
greatest victories seated on mule,
and il you wait for some caparisoned
Bucephalus TO ride into the conflict you
will never get into the worldwide fight
at all.
OPPORTUNITIES OFFERING.
What opportunities you have had In
the past! What opportunities you have
now. What opportunities you will have
I'm the DAYS 70 come! Put Oh your hat,
on woman, this afternoon, and go In
and comfort that young mother who
lost her babe last summer. Put on
your hat, Oh man, aud 20 over and see
that merchant who was compelled yes
terday to make an assignment, and tell
him Of the everlasting riches remaining
for all those who serve the Lord. Can
You singP Go and sing for that man
who cannot get well, and you will help
him into heaven. Let 1t be your brain,
your tongue, your eyes, your ears, your
heart, your lungs, your hands, your
feet, your body, your mind, your soul,
your life, your death, your time, your
eternity for God, feeling in your soul:
''to this end was I born" 1t may
be helpful TO some II | recite my
own experience in this regard. |
started for the law without asking any
divine direction. l consulted my own
tastes. liked LAWYERS and courtrooms
and Judges and jureS, aud / reveied in
hearing the Freinghuysens and the
Bradleys OF the New Jersey bar, and as
assistant Of tho county clerk. at sixteen
years Of age, I searched titles, natural
ICED foreigners, recorded deeds, re-
ceived the confession Of judgments,
swore witnesses and juries and grand
juries. But after while felt call
TO the Gospel ministry and entered it,
and l felt some satisfaction In the
work. But one summer, when I Was
resting at Sharon Springs, and while
seated In the park Of that village, 1 said to
myself, "if l have an especial work to
do in the world | ought TO find it out
now" and with that determination l
prayed as I had never prayed before,
and got the divine direction, and wrote
IL down in my memorandum book, and
l saw my life-wOrk then as plainly as
see it now. Oh, do not be satisfied with
general directions. Get specific direc-
tions. Do not shoot ut random. Take
aim and fire. Concentrate. Napoleon's
success In battle came from his theory
OF breaking through the enemy's ranks
at one point, not trying TO meet the
whole line Of the enemy'S force by
similar force. One reason why he lost
Waterloo was because he did not work
his usual theory, and spread his force
out over a wide range.
BREvTTY OF LIFE.
But do you realize what, after all, is
the brevlty of our earthly state? In
the times when people lived seven and
eight hundred years, the patriarch ia
cob said that his years were few.
Looking at the life of the youngest
person in this assembly and supp0sing
he lived to be q nOnagenarian, how
short the time and soon gone, while
banked up in front of US Is an eternity
so vast that arithmetic has not figures
enough TO express its length, or breadth,
or depth, or height. For a happy
eternity you were born unless you run
Yourself against the divine intentions.
IL standing in your presence, my eye
should fall upon the feebiest soul here
as that soul will appear when the world
lets IL up, and heaven entrances it,
suppose would be so overpowered that
should drop down as one dead. You
have examined the family bible and ex-
plored the family records, aud you
may have daguerrotypes OF some Of the
kindred of previous generations, you
have had photographs taken OF what you
were in boyhood or girlhcod, and
what YOU were ten years later, and II is
very interesting to any one 70 be able
10 look back upon pictures OF what he
was ten, or twenty or thirty years ago;
but have YOU ever had a picture taken
OF what you may be and what you will
be II YOU seek after God and feel the
SPIRITS regenerating power? Where
shall plant the camera to take the
picture? plant 1t on this platform. I
direct Il toward you. Sit still or stand
still while I take the picture. THERE l
have Il. II Is done. You can see the