Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-04


Who wants religion woven out OF the
shadows of the night? Why go growing
on your way to celestial enthronement?
Come out of that cave, and sit down In
the warm light of the Sun OF Righteous
ness. Away with your odes to melan-
choly and Hervey'S "MeditationS among
the TombS."
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through EmmanueIs ground
To fairer worlds on high.
SPICE IN CHURCH AFFAIRS.
We need more spice and enivenment
in our church music. Churches slt
discussing whether they shall have
choirs, or precentors, or organs, or bass
violS, or comets; l say, take that which
will bring out the most inspiring music.
If we had half as much zeal and spirit
in our churches as We have in the songs
of our Sabbath Schools, it would not be
long before the whole earth would
quake with the coming of God. Why,
in most churches, nine-tenths OF the
people do not sing, or they sing so feebly
that the people at their elbows do not
know they are singing. People mouth
and humble the praise OF God; but
there is no more than one out of a hun
dred who makes "a joyful noise" unto
the Rock of our Salvation. Sometimes
when the congregation forgetS itself,
and is all absorbed in the goodness of
God, or the glories Of heaven, | get an
intimation of what church music will
be a hundred years from now, when the
coming generation shall wake up to its
duty.
l promise high spiritual blessing to
any one who will sing in church, and
who will sing so heartily that the peo-
pie all around cannot help but sing.
Wake up! all the churches from Bangor
to San Francisco, and across Christens
dom. 1t is not a matter OF preference;
it is a matter OF religious duty. Oh, for
fifty times more volume OF sound.
German choralS in German cathedrals
surpass US, and yet Germany has
received nothing at the hands Of God
compared with America; and ought the
acclaim in Berlin be louder than that in
Brooklyn? Soft, long-drawn. out music
is appropriate for the drawing-room
and appropriate for the concert: but st.
John gives an idea of the Sonorous and
resonant congregational singing appro-
pirate for churches when, in listening to
the temple service Of heaven, he says:
Il heard a great voice as the voice OF
great multitude, and as the voice or
many waters, and as the voice OF mighty
thunderingS. Hallelujah, for the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth."
Join with me in crusade, giving me
not only your hearts, but the mighty
uplifting of your voices, and l believe
we can, through Chrst's grace; sing
fifty thousand souls into the kingdom OF
Christ. An argument, they can laugh
at; a sermon, they may talk down; but
a vast audience joining in one anthem is
irresistible. Would that Queen BalklS
would drive all her spice-laden drome-
diaries into our church music. Neither
was there any such spice as the Queen
OF Sheba gave King Solomon"
IT COMFORTS THE SUFFERING.
Some one could not understand why
an old German Christian scholar used TO
be always so calm, and happy, and hope
full, when he had so many trials, and
sicknesses and ailments. a man secre-
ted himself in the house. He said: Il
mean to watch this old scholar aud
and he saw the old Christian
man go to his room and sit down on the
chair beside the stand and open the
Bible and begin to read. He read on
and on, chapter after chapter, hour al
ter hour. until his face was all aglow
with the tidings from heaven, and when
the clock struck twelve he arose ana
shut his Bible. and said, blessed Lord'.
we are on the same old terms yet.
Good night. Good night" Oh, you SIN
parched and you trouble pounded, mere
is comfort, here is satisfaction. VIII
you come and get it? | cannot tell you
what the Lord offers you hereafter so
well as can tell you now. III doth
not yet appear what we shall be. Have
Won read of the Tai Mahal in lndla, IN
some respects the most majestic oullu-
ing on earth ? Twenty thousand men
were twenty years in building IT. III
cost about sixteen millions of dollars.
The walls are of marble, inlaid with
comedian from Bagdad and turquoise
from Thbet, and jasper from the Pun
lamb. and amethyst from Persia and all
manner Of precious stones. A traveller
saws that it seems to him like the shin
ing of an enchanted castle OF FURNISHED
silver. The walls are two hundred and
forty-fve feet high, and from the top OF
these springs a dome thirty more feet
high. that dome containing the most
Wonderful echo the world has
ever known; so that ever and anon
travellers standing below with flutes,
and drums, and harps, are testing that
echo. and the sounds from below strike
M and then come down as it were the
voices of angels all around about the
building. There is around it garden
of tamarind and banyan, and palm, and
all the floral glorieS of the ransacked
earth. But that is only a tomb OF a
dead empress, and it is tame compared
with the grandeurS which God has
bnilded for your living and immortal
spirit. On. home OF the blessed.
Foundations of gold Arches OF vic
tory Cap-stOneS Of praise And a
dome in which there are echoinS and
re-echoing the hallelujahS OF the ages.
Rev. Irl Hicks Forecast.
On the first morning in May it will be
generally quite cool, with cold and frost IN
many parts of this and other countries
But the temperature will rise rapidly, caus-
ing phenomenally warm wave TO pass
from west to east, which will be forerpn-
ner of very heavy storm disturbances cen
tral on the 81. The period running from
about the lst to Sd, besides the usual cause,
will have present as extra disturbing fact
ors Mercury on April 10Th, moons last
quarter on May lst, and the equinox of the
planet Mars on the 4th. We will venture
TO name the 30, 4th and 5th as days of very
probable danger. a very warm and sultry
atmosphere in all southern and middle parts
of this continent, will be ample and urgent