Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-19
TWO INVITATIONS.
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1 also apply the word of my text tC
those who would like practical comfort
II any ever escape the struggle Of life
have not found them. They are not GER
tainly among the prosperous classes. In
most cases ii was struggle all the way
up I'll they reached the prosperity, and
since they have reached these heights
there have been perplexities, anxieties
and cries which were almost enough TO
shatter the nerves and turn the brain.
IL would be hard TO tell which have the
biggest fight in this world-the prosper
titles or the adversities, the conspicuities
or the Obscurities. Just as soon as you
have enough success to attract
and jealOuSies are let loose from their
kennel. The greatest crime that
you can commit in the estimation of
others is TO get on better than they do.
They think your addition is their sub
traction. Five hundred persons start
for certain goal OF success; one reaches
il and the other four hundred and nine
ty-nine are mad. II would take volumes
TO hold the story OF the
wrongs, outrageS and defamations that
have come upon you as a result OF your
success. The warm sun OF prosperity
brings into life a Swamp-full of annoy
ing insects. On the other hand the I'M
fortunate classes have their struggles
for maintenance.
FAITH.
like the faith displayed years ago in
I I aplnn In n hmm bio
home where every particle OF food had
given out, and a kindly soul entered
with tea and other table supplies, and
found a kettle on the fire ready for the
tea. The benevolent lady said: "How
is il that you have the kettle ready for
the tea when you had no tea in the
houSe?' And the daughter in the home
said: Mother would have me put the
kettle on the fire, and when | said
what is the use of doing so, when we
have nothing in the houSe?' she
said my child, God will pro-
vide; thirty years lie has already pro-
vided for me through all my pain and
and He Will not leave me
TO Starve at last; He will send us help
though we do not yet see how.
We have been waiting all the
day for something to come, but until
We saw you we knew not
how il was 10 come" Such things
the world may call condolences, but
call them almighty deliverances, and,
though you do not hear OF them, they
are occurring every hour of every day
and in all parts of ChriStendom.
But the word Come" applied to those
who need sOlace will amount to nothing
unless it be uttered by some one who
has experienced that solace. That
spreads the responsibility OF giving this
Gospel call among great many. Those
who have lost property and been con-
SOled by religion in that trial, are the
ones To invite those who have failed in
business. Those who have lost their
health and been consoled by religion are
the ones TO invite those who are in poor
health. Those who have had bereave-
mentS and been conSolsd in those be-
reayementS are the ones To Sympa-
thize with those who have lost father
or mother or companion or child
friend. What multitudes OF US are alive
to-day and in good health and buOyant
in this journey OF life, who would have
been broken down or dead long ago but
for the sustaining and cheeriurhelp of
our holy religion So We Say-"COme."
The well is not dry. The buckets are
not empty. The supply is not exhaust
ed. There is just a. much mercy and
coincidence and soothing power in God
as before the first grave was dug, or the
first tear started, or the first heart
broken, or the first accident happened,
or the first fortune vanished. Those Of
US who have felt the conSolatOry power
of religion have . right to speak out
of our own experiences, and say
Come"