Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-26
THE HOLIDAY.
nR TaINAss breaches on TIE OBSERVANCE
OF C8RSrS BIRTHDAY.
Christmas the Day Of All Days-Astr0noni'al
PbsDomsna Pointing to Caris's Brh-IAs
Dsaih o. the Old Year-Greas Happiness
in Sore for All.

foilv anDropriaJe 10 the holiday se@sou'
80 ,vss listened 10 with rapt attention
- audience that crowded the lad
os,scle Before beginning his DISCOURSE
tbe preacher gave out the opening
hymn:
low 70 the world. the Lord hss come
Let earth receive her king
The text selected was, Colossians ?;
10Th. SIN respect Of holy-day."
What the Bible here and elsewhere
calls A holy-day, we, by change OF one
leI,er and change Of pronunciation
I'll holiday. But, By change or SPELL
no and accumulation. we cannot change
re fact that holidays have great sig
rf6cance. As long as the world STANDS
rbristmas day and New Years day and
Faster day will be charged ana sur
.barged with solemn suggeStiyenesS ana
SoIv mirth. Whether you take the Old
stvie of nv text and call them holy
laws or the modern style ana can them
HOLIDAYS. they somehow set ell my nerves
a-tinqie and my deeper emotions lnto
Drofonndest agitation. I am glad that
This season we have the holidays COM
pletely bounded.
FOR YEARS, CHRISTMAS DAY,
starting in the midst Of one week, and
New Years day, starting In the midst
N another week, we have been per-
nlexed TO know whom the holidays De-
gan and when they ended, and perhaps
We NAV have begun them too soon or
confined them too long. But this
wear they are bounded by two beaches
~ gold. Sabbath December 25th, 1892,
and Sabbath, January 1st. 1888. Inc
one Sabbath this year commentaries
the birth OF the greatest being that
ever walked the earth; the other cele-
brates the birth Of that which is 70 De
one OF the greatest years OF all time.
The one day supernatural because OF
An unhlnged star and an angelic dox-
ologv. and the other day natural,
hut part OF a procession that start
"a with the worlds exist
ence and will go on until the world Is
burned up, both the first and the last
DAYS OF these holidays coming In with
Sabbatical splendOr and solemnity, aud
Qirdling all the days between with
thoughts that have all time and all eter-
nifty in their emphasis. How shall we
spend them? AT haphazard and with
out special direction, and they leaving,
as they 90 away from US, physical IA
tique and mental exhaustion, the effect
of late hours and reckleSSness OF diet,
adding another chapter to the moral
and spiritual and eternal disasters,
which have resulted from miSspent hol-
idays? Oh, no. A stout and resOund-
Ning No! for all the eight days.
i PROPOSE THAT WE DIVIDE
his holiday season, the two Sabbaths Of
tho holiday and the six days between,
Into three chapters. The first part
chapter OF illustriOus birthday; the sec
pnd parta chapter of annual decadence;
the third part chapter Of chronicle
gIcal Introduction.
First, then, a chapter OF illustrious
birthday. Not \ day OF any year but
has been marked by the nativity Of
some good or great SOUL Among dis
roverers, the birthday OF Humboldt was
September l4th, and of David Living
ston, March 18th. Among astrOno-
mers, the birthday OF Isaac Newton was
December 25th, and OF Herschel, No
vem6er 18th. Among orators, the
birthday Of Cicero was January Sd, and
Of ChrysOstom, January 14th. Among
prison reformers, the birthday of John
Howard was September % and OF Eliz-
abeth Fry, May LIST. Among
painters, the birthday OF Raphael
was March 2Sth, and of Mich
ael Angelo March 9th. Among
statesmen, the birthday of Washington
was February 22d, OF Hamilton, May
Sth, and Of jefferson, April I'd. Among
consecrated souls, the birthday Of Mrs.
Hemans was September 25th, of Lucre-
lia Mott, January Sd, aud Of Isabella
Graham, July Goth. But what are all
hose birthdays compared with Deem
Der 25th, for on or about that day was
born one who eclipsed all the great
names of ali the centuries-Jesus OF
Bethlehem, Jesus Of Nazareth, Jesus
OF GOlg0tha, Jesus OF Oiivet, Jesus OF
the heavenly Throne ? The greatest
pictures have been made about scenes
In bis lifetime. The greatest sacrifices
on field Of battle, or In hospital, or on
long march, or in martyrdom, have
been inspired by his self-abnegation.
The finest words OF eloQuence ever
spoken have been uttered In the procla-
nation Of his Gospel.
THE GRANDEsr oRAroRIos
that have ever rolled from orchestras
were descriptive Of his life and death.
There have been other orators, but none
like him who 'Spake as never man
sDake." There have been other reform
ers, but none like him who will not have
completed his mission until the last
prison is ventilated and the last blind
eye opened aud the last deaf ear IN
stopped and the last lame foot bounds
Ike a roe ard the last case Of dementia
shah come 20 its right mind. There
have been other discoveries, but none
like him, able 10 find how man may be
just with God. There have been other
dellvererS, but none like him, the res
curer Of naJions. There have been
other painters, but none like him who
put the image Of God on a lost soul. No
wonder We celebrate his birth. Prot.
eStant Church, Catholic Church, Greek
st. ISaac'S Of st. Petersburg,
ST. Peters az Rome, the Madeline at
Paris, S. Pau's IN London, joining all
our American cathedra'S and churches
and log-caoin meeting-bouSeS and homes
In keeping this pce-eminent birth
festival .., .,
Aeborate and prolonged efforts have
A"' tsmade to show that the star that
ed TO the msnger in which Christ
iOrn was not what it appeared to
nt a conjunction OF Jupiter and
rn. Our wise men of the West
Nat the wise men Of the East were
AIKEN. Astronomers, you know,
calculate backward as well as for
d, and as they can tell what will
m a hundred years from now among
heavenly bodies, so they can accu-
LIZ oa-nnlaLa hacLmard nnd tom