Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-05
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be Rock Of Sorrow.
~. December This
se discOurses o. DIR. Tai
red from texts which no
have used before. lmpor-
'----actical lessons were drawn.
hymn, in which many
med was:
ISOLATE where'er We Ianguish.
of the sermon was, 'Riz-
rock the text selected be-
,el 21. 10: "And Rizpah the
Allah took sackclOth, and
or her upon the rock, from
ling Of harvest until water
ron them out OF heaven, ana
either the birds OF the air 70
3m by day, nor the beasts OF
81 night"
that bests anything Shakes
~ Victor Hugoian. After re-
-om the Holy Land ! briefly
anon il. but / must have
an FOR that scene. The ex-
flash OF gunpOwder have
an the beasts and 0lrus
n those regions, and now
of the locomotive whistle
ally heard az Jerusalem viii
miles around clear Palestine
claw and beak. But in the
tose regions were pOpulOus with
udes Of jackals and lions. Seven
Saul had been crucided on a
Rizpah was mother 70 two, aud
TO i've OF the boys. What
hese boys done that they should
.ucihed? Nothing except 70 have
oad father and grandfather.
now that the boys were dead
mot IKE them down from the glib
n They are sentenced TO hang
e. RiZDah takes the sackclOth,
ugh law with which In mourning
ler q hd she had wrapped herself,
nd that sackclOth upon the
j the gibbets, aud acts the
kentinel watching and defend
bd. Yet every other sentinel
and after being on guard
hours some one else takes bis
ut RizDah is on guard both
light and for half a year. One
ana eighty days and nights OF
What nerves she must have
stand that! All, do you not
at a mother eau stand any
Of the worst distresSes have
sce=es Of royalty and wealth.
q tho refnrfe rata has
TO champing and lathered
bringing evil dispatch? On what
ed hall has there not stood the
bier? Under what exquisite
has there not been enacted a
OF disaster? What curtained
hath heard no cry o. pain?
harp hath never trilled with sor-
What lOrdly nature hath never
against carved pillar and made
nee OF woe? Gall is not less BIT
hen quafed from a golden challce
when taken from pewter mug.
CIV is often attended by running
men, and laced lackeys mCunted
nd. Queen Anne BOleyn Is desc
n the palace of Henry VII. Adolf
Yept in German castles over the
.,1.ss, p 7ffr'e0d6 Pedro !. among
nzilIan diamonds shiverei with fear
Il massacre. Stephen Of England sat
1n D rocking throne. Aud every mast
of pride has been bent in the storm,
Ind the highest mountains Of honor
and fame are covered with perpetual
snow. Sickness will frost the rOsiest
cheek, wrinkle the smoOthest brow aud
stlfen the SprightlIest step. Rizpah
quits the courtiy circle and sits on the
rock.
Perhaps you look back upon scenes
different from those In which now from
day TO day you mingle. You have ex'
the plenty and luxuriance OF
your fathers house for prlyatiOn and
trials known 90 God and your own
heart. The morning OF life was flushed
with promise. Troops Of calamities
since then have made desperate charge
upon YOU. Darkness has come. Sor-
rows have swooped like carriOn birds
from the sky, and barked like jackals
from the thicket. You stand amid
your slain, anguished and woe-Stguck.
RiZpah on the rock.
so 1T HAS BEEN ~ ALL AGES.
Vashti must dof the spangled robes
Of the Persian court, aud so forth blast
Cd from the palace gate. Hager ex-
changes oriental comfort for the wilder
ness Of Beersheba. Mary Queen Of
SCOTS must pass out from lattery aud
POND to suffer ignominous death in the
Castle Of FoJherlngay. Tho, wheel Of
fortune keeps turning, and mansions
nd huts exchange, and he who rode
the chariot pushes the barrow, and in
'tead % the glare Of festal lights IS the
simmeFiug Of the peat-dye, and in place
)f SauPs palace Is the rock, the cold
rock, the desOlate rock.
But that is the place TO which God
comes. Jacob with his head on a stone
saw the shining ladder. Isreai In the
iesert beheld the marshalling Of the
iery baton. d8hn on barren Patmos
heard trumpetiug, and the clapping OF
gings, and the stroke OF seraphic fin
,ers on golden harps, and nothing but
strength nerved Rizpah for
per appalling miSsionamid the scream
q wild birds and tbe stelthy tread Of
Z cry monsters. The -gfandest visions
tOry, the most raptuFOus experiences
r.suan love, the greatest triumphs
rIsace have come to the tried aud the
for Dressed and the betrayed and the
or . Ned. God STOPPING down from
On Co comfort Rizpah on the rock.
lEN.in: the tragedy OF the text dis
W,.ysthe courage Of woman amid great
Emergencies. What mother or sister or
laughter would dare TO go out 10 hght
he cormorant or iackal? Rizpah did
{. And so would you il an emergency
demanded. Woman is naturally timid
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