Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-03-14

half feet long, | conclude the giant
himself was about IL feet high. But
let no one by this thought be induced 10
surrender TO unfavorable environments.
4 man can make his own oedStead.
Chantrey and Hugh Miller were born
stone maeonS. but the one became an
immortal sculptor and the other a
Christian scientist whose name will
never die Turner, the painter, in
whose praise John Ruskin expended the
greatest genius of his life, was the son
10 a barber who advertised "a penny
shave" DIR. PrideauX, one OF the great
est scholars of all time, earned his way
through college by securing pots aud
pans. The late Judge Bradley worked
his own way up from charcoal burner
10 the Bench Of the Supreme Court OF
the United States. Yes, man can de-
eide the size OF his own beds,ead.
Notice, Furthermore, that Gods
people on their way 70 Canaan need not
be surprised II they confront some sort
OF a giant Had not the lSraelitiSh host
had trouble enough already? No! Red
Sea not enough. Water famine not
enough. Long marches not enough. OPP
position by enemies of ordinary stature
not enough They must meet Og, the
giant OF the iron bedStead mine Gu
bits was the Tenth thereof and four GU
ats the breadth of It, Why not let
these ISraeliIeS go smoothly into Canaan
without this gigantic opposition? Oh,
they needed 10 have their courage and
faith further tested and developed. And
blessed the man. who, In our time, in
bis march toward the Promised Land,
does not meet more than one giant. DO
not conclude that you are not on the
way 10 Canaan because Of this obstacle.
As we'll might the IsraeliteS conclude
they were not on the way to the Prom
iSed Land because they met Og, the
giant. Standing in your way is some
evil propensity, some social persecution,
some business misfortune, some physi-
cal distress.
NOT ONE OF YOU
but meets giant who would like to hew
you in twain. Higher than eleven feet
this Og darkens the sky and the rattle
of his buckler Stuus the ear. But, you
are going To get the victory, as did the
ISraelites. In the name OF the God of
Moses and David and Joshua and Paul,
charge on him, and you will leave his
carcass in the wilderness.
Brethren, have made up my mind
that we will have TO fight all the way
I'D 20 the Promised Land. used to
think that after awhile l would get into
a time where IL would be smooth and
easy, bat the time does not come, and 1t
will never come in this world. BY the
time King Og is used up so that he can
not get into his iron bedstead, some
other giant OF opposition looms up TO
dispute our way. Let US stop looking
for an easy time and make it a thirty
years war, or sixty years war, or
hundred years war, il we live so long.
Must be carried 20 the skies
on iowery bed, OF ease,
While Others fought % win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas:
Another impression from my subject:
The march of the church cannot be i'm
peded by gigantic opposition. That Is
raelitish host led on by Moses was the
church, and when Og, the giant, him OF
the iron bedStead, came out against
him with another host-a fresh host
against one that seemed worn out
things must have looked bad for Israel.
No account is given Of the bedstead of
Moses, except that one in which he first
slept-the cradle OF aquatic vegetation
on the Nile, where the wife Of Chene-
phres, the King, found the floating
babe, and, having no child Of her own,
adopted him. Moses Of ordinary size
against Og of extraordinary dimensions.
Besides that Og was backed up by sixty
fortified cities. Moses was backed up
seemingly by nothing but the desert
that had worn him and his army into a
group of undisciplined and exhausted
StragglerS. But the ISraelites tri-
umuhed. II you spell the name OF Og
backward, you turn il into the word
Go" and Og was turned backward and
made TO go. With Og's downfall all the
sixty cities surrendered.
NOTHING WAS LEFT
Of the giant except his iron bedstead,
which was kept in a museum at Rab-
bath 10 show how tall and stout he once
was So shall the last giant Of Cppost-
ton in the Church's march succumb.
Not sixty cities captured but all the
CltleS. NOJ only on one sue VI "OludH,
but on both sides of all rivers. The
day is coming. Make all preparations
for the worlds evangelization. Have
the faith of Robert and Mary Moffatt,
the missionaries, who. after preaching
ia Bechuanaland for ten years without
one convert, were asked what they
would like TO have sent them. by way of
gift from England, said: "send a COM
munion service for it will be surely
needed" aud sure enough the expected
in-gathering Of many souls was realized
and the communion service arrived in
time celebrate 1t. Appropriately did
that missionary write in an album when
his autograph was requested:
Ny album is the savage breast,
Where darkness reignS aud tempestS wrest,
Without one rhy of hight.
To write the name OF Jesus there,
And point 20 worlds both bright and fair,
And see tae savage bowed in prayer,
is my supreme delight
Whatever your work and wherever