Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-20


will take better care Of byalve than
of one OF his own children. rake 10
/ YOUR feet with the Gospel rake the
! most thorough evidences Of GOd's care
/ for his creatures, / pile around
/ Won great mounds OF shells, that
/ they may teach you most comforting
/ theology. oh, ye OF little faith, walk
among these arbors Of coraline, aa1
/ look az these bouquets Of she'll DC 70 be
/ handed Co queen on her coronation
/ dav. aud see the fallen rainbOws OF
color. aad examine these lilies Of stone,
these rrimr0ses in stone, these hello
tropes n stone. these cowsIips 10 s.One,
I these gerauiams In stone. these japO-
meas in stone. Oh, Sc, who have your
I telescopes ready, looking out on clear
+ nights. trying % see what IS trans
bring in Mars, Jupiter and Mercury,
snow that within a few hours walk or
I ride % where you now are, there are
worlds thar you might explore, but OF
which you are unconscious, and among
l the must beautiful and suggestive OF
I these worlds is the Genealogical world.
Take this lesson OF proyidential care.
U0w DOES THAT OLD HYMN GO?
I Wemav. ike ships, by tempest be tossed
/ on uer.lcus dceps. but cannot be lost,
Though satan cnrages The wind and the tide,
/ The Promise assures US, the Lord viii p:o-
y..e.
/ But while you get this pointed lesson
I Of provliential care from the shelled
/ creatures Of the deep, notice in their
/ construction that God helps them TO
| help themselves. This house OF stone
I In which they live is not dropped on
I them and is not built around them. The
I material for IL eXudeS from their own
/ bodies and is adorned with u colOred
/ fluid from the pores OF their own neck.
/ 1. is q most interesting thing TO see
| these cruStacean animals fashion their
/ own homes ont Of carbonate Of lime and
membrane. And all of this is mighty
\ lesson 20 those who are waiting for 9TH
I erS 20 build their fortunes, when they
ought 10 90 70 work and, like the mol
| iuSkS, build their own fortunes out OF
/ their own brain, ont Of their own sweat,
| out Of their own Industries. Not a mol
| lusk on all the beaches of all the seas
/ would have 4 house OF shell, if it had
not itself built one.
Do not wait for others 70 shelter you
or prosper you. All the crustaceous
creatures Of the earth. from every fake
Of their covering aud from every ridge
O, their tiny castles on Atlantic and
I Pacific and Mediterranean coasts, say:
Help yourself, while God hel rs you TO
I help yourself" Those people who are
waiting for their father or rich old
uncle 70 die and leave them fortune
are GS silly as q mOllusk would be 10
wait for some other mOlusk TO drop on
| it a shell, equipment. 1t would kill the
mOlluSk, as, in most cases, it destroys
man. Not one person out OF hundred
ever was strong enough 10 stand large
estate by inheritance dropped on him in
"a chunk. Have great expectations from
two persons-God and yourself. Let
the OnYcha Of my
TEXT BECOME YOUR PRECEPToR.
In my steady of the conchologY Of the
Bible, this oaycha OF the text also i'm
/ presses me with the fact that religion
is perfumed. What else could Goo
have meant when be said to Noses
Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte
and anyCh?" Moses took that shell OF
the onychs, put ii over the fire, and as
10 crumbled into ashes, it exhaled an
od0r that hung in every curtain and
filed the ancient Tabernacle, and its
sweet smoke escaped from the sacred
precincts and saturated the outside air.
Perfume. That is what religion is.
But, instead Of that, some make it
mal-odor. They serve God in rough
and acerb way. They box their chiid'S
ears because he does not properly keep
Sunday, instead of making Sunday so
attractive the child could not help keep
&c. They make him learn by heart
difficult chapter in the Book
OF Exodus, with all the hard
names, because he has been naughty.
How many diSagreeabe good people
there are. No one doubts their piety,
aud they will reach heaven, but they
will have to- get fixed up before
they 90 there, or they will make trouble
by calling ont TO US, "keep Oft that
grass What do you mean by pluck
ing that 1Ower?' "ShOw your tickets"
Oh, how many Christian people need to
obey my text, and take into their wor-
ship and their behavior and their con-
s0ciations and preSbyterieS and general
assemblies and conferences more Ony-
cha. ] have sometimes gone in very
gala of spirit into the presence of some
disagrecable Christians, and in five min
utes felt wretched. and at some other
time have gone depressed into the com
psny OF suave aud genial souls, aud ia
few moments l felt exhilerant. What
was the difference? Ii was the differ
euce in what they burnt on their cen
serS. The one burn; onycha; the other
burnt aSafGtida.
N THIS GENEALOGICAL STUDY
OF tie Bible, also notice that the mol
lusks or shelled animals furnish the
purple that you see richly darkening so
many scripture chapters. The purple
stun iu the ancient Tabernacle, the
purple girdle OF the priests, the purple
mantle Of Roman EmperorS, the ap-
parel of Dives in purple and fine linen,
ave, the purple robe which, 10 mOckery,
was thrown upon Christ, were colored
bv the purple OF tho shells on the
shores OF the Mediterranean. 1t was
discovered by a shepherds dog having
stained his mouth by breaking one Of
the shells, and the purple aroused adj
miratiCu. Costly purplel Six pounds
OF the purple liquor extracted from the
Shell-fshes was used 70 prepare one
pound Of wool. Purple was also used on
the pages OF books. Bibles and prayer
books appeared in purple yelum, which
may still be found ln some Of the Ma
tiOual Libraries OF Europe. Plutarch
speaks Of some purple which kept its
beauty for one hundred and ninety
years.
But, after a while, the purple became
easier TO get, and that which had been