Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-15

paign, and whole neighborhoods and
villages and cities shut up their grog-
shops, do you known the chief weapon
usedP 1t was the song:
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee.
THEY SANG IT AT THE DOOR
Of hundreds Of liquor saloons which had
been open for years, and either at the
first charge Of the campaign or the sec
Ond the saloon shut up. AT the hrst
verse Of Nearer, My God, to Thee,
the LIQUOR dealers laughed; at the sec
ond verse, they looked solemn; at the
third verse, they began to cry; and at
the fourth verse, they got down on
their knees. You say they opened their
saloons again. Yes, some of them ala.
But il is a great thing to have hell shut
up OF only for week. Give full swing
10 a good Gospel hymn and 1t would
take the whole world for God!
know there are styles Of music that
sin admires, and you hear it as you
pass the casino or dance ball, aud the
devil has stolen most OF the hddles'
though l am glad the Ole Bulls nave
snatched up the charmed strings from
their dissertation, but it is fact that
sin has a iavelin FOR sacred sounds. In
many churches the javelin OF criticism
has killed the music, javelin flung from
organ loft or from adjoining pew OF the
supersensitive. SauPs javelin aimed at
David's harp. Thousands of people so
afraid they may not sing scientifically,
they will not sing at all, or sing with
such low tone that no one hears them.
In many a church the javelin OF criti-
cism has crippled the harp OF worship.
II Satin could silence all the Sunday
school sons and the hymns Of Christian
worship, he would gain his greatest
achievement. When the millennial
song shall rise land ii is being made
ready there will be such a roll OF
voices, such q eoncentred power OF
stringed and wind instruments, such
majesty, such unanimity, such con-
tinental and hemisphere and planetary
reclamation, that it will be impossible
to know where earth stops aud heaven
begins. Roll on, roll in, roll up, thou
milennial harmony!
See also In my subject rejected OPP
portunity Of revenge. Why did not
David pick up Saups jayelin and hurl
il back again?
DAVID HAD A ShILFUL ARM.
He demonstrated on another occa-
sion be could WELD a sling, and he
could have easily picked up that jave-
lin, aimed IL at Saul, the wOuld-Oe as
sassin, and left the foaming and de-
manted monster as lifeless under the
javelin as he had left Goliath under q
sling. Oh, David, now is your chance.
No, no. Men and women with power
Of tongue or pen or hand to reply TO an
embttered antagonist, better initiate
David, and let the javelin lie at your
feet and keep the harp in your hand.
Do not strike back. Do not play the
game tit'fOr- tat. Gibbon, ia his his
tory, tells OF Bajszet, the great Mos
lem general, who was brought cap
tive TO the tent Of Tilnur. He had at
tempted the massacre OF Timur and his
men. Tlmur said to him: Had you
vanQuished US, am not ignorant of
the fate which you reserved for myself
and my troops, but / disdain TO retail
ate. Your life and honor are secure,
aud l shall express my gratitude to
God by my clemency to man" Beau
tifull Revenge on Christians tongue
or pen or hand is inapt, and more
damage 10 the one who employs IT,
than the one against whom it is en-
ployed.
Ses also IN my subject that the fact
that a man sometimes lodges is not
against his courage. My text says that
when Saul assailed him David avoided
out OF his presence twice.; that is, when
the javelln was flung he stepped out of
its direction, or bent this way or that.
In other words, he lodged. But all
those who have read the life OF David
know that he was not lacking In Prov
ess. David had faults, but cowardice
was not one OF them. When David, who
was, 1 guess, about four feet and half
high,
WENT OUT TO MEET THE GIANT,
who was, guess, about ten feet high,
il was big undertaking, and the inc
Qualities OF the struggle were so great
that It struck the giants idea OF the
ludicrOus, and he suggested to the little
fellow that be would make fine dinner
for a buzzard or jackal. "COme to me
and will give thy flesh unto the fowls
OF the air and TO the beasts OF the field"
When David went out TO meet that giant
and conquered him be demonstrated, as
he did on other occasions, his courage.
But am so glad that when Saul flung
that javelin David lodged 1t, or the
chief work Of his life would never have
been done, What lesson this is to
those who so into useless danger.
Washington was as mighty in his re-
treats as in his advances. His army would
several times have been destroyed ii he
hsd not lodged. He lodged on Long
Island, he lodged on New Jersey
Heights Lincoln on his way to inau-
guration at Washington was waited for
by aSsassinS. but he took another train
and lodged the desperadoes. We have
high example Of the fact that some
times a man will serve God best by dis
appearing from this or that place, this
or that environment A mob brought
Christ 20 the top of the rock back OF
Nazareth. They did not like his preach
ing and they proposed to hurl him
down the preciplce. But while they
were getting ready for the massacre,
Christ darted into the crowd, and amid
the confusion, escaped TO Capernaum,
and continued exercising devils and
cooling fever, and filing fshnets and
giving healthy circulation Of blood to
paralysis, aud curing dementia, and
turning Corpses into living men and wo-
men, and doing his chief work. What
a good thing be lodged the crowd on
the rocks back OF Nazareth.
See also ia my subject the unreason-
BILE attitude Of javelin toward harp.
What had that harp in David's hand