Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-18
LANI TAKE TWIN PREY.
IBE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN LIFE ARE
USUALLY Won
By Those Who Nus. SurmOuns Great Obstacles 70
Accomplish Anyhing-SO the Worst Sinner
Nay Become he Best Of Saints.

city on his Western lecture tour, Sc
lcCtcd as his topic for 20 day text full
of spiritual announcement fOrthoSe who
labor under Disadvantages in the strug-
Gle Of life The text chosen was Isaiah
XxXii. 25: "The lame take the prey"
The utter demolition Of the ASSYrian
host was here pred cted. Not only TO
bust men should 90 forth and gather
the spells OF conquest, but even men
crippled of arm and crippled Of foot
should go Ous aud capture much that
was valuable. Their physical disad-
vantages should not hinder their great
enrichment. So 20 has been in the past,
so it is now, so 70 viii be in the future.
So it is in al departments Men labor
ing under seemingly great dlSaoyan-
t2Ces, and amid the most unfavorable
circumstances, yet making grand
achievements, getting great blessing
for themselves, great blessing for the
wofld, great blessing for the church,
and so "the lame take the prey"
10 you know that the three great
poets OF the world were totally blind?
Homer, Ossian. John Milton. Do you
know that Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that
enchanting book, "The Conquest Of
Mexico" never saw Mexico, could not
even see the paper on which he was
writing? A framework across the
sheet, between which, 10 and down,
went the pen immortal Do you know
that Gambassi0. the sculptor, could not
see the marble before him, or the chlsel
with which he cut 10 into shapes be-
witching? DO YOU know that AleXan-
DER Pope, whose poems will last as long
as the English language, was so much
OF co invalid that he had 20 be sewed up
every morning in rough canvas, in order
TO STAND or HIS FEET
ntau? DO you know that Stuart, the
celebrated painter, did much OF his
wonderful work under the shadow or
the dungeon where he had been unjust
Iy imprisoned for debt? Do you know
that Demosthenes by almost superhu-
man exertion, first had 70 conquer the
lisp OF his own speech before he con-
Quered assemblages with his eloquence?
DO YOU know that Bacon struggled all
through inuumerable siCkDeSses, aud
that Lord Byron aud SIR Walter Scott
went limping on clubfOOd through All
their life, and that many Of the great
uotts and painters and orators aud his
toriaDs aud heroes OF the world had
something 10 keep them back, and pull
them down. and impede their way. and
cripple their physical or their tntellec-
tual movement and yet they pushed on
and pushed up until they reached the
spells OF worldly success, and amid the
huzza OF nations and centuries, 1.-THE
lame took the prey!
You know that a vast multitude or
these men started under the disadyant-
age of obscure parentage Columbus,
the son of the weaver, Ferguson, the
astronomer, the son of the shepherd.
America the prey of the one; worlds on
worlds tine prey of the other. But
what is true ia secular directions Is
more true in spiritual and religious
directions,
AND I PROCEED TO PROVE 1T.
There are in all communities many in
vqIids. They never know we'll day
They adhere 20 their occupations, but
they 90 painting along the streets with
exhaustions, and at eventime they lie
down on the lounge with achings De-
-o,d All mendicaments. They have
tried an prescriptions, they have gone
through am the cures which were pro-
claimed infalHble, and they have come
now 20 surrender to perpetual ailments.
They consider they are among many
dfsadvautages; aud when they see those
VINO are bouyant in health pass by they
almost envy their robust frames ana
easy respiration.
Rut have noticed among that IN
valid class those who have the greatest
knovsledge OF the Bible, who are In
,,aarsst Intimacy with Jesus Christ,
VINO have the most glowing experiences
~ tho truth, who have the most re-
narkable answers 20 prayer, and who
have most exhilarant anticlpatlons or
Heaven. The temptations which weary
ms who are in robust health they have
conquered
MANY who are alert and athletic and
syyerfbv. lOitar in the Way-the lame
take tho prey. Robert Hall an invalid,
Robert Payson an invalid, Richard
Baxter an invalid, Samuel Rutherford
an invalid. This morning, when you
want 90 call 20 mind those who are
most Christlike, YOU think OF some
darkencd room IN your fathers house
from which there went forth an lntu-
epce potent for eternity.
A step farther: Through raised letters
the art OF printing has been brought TO
the attention OF the blind.
YOU TAKE UP THE BIBLE
Tor the blind, aud you close your eyes,
and you run your fingers over the raised
letters. aud you say: "Why, 1 never
could get any information Ia this way.
What o slow, Humorous way OF reading.
God help the biind.'
Ard yet I find among that class Of
persons, among the blind, the deaf and
tbe dumb. the most thorough acQuaiat-
erce with Gods Word. Shut out from
rII other sources OF information, no
sooner does their hand touch the raised
letter than they gather a prayer.
Without eyes. they look OF upon the
kipgdom's Of Gods love. Without hear
ing. they catch the minstrelsy Of the
skies. Dumb, Jet with pencil, or with
irradiated c0untenance, they declare
the glory Of God
A large audience assembled In New
York at the anniversary Of the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum, and one Of the Wis
itorS with chalk on the blackboard
wrote this question % the pupils: "DO
YOU not find 10 very hard TO be deaf and
dumb?" And one OF the pupils took the
chalk and wrote on the blackboard this
sublime sentence ia answer: when
the song Of angels shall burst upon our
enraDtured ear, we will scarce regret
that our ears were never marred with
earthly sounds" On the brightest ewes
in heaven will be those that never saw
rnho oorc most o1ork In, hoa nan