Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-29

more damage, financial and moral, done
to our city by this hypercriticlsm than
can ever be estimated. The course OF
our city has been onward and upward.
We have a citizenship made up Of hun
dreds OF thousands OF as good men and
women as inhabit the earth, and feel
honored in being 4 citizen OF Brooklyn,
and propose to stay here until / join the
populatlon.Of the silent city out yonder,
now all aOlOom with spring flowers
sweet types OF resurrection!
Ny thanks must be, first 10 God, and
then to all who have contributed soy
large gift or small! to this emancipation.
Thanks TO the men, women and chill
dren who have helped, aud sometimes
helped with self-sacrlfces that l know
must have won the applause OF the
heavens. II you could only read with
me a few Of the thousands OF letters
that have come to my desk IN the
ChrjSiiaH Herald Office, you would know
how deep their sympathy, how large
THEIR SACRIFICE HAS BEEN.
~ have sold my bicycle, AID now
send you the money" is the language
of one noble young man who wrote to
the Christian Herald. This Is my
dead sons gift to me, and
have been led to send 1t to
you," writes mother in Rhode
island. A blind OctOgenarian Invalid
IN York, Pa, sends his mite and his
prayer. Thanks 10 all the newspaper
press. Have you noticed how kind and
sympathetic all the secular newspapers
have been, and, OF course, all the re-
ligiOus newspapers, with two or three
nasty exceptions? You say that news
papers sometimes get things wrong.
Yes, BUT which Of US does does not
sometimes get things wrong? II you
want 70 find a man who has never made
q mistake, 90 not waste your time by
looking in this pulpit. Thanks to the
editors, reporters and publishers. Cen
tlemen Of the Brooklyn and New YORK
printing press, II you never report any
thing else that l say, please to report
that. Yes, l see you are getting 1t all
down.
As a church, we, from this day, make
new departure. We will preach more
instructive sermons. We will oher
more faithful prayers. We will do bet
ter work in all departments. We viii,
10 the autumn, resume our Lay College.
We will I'll the rooms OF this magnih-
cient pile with work Tor God AID suffer
ing humanity. More prayers have been
offered for this church. and on both
sides the sea, than for any church that
has ever existed, and all those prayers
will be answered. Clear the track Tor
the Brooklyn Tabernacle! "Sing ye 10
the Lord, for he hath triumphed glor-
iouslY; the horse and his rider hath he
THROWN IsTo THE SEA-"
But do you not now really think that
the Mlrrm Of my text reiOiced too soon?
Do YOU not think she Oughs 10 nave
waited tiIl the Israelitish host got clear
over TO Canaan before she struck her
knuekies against the tlmbrel or tam
BOURNE? Miriam! You do well TO
have the tambourine ready, but walt
little before you play it. You are not
vet through the journey from Egypt to
the Promised Land. You will yet have
to drink out OF the bitter water of Ma
rah, and many OF your army will eat so
heartily Of the fallen eualiS that they
will die OF collie, and you will, at the
foot OF Sinai, be scared with the thun-
der, and there will be fiery serpentS in
the way, and many battles TO fight,
and, last Of all. the muddy Jordan to
cross. Miriam! / have no objections
to the tambOurine, but do not jingle It's
bells or thump its frightened parchment
until you are all through. All, my
friends, Miriam was right. II we never
shouted victory till we got clear through
the struggles Of this life, we would
never shout at all. Copy the habit of
Miriam aud Moses. The moment you
get a victory, celebrate it.
But let me crticise Miriam little
for the instrument OF music she en-
ployed in the divine service on the sandy
beach. Why not take some other in
strument? The harp was sacred In
strument, why did she not take that?
The cymbal was sacred instrument,
why did she not take that? The trumpet
was a sacred instrument, why did she
not take that?
AMID THAT GREAT HOST
there must have been musical instru
ments more used in religious service.
No. She took that which she liked the
best, and on which she could best ex-
press her graduation over a nations
rescue, first through the retreat Of the
waves of the Red Sea, and then through
the clapping OF the hands Of their de-
structlon. So withdraw my criticism
of Miriam. Let everyone take her, or
his, best mode Of divine worship and
celebration. My idea Of heaven is that
it is place where we can do as we
please and have everything we want.
OF course. we will Go nothing wrong and
want nothing harmful.
How much Of the material and phYsi-
cal will finally make up the heaven
world, / know not, but think Gabriel
will have his trumpet, and David his
harp, and Handel his organ, and Thai
berg his piano, and the great Norwe-
gian performer his violin, and Miriam
her tlmbrel, and as 1 cannot make
music on any OF them, l think l will
move around among all o. them and
listen. But there are our friends OF the
Scotch CoveDanter Church, who do not
like musical instruments at all in divine
worship, and they need not have them.
I tell Duncan aud Mcleod and Bruce
they need never hear In heaven single
string thrum, or 4 single organ roll.
We will all do as we please in that
radiant place, II, through the pardon
log and sanctIfying grace Of Christ we
ever get there. What a day it will be
when we stand on the beach Of heaven,
and look back on the Red Sea Of this
worlds sin aud trouble, and celebrate
the fact that we have got through, and
got over, and got up, our sins and
our troubles attempting TO follow gone
clear down under the waves.