Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-18

cord, these anllcbeu ones CEieu uutO VIC
Lord 10 their trouble, and he made their
sorrows their advantage, and so "the
lame took the prey"
IN THE SEVENTH CENTURY
there was legend Of st. Modobert.. 10
was said that his mother was blind,
aud one day while looking at his moth
er he felt so sympathetic for her blind
ness that he rushed forward and Kissed
her blind eyes, aud, the legend says
her vision came Immediately. That
was only legend, but it was truth,
a glorious truth, that the kiss OF Gods
eternal love mas brought to many
blind eye eternal illumination.
A step farther: There are those In
an communities who toll nightly for
livelihood. They have scant wages.
Perhaps they are diseased, or have
physical infrmities. so they are hin
dered from doing a continuous days
work. a city missionary finds them up
the dark alley, with no fire, with thin
clothing, with very coarse bread. They
never ride in the street car; they can
not afford the five cents. They never
see any Dictures save those in the show
window on the street, from which they
are often jostled, and looked at by some
one who seems 10 say in the look
"MoYe on, what are you doing here
looking at pictures?"
Yet many OF them live on mountains
of TRANSPORTATION. At their rough
table be who fed the five thousand
breaks the bread, They talk often OF
the good times that are coming. This
world has no charms for them, but
heaven entrances their spirit. They
often divide their sCant crust with
some forlorn wretch who knocks at
their door at night, and on the blast OF
the night wind, as the door opens 10 let
them In, is heard the voice OF him who
said, Il was hungry and he fed me-
No cOhOrt of heaven will be too bright
to transport them. By Gods help they
have vanished the Assyrian host They
have divided among them the spells.
Lame, lame,
YET THEY TOOK THE PREY.
was riding along the country road
one day, and saw man on crutches.
] overlook him. He was very Old. de
was going very slowly. At that rate, 1t
would have taken him two hours to go
a mile. I said, Wouldn't you like to
ride?" he said, Thank you, would.
God bless YOU" When he sat beside
me, he said, You see, l am very lame
and very old, but the Lord has been a
good Lord TO me. have buried all my
children. The Lord gave them and
the Lord has a right TO take them
away. Blessed be mis- name! was
very sick, and had no money, and my
neighbOrS came In and took care or me,
aad I wanted nothing. l suffered a
great deal with pain, but then L have
so many mercies left. The Lord has
been a good Lord 10 me-" Aud before
we had got far, l was in doubt whether
I was giving him ride, or he was CIV
ing me a ride. He said, "Now, II you
p!ease, I'll get out here. just help me
down on my crutches, il you please.
God bless you. Thank you, sir. Good
morning. You have been feet 10 the
lame, sir, you have. Good morning.
Swarthy men had gone the road that
day. ] do not know whore they came
out, but every hobble OF that old man
was toward the shining gate. with
his old crutch be had struck down
many a Sennacherib OF temptation
which has mastered you and me. Lame,
so iearfully lame, so awiully lame; but
he took the prey.
A step farther: There are in all COM
munitieS may orphans. During our last
war and in the years Immediately fol-
lowing, how many children al the
North and South we heard say, "Oh!
my father was killed In the war. Have
YOU ever noticed fear you have not
how we'll those children have turned
ont? Starting under the greatset dis
advantage
80 ORPHAN ASYLUM
could do for them what their father
would have done had he lived. The
skirmisher sat one night by the light OF
fagots, In the swamp, writing letter
home, when a sharpshoOter's bullet
ended the letter which awRs never post
ed and never read. Those children
came up under great disadvantage. No
father 10 fight their way for them. Per-
hans there was in the old family Bible
an old yellow letter pasted fast, which
told the story of that fathers long
march, and how he suffered in the hos
Dital; but they looked still further on
i'm the Bible, and they came to the
story Of how God is the Father of the
fatherless, and the widows portion, and
thew soon took their fathers place in
that household. They battled the way
for their mother. They came on up,
and many Of them have already in the
wears since the war, taken positions in
church and state North aud South.
While many Of those who suffered moth
ing during those times have had sons 10
ont INFO lives OF Incidence and vaga-
boddaze, these who started under so
many disadvantages because they were
80 early bereft, these are the lame who
took the prey.
A step farther: There are those who
would ike TO do good. They say, "Oh!
i'll ONLY had wealth, or il l had elO-
ouence, or II I had high social position,
how much / would accomplish for God
and the church, l stand here to-day
70 tell you that you have great oppor-
tunities for usefulness.
Who built the Pyramids? The king
who ordered them built? No, the plain
workmen who added stone after stone
and stone after stone. Who built the
dikes of Holland? The government that
orders the enterprise? No; the plain
workmen who carried the earth aud
RING their trowel on the wall. Who
are those who have built these vast
cities? Ile capitalists? No; the carpen-
tiers, the masonS, the plumbers, the
plasterers, Tue timers, the roofers, de-
pendent on q days
WAGES FOR A LIVELIHOOD.
And so in the great work Of asSuaglng
human suffering and enlightening
human ignorance and hating human
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