Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-30
GEO. M. SHOOK & CO.

the other. WELL" said the farmer,
sit will be such weather as pleases the
Lord, and what pleases the Lord pleases
me-"
Oh! the sunshine! the sunshine Of
Christian explanation. Here is some
one bending over the grave OF the dead.
What is going TO be the consolation?
The flowers you strew upon the tomb?
Oh no! The services read st the grave?
Oh no! The chief consolation on that
grave is what falls from the throne OF
God. Sunshine, glorious sunshine.
RESURRECTION SUNSHINE.
Again: I find great deal of the sun
shine OF this Bible and of our religion
in the climacteric joys that are to come.
A man who gets up and goes out from
concert right after the opening volun-
tary has been played, and before the
prima donna sings, or before the or
chestra begins, has a better idea OF that
concert than that man has who suppo-
seS that the chief joys Of religion are in
this world. We here have only the first
note Of tue eternal orchestra. Weshall
in that world have the joy OF discovery.
We will In five minutes catch up with
the astronomers, the biologists, the sci
entists, the philosophers OF all ages who
so far surpassed as in this world. we
can afford TO adjourn astronomy and
geology and many Of the sciences to
the next world, because we shall there
have better apparatus and better OPP
pOrtunity.
must study these sciences so far as
to help me in my work; but beyond that
must give myself to saving my own
soul and saving the souls OF others,
knowing that in one fash Of eternity
we will catch it all. Oh! what an OBJ
servatorY in which to study astronomy
heaven will be-nOt by power OF teles-
cope, but by supernatural vision; and II
there be something doubtful ten million
miles away, by one stroke or the wing
YOU are there, by another stroke Of the
wing you are back again, and all in less
time than l tell you, catching 1t all in
one fash of eternity.
And geology! what place 1that will
be to study geology, when the world is
being picked to pieces as easily as a
schoolgirl in botanical lessons pulls the
leaf from the cOralIa! What place To
study architecture, amid the thrones
and the palaces and the cathedrals-St.
Marks and ST. Pau1's rookeries In COM
pariSon.
SOMETIMES YOU WISH
YOU could make the tour Of the whole
earth going around as others have gone;
but you have not the time, you have not
the means. You will make that tour
vet, during one muscular pause in the
eternal anthem. | say these things for
the comfort Of those people who are
abridged in their opportunities-thos
people to whom life is hum-drum, who
toll and work, and toll and work, and
aspire after knowledge but have no
time to get il, and say: eff | had the
opportunities which other people have,
how l would fill my mind and soul with
grand thoughtsm Be not discouraged,
my friends. You are going to the uni
versity yet. Death will only matricu-
late you into the royal college Of the
universe.
What sublime thing it was that DR..
Thornwell, of South Carolina, uttered
in his astdying moments! rs he looked
up he said, at opens; it expands, ii ex-
pands." Or as Mr.. Toplady, the author
OF Rock of Ages" in his last moment,
or during his last hours, looked up and
said, as though he saw something SUI
pernatural, Light and then as he
came on nearer the dying moment, his
countenance more luminous, he cried,
Light and at the very moment of his
departure lifted both hands, something
supernatural in his countenance as he
cried, Light" only another name for
sunshine.
Besides that, we shall have all the
pleasures of association. We will go
right up in the front Of God without any
fright. All our sins gone, there will be
nothing TO be frightened about. There
our old Christian friends will troop
around us. just as now one Of your
sick friends.
GOES AWAY TO FLORIDA,
the land of Flowers, or to the South OF
France, and you do not see him. for
long while, and after a while you meet
him, and the hollowS under the eyes are
all flied, and the appetite has come
back, aud the crutch has been thrown
away, and he is so changed you hardly
know him; you say, why, never saw
YOU look so we'll" He says, 81 couldn't
help but be well. l have been sailing
these rivers and climbing these noun
tains, and that's how / got this elastici-
". never was so we'll" o, my friends,
your departed loved ones are only away
| for their health in a better climate,
and when you meet them they will be
so changed you will hardly know them;
| they will be so very much changed. and
after a while, wien you are assured that
they are your friends, your departed
friends, you will say, why, where is
that cough? Where is that paralysis?
Where is that pneumonia? Where is
that consumption" And he will say,
'Oh! am entirely we'll; there are no
sick ones in this country; l have been
ranging these hills and hence this elias
| ITCHY. l have been here now twenty
years, and not one sick one have l seen,
we are all we'll in this climate"
/ And when stand at the gate OF the
celestial city 10 see the professions
come out, and l SEGA long procession
of little children with their arms full
of flowers, aud then l see q procession
Of Kings snd priests moving in celes-