The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-02
DIR. CURRIE BREACHES.
Visit OF q Former Pastor OF st,
Matthew'S P. Z, Church.
MORNING AND EVENING SERVICES
Wcro Conducted by tho Distinguished
And Eloquent Clcrgyman-A Pow.
crfuI Sermon Preached Last Might
on tho Lessons Of Limitations.
Largo Congregations ut Both Sor.
Vices.

At both tho morning and evening scr.
vices at tho st. Mathews I. L. church
yesterday, Row. DR.. G. George Curric, OF
Trinity =. L. church, Baltimore, olicia.
ted. DR.. Currie will bc remembered Us
the rector OF st. Matthews. or us 1t was
then known, St. Johns church, from
1867 to 1870. lIc went from Wheeling
to Providence, K. l., and thence to Balti-
more. At the morning service he
preached elOQuonily on "rhe vesurrec-
ton"
The evening services were attended
by u congregation fully Us large as the
mornings. DR.. Currie took us his text
the passage OF Scripture relative to st.
Paul's imprisonment in Rome, anu from
it spoke on the limitations in life St.
Paul's was an Imprisonment without
cause, lasting two years, 60 long that ho
might have been tempted to think God
had forgotten him. This experience OF
St. Paui's carries its lesson to us. SINH
lar experiences prevail universally to-
day. We suffer trials and tribulatioas
brought about by no personal miscon-
duct There are many illustrations; as
the chains OF physical intirmity; man
loses an arm or n leg and is left una.
BILE to do anything but exc out bare
subsistence; an old man loses tho say.
inga OF Il lifetime, and goes back to tho
work in his old age that he was sotCly
taxed TO perform forty years before
These limitations arc felt in our own
homes our personal ambitions havo to
be sacrificed because there are closer
claims on uI. There are Instances where
the closest tics Of ELECTION have to be
broken in the struggle for Il living.
There arc hindrances from tho i'm
perfection OF our natures. We are un.
able to tako up the work in life that We
most would like; We do not know this
at first, it dawns upon us slowly after
an experience OF unsucceSs, too late for
n new beginning, and then We realize
that our success in lilo is hampercd by
some intellectual limitation. The
cause does not lilo on the surface, and
We 20 along disappointin. both others
and ourselves. livery man is hampcreG
by some such limitation; go much SO
tiiatif you were told to do something and
win Il world, you could not do it-some.
thing another man could easily perform
and could not win that world.
In q general way he would show that
these limitations are not in reality
detrimental 10 the work Of hmman life 4;
are not really injurious in the long run.
St. Paul in prison improved his time;
his imprisonment gave him au oppor-
tunity to write some OF his Epistlcs
These limitations are the lines OF our
individuality, and it is our individuality
that our Heavenly Father and Redccmcr
loves.
Limitations arc absolutely necessary;
character is developed by limitation in
life. BY confinement 10 n small area,
our ideas ere concentrated to aiew ends.
Alexander the Great or Henry V are
not an example OF this, but St. Paul
chained to Roman soldier is. Meas
ure mans efforts not by his oppor;uni-
ties; it is the way he uses his opportu-
mites, and lis opportunities measure
his responsibilities. Kings and queens
might oil be great, but they arc not.
Obstacles overcome, narrow field and
concentration OF aim are what make q
man great. Limitations arc to human
nature what the roots are to treo. As
the bondservant OF Jesus Christ, live
with the hope OF glory and better
world, and ut the meeting OF your love
and Jesus love for you the bonds OF this
world will melt. and limitations, SORROW
and bondage will fly away.