Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-19

tered, or deeds done, or prayers offered,
decide opposite destinles and opposite
eternites We see man planting q
tree. and trsading the sod firmly on
either side OF &c, and watering 10 Ia dry
weather, and taking a great care 10 its
culture, and be never plucks any fruit
from its Dough; but bis children will.
We are AN planting trees that Will
WELD fruit, hundreds Of years after we
are dead: or chards of golden fruit, or
groves Of deadly upas. AN so fasci-
mated with the phOspOrescence 10 the
track OF a ship that I have sometimes
watched for a long while, and have
seen nothing on the face Of the deep
but blackness The mouth of watery
chasms that looked like gaping jaws
OF hell. Not a spark as big as the
FREELY; not q white scroll Of surf; not a
taper 20 illuminate the mighty sep
ulchres OF dead ships; darkess three
thousand feet deep, aud more thousands
OF feet long aud wide. That is the
kind of wake that bad man leaves
behind him as hs pI0ws through the
ocean of this life toward the vaster
OCEAN OF THE GREAT FUTURE.
Now. suppose a man seated 70 o cor
ner grocery, or business Office among
clerks, gives himself 70 jolly scepticism.
Tie laughs at the Bible, makes sport OF
the miracles, speaks OF perdition IN
jokes, and laughs at revivals IS trolic,
and 0t the passage of a funeral process
SIGN which always sOlemniZes sensible
people, says, "B0ys, let's take drink"
There is in that group young man
who is making q greet struggle against
temptation, aud prays night and morn
ing, and reads his Bible, and is asking
God for help day by day. But that
outlaw against Christianity makes him
lose his grip OF sacred thius and he
gives up Sabbath, and Church, and
morals and goes from bad 20 worse,
t.ll he falls under dissipation, dies In
lazar house and Us buried in the potter's
field.
Another yOung man who heard that
Jolly scepticism made up bis mind that
'it makes no difference what we do or
saw, for we will an come out at last at
the right place" beEan, as conse-
QUence, 90 pur.0in. Some money that
came into his hands for others be appll-
ed 90 his own uses, thinking perhaps be
would make 10 straight some other time,
and all would be we'll even II he did not
make 20 straight. He ends In the peni-
Tertiary. That scotfer who uttered the
Jokes against Christianity never realized
what bad work he was doing, and he
passed on through life and out Of 10 and
into a future that ana not now going
90 depict L do not propose with a search
light 90 show the breakers or the awful
coast on which that ship is wrecked, for
INV business now is 20 watch the sea
after the keel has plOWed 10. No phos-
pboresceuCe ia
THE WAKE OF THAT SHIP,
but behind it two souls struggling In
Che wave, TWO young men destroyed by
reckless scepticiSm, an unlllumlned
ocean beneath, and on all sides OF them.
BIackness OF darkness. You know what
q glorious good man Rev. John Newton
was. the most of his life, but before his
conversion he was q very wicked sailor
Oh board the ship "HarWich," instiiled
iufdelty and vice in the mind Of young
man, principles which destroyed him.
Afterward the two met and Newton
tried 90 Undo his bad work, but tn vain.
ThevOuny man became worse aud worse
and died prof gate, hOrrifying with
his DrOlanit,es those who stood by him
fn his last moments. Better look out
what bad influence you start for you
may not be- able 90 stop it lt does not
require very great force 20 ruin others.
Why was 10 that many years ago
great Hood nearly destroyed New Or
leans? A Crawish had burrowed into
the banks Of the river until the ground
was saturated, ana the banks weakened
until the flood burst.
But i fud here a man who starts out
in life with the determination that le
will never see suffering but he will try
90 alleviate DC; and never see discOur-
agemeut but be viii try 20 cheer 10; and
never meet with anybody but he be will
try 90 do him good. Getting bis strength
from God, be starts from home with
hirh purpose of doing an the good be
can possibly do in one day. Whether
standing behind the counter, or talking
in the business Office with a pen behind
his ear, or making a bargain with fell
lOw-traier, or out in the fields discuss
ing with his next neighOOr the wiSest
rotation of crops or 10 the shOemaker's
shop pounding the solo-leather, there is
something 10 bis face, aud To IN his
ubraseOl0gy, and TO his manner, that
demonstrates tbe grace OF God In his
heart. lie eau talk on religion without
awkwardly dragging it 10 by the ears.
He loves God, Gud loves the souls on all
whom he meets, and is Interested In
their present and eternal destiny. For
fifty or sixty years be lives that kind OF
lie aud then gets through with 10 aud
goes into heaven a ranSomed soul But
i cm not going CD describe the port into
which that ship mas entered. am not
going 60 describe the Pilot who met
him outside ar the "ightship."
i AM NOr GOING TO SAY
ANYTHING about the crowds Of friends
who met him on the crystalline wharyes
DO which be goes on steps of chryso-
prases. For God ia His words % JOB
calls me 20 look 90 the path Of foam in
the wake of that ship, and I tell You 10
is ali agleam with splendors Of kindness
done, and rollins with illumlned tears
shat we're wiped away, and a-dash with
congratulations, and clear out TO the
horizon IN all directions Is the spark
ling. flashing, billowing phosphorss-
cence of q Christian life. "de maSeth
o path 60 shine after him.
Have YOU any arithmetic capable OF
estimating the influence OF our good
and gracious friend who a few days ago
went up 90 rest--George w. Childs, OF
Philadelphia From newspaper that
was printed for thirty years without
one word of defamation or scurrility or
scandal, and putting chief emphasis on
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