Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-01

| OF limos, Will AFTER WnAIa % lOuuu W
have been written down in Gods eternal
records as suicides, as much suicides as
II they had taken their life with pis-
toll, or knife, or strychnine.
How many people have stepped from
the ball room into the graveyard? Con-
sumption and swift neuralgias are
close on their track. Amid many OF the
! glittering scenes OF social life, disease
stand right and left and balance and
chain. The
BREATH OF THE sEPULCHRE
floats up through the perfume and the
frOth OF Deaths lips bubbles up in the
champagne. am told that in some OF
the cities there are parents who have
actually given up housekeeping and
gone TO boarding that they may give
their time ilimltably to social dissipa-
tiOns. l have known such cases. l have
| family after family blasted in that
way in one Of the other cities where l
preached Father and mother turning
their back upon all Qniet culture and all
the amenities OF home, leading forth
their entire family in the wrong dlrec-
tiol. AnnihIated, worse than ami
Inflated. give you the history OF more
than one family when say they went
| into the designations of social life until
the father dropped into a lower style of
dissipation, aud after awhile the
son was tossed out into society a
nonenity, and after awhile the daughter
eloped with a French dancing master,
and after awhile the mother, getting on
( further and further in years, tries TO
hide the wrinkles but fails in the at
tempt, trying all the arts OF the belle,
an old dirt, poor, miserable butterfly
without any wings.
If there IS anything on earth beauti-
| full TO me it is an aged woman, her
white locks flowing back over the
/ wrinkled brow-locks not white with
| frost, as the poets say, but white with
the blossom OF the tree Of life, In her
voice the tenderness OF gracious men,
cries, her face benediction. As grand
mother passes through the room the
grandchildren pull at her dress. aud
she almost falls In her weakness; but
she has nothing but candy or cake or
kind word
AOh A--A Ii LIE DAhAAiNb
When she gets out of the wagon In
front .the house the whole family
rush ont and cry: "Grandma'S come"
and when she goes away from us never
TO return, there is shadow on the table
and a shadow on the hearth, and a
I shadow on the heart. There is no more
touching scene on earth than when
grandmother sleeps the last slumoer
and the little child is lifted up TO the
casket TO give the last kiss, and she says:
Goodbye, grandma" Oh, there is
beauty in old age God says so. The
hoarY head is'a crown OF glory" Why
should people decline to get old? The
best things, the greatest things | know
| are aged. Old mountains, old seas, old
stars and old eternity. But il there is
anything distressful, it is 10 see an old
woman ashamed of the fact that she Is
old. What with all the artificial aDpli-
snces, she is too much for my gravity.
laugh even in church when | see her
coming. The worst looking bird on
eartha is peacock when it has lost its
feathers. | would not give one lock Of
nv old mothers gray hair for fifty
thousand caricatures of humanity. And
II the life of wording, If the lite Of
a disciple given TO the world is sad, the
close Of such life is a simple tragedy.
Let me tell you that the designations
of social life are despoiliug the useful
ness of q vast multitude Of people.
What do those people care about the
fact that there are whole nations In
sorrow aud suffering and agony, when
they have for consideration the more
important question about the size Of
glove or the tie of a cravat? Which
one of them ever bound up the wounds
of the hospital? Which one Of them
ever went out TO care for the poor?
Which Of them do you find
IN TIE HAUNTS OF SIN
distributing tracts? They live on them
selves. and il is very poor pasture.
Sybaris was great city, and 1t once
sent out three hundred hOrsemen 10
battle. They had Minstrel who had
taught the horses great trick, and
when the old Minstrel played certain
tune the horses would rear an1 with
their front feet seem 20 beat tine TO the
music. Well, the old minstrel was
over 10 the enemy, aud he said TO the
enemy: "You give me the mastership
of the army and l will destroy their
troops when those horsemen come from
Sybaris." So they gave the old
minstrel the management, and he
taught all the other Ministries certain
tune. Then when the cavalry troop came
up ths old minstrel and all the other
mlnstrelS played certain tune, and
at the most critical moment in the bat
tie when the horSemen wanted TO rush
10 the conflict, the horses reared and
beat time 10 the music with their fore
feet, and in disgrace and rOut the enemy
fed. ALI my friends, / have seen II
again and again-the MINISTRIES OF pleas
ure, the minstrels of dissipation, the
MINISTRIES of goddess association have
defeated people in the hardest fight Of
life. Frivoity has lost the battle for
ten thousand folk. Oh. what BELT
Ting process TO the human mind this
everlasting question about dress, this
discussion Of fashionable infnitesimals
this group looking askance at the glass.
wondering with an ibtinity OF earnest
ness how that last geranium leaf does
lOok-this Storytelling of a mans moral
dignity until il is not observable 10 the
naked eye, this Span ish inquisition OF
tight shoe, this binding up OF an inn
mortal soul in rufile, this pitching off
of an immortal nature over the rocks
when God intended it for great and
EVERLASTING UPLIFTING.
You know as well as l do that the
designations OF social life are destroying
thousands and tens of thousands Of
people. aud il is time that the pulpits